Advanced Plastic Surgery of North Shore

Judd H. Fastenberg, MD, is a board-certified otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive sinus and endoscopic skull base surgery. He treats disorders including chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal obstruction, chronic nasal drainage, sinonasal malignancies, and skull base and orbital tumors.Inspired by his surgeon father, Dr. Fastenberg knew he wanted to become a physician at a young age. "I was always so fascinated with surgery," he says. "Now I see that it's such a cognitive and technical challenge-and I love that. Every day is something different."Dr. Fastenberg received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his medical degree from Albany Medical College. He then completed residency training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a fellowship in rhinology and endoscopic skull base surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia. In 2019, Dr. Fastenberg joined Northwell and began working alongside a multidisciplinary team that includes specialists in neurosurgery, ophthalmology and medical oncology. The leading-edge procedures Dr. Fastenberg performs are done mainly through the nose, which means no scarring-and a much faster and easier recovery for patients, who in the past would have needed major surgery and extensive hospitalization. Dr. Fastenberg is an assistant professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and he has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He's also an active member of the North American Skull Base Society and the American Rhinologic Society.As much as Dr. Fastenberg enjoys the challenges of surgery, it's the impact he can have on a patient's life that drives him. "I really care about my patients," he says. "The fact that I can fix a problem for someone and make them feel better is the best part."

My career began at Beth Israel Medical Center/Continuum Health Partners in Manhattan, as a Physician-Scientist at that institution s newly established Institute for Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancer. I developed a basic science research laboratory, collaborating with senior investigators at the NYU School of Dental Medicine. My research was funded through a combination of national society and private foundation career development awards, and resulted in several publications, nationally recognized basic science research in head and neck oncology, and several national presentations and awards. In 2007, I was hired as Chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ), in the early years of the (then) North Shore-LIJ Health System and North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute. In this role I helped to establish one of the first fully integrated multidisciplinary oncology programs in our growing health system dedicated to the initial evaluation, care and survivorship of cancer patients, specifically those with head and neck tumors. The Head and Neck Oncology Program at Northwell has now evolved into one of regional as well as national renown, with the ability to deliver sophisticated multidisciplinary surgical and nonsurgical head and neck oncologic care at multiple sites throughout our network. Our clinical team also maintains a close collaboration with leading senior basic science investigators at Northwell's Feinstein Institute, focusing on HPV-associated oropharynx cancer. In 2014, I was appointed Northwell Health Cancer Institute s first Director of Surgical Oncology, and served in this position until early 2019. In the Spring of 2019, I was appointed Director of Operations of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute. In this capacity I serve as the liaison between the Institute, its members, and the various hospitals and outpatient cancer treatment facilities throughout the Northwell network where cancer care is delivered. In 2015, I was appointed Chair of LIJ s Commission on Cancer (CoC) recognized Cancer Committee. In this role I have worked with clinical and administrative colleagues to better integrate the inpatient cancer activities and resources of LIJ and North Shore University Hospital with those of our outpatient Cancer Institute facilities. I am presently involved in defining and solidifying Cancer Institute oversight over inpatient cancer related resources and activities, as well as CoC standards. My clinical leadership and program building accomplishments have been recognized both regionally as well as nationally with an American Cancer Society Doctor of Distinction Award (2017), an American Head and Neck Society Presidential Citation (2017), and a position on the Advanced Training Council of the American Head and Neck Society.