Ear Surgeons NYC | Ear Surgery NYC | Hearing Aid Implants NY

Neil M. Sperling, MD, FACS

Dr. Sperling is among the most experienced ear surgeons in New York City. He is actively involved in researching new and improved aspects of caring for patients with otosclerosis and other ear conditions.  He was the Director of Otology (Ear Surgery) at SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine from 1991-2001.  He also serves on the teaching faculty at the Causse Ear Hospital in France, one of the most innovative and experienced centers in the world for Ear surgery and Stapedectomy surgery.

In addition to his work at NYOG’s Hearing & Balance Center, Dr. Sperling serves as Medical Director of the Cochlear Implant Program at Long Island College Hospital and was Director of Otology and Associate Professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Dr. Sperling graduated with honors from New York Medical College. He completed his post-graduate residency in Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and a Fellowship in Otologic surgery and research at the Minnesota Ear Clinic and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Dr. Sperling is the author of numerous medical publications and has edited several textbooks.  He has been elected to the New York Otologic Society a group of New York ear experts.  He has served on local and national committees including the committee on applicants for the American College of Surgeons, and the implantable devices sub-committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

Quotes from

Routine Miracles.  By, Conrad Fischer, MD

Kaplan Publishing, New York

“If you want a physician of intensely high skill who can operate through a keyhole slit a few millimeter across and replace the minute ossicles of the ear with titanium parts, then you go see Dr Sperling.” p. 132

in the words of the author Dr. Conrad Fischer “His patients call Dr. Sperling a miracle workder.  I interview a dozen of them, and far more than one, even the calmest among them, say the same thing in the same words.” p. 132

With respect to otosclerosis surgery one patient is quoted in the book as follows:  “…in an hour, fifteen years of misery were stopped.  I came off the table, and my life was restored back to me.  It was instantaneous.  I went tin the hospital cut off and separate….I left the hospital on the same day happy.  I felt like I rejoined the world, but I guess it is better to say that world rejoined me.”  p.137

“…  I gave away my hearing  aids.”  p. 137

Another patient who underwent hearing restoration surgery for congenital hearing loss surgery is quoted: “When I came off the table, I could hear everything.  It is like living your whole life thinking there was only one dimension, then you find out all of a sudden there are three dimensions that everyone knew about but you did not.  In an instant, my entire concept of normal changed.” p.142

 Dr. Sperling has been Elected by his peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America®
from 1996 to 2013.

Dr. Neil Sperling has been selected by Castle Connolly

as one of New York Metro Area’s Top Doctors 2013

Dr. Sperling has been named a New York Super Doctor for 2013. This will be featured on May 19, 2013 in The New York Times Magazine.

Voted into ‘Best Doctors’ in America: 2003 – 2012

Selected to New York’s Top Doctors: 1997, 1999, 2001 – 2012

Selected by New York Magazine Best Doctors in NY: 2007, 2008

Jessica Gordon

Dr. Jessica Gordon obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Maryland, and her Doctor of Audiology from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She worked at Columbia University Medical Center during her residency and interned at The Ear Institute at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and Weill Cornell Medical College. Her clinical experience includes performing complete audiological evaluations, hearing aid dispensing and evaluation, and Neuromonics tinnitus treatment. She spent several months aiding in various research studies at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a licensed Audiologist and Hearing Aid Dispenser in New York State, a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, and has the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology.

Olesia (Alisa) Ivanutenko-Flit

Dr. Olesia (Alisa) Ivanutenko-Flit was previously the Chief of Audiology at Primary Audiological Services where she specialized in diagnostic audiology and hearing aid dispensing. Dr. Ivanutenko-Flit obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at the George Washington University in speech and hearing sciences, and earned her Doctorate in clinical Audiology fromSalus University the George Osborne School of Audiology.

Dr. Ivanutenko-Flit completed her fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center where she received expertise in comprehensive audiological evaluations of adults and children, including complete assessment of auditory function, vestibular/balance assessment and treatment, and aural-rehabilitation, including amplification evaluation, fitting and orientation.

She is a published author in Care Management Journal. She has experience working in hospitals, ENT offices and private practices with diverse populations. She is skilled in comprehensive audiological evaluations, vestibular and neuro-audiological testing as well as hearing aid evaluations and dispensing .Dr. Ivanutenko-Flit is a licensed Audiologist and Hearing Aid Dispenser in New York and New Jersey.

Jenifer Supris

Dr. Jenifer Surpris received a Bachelors Degree in Speech Language Pathology from Brooklyn College and a Doctoral Degree in Audiology from Syracuse University.

Prior to joining NYOG Dr. Surpris worked in an assortment of clinical settings such as hospitals, educational facilities, private audiology practices, and private otolaryngology practices. She has extensive experience with nearly all patient demographics.

Rehabilitative audiology through the use of hearing aids and assistive listening devices was also a major part of her practical experience as well as specialty testing such as auditory brainstem testing (ABR) and Videonystagmography (VNG). She is currently a New York State licensed Audiologist and Hearing Aid Dispenser.

Maya Berenson

Dr. Berenson experiences have allowed her to practice in a variety of clinical settings including private practice, hospitals, and ENT offices. Her passion for enriching the quality of life of her patients and for the field of audiology as a whole is reflected in the faces of her patients.