Geoffrey Austin Wright, MD

Serving as a U.S. Navy orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Geoffrey Austin Wright, M.D., is intimately familiar with providing high-quality orthopedic care in stressful environments. His 20-year career included a year-long deployment operating in Kuwait and an assignment as the flight surgeon for a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter squadron. Dr. Wright has made Hampton Roads home, having spent considerable time as a surgeon and faculty member at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. He has dedicated his career to eliminating pain, increasing mobility, and providing a better quality of life for his patients.

He earned his undergraduate degree from the United States Naval Academy. He received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. He completed his adult reconstructive surgery fellowship at Rush St. Luke’s Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Wright’s interest in orthopedics began as a teenager after experiencing a shoulder injury while rowing. His surgeon, also a rower, determined that physical therapy, not surgery, was the best treatment plan. Dr. Wright recovered and continued to row successfully during his time at the Naval Academy.

This experience helped form Dr. Wright’s medical philosophy, which is rooted in the continuity of care. Dr. Wright believes that surgeons have not only a responsibility to patients at the time of surgery, but through their entire preoperative evaluation, and through recovery to ensure they get the best care post-operatively as well.

A father of four, Dr. Wright and his wife have called Hampton Roads home for more than a decade. When he’s not treating patients, you can find him coaching on the sidelines of the soccer field or involved in a scout meeting.