Dr. Wu graduated from National Yang-Ming University and won the first Andrew T. Huang Medical Education Promotion Foundation Scholarship to visit Duke University Medical Center in 2000. He completed his residency in Taipei Veterans General Hospital, the largest neurosurgical training center in Taiwan. He won the 2009 Sonntag International Fellowship Award, from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons: Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, and the SRS Global Outreach Visiting Fellowship Award, issued by the Scoliosis Research Society in 2010. He was a research fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as at the University of California Los Angeles. He then joined the faculty at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and serves as a professor in National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.

Dr. Jau-Ching Wu specializes in complex cervical spine surgery (for example, craniovertebral junction, endoscopic odontoidectomy, atlantoaxial instability, disc arthroplasty, and ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament), minimally invasive spine surgery, and spinal cord injury research. Dr. Jau-Ching Wu has published more than 130 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Wu was elected to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine in 2017.

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