Dr. Patrick Paullus Joins Southwest Neuroscience & Spine Center
Southwest Neuroscience & Spine Center is excited to announce that Patrick Earl Paullus, MD, has joined its team of neurosurgeons. Dr. Patrick Paullus continues a long legacy of medicine in his family. His grandfather, Wayne S. Paullus, Sr., DDS, practiced dentistry down the street from his brother George Earl Paullus, Jr., MD, who was a general surgeon in Memphis, Tennessee. Their father, George Earl Paullus, Sr., MD, was a general surgeon who served his community by rounding on patients in a Model T in the dry season and on horseback in the muddy hills of Tennessee and the low-lying areas of the Arkansas Delta. On the other side of the family tree, Dr. Patrick Paullus’s maternal grandfather, Vernon David Pettit, served as a pathologist in Paducha, Kentucky, and his maternal great-great-grandfather William Edward Fitch, M.D., was a physician in New England and author of the three-volume Dietotherapy published in 1918.
Nowadays, many people across the region have heartfelt stories of the life-saving surgeries performed by the hands of his late father, Dr. Wayne S. Paullus, Jr., and many others have experienced the life-changing care of his brother, Dr. C.P. Paullus. Dr. Patrick Paullus has returned home to continue this family tradition of providing exemplary and compassionate care.
From an early age, Patrick has been inquisitive, intelligent, and kind. All his childhood friends have stories about how he could put together things from sheer ingenuity and creativity. No one was surprised when he entered the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin and earned both a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts. He went on to earn a Master of Science and Engineering with a focus on thermal fluids from UT Austin, but medicine runs too deep in his veins for him to stop there. It was inevitable that he would earn a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He then completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences before practicing at CHI St. Vincent’s in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he gained extensive experience in all aspects of neurosurgery, including neurotrauma, brain tumors, and complex spine surgeries.
As deep as medicine runs through the Paullus family, Patrick’s West Texas roots run even deeper. His greatest desire has always been to return to Amarillo and join the neurosurgery practice with his dad and brother. His path has finally led him back home to be close to his family and raise his children, and he is stepping into his father’s shoes and office to continue the family tradition of healing and caring for those in our community.
Drs. Patrick Paullus and C.P. Paullus practice with Drs. Bret Errington, Michael LaGrone, and Brett Gentry at Southwest Neuroscience & Spine Center. As the leading neurosurgery practice in the region, the Center serves patients across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and Eastern New Mexico and is a proud part of FMC Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in the Texas Panhandle.