in the Netherlands and 2 years as a clinical assistant in the Department of Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery and Microsurgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
in New York.
Board Certification/Honors/Awards: Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery. Membership in professional societies include the New York Academy of Sciences,
American Medical Association and the European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial
Surgery, to name a few. Listed in “Who’s Who in the World of Medicine 1997-1999.
He has been honored with Fellowships in the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, American College of Dentists, and the American Associates of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons.
Academic/Clinical Appointments: Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial
Surgery at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is also Visiting Associate
Professor in the Department of Craniofacial Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery at the Wilhelms University in Muenster, Germany. Attending
surgeon at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York and an attending surgeon and
Associate Director of Maxillofacial Surgery at the Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens,
New York. He is Chief of the Cranio-facial Clinic at the Mt Sinai School of Medicine
in the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery since 2000 and an Attending Surgeon in
the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the Beth Israel Medical
Center in New York.
Other Activities: Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery. (Harcourt International Publishers). Editorial Board Member
for Head and Face Medicine. (BioMed Central Pub). Editorial Board Member of Folia
Medica. Higher Medical Institute Plovdiv Publishers). Healing the Children, Northeast,
Inc. Founding Member, International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation. Health Volunteers
Overseas, Inc.