Dr. Wohns is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard College in Biochemistry, and a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Washington and is board certified. Dr. Wohns also received his Executive MBA from The University of Washington where he serves as an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurosurgical Surgery. He graduated from The Seattle University School of Law with a J.D. in May 2011.

His areas of expertise in the field of neurosurgery include outpatient and minimally invasive spine surgery, complex spine surgery, cervical and lumbar disc arthroplasty (artificial discs), as well as brain tumor and skull base surgery. He is one of the first US neurosurgeons qualified to perform the revolutionary XLIF technique for minimally invasive lumbar fusions.

Dr. Wohns is Past-President of the Washington State Association of Neurological Surgeons, and Past-Chairman of the Northwest Quadrant of the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies. Dr. Wohns presently serves on the Ethics Committee, the Liability Committee, and the Education and Practice Management Committee of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the Bylaws Committee of the Western Neurosurgical Society. He is a member of many professional neurosurgical, medical, legal, and mountaineering societies.

In his "off-duty" time, Dr. Wohns is a leader in the field of mountain medicine and served as Medical Director to the Ultima Thule Expedition to Mount Everest (the world's highest mountain at 29,029'). He is also widely known in the climbing community for having performed an emergency appendectomy on an expedition porter on the Baltoro Glacier on K2 (the world's second highest mountain at 28,251').

A highly disciplined martial arts devotee, Dr. Wohns holds a 4th degree black belt (Master Level) in Tae Kwon Do. He is also an avid bicyclist, skier and tennis player.