Dr. Hsu has clinical interests in infectious and motion-sparing spine surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery and spinal trauma and neoplastic spine problems, among other interests.
Topics he focuses his research on include myleopathic condition of the cervical spine, tissue engineering solution as bone graft substitutes in spinal fusion and adjacent segment degeneration of the spine.
He serves as the director of the Professional Athlete’s Spine Initiative, which compiles data on athletes who undergo treatment for spinal conditions. Additionally, Dr. Hsu is the head of the Laboratory for Regenerative Technologies at Northwestern.
Dr. Hsu is a member of the Cervical Spine Research Society, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the North American Spine Society.
He earned a medical degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., and later completed an orthopedic surgery resident at the UCLA Medical Center. He also completed a spine surgery and spinal cord injury fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison.
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Spine Surgeon Leader
to Know: Dr. Wellington Hsu of Northwestern Memorial
Wellington Hsu, MD,
is a spine surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and an
assistant professor in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Northwestern’s
Feinberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Hsu has clinical interests in infectious and
motion-sparing spine surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery and spinal
trauma and neoplastic spine problems, among other interests.
Topics he focuses his research on include myleopathic condition of the cervical
spine, tissue engineering solution as bone graft substitutes in spinal fusion
and adjacent segment degeneration of the spine.
He serves as the director of the Professional Athlete’s Spine Initiative, which
compiles data on athletes who undergo treatment for spinal conditions.
Additionally, Dr. Hsu is the head of the Laboratory for Regenerative
Technologies at Northwestern.
Dr. Hsu is a member of the Cervical Spine Research Society, American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons and the North American Spine Society.
He earned a medical degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in
Nashville, Tenn., and later completed an orthopedic surgery resident at the
UCLA Medical Center. He also completed a spine surgery and spinal cord injury
fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison.
