Dr. Mark J. Shikowitz, MD, MBA, FACS: Physician

Dr. Mark J. Shikowitz has 35 years of experience and is the first and only physician on Long Island providing hypoglossal nerve stimulator implant surgery for sleep apnea. He joined the Northwell Health System in 1986, with expertise in sinus surgery, facial cosmetic surgery, head and neck surgery, pituitary tumor surgery, balloon sinuplasty, and endoscopic skull-based surgery. He also provides treatment and surgeries for all ENT issues. Dr. Shikowitz is the Director of The Zucker Sinus Center of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Vice Chairman of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital. He is also a Professor of Otolaryngology at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.

Dr. Shikowitz completed his undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. He relocated to the Dominican Republic where he obtained his Medical Degree at the University of Dominicus, and a Master’s in Business Administration from George Washington University. He then completed a General Surgery residency at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, and an ENT residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Shikowitz then completed a three-year fellowship in viral papilloma research with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is board-certified in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Shikowitz is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

He maintains active memberships and affiliations with the American Medical Association, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Otolaryngology, the Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children, the Long Island Society of Otolaryngology of Head and Neck Surgery, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, and the American Broncho-Esophagological Association.

Dr. Shikowitz is actively involved in speaking engagements in Australia, Asia, Russia, and Europe, where he traveled bi-annually to lecture on sinus surgery at Bristol University in England. He has embarked on two medical mission trips annually to the Dominican Republic, Africa, Myanmar, India and other countries. He educates other physicians, as well as performs surgeries for the less fortunate. Dr. Shikowitz has received citations from the New York Dominican Medical and Dental Society, for his mission work in the Dominican Republic. He has also developed and published several procedures, currently holding a patent regarding the anti-viral papilloma therapy. He is the author of "Speech and Swallowing Rehabilitation Following Devastating Caustic Ingestion: Techniques and Indicators for Success".