Roger Härtl

Roger Härtl is an American neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he directs spinal surgery at the Weill Cornell Brain and Spine Center. He received his M.D. from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, held postdoctoral fellowships at Weill Cornell and at the Charité in Berlin, completed a surgical residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and a neurosurgery residency in New York, and trained in complex spine surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. His scientific work centres on traumatic brain injury and the surgical treatment of spine disorders and spinal cord injury, and he sits on the medical advisory board of the Brain Trauma Foundation, which helped develop United States head injury treatment guidelines. He has written books on spinal disc repair and minimally invasive spine surgery and leads a training project that teaches basic neurosurgery to surgeons in Tanzania.