Dr. Sperling, Medical Director of Hearing Healthcare at Lenox Hill Hospital, is a former president of the New York Otological Society and has held teaching positions at SUNY-Downstate and Weill Cornell. He also teaches internationally at the Causse Ear Hospital in France. A graduate of New York Medical College, he completed his residency at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and a fellowship in Otologic surgery at the Minnesota Ear Clinic. Since 1991, Dr. Sperling has focused on hearing disorders and hearing restoration. He is an author and editor in medical publications and a leading Otologist in NYC, dedicated to providing expert patient care.
Dr. Sperling’s textbook on Otosclerosis:
NYOG proudly announces the publication of a new textbook by Dr. Neil Sperling. Otosclerosis: Diagnosis, Evaluation, Pathology, Surgical Techniques, and Outcomes by Chris de Souza, Marcos V. Goycoolea, Neil M. Sperling
Dr. Sperling’s Publications
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Routine Miracles
“If you want a physician of intensely high skill who can operate through a keyhole slit a few millimeters across and replace the minute ossicles of the ear with titanium parts, then you go see Dr. Sperling.” p. 132
In the words of the author Dr. Conrad Fischer: “His patients call Dr. Sperling a miracle worker. I interviewed a dozen of them, and far more than one, even the calmest among them, say the same thing in the same words.” p. 132
With respect to otosclerosis surgery one patient is quoted in the book as follows: “…in an hour, fifteen years of misery were stopped. I came off the table, and my life was restored back to me. It was instantaneous. I went into the hospital cut off and separate….I left the hospital on the same day happy. I felt like I rejoined the world, but I guess it is better to say that world rejoined me.” p.137
“… I gave away my hearing aids.” p. 137
Another patient who underwent hearing restoration surgery for congenital hearing loss surgery is quoted: “When I came off the table, I could hear everything. It is like living your whole life thinking there was only one dimension, then you find out all of a sudden there are three dimensions that everyone knew about but you did not. In an instant, my entire concept of normal changed.” p.142
Dr. Sperling’s Awards
Elected by his peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America® from 1996 to 2014.
Elected to New York Times annual Super Doctors: 2008 – 2026
New York Magazine Best Doctors 2021 – 2025
Castle Connolly New York Metro Area Top Doctor from 2012— 2015.
Voted into ‘Best Doctors’ in America: 2003 – 2012
Selected to New York’s Top Doctors: 1997, 1999, 2001 – 2012
Selected by New York Magazine Best Doctors in NY: 2007, 2008