Dr. Smouha is board-certified in both Otolaryngology and Neuro-Otology. With over twenty years of experience, his clinical and academic interests span all aspects of otology and neurotology. Dr. Smouha has performed over four hundred operations for cholesteatoma and has given instructional courses on cholesteatoma and complications of otitis media at the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and in Graduate Education at Mount Sinai. With expertise on hearing preservation, he has performed hundreds of successful stapedectomy operations for the treatment of otosclerosis, re-established the Cochlear Implant program at Mount Sinai, and is conversant in newer surgically-implanted hearing devices including BAHA.