Dr. Roger Härtl has been recognized as one of the best spine surgeons in the United States by Newsweek magazine. Newsweek partnered with Statista to evaluate physician performance data, certifications, and professional reputation for American spine surgeons in 2024, resulting in the list of the top 150 in the country. Dr. Härtl is the Hansen-MacDonald Professor of Neurological Surgery and director of spinal surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine as well as co-director of Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is one of four spine surgeons at Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian named to the list.
Internationally renowned for his expertise in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery as well as biological approaches for disc repair and regeneration, Dr. Härtl is a pioneer in computer-assisted spinal navigation surgery and a leader in new advances such as augmented reality in spine surgery. He is also committed to improving neurosurgical care in developing countries and is the founder and leader of Weill Cornell Medicine's Global Health Neurosurgery Initiative in Tanzania.
Dr. Roger Hartl training local surgeons in Tanzania, 2024
Dr. Härtl takes an interdisciplinary approach to spine conditions, and he works closely with neurologists, pain specialists, sports medicine doctors, and physical therapists to achieve the best outcomes for his patients. He adds the 2024 Best Spinal Surgeons in America honor to a long list of others, as he has been consistently named to lists of New York Super Doctors, America's Top Surgeons, and America's Best Doctors, and has been included on the list of New York’s Best Doctors in New York magazine. He has authored hundreds of scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the editor of multiple books on minimally invasive spinal surgery and biological disc repair and regeneration.
This is the magazine’s inaugural list of the best spine surgeons in the United States, but they have recognized the neurosurgeons of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center before. Since Newsweek and Statista started ranking specialized hospitals in 2021, they have placed the neurosurgery service at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University at the top of that list. When the 2024 lists came out, it was a hat trick – for the third year in a row we were the #1 hospital for neurosurgery in New York, and one of the very best in the world. (Yes, one of the best hospitals for neurosurgery in the world.)
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