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Born
Richard N.W. Wohns
Alma materHarvard College
Yale School of Medicine
National Hospital, Queen Square
UW Dept of Neurological Surgery
UW School of Business
Seattle University School of Law
Scientific career
FieldsNeurosurgery
InstitutionsNeoSpine, LLC
Good Samaritan Hospital
St Francis Hospital
Swedish Medical Center

Richard N.W. Wohns, MD, JD, MBA is a board certified neurosurgeon;[1] inventor; author; educator; and the founder and president of NeoSpine, LLC[2] (a spine surgery and interventional pain management center). He has been listed one of the 50 Spine Surgeons and Specialists to Know by Becker's ASC Review.[3] He currently practices and teaches medicine in the Puget Sound Region of Washington, USA.

Career

Dr. Wohns is a board certified neurosurgeon affiliated with MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital,[4] St Francis Hospital,[5] and Swedish Medical Center.[6] He is the founder of NeoSpine which has offices in Seattle, Puyallup, and Poulsbo, Washington. NeoSpine was acquired by Symbion, Inc.,[7] in 2008 and Dr. Wohns continues to serve as president. He was also a co-founder of U.S. Radiosurgery which was acquired by Alliance Oncology, Inc.,[8] in 2011.

Since 1995, Dr. Wohns has been an associate clinical professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington.[9]

Dr. Wohns has been the physician for a number of mountain climbing expeditions including early in his career when he served as Medical Director for the Ultima Thule Everest Expedition in which high altitude brain research was performed.[10] On a K2 expedition he performed an appendectomy on a Balti porter who perforated his appendix.[11] And he has served as physician on mountaineering trips to Kilimanjaro as well as a number of Himalayan expeditions.

Dr. Wohns has performed over 3000 outpatient cervical and lumbar surgeries and his expertise includes outpatient and minimally invasive spine surgery, complex spine surgery, cervical and lumbar disc arthroplasty (artificial discs). He lectures both nationally and internationally and hosts yearly summits on the latest advancements in spine surgery techniques. [12]

Education

  • Seattle University, School of Law, Seattle, WA [13]
J.D., May 2011
  • University of Washington, School of Business, Seattle, WA
MBA, received June 1997
  • University of Washington, Department of Neurological Surgery, Seattle, WA
Surgery Intern, 1977-1978
Neurosurgery Resident, 1978-1982
Chief Resident and Acting Instructor in Neurological Surgery, 1982-1983
  • National Hospital, Queen Square, London, England
Post-Graduate Fellow in Neuroradiology, 1980
  • Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
M.D., received June 1977
  • Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
A.B., received June 1973
Honors: Magna Cum Laude

Publications

  • Wohns, RNW, Glickman, M, and Kerstein, M.D.: Osteomyelitis Following Translumbar Aortography. Angiology 28:7, 1977.[14]
  • Wohns, RNW: First Appendectomy Performed at High Altitude. Summit, August-September 1978.
  • Wohns, RNW: First Medical Glimpse into Regions Around Annapurna. Summit, October-November 1978.
  • Wohns, RNW, and Wyler, AR: Prophylactic Phenytoin in Severe Head Injuries. Journal of Neurosurgery 51:507-509, 1979.[15]
  • Dunn, R, Howe, J, Wohns, RNW, and Kelly, WA: Spinal Epidural Metastases. Journal of Neurosurgery 52:47-51,1980.
  • Lohse, DC, Senter, HJ, Kauer, JS, and Wohns, RNW: Traumatic Paraplegia. Journal of Neurosurgery 52:335-345, 1980.
  • Wohns, RNW: High Altitude Cerebral Edema: A Pathophysiological Review. Critical Care Medicine 9:880-882, 1981.[16]
  • Fried, I, Mateer, C, Ojemann, G, Wohns, RNW, and Fedio, P: Organization of Visual Spatial Function in Human Cortex: Evidence of Electrical Stimulation. Brain 105:349-371, 1982.
  • Wohns, RNW, and Kerstein, MD: The Role of Dilantin in the Prevention of Pulmonary Edema Associated with Cerebral Hypoxia. Critical Care Medicine 10:433-436, 1982. [17]
  • Wohns, RNW, Tamas, L, Pierce, K, and Howe, J: Use of Chlorpromazine as Treatment for Neurogenic Pulmonary Edema: Case Report. Critical Care Medicine 13:210-211, 1985.[18]
  • Wohns, RNW, Colpitts, M, Clement, T, Karuza, A, Blackett, WB, Foutch, R, and Larson, E: Phenytoin and Acute Mountain Sickness on Mt. Everest. American Journal of Medicine 80:32-36, 1986.[19]
  • Wohns, RNW: Transient Ischemic Attacks at High Altitude. Critical Care Medicine 14:517-518, 1986.[20]
  • Clement, T, Wohns, RNW, Nichols R: Mt. Everest Expedition Researches Acute Mountain Sickness. Medical Electronics, April 1985.
  • Colpitts, M, Wohns, RNW, Colpitts, Y, Clement, T, Blackett, WB, Karuza, A: The Effect of High Altitude on Visual; Evoked Potentials in Humans on Mt. Everest. Neurosurgery 21:352-256, 1987.[21]
  • Wohns, RNW, and Robinett, R: Day Surgery for Lumbar Microdiskectomy, Experience with 60 cases. Ambulatory Surgery 4:31-33, 1996.[22]
  • Wohns, RNW, and Robinett, R: Outpatient Anterior Cervical Microdiskectomy: Experience with 106 cases. Ambulatory Surgery 7:35-37, 1999.[23]
  • Wohns, RNW: Microeconomics of Microneurosurgery. Neurosurgery Quarterly 10(1):80-82, 1999.
  • Wohns, RNW: What is a “Fair Salary” for a Surgical Sub-specialist? Neurosurgery Focus, April, 2002.[24]
  • Wohns, RNW: Outpatient Spinal Surgery, Chapter 2: Setting Up an Ambulatory Spinal Surgery Clinic; Chapter 3: The Business of Outpatient Spinal Surgery; editors: Perez-Cruet and Fessler, Quality Medical Publishing, Inc. 2002.
  • Wohns, RNW: Liability is Rooted in Elective Spine Cases. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Bulletin 14 (2), Summer 2005.[25]
  • Wohns, RNW: Why Neurosurgeons Drop Craniotomy Privileges. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Bulletin 15 (1), Winter 2006.
  • Wohns, RNW: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Chapter 9: The Business of Outpatient Spine Surgery; editor: Perez-Cruet, Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., 2006.
  • Joseffer, S, Shin, P, and Wohns, RNW: Outpatient Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: Indications and Clinical Experience in a Consecutive Series of 390 Patients, Neurosurgery Quarterly 20(2): 107-110, June 2010.[26]
  • Wohns, RNW: Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine and Direct Hospital Employment of Physicians, submitted for publication, 2010.
  • Wohns, RNW: Loss of Mental Competency: End of Life Issues Related to Advance Health Care Directives and Mental Health Advance Directives, submitted for publication, 2010.
  • Wohns, RNW: Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Outpatient Cervical Disc Arthroplasty. Surgical Neurology International, 2010.[27]
  • Wohns, RNW, Nakano, N, et al: Minimally Invasive Spine Fusion, Chapter 2: Establishing a Minimally Invasive Spine Center; editor: Perez-Cruet, Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., 2011.
  • Wohns, RNW: A Comparison of the Safety of Lumbar Fusions Performed as Outpatient (<25-Hour Discharge) or Inpatient (>24-Hour Discharge) Procedures, The Spine Journal 12(9) Suppl: S155-S156, September 2012.[28]

Current Positions

  • Aqueduct Neurosciences, Director [29]
  • South Sound Neurosurgery Research & Education Institute, Director
  • Bylaws Committee, Western Neurosurgical Society, Chairman [30]

Patents

  • 10/23/14 - 20140316466 - Interspinous implant and instrument for implanting an interspinous implant [31]
  • 08/14/14 - 20140228885 - Interspinous implant and instrument for implanting an interspinous implant [32]
  • 02/14/13 - 20130041408 - Interspinous implant and implantation instrument [33]

Awards and Recognitions

In March of 2014 Dr. Wohns was named in an article published on Becker's Hospital Review entitled 40 of the Smartest People in Healthcare.[34] He was recognized in September of 2013 in Becker's Spine Review as one of the 92 Spinal Surgeon Device Inventors and Innovators to Know.[35] He was listed in 50 Spine Surgeons and Specialists to know by Becker's ASC Review in February of 2010.[36] And Dr. Wohns was recognized in 2009 as one of the top three Outstanding Health Care Executives – Metropolitan Region by the Seattle Business Journal.[37]

Media Attention

Jean Enerson featured Dr. Wohns in Easier fix for back pain in 2013.[38] New Back Surgery Could Reduce Recovery Time is a piece that originally aired on KIRO TV in 2004 and discusses revolutionary new procedures provided by Dr. Wohns.[39]

Interests

Dr. Wohns other interests include Tae Kwon Do, bicycling, skiing, and tennis.[40]

References

  1. ^ http://doctor.webmd.com/doctor/richard-wohns-md-4bf4f491-8e28-455a-8342-75dd77ae54f4-overview
  2. ^ http://neospine.net/
  3. ^ http://www.beckersasc.com/news-analysis/50-of-the-best-spine-specialists-in-america.html
  4. ^ http://www.multicare.org/good-samaritan-hospital/
  5. ^ http://www.saintfrancis.com
  6. ^ http://www.swedish.org/
  7. ^ http://www.symbion.com
  8. ^ http://www.allianceoncology.com/
  9. ^ http://www.chifranciscan.org/PhysicianDetails.aspx?physicianID=802631
  10. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3670581
  11. ^ http://www.richardwohns.com/mountain-medicine
  12. ^ http://destinationmi.com/mazama
  13. ^ http://neospine.net/doctors-wohns_cv.html
  14. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/900569
  15. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/113510
  16. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7318462
  17. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7083868
  18. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2857630
  19. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3510539
  20. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3698619
  21. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3670581
  22. ^ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0966653296001102
  23. ^ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096665329800047X
  24. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16212301
  25. ^ http://www.aans.org/Media/Article.aspx?ArticleId=37060
  26. ^ http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232141548_Outpatient_Anterior_Cervical_Discectomy_and_Fusion_Indications_and_Clinical_Experience_in_a_Consecutive_Series_of_390_Patients
  27. ^ http://www.surgicalneurologyint.com/article.asp?issn=2152-7806;year=2010;volume=1;issue=1;spage=77;epage=77;aulast=Wohns
  28. ^ http://www.thespinejournalonline.com/article/S1529-9430%2812%2900962-X/abstract
  29. ^ http://www.aqueductneurosciences.com/the-team.html
  30. ^ http://www.westnsurg.org/committees.asp
  31. ^ http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20141023ptan20140316466.php
  32. ^ http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20140814ptan20140228885.php
  33. ^ http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130214ptan20130041408.php
  34. ^ http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/40-of-the-smartest-people-in-healthcare.html
  35. ^ http://www.beckersspine.com/lists/item/17436-88-spinal-surgeon-device-inventors-innovators-to-know
  36. ^ http://www.beckersasc.com/news-analysis/50-of-the-best-spine-specialists-in-america.html
  37. ^ http://sandbox.seattlebusinessmag.com/article/health-care-heroes-2009?page=0,3
  38. ^ http://www.king5.com/story/local/2015/02/02/12887574/
  39. ^ http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/health-med-fit-science/new-back-surgery-could-reduce-recovery-time/nKbjR/
  40. ^ http://neospine.net/doctors-wohns_bio.html
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