Rod Oskouian is a neurosurgeon, Chief of Spine at Swedish Health Services Seattle, and the author of 7 medical textbooks. Now translating the science of the operating room into insights on sleep, recovery, and brain performance.
Eight domains. Twenty years of practice.
10,000+
Surgeries performed · Still operating
Complex spine. Deformity, tumors, trauma, revision. Pioneer of lateral lumbar corpectomy in the United States.
Swedish Cherry Hill · Chief of Spine since 2008
500+
Publications · 7,400+ citations
Robotic spine surgery. AI in surgery. Lateral spine outcomes.
Medtronic AiBLE and Stryker navigation. Among the earliest adopters in the Pacific Northwest.
AI-guided · Daily use
130+
Neurosurgeons trained
Fellowship at Swedish. SSF. Kenyatta National Hospital since 2014.
AANS, CNS, NASS, AOSpine. Grand rounds. Surgical demonstrations internationally.
CME · Keynotes · Demonstrations
Angel. 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.
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What two decades of operating actually teaches you about the brain. Free, and every issue stays published in full.
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Dopamine Reset? Look at Your Sleep Before Your Phone
A Slipped Disc Can Shrink on Its Own
Fibermaxxing for Your Brain? The Best Evidence Is in Your Blood Vessels
Can Cracking Your Neck Cause a Stroke? The Sore Neck May Be the Warning
AXON is the evidence. Substack is where the unfinished thinking goes: what twenty years of operating actually taught me, and the questions I am still working out.
Read on SubstackFree to follow. New essays as I finish them.
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Thieme Elsevier Springer Cambridge Scholars
Clinical Anatomy of the Ligaments of the Craniocervical Junction Cambridge Scholars
Surgical education from the Seattle Science Foundation YouTube channel. Technique breakdowns, course footage, and first-person accounts from the OR.
Rod helped found this nonprofit and now serves as its President and CEO. Free surgical education for clinicians worldwide, with no institution required.
