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Cedars-Sinai Spine Center Selects New Co-Director

August 14, 2024 sarah JonasAnnouncement

Spine neurosurgeon Alexander Tuchman, MD, who specializes in treating adult spinal deformities, has been selected as co-director of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center. He joins center co-leader David Skaggs, MD, executive vice chair of Orthopaedics at Cedars-Sinai and director of Pediatric Orthopaedics for Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s.

Johns Hopkins Medicine Experts Promote Awareness of Health Care Needs for Dwarfism Community

October 9, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

Johns Hopkins Medicine experts lead the longest-running clinic for people with dwarfism and other skeletal conditions. Started in the late 1950s, the clinic, now called the Kathryn and Alan C.

Look-Back Study Charts 60 Years of Treatments, Health Characteristics Among People with Dwarfism

June 21, 2021 sarah JonasResearch Results

In a retrospective study believed to be one of the largest of its kind, researchers say they have successfully charted the health risks, growth patterns, and medical and surgical outcomes of 1,374 people with the most common form of dwarfism, called achondroplasia, seen over a 60-year period at four academic medical centers, including Johns Hopkins Medicine. The findings, according to the researchers, not only affirm some long-standing views and trends in the care of those with the condition, but also offer a standardized baseline, a blueprint investigators hope will serve to speed diagnosis and improve patients’ quality of life and health.