<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/story/lumbar_spine_surgery.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>07/06/2026</pubDate><title>TCOM students publish article on pain and function outcomes following lumbar spine surgery</title><summary>Five students under the direction of John Licciardone, DO, MS, MBA, Regents Professor in UNT Health Fort Worth’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, published an article in the June issue of the International Journal of Spine Surgery, along with Subhash Aryal, PhD, professor at Johns Hopkins University.</summary><author>Steven Bartolotta</author><image><img src="/newsroom/_binaries/licciardone-five-student-doctors.jpeg" alt="Dr. John Licciardone and students"/></image><tags><tag>TCOM</tag><tag>Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine</tag></tags></item>