William H. Montgomery, MD

About Dr. Montgomery

Dr. Montgomery is board-certified in orthopedic surgery and highly specialized in spinal disorders. He completed a coveted two year fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic and is one of the few spine surgeons dual trained by both neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons. He specializes in minimally invasive surgical techniques in the management of complex cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine disorders.

Joining Northeast Orthopedics/OrthoNY in August of 2008, Dr. William Montgomery specialized in surgical disorders of the spine. In July of 2008, Bill completed a coveted two-year subspecialized fellowship in spine surgery at the Cleveland Clinic where he was cross trained by both neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons. His training in both fellowship and residency was extensive in the surgical management of cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine disorders. He learned and utilized state-of-the-art techniques including minimally invasive surgery, computer navigation, spine robotics and complex spine instrumentation. His fellowship also focused on the treatment of the aging spine including kyphoplasty, deformity correction, and management and reconstruction of pathologic spine conditions such as cancer and infection. His special interest lies with disorders of the cervical spine. Dr. Montgomery is Board Certified in Orthopedic Surgery.

Bill grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii for 30 years where he was an avid outdoorsman. Following college at UVM he obtained his Master of Public Health in 1997 at the University of Hawaii and then graduated from the University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine in 2001 where he received the Merck Academic Achievement Award and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He then moved with his wife and four children to Seattle to attend the University of Washington Orthopedic Residency Program. While at the University of Washington, he received the Victor Frankel Research Award and the Most Outstanding Chief Resident Award. Bill completed this program in 2006.

Dr. Montgomery also spent 17 years in the US Army Reserve Medical Corps with four combat deployments in Forward Surgical Teams and Combat Support Hospitals. He was deployed twice to remote areas Afghanistan, once in Iraq, and again in Kosovo in support of both regular army units and special operations. He has performed hundreds of life and limb saving surgeries. For his service, Dr Montgomery left the Army as a Lt Colonel, received numerous military honors including a Meritorious Service Medal, The Army Commendation Medals, and a personal letter of commendation from the Pentagon’s Major General Formica.

Dr. Montgomery has authored several peer reviewed journal articles as well as book chapters. He has given more than 30 presentations to local primary care physicians, hospital nurses,  physical therapists, chiropractors, physician assistant students, and Albany citizens on minimally invasive spine surgery and new innovations in spine surgery. Bill also travels around the country teaching other actively practicing spine surgeons the most cutting edge minimally invasive spine surgery techniques. He is a member of the North American Spine Society, Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeons, and Fellow of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery.

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