Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Northwestern University
Elliot Roth, MD brings more than 30 years of experience in rehabilitation patient care, research, teaching, and program leadership for patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury spinal cord Injury, and other neurological conditions. His research and academic interests are in the areas of novel methods to enhance recovery, improve functional outcomes, and prevent associated medical conditions for people with disabling conditions. He currently is Project Director of a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Interventions to Promote Community Living for People with Physical Disabilities and he recently completed a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on health and function for people with disabilities. He also PI on several other research projects focused primarily on neurorehabilitation, including a current NIH-supported project on stroke-induced hand dysfunction. He has published more than 150 papers on neurorehabilitation, and he and Robert Jaeger, PhD hold a patent on a method and apparatus for artificially stimulating cough reflex in people with a spinal cord injury (US Patent 5,397,337). Dr. Roth is the Chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. In addition to his research and administrative responsibilities, he has an active medical practice, specializing in the care and treatment of patients with a variety of physically disabling conditions, focusing predominantly on the rehabilitation management of patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury. He recently assumed responsibility for evaluation and management of outpatients with disabilities resulting from Post-Acute Symptoms of Covid-19.
