Charles Frank MD

Fellowship-trained at the University of Virginia in orthopaedic spine surgery, and board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. His path to the operating room started with his hands: a decade maintaining dairy-farm machinery, building houses, and reconditioning mechanical testing equipment — then a physics degree, a full-tuition merit scholarship to Wayne State's medical school, and its Medical Student Scholar Award. That mechanic's understanding of load, wear, and alignment is exactly how he approaches the degenerative spine — stenosis, disc herniation, and nerve pain, with a special clinical interest in sciatica. In practice as an orthopaedic spine surgeon in southeast Iowa since 2022.