PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chairman, Liability Committee of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons
2005 - present

Member, Washington Committee’s Quality Improvement Workgroup
2005 - present

Editorial Board, Bulletin of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons
2005 - present

President, Washington State Association of Neurological Surgeons
2003 - 2005

Chairman, NeoSpine, LLC
2001 - present

President, South Sound Neurosurgery, LLC
2002 - present

Washington State Delegate to Council of State Neurosurgical Societies (CSNS)
2001 - present

Chairman, Northwest Quadrant of Council of State Neurosurgical Societies
2004

Vice President, Neurosurgical Consultants of Washington, Inc, PS
1997- 2002

Chief Consultant, Ambulatory MicroNeuroSurgery Consultants, LLC
1997 - present

Private practice neurosurgery
1983 - present

Representative of Washington Association of Neurological Surgery to Washington State Inter-Specialty Council
1997

Associate Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Washington
1995 - present

Director, Institute of High Altitude Medicine
1986 - present

Medical Director, Neuro Unit, St. Joseph Hospital 1990 - 1992

Vice President, International Society for Mountain Medicine
1988 - 1991

Medical Director, Ultima Thule Everest Expedition 1984

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Law School, Seattle University
2006 - 2010

Executive MBA, University of Washington
1995 - 1997

Chief Resident and Acting Instructor in Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
1982 - 1983

Resident, Neurological Surgery, University of Washington
1978 - 1983

Postgraduate Fellow in Neuroradiology, National Hospital, Queen Square, London, England
1980

Surgical Intern, University of Washington
1977 - 1978

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut - M.D.
1973 - 1977

Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts - A.B., Biochemistry, Magna Cum Laude
1969 - 1973

BOARD CERTIFICATION & STATE LICENSURE

American Board of Neurological Surgery certification
1986

Washington State Medical License
1978

Illinois State Medical License
2005

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Washington Association of Neurological Surgeons

Western Neurosurgical Society

North American Spine Society

American College of Surgeons (FACS)

American Medical Association

Washington State Medical Association

American Alpine Club

Himalayan Club

Explorers Club

International Society for Mountain Medicine

PUBLICATIONS

Wohns, RNW, Glickman, M, and Kerstein, M.D.: Osteomyelitis Following Translumbar Aortography. Angiology 28:7, 1977.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wohns, RNW: Transient Ischemic Attacks at High Altitude. Critical Care Medicine 14:517-518, 1986.

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.

Wohns, RNW, and Robinett, R: Day Surgery for Lumbar Microdiskectomy, Experience with 60 cases. Ambulatory Surgery 4:31-33, 1996.

Wohns, RNW, and Robinett, R: Outpatient Anterior Cervical Microdiskectomy: Experience with 106 cases. Ambulatory Surgery 7:35-37, 1999.

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.

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.

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.

Wohns, RNW: Safety of Outpatient Anterior Cervical Microdiscectomy with Fusion. Submitted for publication to Neurosurgery, May 2007.

CORPORATE BOARD POSITIONS

Archus Orthopedics, Data Safety Monitoring Board
2006

Ranier Technology Ltd., Medical Advisory Board
2006

NeoSpine, LLC, Medical Advisory Board
2001 - present

SeaMed, Inc., Board of Directors
1999 - 2001