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George B. Wanna, MD

Professor
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, NY, United States

George Wanna, MD, MHCM, FACS
Professor and Executive Vice Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

George Wanna, MD, MHCM, FACS serves as Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System. He is the Site Chairman of ENT department at NYEE and Mount Sinai Downtown, Chief of Otology-Neurotology and Director of the Audiology, Hearing and Balance Program at Mount Sinai Health System.
Dr. Wanna completed his residency training in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai, which was followed by a two-year fellowship in Otology-Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at the prestigious Otology Group of Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee.
A forerunner of advancing minimally invasive surgical techniques, Dr. Wanna specializes in the endoscopic (through the ear) removal of complex ear and skull base tumors and growths. These include acoustic neuroma, cholesteatoma and glomus jugulare tumors. He is one of a few surgeons worldwide performing endoscopic removal of glomus jugulare tumors, drawing patients near and far for this procedure. Dr. Wanna is also widely recognized for his technological breakthroughs, having performed the world’s first mastoidectomy with an “exoscope” (robotic arm) featuring enhanced visualization of the surgical field.
Dr. Wanna’s professional activities include teaching, patient care and administration. He is a member of many professional societies and a frequent guest speaker at national and international conferences. Dr Wanna has published more than 150 manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is the editor of five books on tumors of the ears, jugular paraganglioma and cochlear implants. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier’s Otolaryngology Case reports. Dr. Wanna is a Senior Examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology (ABOto) and the American Board of Neurotology.

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