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Bronx Hospitals, Bronx NY \r\n\r\nPractice History:\t\r\n\r\n12/1999- Current\t\tPrivate Practice.\r\n12/1999-06/2003\tConsultant to Queens Long Island Medical Group, Garden City NY\r\n07/1999-Current\tAttending at Jacobi Medical Center, employed by University Medical Group PC, and later as result of employer name change by New York Medical Group PC\r\n\r\nPostgraduate Education/Training:\r\n\r\nFellowship\r\n\r\n07/92–06/94\t\t\tOtolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY; emphasis on head and neck surgery and voice disorders.\r\n\r\nInternship and Residency\r\n\r\n07/95–06/99\t\t\tResident, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY \r\n\r\n07/94–06/95\t\t\tResident (PGY-1), General Surgery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY\r\n\r\n10/89–04/92\t\t\tSenior Resident, Otorhinolaryngology (post board certification, teaching appointment, equivalent to a junior faculty in US), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (national referral center for difficult/unusual problems); \r\n01/89–10/89\t\t\tSenior Resident, Otorhinolaryngology (post board certification, teaching appointment, similar to junior faculty position in US), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India\r\n\r\n01/86–10/89\t\t\tResident Otorhinolaryngology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India\r\n\r\n11/85–01/86\t\t\tHouse Officer, Pediatrics Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital, Indore, India\r\n\r\n11/84–11/85\t\t\tRotating Internship, Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital, Indore, India.\r\n\r\n\r\nLicensure:\t\t\tNew York, \t\t#208436\t09/97-Current\r\n\t\t\t\tNew Jersey \t\t# MA 68818\tissued 03/99(Inactive)\r\n\t\t\t\tDEA Registration\t\t \t11/98 -Current\r\nJournal:\r\nInternational Advisor for the Indian Journal of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery - 2015\r\n\r\nPublications: \r\n\r\nKakani RS, Mehra YN, Deodhar SD, Mann SBS, Mehta S. 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Journal of the Indian Medical Association 1993;91:119. \r\n\r\nKacker A, Komisar A, Kakani RS, Reich E, Rothman L. Tongue paralysis after head trauma. Journal of Laryngology and Otology 1995;109:770–771. \r\n\r\nKakani R, Bahadur S. Role of pectoralis major flap in carotid artery protection. Indian Journal of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery 1995:47:288–292.\r\n\r\nSzubin L, Kacker A, Kakani R, Komisar Blaugrund S. Management of post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia. Ear, Nose, and Throat Journal 1996;75:612–616. \r\n\r\nTaskin M, Gokaslan T, Kakani R, DaSilva M. Kimura’s disease. Archives of Otolaryngology 1996;122:892–895.\r\n\r\nKakani RS. Analysis of CT scanning referrals for chronic rhinosinusitis [letter; comment]. Journal of Laryngology and Otology 1996; 110:1189. [published erratum appears in 1998 Apr;112(4):422]\r\n\r\nOmori K, Kojima H, Kakani R, Slavit DH, Blaugrund SM. Acoustic characteristics of rough voice: subharmonics. Journal of Voice 1997;11:40–47. \r\n\r\nKakani RS, Callan ND, April MM. Superior Adenoidectomy in children with palatal abnormalities. Ear, Nose, and Throat Journal 2000; 79:300-305.\r\n\r\nKakani RS, Goldstein A, Meisher I, Hoffman C. Nodular Amyloidosis: Case report and literature review. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery 2001:101-104.\r\n\r\nPresentations: \r\n\r\nHow to protect and market your invention. Instruction Course, American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. San Francisco, CA, November 1997.\r\nAlso given San Antonio, TX, September 1998.\r\n\r\nPrevention and management of complications in facial reconstruction. Instruction Course American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. San Francisco, CA, November 1997 (with Arnold E. Katz, MD).\r\n\r\nPerforation of cervical esophagus by PEG tube extraction. Sandeep Sainathan, Vemuru Sunil Reddy, Svetlana Danovich , Bret Larsen, Rajesh Kakani, Stewart Fox, Shahriyour Andaz. Annual Clinic Day of Nassau Surgical Society and American College of Surgeons 2012, December\r\n\r\nKakani RS, Mehra YN. Sound signal processor-design. 1st National Workshop on Cochlear Implants. Chandigarh, India, 1986.\r\n\r\nKakani RS, Mehra YN, Mehta S. Hypopharyngeal carcinoma in teenagers: a report of 14 cases. 40th Annual Conference of Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 1988.\r\n\r\nKakani RS. Cochlear implants—Indian context. CME on deafness. Chandigarh, India, 1989. \r\n\r\nKakani RS, Mehra YN, Deodhar SD, Mann SBS. Rheumatoid arthritis: audio-vestibular profile. 41st Annual Conference of Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 1989.\r\n\r\nKakani RS, Tandon D, Bahadur S. Visual loss following Orbital Infections. 43rd Annual conference of Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 1991.\r\n\r\nKakani RS, Mori K, Blaugrund SM, Yu JD. Vocal tractogram: a preliminary report. Voice Foundation’s 22nd Annual Symposium—Care of the Professional Voice. Philadelphia, PA, June 1993.\r\n\r\nKakani RS, Blaugrund SM. Low-grade papillary adenocarcinoma of the nasopharynx. Poster at American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN, October 1993.\r\n\r\nKakani RS, Komisar A, Blaugrund SM, Kacker A. Management of electrolytes following total thyroidectomy. Triologic Society Eastern Section Meeting. 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