Rod Oskouian is a neurosurgeon, Chief of Spine at Swedish Health Services Seattle, and the author of 7 medical textbooks. Over 10,000 surgeries. Now translating the science of the operating room into insights on sleep, recovery, and brain performance.
Eight domains. Twenty years of practice.
Complex spine. Deformity, tumors, trauma, revision. Pioneer of lateral lumbar corpectomy in the United States.
Swedish Cherry Hill · Chief of Spine Since 2008 02
Thieme, Elsevier, Springer, Cambridge Scholars.
03Robotic spine surgery. AI in surgery. Lateral spine outcomes.
Medtronic AiBLE and Stryker navigation. Among the earliest adopters in the Pacific Northwest.
AI-Guided · Daily UseFellowship at Swedish. SSF. Kenyatta National Hospital since 2014.
06Hundreds of cases. Plaintiff and defense.
State · Federal · Local Courts 07AANS, CNS, NASS, AOSpine. Grand rounds. Surgical demonstrations internationally.
CME · Keynotes · Demonstrations 08Angel. Surgical robotics, spine implants, physician education platforms.
Medtech · Clinician-First
I was given extraordinary teachers.
The only honest response
to that is to become one.
What two decades in the OR actually teaches you about the brain. Every Tuesday. Free.
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Surgical education content from the Seattle Science Foundation channel. Technique breakdowns, course footage, and first-person accounts from the OR.
Rod helped found it and now serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Free surgical education for clinicians worldwide. No institution required.
Spine and neuro case discussions, debates, and lectures, streamed free. The kind of teaching that usually costs thousands at a conference.
Subspecialists across every surgical discipline. Dozens of CME-accredited courses each year with free previews. Used by training programs worldwide.
Browse courses →Hundreds of free surgical and educational videos on YouTube, including live surgery, anatomy, and lectures. New videos all the time.
Watch on YouTube →The Seattle Science Foundation streams free surgical case discussions and lectures, plus a free video library on SSFTV. Open to surgeons, residents, and students.
