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Professor of Neurosurgery
Banner University/University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, US
Richard V. Chua, MD, FAANS, FCNS, FACS is Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Robotics at Banner University Medicine and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. He is also Director of the Comprehensive Spine Surgery Program and leads the only Joint Commission Certified Spine Program in Arizona. Previously, Dr. Chua was a private practice neurosurgeon for nearly 25 years in Tucson and previously in Lafayette, Indiana. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He completed medical school, internship, and residency in Neurological Surgery at Indiana University.
Dr. Chua’s clinical and research interests include robotic-assisted, image-guided spinal fusion, outpatient lumbar fusion, minimally invasive spine surgical techniques, and cervical motion preservation surgery. Dr. Chua has established two robotic spine surgery programs in Arizona, and frequently hosts domestic and international surgeons. In addition to his neurosurgical practice, Dr. Chua is a neurosurgical educator serving as a frequent faculty for the AANS/Goodman Oral Board Review Course, the AANS APP Neurosurgery Course, and is a member of the AANS Education Committee. Dr. Chua is a Founder of the Nepal Spine Foundation and annually travels to Nepal to teach and perform spine surgery at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital along side the Neurosurgery Faculty. He has also performed spine surgery in the Maldives, Vietnam, and Thailand.