Dr. John Faryna, MD FAAOS
Providing orthopedic and spine care since 2010.
Fellowship trained in minimally invasive spine surgery.
Trained in multiple robotic and computer navigation platforms.
Committed to guiding you through a comprehensive spine care plan.
Growing up in a small town in North Central Florida, Dr. Faryna went on to the University of Florida where he graduated summa cum laude in Microbiology and Cell Science through the Collage of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
He received his MD also from the University fo Florida graduating in the top 10% of his class and being elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. After Completing his Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, Dr. Faryna went on to complete a fellowship in adult spine surgery at the Spine Institute of Arizona working with experts such as Dr. Edward Dohring, President of the North American Spine Society 2022-2023, and the Barrow Neurologic Institute.
He stayed on as an attending surgeon at Spine Institute of Arizona educating medical students and fellows in spine surgery until 2021, where he started his career at Avera health becoming one of the founding members of the Orthopedic Spine Service at Avera. He continues today at Avera where he is able to continue with his passion for educating patients on back and neck spine conditions as well as providing minimally invasive spine surgery options.
- Undergraduate University of Florida, BS; Summa Cum Laude
- Medical School, University of Florida
- Residency Internship, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
- Orthopedic Surgery Residency, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
- Fellowship in Adult Spine Surgery, Spine Institute of Arizona
Growing up in a family with an older parent, from an early age I was exposed to a variety of personalities in the healthcare field. These experiences in my formative years lead me to commitment to an approach of compassionate, knowledgable, and personable care from medical school to this day. I am committed to patients under my care actually seeing me at their clinic appointment. I am committed to making sure you understand your diagnosis and plan before leaving an appointment, using whatever educational aid necessary to ensure you have a best possible understanding of where we are and where we are going as a team along your treatment plan. Lastly, regarding surgical treatment of the spine I will always try to find the least invasive way of treating any diagnosis. I often say that the best surgery is no surgery, and if there is a way to eliminate pain and restore function without making an incision, this is a win. If surgery is the only remaining option, the least invasive techniques are always the goal. This is not just to use buzz words such as minimally invasive or motion preserving, but utilizing my training as a minimally invasive surgeon to shape a mind set of getting the goals of care accomplished while minimizing trauma to the normal adjacent tissues.