People news: General surgeon Rosner returns to Carthage Area Hospital

CARTHAGE, N.Y. — Carthage Area Hospital (CAH) announced that Dr. David Rosner, general surgeon, will return to its medical staff effective Sept. 1.

He previously worked at CAH from 1988-2010. Rosner will see patients at the Carthage Surgical Clinic located at the hospital’s main campus at 1001 West St. He has 30-plus years of surgical experience.

“I look forward to returning to my home base,” said Rosner.

Dr. Rosner specializes in abdominal surgery, which includes the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, gallbladder, bile ducts, and appendix. He practices upper and lower endoscopy and performs tonsillectomies and outpatient surgical procedures, including vasectomies.

Rosner received his medical degree from the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and completed his residency at the New York Medical College, Lincoln Hospital, which is a Level I trauma center in the Bronx.

His surgical work experience began at Carthage Area Hospital & Lewis County General Hospital from 1988-2010 as a self-employed general surgeon in private practice. Following his work at Carthage, Rosner was appointed president of the medical staff at Lewis County General Hospital in 2010. He worked for Lewis County General Hospital from 2010-2017 as a general surgical attending. Leading up to his return to Carthage, he was employed by Canton-Potsdam Hospital from 2017-2020, where he was chief of surgery at Gouverneur Hospital from 2018-2020.