Jeffrey Kachmann

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About Jeffrey Kachmann

Dr. Kachmann is a board-certified neurosurgeon who practiced in Fort Wayne since 1996, and now in North Dallas, Texas since November 2024, specializing in complex spine disorders and instrumentation, pituitary tumors, craniofacial, and intracranial and spinal tumors as well as trauma. He has chaired and presented at national spinal technique training meetings and was a co-investigator for a Medtronic/ FDA investigational national artificial cervical disc study. He has also served on a national committee and think tank for Stryker Corp. for spinal instrumentation development and improvement. He served on several Fort Wayne-area committees and is an avid supporter of numerous Fort Wayne community projects. Dr. Jeffrey Kachmann is a Fort Wayne native and a graduate of Concordia Lutheran High School, where he played No. 1 singles for the tennis team. He attended Ball State University—a family tradition—where he achieved academic honors, including Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key. Indiana Medical School, Indianapolis, served as his foundation for his surgical internship at the renowned Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He completed his neurosurgical residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City. He was featured on “20-20” with Barbara Walters there. Dr. Kachmann completed a neurological surgery fellowship at New York University Medical Center in New York City, working with world-renowned neurosurgeons who developed international techniques and protocols for spinal and brainstem tumors, spinal cord injury, spinal fusion and fixation techniques, brain tumors and brain trauma management. He was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at IU Medical School Fort Wayne. Dr. Kachmann loves the challenge of neurosurgery. “It provides great satisfaction to be able to help others in need—to relieve their pain, disabilities and problems that alter their their lifestyles,” he says. “I treat my patients as my own family—they are the best folks in the world!” Specialties: Above