Menger Awarded Neurosurgeon Award For Second Consecutive Year

USA Health neurosurgeon Dr. Richard P. Menger has been awarded the Samuel Hassenbusch Young Neurosurgeon Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) for the second consecutive year. CNS is an organization dedicated to advancing neurosurgery through education and innovation. This award is given to the top socioeconomic abstract selected among the thousands of abstracts submitted to the CNS annual meeting. Menger’s abstract, “Impact of COVID-19 on Neurosurgical Utilization and Reimbursement,” looked at the impact of the COVID-19 restrictions placed on neurosurgery cases across the U.S. The states with the greatest restrictions completed fewer neurosurgeries and have been unable to return to their pre-COVID-19 baselines. Menger, chief of complex spine surgery at USA Health and director of the USA Health Spine Institute, is an associate professor and vice chair of neurosurgery at the Whiddon College of Medicine and an assistant professor of political science at USA. He focuses on complex spinal reconstructions for spinal deformity in children and adults.