Professor of Neurosurgery, Director of Spine Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotics, Medical Director of the Comprehensive Spine Program
University of Arizona College of Medicine/Banner University Medical Center - Tucson
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Richard V. Chua, MD, FAANS, FACS is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine/Banner University Medical Center- Tucson and formerly private practice neurosurgeon in Arizona and Indiana. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons. He completed his medical school, general surgery internship, and neurosurgery residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Chua’s special interests include robotic-assisted, image-guided spinal fusion, outpatient lumbar fusion, minimally invasive surgical techniques, and cervical disc arthroplasty. Dr. Chua has established two robotic spine surgery programs in Tucson, and was the first Mazor X Stealth Edition program in Arizona. He is a proponent for enabling techniques and technologies and performed Tucson’s first minimally invasive direct lateral lumbar fusion in 2008. He is a passionate educator, and is an annual faculty member for the AANS GOODMAN Oral Board Review Course, and the annual AANS Advanced Practice Provider Neurosurgery course. He has served as a faculty member for visiting domestic and international spine surgeons. He has a deep interest in Global Neurosurgery and has performed spine surgery in Nepal, Maldives, Vietnam, and Thailand. He continues his humanitarian work in educating neurosurgery residents at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal through the Nepal Spine Foundation.
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Friday, June 24, 2022
8:00 AM – 10:15 AM CT
