Dr. Wohns is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard College in Biochemistry, a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine, and completed a residency in Neurosurgery at the University of Washington. He is a board certified neurosurgeon and an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington. Dr. Wohns received his MBA from the University of Washington in June 1997 and his JD from the Seattle University School of Law in May 2011. Dr. Wohns was Medical Director of the Ultima Thule Everest Expedition in 1984, and performed high altitude brain research on Mt. Everest. He has also performed an appendectomy on a porter during an expedition to K2, the second highest mountain in the world.

After pioneering an innovative outpatient spine surgery program in the Puget Sound region, he founded NeoSpine, LLC in 2001 to develop a national network of outpatient spine surgery centers. Symbion, Inc., acquired the center in 2008, and Dr. Wohns serves as chief consultant to Symbion for outpatient spine surgery center development.