Rob Young

Rob Young

Resident Bio

I grew up in Upstate New York hearing stories about the operating room from my anesthesiologist father. I chose to attend the Naval Academy knowing that they allow a small number of graduates each year to go into military medicine, and I could think of no more exciting and worthwhile way to serve my country than as a military physician. In medical school I initially pursued neurosurgery but fell in love with the excitement of trauma surgery, and then the technical complexity and meaningful patient interactions in surgical oncology. I am excited about GW because it is a tight-knit program that produces capable general surgeons, with appropriate autonomy, research opportunities, and experiences to pursue excellent subsequent fellowship training.

Undergraduate School

United States Naval Academy

Medical School

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Clinical Interests

Surgical Oncology, Trauma Surgery and Critical Care

Publications

  • Young R*, Cottrill E*, Pennington Z, Ehresman J, Ahmed AK, Kim T, Jiang B, Lubelski D, Zhu AM, Wright KS, Gavin D, Russo A, Hanna MN, Bydon A, Witham TF, Zygourakis C, Theodore N. Experience with an Enhanced Recovery After Spine Surgery (ERASS) Protocol at an Academic Community Hospital. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 2020 Dec 25:1-8. doi: 10.3171/2020.7.SPINE20358. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33361481.
  • Bender MT*, Young RW*, Zarrin DA, Campos JK, Caplan JM, Huang J, Tamargo RJ, Lin LM, Colby GP, Coon AL. Twisting: Incidence and Risk Factors of an Intra-Procedural Challenge Associated with Pipeline Flow Diversion of Cerebral Aneurysms. Neurosurgery. 2020. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa309. Online ahead of print.
  • Young RW, Bender MT, Colby GP, Coon AL. Multiple pipeline twists encountered during treatment of a symptomatic fusiform ICA aneurysm. BMJ Case Rep. 2019;12(7). doi:10.1136/bcr-2019-230036.
  • Young R, Jiang B, Theodore N. Unusual Cause of Trigeminal Neuralgia: First Report of Intracranial Migration of Spinal Cord Stimulator. World Neurosurg. 2019;128:47-49. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2019.04.155Kl
  • Hersh A, Young R, Pennington Z, Ehresman J, Ding A, Kopparapu S, Cottrill E, Sciubba DM, Theodore N. Removal of instrumentation for postoperative spine infection: systematic review. J Neurosurg Spine. 2021 Jul 9:1-13. doi: 10.3171/2020.12.SPINE201300. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34243152.
  • Lin LM, Bender MT, Colby GP, Jiang B, Campos JK, Zarrin DA, Young RWC, Xu R, Caplan JM, Huang J, Tamargo RJ, Coon AL. Flow diversion covering the M1 origin as a last resort. Stroke Vasc Neurol. 2019;4(3):141-147. doi:10.1136/svn-2018-000204
  • Bender MT, Zarrin DA, Jiang B, Campos JK, Lin LM, Young R, Colby GP, Coon AL. Aspirin Monotherapy in Flow Diversion of Selected Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysms. World Neurosurg. 2020;134:580-583. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2019.06.161

Hometown

Rochester, NY

Personal Interests

Woodworking, rock climbing, constantly contemplating getting a dog (but never actually committing), hiking the Billy Goat Trail