Martin L. Rothberg, MD was appointed Assistant Dean of the Northwest Campus on August 1, 1998. Dr. Rothberg graduated from Montana State University-Bozeman; received his medical doctorate from the University of Washington School of Medicine (WAMI); and completed residencies in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Creighton Univeristy Affiliated Hospitals in Omaha, Nebraska; Royal Lancaster Infirmary in England; and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Rothberg was appointed Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences in 1992, and he was promoted to full professorship in January 1997. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha NE; and currently serves as Chief of Surgery and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Trinity Hospital in Minot ND.

Since his arrival in Minot in 1992, Dr. Rothberg has actively participated in the medical education of resident physicians at the Center for Family Medicine and fourth year medical students at the Northwest Campus of the medical school. He serves as surgery advisor to family medicine residents and established a critical care elective rotation for midlevel residents. In 1998 he also coordinated a multidisciplinary critical care elective rotation in Minot for the fourth year medical students. While at Creighton Univeristy School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Rothberg established a cardiothoracic surgery elective rotation for senior medical students.

Dr. Rothberg received a Community Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award from the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences in 1996, and he was elected to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society in 2001.