Chief, Division of Laryngology
Residency Program Director

Contact

Shands ENT Clinic
Return Patient Appointments

• Phone: (352) 265-9465
• Fax: (352) 265-9466

ENT Call Center
New Patient Appointments

• Phone: (352) 265-0920
• Fax: (352) 627-4411

Academic Office

• Phone: (352) 273-5199
• Fax: (352) 392-6781

Email

Education

• FELLOWSHIP, Laryngology
  Medical College of Georgia
  Augusta, GA

• CHIEF RESIDENT, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
  State University of New York at Stony Brook
  Stony Brook, NY

• RESIDENCY, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
  State University of New York at Stony Brook
  Stony Brook, NY

• INTERNSHIP, General Surgery
  State University of New York at Stony Brook
  Stony Brook, NY

• MEDICAL DEGREE (M.D.)
  Ohio State University College of Medicine
  Columbus, OH

• UNDERGRADUATE (A.B.)
  Princeton University
  Princeton, NJ
  Graduated Cum Laude from Department of Chemistry

Academic Affiliations

• American Medical Association
• American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Presentations

1. Incidence of Vocal Cord Paralysis with and without Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring during Thyroidectomy, Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Head and Neck Society, Chicago, IL (2006)
2. A Novel Treatment of Nasopharyngeal Stenosis, Poster presentation, Southern Sectional meeting of the Triological Society, Naples, FL (2008)
3. Patient Compliance with Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy in an Otolaryngology Practice, Oral presentation at the American Broncho Esophageal Association meeting, Orlando, FL (2008)
4. Normal values for pharyngeal pH monitoring, Oral presentation at the American Broncho Esophageal Association meeting, Orlando, FL (2008)
5. Management of Sub Optimal Injection Laryngoplasty with Calcium Hydroxylapatite, Oral presentation at the American Laryngological Association, Orlando, FL (2008)
6. Patient Compliance with Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy in an Otolaryngology Practice, Oral presentation at the International Conference on Extra Esophageal Reflux, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (2008)

Publications

See a full listing of publications on PubMed, a service of the National Library of medicine.

1. Shindo M, Chheda NN.  Incidence of vocal cord paralysis with and without recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during thyroidectomy.  Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133:481-485.
2. Hachiya A, Chheda NN, Postma GN. “Gastric pull up” and dysphagia.  Ear Nose Throat J. 2008;87:325.
3. Chheda NN, Postma GN. Patient compliance with proton pump inhibitor therapy in an otolaryngology practice.  Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2008;117:670-2.
4. Chheda NN, Rosen CA, Belafasky PC, Simpson CB, Postma GN.  Revision laryngeal surgery for the suboptimal injection of calcium hydroxylapatite.  Laryngoscope. 2008;118:2260-3.
5. Hachiya A, Chheda NN, Postma GN. Acquired vascular compression of the esophagus.  Ear Nose Throat J.  2008;87:677.
6. Chheda N, Katz AE, Gynizio L, Singer AJ. The pain of nasal tampon removal after nasal surgery: A randomized control trial.  Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg.  2009;140:215-7.
7. Hachiya A, Chheda NN, Postma GN. Large mixed hiatal hernia and stricture as a cause of dysphagia.  Ear Nose Throat J.  2009;88:826.
8. Chheda NN, Seybt MW, Belafsky PC, Schade R, Postma GN.  Normal values for pharyngeal pH monitoring.  Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2009;118:166-71.
9. Chheda NN, Postma GN.  Balloon dilation of an acquired nasopharyngeal stenosis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009;140:939-41.
10. Morrison MP, Chheda NN, Postma GN.  The tough tracheoesophageal puncture.  Am J Otolaryngol. 2012;33:113-5.

Chapters

1. Chheda NN, Postma GN. Transnasal Esophagoscopy, In: Cummings Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery. 5th edition, Mosby.
2. Chheda NN, Johns MM, Postma GN. Geriatric Dysphagia, In: Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery, Second Edition, Springer.