As a Neenah High School student, Wellington Hsu played the violin with surgical precision, lending no doubt those skills would eventually lead to his career choice.
Hsu has become a premier orthopaedic and spine surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He has conducted extensive research on regenerative technologies in orthopaedic surgery and neck, back and spine injuries in athletes. All of these accomplishments for someone who graduated from high school barely 20 years ago.
While in high school, Hsu was active in both athletics and the arts. He played on two state tournament soccer teams, including a state runner-up team in 1991. Hsu was also part of state champion tennis teams in 1992 and 1993. The 1993 class valedictorian and a National Honor Society member, he participated in debate and held roles in musical productions.
Hsu attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and majored in musical performance. He earned his medical doctorate at Vanderbilt University in 2001 and then completed his medical residency at UCLA until 2007 and his fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in 2008.
Hsu is an endowed professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Lumbar Spine Research Society.
Hsu has been part of nearly 100 published documents in his field with many focusing on spine and neck injuries in athletes. He is considered an international expert in myelopathic condition of the cervical spine, tissue engineering solution as bone graft substitutes in spinal fusion and adjacent segment degeneration of the spine. Hsu is widely interviewed in national publications and serves as a consultant for the National Football League and the Chicago Cubs for his expertise in the clinical outcomes in elite professional athletes after spine surgery.
His wife, Erin, is also an accomplished violinist and works as a research associate professor at Northwestern. Together, they run the research operations in the department of orthopaedics. They have three daughters, Savannah, Jaiden and Evie and reside in Glenview, Ill.
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