Neurosurgeon Highlight: Dr. Myron L. Rolle, MD MSc.

Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in New Jersey, Myron Rolle has always been ambitious. As a high schooler, Dr. Rolle maintained a 4.0 GPA while also going All-American and making 112 tackles in Football. Furthermore, he played the saxophone in the school band and sang in a school play. Dr. Rolle went on to play college football at Florida State University and was later selected to play for the Tennessee Titans. In college, he studied exercise science and later won the Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford. He then returned to the United States to play for the NFL.

In 2013, Dr. Rolle left the NFL to attend Florida State University College of Medicine. He then completed his neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. Currently, he is an attending pediatric neurosurgeon at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida.

Dr. Rolle states that playing football taught him the necessary dedication needed for maintaining parts of life: marriage, family, and neurosurgery. He is very passionate about global neurosurgery and expanding people’s ideas about this subspecialty. In places like the Caribbean, where Dr. Rolle spent part of his childhood, conditions like stroke, hydrocephalus, and trauma, all of which are usually treatable, can become a death sentence. To improve global health, Dr. Rolle works with various international organizations to train clinicians, treat, and educate vulnerable populations.