Dr. Patrick Roth

Chairman of Neurosurgery at Hackensack University Medical Center

Patrick Roth, M.D., is the Chairman of Neurosurgery at Hackensack University Medical Center and the director of its neurosurgical residency training program. Dr. Roth has practiced neurosurgery in New Jersey for the past twenty years. He has been a perennial recipient of Castle and Connolly “Top Doctors” and has been featured in New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” and New Jersey Magazine’s “Top Doctors.”

Dr. Roth has authored numerous articles on the spine and been a contributing author in many neurosurgical publications. He also authors a blog that focuses on patient empowerment and the art, versus the science, of being a physician. The blog shares with the reader the perspective of a surgeon “without a scalpel.”

Dr. Roth lives in northern New Jersey with his wife, two chil- dren, and border collie. An avid athlete and tennis player, he has also competed in triathlons. His lifelong interest in fitness and diet has shaped his focus on minimally invasive and non-operative solutions to back pain.