Alan H. Shikani MD, FACS

 

Alan H. Shikani, MD, FACS, clinician, researcher, teacher and inventor, is a most accomplished physician in the field of otolaryngology.

Dr Shikani did his residency and fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (according to US News, Johns Hopkins is #1 Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery program in the United States for more than 20 years).

Dr Shikani is the founder and director of the Maryland Ear, Nose and Throat Center. He is the chief of the Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Union Memorial in Baltimore, and chief of the Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Hospital at the Good Samaritan Hospital, and assistant professor in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions,. He is also the founder and director of the Rhinology Fellowship at Union Memorial, and has trained many rhinologists who have come from different parts of the world to spend a year with him in Baltimore specializing in diseases of the nose and sinuses.

Dr Shikani is a diplomat of the American Board of Otolaryngology, fellow of the American College of Surgeons, member of numerous other national societies, including the Alpha-Omega-Alpha Honor Medical Society, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American Academy of the Facial Plastic Reconstructive Society, the American Rhinologic Society, and the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the Triological Society, the most prestigious society in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery. To be elected to the Triologic membership, a physician must be sponsored by a member of the society and present a once-in-a-lifetime extensive peer-reviewed thesis. Dr Shikani’s thesis pioneered the new field of polymer chemotherapy for head and neck cancer*.

Dr Shikani has made many inventions which are currently on the market and have improved the lives of many ENT patients. Thousands of patients worldwide have benefited from the Shikani Middle Meatal Antrostomy Stent, the Shikani Speaking Valve and the Shikani Clarus Optical Stylet for management of the difficult airway.

Dr Shikani currently holds twenty four patents and patent applications in his name, either individually or as a co-inventor, and he has co-founded a bio-tech airway management company start-up company (The Airway Company), which manufactures speaking valves for tracheotomy patients. Dr Shikani has taught several courses on intellectual property and patenting at the annual meetings of Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and has published numerous publications in peer review journals and books, and made numerous presentations in national and international meetings.

Dr. Shikani earned in 2003 the coveted “Maurice H. Cottle Award for Clinical and Basic Research in Rhinology” from the American Rhinologic Society. The award is given only once per year, in recognition of the most outstanding national and international basic research in the field of rhinology. His research involved in vitro tissue culture of nasal chondrocytes for cartilage tissue engineering and potential use in orthopedics cartilage regeneration. **

Honors and Awards:

• 1989, First prize, Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Resident Research Symposium of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesta, Maryland
• 1989, First prize, the Southern Medical Association meeting, Washington D.C
• 1990, First prize Maryland Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Baltimore Maryland.
• 1990, First  prize Basic Science Research award of the American Society of Head & Neck Surgery, The Combined Spring Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida.
• 1990, First prize, Fourth annual mid-Atlantic resident research Symposium of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesta, Maryland.
• 1991, First prize.The Maryland Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Baltimore Maryland.
• 1993, Gold Medal, The XV World Congress of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery ,Vth Festival of Scientific Video, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2002, The prestigious Maurice H. Cottle Award for Best Clinical and Basic Research in Rhinology, The American Rhinologic Society.

Experience

Dr. Shikani has performed over 10,000 nasal procedures over a 25 year career, and is continuously striving to improve his surgical skills and the precision of his procedures. These procedures cover all aspects of nasal surgery, including endoscopic sinus surgery, balloon sinuplasty, septoplasty, radiofrequency coblation of the turbinates, cosmetic rhinoplasty, and snoring surgery.

Publications (refer to Curriculum Vitae for entire list of publications)

*Shikani A, Domb A: Candidate’s Triologic Thesis: Polymer Chemotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer, The Laryngoscope Volume 110, Issue 6, pages 907–917, June 2000

* Shikani, A. Eisele, D; Domb, A. Polymer Delivery of Chemotherapy for Squamous Cell
Carcinoma of the Head and Neck  Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1994;120(11):1242-1247

**Shikani AH, Fink DJ, Sohrabi A, Phan P, Poltosky, Hungerford DS, Frondoza CG :
Propagation of Human Nasal Chondrocytes in Microcarrier Spinner Culture, American J Rhinology 16(2) 105-112, 2204. Winner of the Maurice H. Cottle Award for Clinical and Basic Research in Rhinology, The American Rhinologic Society, September 21, 2002

Dr. Alan Shikani’s Curriculum Vitae