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New York Head and Neck Institute
Names Ian Storper, MD, Director of Otology
Ian S. Storper, MD, has been
appointed director of the Otology Program
for the New York Head and Neck Institute
at Lenox Hill Hospital. He comes to Lenox
Hill from Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons where he was
director of neurotology. Dr. Storper,
an internationally recognized otologist/
neurotologist who specializes in the
medical and surgical treatment of ear
disease, has a special interest in hearing
restoration surgery, including cochlear
implant, stapedectomy and ossicular
reconstruction. He has contributed
innovative surgical techniques to the
field in the areas of laser stapes surgery,
implantable hearing aids and surgery
for Meniere’s disease, cholesteatoma,
tympanoplasty and mastoidectomy. Dr.
Storper received his medical degree in
1988 from the University of Pennsylvania.
The North Shore-LIJ Department of
Medicine, in conjunction with the Krasnoff
Quality Management Institute of the North
Shore-LIJ Health System, has appointed
Maria Torroella Carney, MD,
to the position of director of
community-based geriatrics
for the North Shore-LIJ
Health System.
Dr. Carney is also
an assistant professor of
medicine at the Hofstra
North Shore-LIJ School of
Medicine. Her primary role
in the Department of Medicine is
He completed both an internship in
general surgery in 1990 and a residency
in head and neck surgery in 1994 at
UCLA Medical Center and fellowships
in neuroscience in 1992 at UCLA School
of Medicine and in otology/neurotology
in 1995 at the Otology Group/The EAR
Foundation in Nashville, TN. Dr. Storper
received the Maxwell Abramson Teaching
Award from Columbia University and the
Malcolm Schvey Teaching Award from
its Department of Otolaryngology/ Head
and Neck Surgery and has instructed
CME-accredited courses. He is the
author of numerous book chapters and
publications in peer-reviewed journals,
lectures frequently and is a fellow in the
American Academy of Otolaryngology,
the American College of Surgeons and the
American Neurotology Society. He was
senior investigator in studies on the use
Maria Carney, MD, Former Nassau County
Commissioner of Health, Joins North Shore-LIJ
to work in partnership with the Krasnoff
Quality Management Institute to utilize,
assess and evaluate health system data to
effect program change. She will assist in
expansion of academics, research and
clinical outcome studies to improve
education opportunities for medical
students, residents and fellows in
medical training.
Dr. Carney received her MD
at New York Medical College, and
carried out her residency training
in internal medicine at New York
Presbyterian Hospital - Weill/Cornell
Medical Center. She went on to complete
Ian Storper, MD
of steroids and antivirals in the treatment
of sudden hearing loss and in the use
of glycopyrrolate in the treatment of
Meniere’s disease.
a two-year clinical- and research-oriented
fellowship in geriatric medicine at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York City.
Dr. Carney had been commissioner
for the Nassau County Department of
Health, where she effectively addressed
major challenges including the 2010
H1N1 influenza response, for which
she received the BOCES (Board of
Cooperative Education Services) Nassau
County Council of Superintendents’
Award, and New York State Association
of County Health Officials’ Public Health
Professional of the Year Award.
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