ASC Industry Leader to Know: Dr. Richard Wohns of NeoSpine

Richard Wohns, MD, is one of the first physicians involved with the development of ambulatory spine practices. An accomplished spine surgeon, he is the founder of South Sounds Neurosurgery in Puyallup, Wash. and NeoSpine, a spine ASC development company part of Symbion healthcare. He has advanced the knowledge of outpatient spine surgery and minimally invasive techniques through the Mazama Spine Summit, an educational meeting which he has organized for the past six years.

Advertisement

Dr. Wohns graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and received his medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his neurosurgical residency and received an executive MBA from the University of Washington, where he serves as an associate clinical professor of neurosurgical surgery. He is currently in his second year at the Seattle University School of Law.

Dr. Wohns specializes in brain tumors and skull base surgery, numerous complex minimally invasive spinal surgical techniques, teleradiology, computer-based neuronavigation and stereotaxis. He was one of the first neurosurgeons in the country to perform the XLIF technique for minimally invasive lumbar functions.

In addition to his surgical work, Dr. Wohns is a leader in the field of mountain medicine and served as medical director to the Ultima Thule Expetition to Mount Everest. He is widely known in the climbing community for having performed an emergency appendectomy on a fellow climber on the Baltoro Glacier on K2, the world’s second highest mountain.

Dr. Wohns was named to the 2010 Becker’s Hospital Review list of “50 of the Best Spine Specialists in America.”

Advertisement

Next Up in Uncategorized

Advertisement

Comments are closed.