Richard V. Chua, MD, FAANS, FACS, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and is a board-certified neurosurgeon and provides general neurosurgical care at Banner University Medical Center – Tucson. He is an active teaching faculty member in the Neurosurgery Residency Program within the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Dr. Chua is Director of Spine Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotics, and serves as the Medical Director for the Comprehensive Spine Program. Dr. Chua specializes in degenerative spine disease, motion preservation surgery of the cervical spine arthroplasty) image-guided and robotic-assisted techniques for instrumented spinal fusions, and minimally invasive surgeries of the entire spine. He is an active faculty member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeon AANS) Goodman Oral Boards Review Course. He has been an invited guest lecturer at many US and international spine meetings, and provides surgeon education both domestic and internationally. He hosts visiting surgeons frequently in Tucson. He is a founding member of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery SMISS) He is a Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeon AANS) and the American College of Surgeons ACS) and is Board Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons ABNS)