Richard C Rooney, MD FACS

Dr. Rooney is a fellowship trained Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.

He was an intercollegiate and All-Army athlete as a cadet at the United States Military Academy where he majored in Nuclear Engineering and then attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. After medical school, he completed his Orthopaedic Surgery training in the Army and a Spinal Deformity Fellowship at UC San Diego/San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders.

Among his many note-worthy awards, he was selected as the Edgar Dawson Clinical Travelling Fellow by the Scoliosis Research Society in 2005, the 2006 North American Spine Society Clinical Travelling Fellow and the 2006 Cervical Spine Research Society Clinical Traveling Fellow. He is the only surgeon to ever win all three of these prestigious awards.

He is considered to have had one of the most distinguished surgical careers of any Military Orthopaedic Surgeon and his military career culminated with a Bronze Star nomination for his performance while deployed in Iraq during the 2007 troop surge.

His skill and accomplishments were recognized by Congress and was appointed as a Peer Reviewer for Congressional Directed Medical Research Programs in 2009 and 2011 in the fields of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy in Orthopaedics.

After leaving the Army in 2010, he joined The Polyclinic in Seattle and was recognized as a ‘Seattle Superdoctor’ in 2011, 2012, 2013 (each year he has been in practice). In 2012, he was selected at a ‘Top Doctor’ by Seattle Met magazine. Additionally, we has been awarded the <url removed> Patient’s Choice Award from 2011-2013 and the <url removed> Compassionate Doctor Recognition from 2011-2013.

At the end of 2012, he left The Polyclinic to enter private practice and founded the Seattle Spine Group(www.seattlespinegroup.com).