Dr. Dr. Ming-Wei Wu

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Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Ming-Wei Wu, who serves patients in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Dr. Wu is the Founder of Professional Wound Specialists in Las Vegas, Nevada. With a clinical focus on wound care, he specializes in surgical debridement, amputation, fistulectomy, skin graft and wound closure. He also manages negative pressure wound pressure therapy, extracellular matrix placement, and basic wound treatment. He highlights his care on the skin, hoping to potentially avoid a wound occurring. 

Professional Wound Specialists provide wound care treatments in hospitals, surgical center, rehabilitation facilities, long term acute care, skilled nursing facilities, and home health services. They provide wound care doctors at home, which allows convenience for homebound patients who need high quality service. PWS serves in the greater area of Nevada, California, New Mexico, Idaho, and Utah.

Upon discharge, they provide follow-up wound care services in thier office and home visits for patients who are homebound. The broad spectrum of service locations enable them to follow and treat the patient in a continuous fashion preventing miscommunications between physicians, facilities and nurses. Professional Wound Specialists is dedicated to all patients in the facilities. In any long term acute care, rehabilitation or skilled nursing facilities, they will treat all wounds REGARDLESS of their insurance status and/or company. 

Originally from San Marino in Southern California, Dr. Wu went to college at the University of California, San Diego, and earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. He later completed his residency in general surgery at St. John’s Hospital, and his fellowship in laparoscopic and bariatric surgery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

An authority in his field, the doctor is board-certified in general surgery by the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery.

In order to keep himself on the cutting edge of wound care, he is an active member of the American Board of Wound Management, the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. 

As for his academic appointments, Dr. Wu lectures at Touro University, trains residents from Valley Hospital and speaks for present/past over 13 pharmaceutical wound companies. He also lectures at conferences such as Superbones Superwounds, Desert Foot, American Medical Integration, and has traveled internationally to lecture in Iceland and Taiwan, Republic of China.

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