Catherine F Sinclair, MD Email Catherine Sinclair
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- Position
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Otolaryngology
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- Specialty
- Ear, Nose, Throat / Otolaryngology
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- Language
- English
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- Hospital Affiliations
- New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
- Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
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- Phone
- 212-262-4444212-262-4444
Catherine Sinclair is an Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai West in New York, where she serves as the Director of Head and Neck Surgery. She completed dual fellowships in head and neck surgery and laryngology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the New York Center for Voice and Swallowing, respectively. She holds positions on numerous committees nationwide including the Endocrine Section of the American Head and Neck Society, the Surgical Committee of the American College of Endocrinologists, the Guidelines committee of the American Thyroid Association, the Neuromonitoring Taskforce of the American Head and Neck Society, and the Women in Surgery Committee of the American Head and Neck Society. Research interests include intraoperative neuromonitoring of laryngeal nerves during thyroid and parathyroid surgery and neurophysiology of the human larynx. She has published and spoken widely on these and other related areas.
Dr Sinclair’s particular area of expertise is surgical management of neck endocrine diseases including thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer, and parathyroid gland disorders, with an emphasis on voice preservation and outcomes. She also sees patients with a wide range of head and neck surgical disorders including parotid, pharyngeal and laryngeal disease, both benign and malignant.
Clinical Focus
- Head and Neck Squamous cell cancer
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Laryngeal Cancer
- Laryngitis
- Nontoxic Nodular Goiter
- Parotitis
- Salivary Glands
- Thyroid Cancer
- Thyroidectomy
- Vocal Paralysis
Education
MD, Flinders University of S. Australia
Internship
Concord Repatriation General Hospital
Residency, Otolarygnology
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Fellowship, Head & Neck Surgery
University of Alabama
Fellowship, Laryngology
St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital
Language
English
Tellez M, Ulkatan S. Unearthing a consistent bilateral R1 component of the laryngeal adductor reflex in awake humans.. Laryngoscope (accepted) 2018;.
Blitzer C. The saline challenge - A test of injection laryngoplasty outcome.. Laryngoscope 2017 October 9;: doi:10.1002/lary.26933.
Telle M, Tapia O , Ulkatan S. Contralateral R1 and R2 components of the Laryngeal Adductor Reflex in humans under general anesthesia. . Laryngoscope 2017;.
Stewart C, Blitzer CA. Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia: Controversies in Phenomenology and Diagnostic Criteria. . Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders 2017 December ;.
Al-Ayoubi A, Rehmani S. Reconstruction of Anterior Tracheal Defects Using a Bioengineered Graft in a Porcine Model. . Annals Thoracic Surgery 2016;: 103(2):381-89.
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