MidWest Orthopedics at Rush announced Kern Singh, MD, co-director of the Minimally Invasive Spine Institute at the center, was promoted to full professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center.
Singh, a spine, back and neck orthopedic surgeon, joined Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and Rush University Medical Center in 2005. According to a press release, Singh is a leader in minimally invasive spinal surgery and teaches techniques in this field to neurosurgeons and spinal surgeons from around the world. Singh has also helped design new instrumentation for the minimally invasive spinal surgery.