Big 12 Faculty

Education:

B.S. Neuroscience

Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas

1990-1994

M.D.      The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas Dallas, Texas

1994-1998

Orthopaedic Surgery Residency

The Fort Wayne Orthopaedic Residency Program Fort Wayne, Indiana

1998-2003

Spine Surgery Fellowship

Plano, Texas August 2003-2004

Private Practice

Fort Worth Orthopedics, 2015-Present

Texas Christian University Team Orthopedic Surgeon 2004-Present

Texas Health Care Bone and Joint Clinic, 2004-2015

Medical Director, the Fort Worth Spine Center at Fort Worth Orthopedics Team Physician Texas Christian University Athletics

Big XII Conference Medical Society Mountain West Conference Medical Society

Assistant Professor, UNT Health Science Center Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Texas Christian University Addran College of Sciences, College of Nursing

Texas Christian University, Pre-Health Professions Advisory Committee

Board Certification:

American Board or Orthopaedic Surgery Spine Specialty Board Certified 2006, 2016 Fellow, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery

Honors and Awards:

Southwest Athletic Trainer’s Association, Honorary Member

Residency:

The Stauffer-Kimbrough Foundation Resident Research Award 2001-2002 Indiana Orthopaedic Society, Outstanding Paper Award, Indianapolis, IN 2002 Indiana Orthopaedic Society, Outstanding Paper Award, French Lick, IN 2003

Undergraduate:

Dean’s List 1990-1994 Chancellor’s Scholar

Chancellor’s Scholarship Recipient Lambda Chi Alpha 4.0 Award Texas Open 1500-Meter Champion

Medical Societies

Big XII Conference Medical Society Mountain West Conference Medical Society American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery North American Spine Society

American College of Sports Medicine

Committee on Sports Medicine, Tarrant County Medical Society Texas Orthopaedic Association

 

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Board Certified 2006

Research and Lectures

Epidural Lipomatosis, In Progress

 

• The Effect of Lordosis, Disk Height Change, Subsidence, and Transitional Segment on Stand-Alone Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using a Non-Tapered Threaded Device. Mark W. Wylie, M.D., Kevin A. Rahn, M.D., Robert M. Shugart, M.D.

World Spine II, Chicago Ill, August 2003 paper presentation

American Orthopaedic Association Annual Resident’s Conference Paper Presentation, Memphis, TN 2002

Indiana Orthopaedic Society, Outstanding Paper Award, Indianapolis, IN 2002

Spine Science & Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA 2001 Poster Presentation

 

• Operative Techniques Producing Low Postoperative Infection Rates in Posterior Instrumented Lumbar Fusion. Mark W. Wylie, M.D., Kevin A. Rahn, M.D., Robert M. Shugart, M.D.

World Spine II, Chicago, Ill, August 2003 World Spine II, poster presentation Indiana Orthopaedic Society Paper Presentation, 2003

• Intradiscal ElectroThermal Modulation in Lumbar Degenerative Disk A review of 37 Patients. Mark W. Wylie, M.D., Kevin A. Rahn, M.D., Robert M. Shugart, M.D.

 

• Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Versus Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion in the Treatment of Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease. Mark W. Wylie, M.D., Kevin A. Rahn, M.D., Robert M. Shugart, M.D., Jeffrey L. McGowen, M.D.

Surgical Management of Spine Pathology and Practice Tips, Snowbird, Utah, March 2003, paper presentation

 

Transient Quadriplegia/ Cervical Cord Neuropraxia. The American College of Sports Medicine 2006, Denton Texas

Transient Quadriplegia/ Cervical Cord Neuropraxia, The Mountain West Medical Society Annual Meeting 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada

 

Stingers and Cervical Root/ Spinal Nerve Complex Injury in the Collision Athlete. American College of Sports Medicine 2006, Tarrant County Medical Society 2006

 

Circumferential Fusion for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis. Updates in Spine Surgery Mark W. Wylie, M.D. 2004

 

Cervical Cord Neuropraxia in the Collision Athlete, New Perspectives and Return to Play Criteria, The Texas Orthopaedic Society Annual Meeting 2008, Symposia, San Antonio, Texas

 

Stingers and Cervical Cord Neuropraxia, Evans Distinguished Lecturer, UTMB Department of Orthopaedics, Galveston, Texas 2008

 

Military Back, A History of Military Medicine and Treatment of the Tactical Athlete, Marine Medical Symposium 2009,

Performance Enhancement, Past, Present and Future Considerations, The Mountain West Medical Society Meting 2011

 

Genetic Doping, State of the art in performance enhancement, The Big XII Medical Society 2013,

Medical History of the Military, Medics, 68Ws and Military Trauma, Big XII Medical Society 2013, Marine Medical Academy 2012