Dr. Zhang completed his residency training in neurological surgery at the UW. He also completed a joint orthopedic and neurosurgery spine fellowship at the UW before becoming a faculty member in neurosurgery at the University of Texas in Houston in 2006. He returned to Seattle and joined the faculty in 2009.
Prior to coming to the U.S., he was a fully trained neurosurgeon at the Beijing Tiantan Hospital in China. He was a research associate in the laboratory of Cerebrovascular Biology and Stroke at the University of Minnesota from 1995-98. He has published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
All disorders of the spine, including trauma. Degenerative disc disease; spinal stenosis; radiculopathy; spondylolisthesis; spondylosis; failed back surgery syndrome; spinal fracture; myelopathy; spinal instability; kyphosis; and spinal deformity.
Outcomes study of spine surgery, spinal cord blood flow regulation and acute spinal cord injury.
Medical Education
Capital University of Medical Science
Internship
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Residency
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Fellowship
University of Washington
- Sunshine JE1, Dagal A, Burns SP, Bransford RJ, Zhang F, Newman SF, Nair BG, Sharar SR. Methylprednisolone Therapy in Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Analysis of a Regional Spinal Cord Model Systems Database. Anesth Analg. 2017 Apr;124(4):1200-1205.
- Pennington MW1, Roche AM, Bransford RJ, Zhang F, Dagal A. A Technique to Allow Prone Positioning in the Spine Surgery Patient With Unstable Spine Fracture and Flail Segment Rib Fractures. A A Case Rep. 2016 Jul 1;7(1):2-4.
- Bonow RH, Bales JW, Morton RP, Levitt MR, Zhang F. Reversible coma and Duret hemorrhage after intracranial hypotension from remote lumbar spine surgery: case report. J Neurosurg Spine. 2016 Mar;24(3):389-93.
- Fan T, Zhao X, Zhao H, Liang C, Wang Y, Gai Q, Zhang F. Treatment of selected syringomyelias with syringo-pleural shunt: the experience with a consecutive 26 cases. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2015 Oct;137:50-6.