Vice-Chairman and Professor
Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Director of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery 
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Chief, Neurotology Service, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital

Attending Surgeon: Neurosurgical Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Selesnick is a well recognized member of the national neurotologic community. His clinical expertise lies in surgery of the temporal bone, otology, neurotology and skull base surgery.

He is a member of the editorial board of Otology and Neurotology the official journal of the American Otological Society and American Neurotology Society, and the most important journal in this field. He has served as a guest editor of the Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, a unique distinction among clinicians in the field. He has received the Honor Award from the President of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in recognition for his contributions to the Academy. He is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Skull Base Surgery Committee, Hearing Committee and is the past Chairman of the Academy's Hearing Aid Subcommittee. Dr. Selesnick has been elected to the American College of Surgeons, the American Neurotology Society,  the Triological Society, the American Otological Society and the New York Otologic Society. 

As a result of his ongoing dedication to patients with acoustic neuromas.  Dr. Selesnick has been asked by the Acoustic Neuroma Association of New York, a patient group, to sit on their Medical Advisory Panel. Dr. Selesnick has been interviewed on many occasions by television and print journalists on issues related to the ear.  He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Dr. Selesnick has published extensively in the medical literature. His work in the diagnosis of acoustic neuromas,  facial nerve monitoring and surgery, and cholesteatoma surgery is widely cited and constitutes  a particularly important contribution to the literature. He has lectured extensively to surgeons in the United States, Europe and Asia.

At NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Selesnick has pioneered the use of lasers for the treatment of hearing loss in otosclerosis, and for the treatment of cholesteatoma, during mastoidectomy surgery. He has developed new procedures in Tympanoplasty to repair tympanic membrane perforation. Dr. Selesnick has also introduced Skull Base Surgical approaches for acoustic neuromas and other skull base tumors, and initiated the intraoperative cranial nerve monitoring program. His collaborative work in this area with physicians in the Department of Neurology, has earned him a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College. In addition, Dr. Selesnick is a member of the Neurosurgery Service of the Department of Surgery at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 

Dr. Selesnick completed his undergraduate education at Wesleyan University, and received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Otolaryngology in the combined Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital/New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center Otolaryngology Residency Program. Dr. Selesnick then went on to  complete a fellowship in Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Selesnick is board certified in Otolaryngology.