David W. Wimberley, M.D.
Board-Certified in Orthopedic Surgery. Fellowship-Trained in Spine Surgery.
When it comes to something as complex and delicate as spine surgery, the education, training, and experience of your spine surgeon is not just a preference — it is a requirement. There is simply no substitute for experience. Dr. David W. Wimberley, a Houston spine surgeon, brings an elite academic foundation to his practice and has been a board-certified, triple fellowship-trained reconstructive spine surgeon for nearly 30 years.
Dr. Wimberley graduated first in his medical school class at UT Southwestern with a perfect 4.0 grade point average and received the Ho Din Award, the school’s highest honor. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency training at Harvard Medical School. After completing his residency in Boston, he opted to continue training and completed three additional subspecialty fellowship programs — two of which focused exclusively on orthopedic and neurosurgical spinal surgery. Dr. Wimberley is one of only a handful of spine surgeons in the state of Texas to have completed three fellowship training programs.
Over the course of his training and nearly 30 years in practice, Dr. Wimberley has completed over 10,000 spinal surgeries. As a result, he possesses both the surgical maturity and the clinical judgment to successfully guide his patients’ care. He has dedicated decades to mastering the complexities of the human spine.
Dr. Wimberley is also very active academically. For well more than a decade, he has served as a faculty member in the Houston Methodist Hospital spine fellowship training program — a rigorous one-year program that accepts orthopedic and neurosurgeons from around the world and trains them to become successful spine surgeons. At Fondren Orthopedic Group and Texas Orthopedic Hospital, he further mentors surgeons in the operating room, sharing the surgical technique and judgment developed over his career.
This unique blend of academic rigor and world-class surgical experience ensures that even the most complex reconstructions are handled with elite precision.
