Awards, Honors, and Special Achievements 

Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA

• Alumni of the Year Award 2021, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
• Senior Advisor for Guidelines and Measures, AAO-HNS
• America’s Top Doctors, Castle-Connolly Medical Ltd
• Diplomate, American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (board-certification)
• Mary Rose Memorial Lecturer, Children’s National Medical Center
• Emcee and Organizer, SUNY Distinguished Academy Inaugural Webinar
• Faculty Advisor, Downstate Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group
• Chair, American College Lifestyle Medicine Expert Consensus Panel on Diet as a Primary Intervention for Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Adults
• Best Doctors in NY, New York Magazine, Inc.
• Ran virtual marathon in 3 hours and 49 minutes
• Ran virtual half-marathon in 1 hour and 40 minutes

Sara Abu-Ghanem, MD

• Super Doctors' New York Rising Stars 2021

Ofer Azoulay, MD

• NY Top Doctors and Rising Stars, 2021
• Awarded SUNY Downstate GME Office - Department of Otolaryngology “2021 Attending of the Year”

Marina Boruk, MD

• Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching and Support - presented by graduating residents, June 2021
• Functioned in a role of Faculty Physician Practice Administrator
• Super-user and support of EMR for faculty practice (Patient portal, questionnaires, staff support and continued development on use of HER)
• Appointed as the Alternate Representative from the Department of Otolaryngology to sit on the Clinical Practice Management (CPMP) Board of Directors

• Authored AAO-HNS online course: "Telemedicine During the Pandemic: a guide to immediate implementation of telemedicine in your practice during the pandemic”
• SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University - Department of Otolaryngology Program Evaluation Committee member

Sydney Butts, MD

• Eastern Regional Director, American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery- Three-year elected position to represent members in the Eastern region on the AAFPRS Board (January 2020-October 2022)
• American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Honor Award Recognizing distinguished service on committees, in the scientific programs, exhibits, continuing education courses and instructional courses, September 2020
• 2020 AO Craniomaxillofacial (CMF)-Chairperson and Course Developer-Advanced Symposium-Evidence Based Craniomaxillofacial Surgery

Natalya Chernichenko, MD

• Super Doctor’s New York Rising Star
• Promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology

Nira Goldstein, MD, MPH

• Best Doctors in America 2020-2021
• New York Super Doctors 2021

Matthew Hanson, MD

• America’s Top Doctors, Castle-Connolly Medical Ltd
• Super Doctors (NY Times Sunday magazine), Best Doctors

Ann Plum, MD

• Super Doctors’ New York Rising Stars 2021

Abraham Shulman, MD

• Marquis Who’s Who in America, Distinguished Listees, 2020
• Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2021
• Top Doctors 2020
• Top doctors 2021

Krishnamurthi Sundaram, MD

• NY Times in NY ENT Super Doctors, 2021

Richard Westreich, MD

• Castle Connelly and NY Magazine Best Doctors, 2021

Christopher de Souza, DORL, MS, DNB, FACS, FRCS

• Honorary FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons) England, 2018
• Editor in Chief - The International Journal of Head and Neck Surgery
• Fellow, American Neurotologic Society
• Papal recognition for working with poor deaf children through the covid-19 pandemic to restore hearing through cochlear implant surgery