Institution Affiliations:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon
Spine Center
Orthopaedic Surgery

Medical School:

MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 1985

Education:

MS, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, 2001

Internship:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH, General Surgery, 1985-86

Residency:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1986-90

Residency:

Newington Children's Hospital, Newington, CT, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1989

Fellowship:

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Spine Surgery, 1990-91

Board Certification:

Orthopaedic Surgery, 1993, 2004

Specialties:

Orthopaedics
Spine Center

Joined Staff in 1991

Practice Note: Surgery of the Spine including Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Disorders, Disc Herniation, Spinal Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis, Spondylotic Myelopathy, Spinal Cord Injury, Spine Trauma

Selected Publications:

Abdu, WA. Point of View. Partial Corpectomy for Cervical Spondylosis. Spine 28:1 19-20, 2003

Abdu, WA. Point of View. Correlation of Low Back Pain with Functional Status, General Health Perception, Social Participation, Subjective Happiness, and Patient Satisfaction. Spine 28:13 1467, 2003

Howard An; Scott D. Boden; James Kang; Harvinder S. Sandhu; William Abdu; James Weinstein Summary Statement: Emerging Techniques for Treatment of Degenerative Lumbar Disc Disease. Spine 28S:15, S24-S25 2003

James D. Kang, MD; Howard An, MD; Scott Boden, MD; Frank Phillips, MD; Kevin Foley, MD; William Abdu, MD Cement Augmentation of Osteoporotic Compression Fractures and Intraoperative Navigation: Summary Statement. Spine 28S:15, S62-S64 2003

Abdu WA. Point of View. Comorbidity with Low Back Pain. Spine 29:13, 1492, 2004