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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2002

John Scott Roth, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Southeastern Surg Cong
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Assn for Acad Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

800 Rose St

University of Kentucky Surgery

C233

Lexington, KY 40536

United States

Contact Information

Administrative Assistant
Name:Rebecca O'Shea

Biography

Hernia Repair - complex, ventral, hiatal, paraesophageal and inguinal Laparoscopic Surgery Gastroesophageal reflux Disease, Achalasia Complex Gastrointestinal Surgery - ulcer, tumor, revision Solid organ removal - spleen, adrenal, pancreas

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • abdominoplasty

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominoplasty
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

  • component separation
  • tissue flaps

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • colectomy
  • colon surgery
  • colonic polyps
  • diverticular disease
  • esophagogastroduodenoscopy
  • laparoscopic colon surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • endoscopic surgery
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • robotic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors

Hospital Appointments

University of Kentucky Medical Center Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Chief, Gastrointestinal Surgery

Professor

UK Good Samaritan Hospital

Lexington, Kentucky,

Professor

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Lexington, Kentucky,

Attending

Academic Appointments

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Lexington, KY

Professor