Introduction
The fellowship is a 1 year comprehensive experience in Rhinology, advanced Endoscopic Sinus Surgery and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery. Upon completion of the program, the fellow will be trained to develop academic, tertiary sinus and endoscopic skull base program. The foundation of the fellowship experience includes the medical and surgical management of both routine and complex sino-nasal disorders including chronic sinusitis, allergic fungal sinusitis, advanced nasal polyposis, frontal sinus disease, sphenoid sinus disease and anterior skull base neoplasms. The surgical experience encompasses primary and revision endoscopic sinus surgery, surgical management of the frontal sinus, cerebrospinal fluid leak closure, endoscopic resection of sino-nasal neoplasms and endoscopic skull base surgery. The fellowship is on a preceptor model with
Dr.Vijay Anand at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. The combined Advanced Endoscopic Skull base surgery cases will be jointly performed with Dr.Theodore Schwartz who is on the Neurological Surgery faculty.