Associate Professor
Northwell Health
Dr. Maja Svrakic holds a full-time faculty appointment at the Department of Otolaryngology at the Northwell Health Department of Otolaryngology at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center and is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. She is also the Program Director for the Residency in Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery at Hofstra/Northwell. She is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology in Otolaryngology and in Neurotology and is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, where she holds several committee positions, American Neurotology Society, North American Skull Base Society, New York Otologic Society as well as the Long Island Society of Otolaryngologists.
Dr. Svrakic immigrated from Belgrade, Serbia while in high school and graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed residency in Otolaryngology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center. She subsequently completed the prestigious fellowship in Neurotology at New York University. Dr. Svrakic completed a Masters in Health Professions Pedagogy and Leadership program at the Hofstra University School of Education. She has research interests in resident education, tinnitus, temporal bone models and cochlear implant outcomes. Dr. Svrakic runs an annual symposium on vestibular disorders in New York, bringing together nationally recognized multi-disciplinary speakers. She has presented locally, nationally and internationally on resident education and training, cochlear implant techniques and outcomes, immune mediated sensorineural hearing loss, facial nerve disorders, tumors of the skull base and disorders of balance. Dr. Svrakic is active in teaching medical students, otolaryngology residents, physician assistants and audiologists in the New York area as well as national temporal bone courses. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters.