Dignity Health – Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center announced its new Chief of Staff David Rogers, MD, who will serve a two-year term from January 2021 to December 2022. Dr. Rogers is an orthopaedic spine surgeon who has been in private practice and a member of the Glendale Memorial Hospital medical staff for 20 years. Dr. Rogers previously served as Glendale Memorial Hospital’s chair of surgery division, and as Glendale Memorial Hospital’s vice chief of staff. He has also been a medical director at Glendale Memorial Hospital since 2001.
After graduating cum laude general studies from Harvard College, Dr. Rogers received his medical doctorate from Harvard Medical School. He then completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at UCLA Medical Center, an orthopaedic spine surgery fellowship at UCLA Medical Center, and an orthopaedic spine surgery fellowship at Saint John’s Health Center Spine Institute in Santa Monica. Dr. Rogers is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Dr. Rogers is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the North American Spine Society. He has received numerous honors, including the Harvard College Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize, the Harvard Medical School Public Service Award, and the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the Year (selected by the UCLA Medical Center Dept. of Nursing).