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Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital
Oceanside, NY ( 3/2020 – Current )
ENT Surgeon
Mercy Medical Center
Rockville Center ( 13- 10/16 )
Chief of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery
Mercy Medical Center
Rockville Center NY ( 09- 10/16 )
Chief of Head and Neck Surgery
Mercy Medical Center Rockville Center NY
Rockville Center NY ( 03-Current )
Member Institutional Review Board
Mercy Medical Center
Rockville Center, NY ( 2003 – Current )
Member Institutional Review Board
Winthrop University Hospital
Mineola, NY (6/2000 – Current )
ENT Surgeon
Mercy Medical Center
Rockville Center, NY ( 2000 – Current )
ENT Surgeon
NSUH at Plainview
Plainview, NY ( May 2000 – Current )
ENT Surgeon
Jacobi Medical Center/N.C. Bronx Hospitals
Bronx, NY ( July 1999 – Current )
ENT Surgeon
MeadowBrook Care Center
Freeport, NY ( 2001 – Current )
ENT Surgeon
Private Practice
Garden City, NY ( 12/1999 – Current )
Private Practice
Queens Long Island Medical Group
Garden City, NY ( 12/1999 – 06/2003 )
Consultant
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY ( 07/99 – 6/2009 )
Assistant Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College
Indore, India ( 1985 )
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY ( 07/92–06/94 )
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook NY ( 07/95–06/99 )
Resident, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY ( 07/94–06/95 )
Resident (PGY-1), General Surgery
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi (national referral center for difficult/unusual problems) ( 10/89–04/92 )
Senior Resident, Otorhinolaryngology (post board certification, teaching appointment, equivalent to a junior faculty in US)
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
Chandigarh, India ( 01/89–10/89 )
Senior Resident, Otorhinolaryngology (post board certification, teaching appointment, similar to junior faculty position in US)
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
Chandigarh, India ( 01/86–10/89 )
Resident Otorhinolaryngology
Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital
Indore, India ( 11/85–01/86 )
House Officer, Pediatrics

Nodular Amyloidosis: Case report and literature review
Kakani RS, Goldstein A, Meisher I, Hoffman C ( 2001)
Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
Superior Adenoidectomy in children with palatal abnormalities
Kakani RS, Callan ND, April MM ( 2000 )
Ear Nose and Throat Journal
Acoustic characteristics of rough voice: subharmonics
Omori K, Kojima H, Kakani R, Slavit DH, Blaugrund SM (1997 )
Journal of Voice
Analysis of CT scanning referrals for chronic rhinosinusitis [letter; comment]
Kakani RS (1996 )
Journal of Laryngology and Otology
Kimura’s disease
Taskin M, Gokaslan T, Kakani R, DaSilva M (1996 )
Archives of Otolaryngology
Management of post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia
Szubin L, Kacker A, Kakani R, Komisar Blaugrund S ( 1996 )
Ear Nose and Throat Journal
Role of pectoralis major flap in carotid artery protection
Kakani R, Bahadur S ( 1995 )
Indian Journal of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Tongue paralysis after head trauma
Kacker A, Komisar A, Kakani RS, Reich E, Rothman L ( 1995 )
Journal of Laryngology and Otology
Ear buds need cautious use
Kakani RS, Kakani SR (1993)
Journal of the Indian Medical Association
Parapharyngeal lipoma
Kakani RS, Bahadur S, Tandon DA, Kumar S ( 1992 )
Journal of Laryngology and Otology
Primary neuroblastoma of maxilla|
Mehta S, Kakani R, Mann SBS, Radotra BD (1991 )
Ear Nose and Throat Journal
Cystic hygroma of parotid
Mehta S, Kakani R, Mann SBS, Radotra BD (1990)
Taskin M, Gokaslan T, Kakani R, DaSilva M ( 1996 )
Archives of Otolaryngology
Bulletin of the Postgraduate Institute Medical Education and Research (Chandigarh)
Thalamic glioma: an unusual presentation
Bhansali A, Agarwal RG, Kakani R (1990)
Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
Bhansali A, Agarwal RG, Kakani R (1990) Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
Kakani RS, Mantri P (1990)
Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
Audio-vestibular functions in rheumatoid arthritis
Kakani RS, Mehra YN, Deodhar SD, Mann SBS, Mehta S (1990)
Journal of Otolaryngology

Commonwealth Scholarship
UK Government ( 1992-93 )
Ethicon Travel Fellowship
Association of Otolaryngologists of India ( 1991 )
Silver Medal for First Place|
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh India ( 1988 )
National Talent Search Scholarship
Government of India ( 1978-88 )
National Merit Scholarship
Government of India ( 1978 )
State Merit Scholarship
Government of India (1979-84 )
Fellow
American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy ( 2014 )
Diplomate
American Board of Otolaryngology (2000)
Diplomate
National Board of Otorhinolaryngology (India) (1989)
Master of Surgery (Otorhinolaryngology)
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh India (1988)
ECFMG
Indefinitely Valid