Ben Roitberg, MD, is a neurosurgeon practicing at the University of Chicago Medicine. With more than 25 years of experience and training in neurosurgery, he specializes in cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine procedures in addition to the surgical management of tumors of the spine and brain, neurological trauma, Chiari malformation, peripheral nerve entrapment and neurovascular conditions.
Dr. Roitberg is a researcher focusing on improving outcomes of neurosurgical patients with diseases of the spine. He is working with his team to speed up recovery time after spinal cord injury by examining the characteristics of nerve cells after transplantation into stroke models to determine if neurological functions improve after transplantation.
Dr. Roitberg additionally is the editor-in-chief of the journal Neurological Research. His clinical interests include peripheral nerve surgery, minimally disruptive advanced spine surgery, neurosurgery, spinal cord and brain injury as well as neuroendoscopy among many others.
He attended medical school at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Israel and completed his residency at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. His memberships include the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American Medical Association, Chicago Neurological Society, Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Illinois State Medical Society.
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