Jonathan E. Aviv

Jonathan E. Aviv (born 1960) is an American otolaryngologist. He is a professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and also Clinical Director of the Voice and Swallowing Center at ENT and Allergy Associates in New York City. From 1991 to 2009, he was a full-time academic surgeon and director of the division of head and neck surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Aviv invented Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing with Sensory Testing (FEESST), which allows office-based assessment of oropharyngeal dysphagia, or swallowing disorders, without the use of X-ray, and also developed transnasal esophagoscopy (TNE), a method of examining the esophagus without using conscious or intravenous sedation. He has also written a number of books related to acid reflux.

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