Message from Program Director
On behalf of the Faculty of the Department of Otolaryngology of Westchester Medical Center, we welcome you to the candidate evaluation process and to learn about our Department, its goals and mission for education and training. At WMCHealth, we endeavor to provide a learning environment where you can obtain the experience, knowledge and skills required to become an outstanding Otolaryngologist. This requires extraordinary dedication and effort on the part of our residents. In return, our Department strives to create a learning environment that promotes accessibility, communication and collaboration among all of its members.
Although our program has only recently been accredited for training, we have been educating Otolaryngology Residents at WMCHealth for more than 25 years as a training site for the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and more recently the Mount Sinai Residency programs.
WMCHealth is the home of the only tertiary care hospital with a Level 1 Trauma Center and Children’s Hospital in the Hudson Valley. Our trainees at WMCHealth are exposed to a broad clinical experience. Upon completion of their residency, we expect our graduates to be equipped with the skills necessary to be outstanding general Otolaryngologists or as Fellows enrolled in a subspecialty training program.
Once again, welcome to the recruitment process. I look forward to sharing further information about our program with you.
Jennifer McLevy Bazzanella, MD
Program Director, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Residency Program
Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
New York Medical College
Westchester Medical Center
How to Apply
Westchester Medical Center participates in ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service®) & NRMP (National Residency Match Program).
Applications for residency must be completed through ERAS. ERAS Registration Period Opens: September 7, 2025.
- Applications accepted until: November 1, 2025
- All applicants must also separately register with the NRMP for participation in the Main Match. Our NRMP program code is: 2157280C0.
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Current Residents
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Jama Hersi – University of Toledo College of Medicine
- Ivanna Nebor, MD – O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University
Our Clinical Locations
Westchester Medical Center
Westchester Medical Center shares its leafy campus with New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center and a major hub for specialized care referrals. Here, we take care of patients from a very large catchment area stretching from the northern border of New York City to the Catskill Mountains.
WMC has a pediatric hospital (Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital) with eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms as well as many other non-operating room anesthetizing sites, including MRI, radiation and nuclear medicine, and endoscopy. The Ambulatory Care Pavilion, which opened in July 2019, added many anesthetizing locations, both OR and Non-OR.
Construction is underway on the 128-bed state-of-the-art WMC Critical Care Tower, a $220 million project that when completed will span 162,000 square feet over five floors. Our caseload includes a full profile of cardiac, interventional pulmonary and thoracic, complex orthopedic, neurosurgical and solid organ transplant interventions, to name the busiest services. We have a large heart failure and ECMO referral program. Trauma orthopedics and surgery provide our residents a great variety of “open” cases. Residents participate in minimally invasive and robotic interventions in gynecologic-oncology, urology, colorectal, endocrine and thoracic surgery, as well as complex cardiac and neurological endovascular interventions, both pediatric and adult. The Acute and Chronic Pain Management care rotations cover both the pediatric and adult inpatients and outpatients, including complex consultations for patients in the Burn ICU.