Rowland G. Hazard

Rowland G. Hazard, MD FACP devoted his 30-plus-year clinical and research careers to understanding and caring for people disabled by chronic back pain. Currently Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, he is a physician, internationally respected scholar and researcher, widely published author, teacher, inventor, entrepreneur, athlete and jazz musician. A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Vermont School of Medicine, he completed residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital and fellowship in orthopaedics at the University of Texas Southwestern.

Dr. Hazard has cared for several thousand patients with back pain, and as a pioneer in intensive rehabilitation known as Functional Restoration, he has led teams of physicians, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, social workers and trainers at the University of Vermont (1986-2000) and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2002-2018).

He lives in Vermont near the farm where he grew up.