Yosef P. Krespi, M.D., F.A.C.S, Director

Primary Specialties: skull base surgery, laser surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery, and surgery to relieve snoring and sleep apnea.

Yosef P. Krespi, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a board certified Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgery at North Shore/LIJ and Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Krespi graduated from medical school at Technion in Israel and completed his residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. After completing his fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery at Mt. Sinai, he was Associate Professor at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. In 1985, he became Professor and Chairman of Otolaryngology at SUNY-Health Science Center in Brooklyn until moving his practice to Manhattan to become Chairman at St Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in 1990. Dr. Krespi has published over 160 scientific medical articles, and has served as editor on four text books and written over 50 book chapters. He is one of the world's leading experts in laser surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery, surgery to relieve snoring and sleep apnea and oral malodor. Dr. Krespi is nationally and internationally recognized and respected by his medical colleagues and has received numerous awards and honors in his field.

He is one of the world's leading experts in skull base surgery, laser surgery, endoscopic sinus surgery and surgery to relieve snoring and sleep apnea. Dr. Krespi is nationally and internationally recognized and respected by his medical colleagues and has received numerous awards and honors in his field. He is one of New York's pioneer surgeons in laser palatoplasty, a cure for snoring.

PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Krespi published 156 Scientific Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals, 47 Book Chapters and 4 text Books.
Please see below some of his select OSA papers.

  1. Krespi, Y.P., Sisson, G.A.: Reconstruction After Total or Subtotal Glossectomy. Am J. Surg 146:488-492, 1983
  2. Krespi, Y.P., Har-El, G., Levine, T.L., Ossoff, R.H., Wurster, C.F., Paulsen, J.W.: Laser Lingual Tonsillectomy. Laryngoscope 99:131-135, 1989
  3. Goldsher, M., Krespi, Y.P., Einhorn, R.K.: Neodymium-YAG Laser Turbinectomy: Preliminary Report. XIV World Congress of Otolaryn Madrid, Spain, Sept, 1989
  4. Krespi, Y.P., Weiss, M.H.: Lingoscope for Endoscopic Surgery. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1990 Sep:103(3):502-3.
  5. Josephson, G.D., Josephson, J.S., Krespi, Y.P., Einhorn, R., Stierna, P: Airway Obstruction. New Modalities in Treatment. Med Clin North Am. 1983 May:77(3):539-49.
  6. Krespi, Y.P., Pearlman, S.J., Keidar, A., Coleman, J.A.: Laser Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty for Snoring. Insights in Otolaryngol Vol. 9, No. 1, 1994
  7. Weiss, M.H., Krespi, Y.P.: Lingoscope for Endoscopic Laser Surgery. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
    Goldsher, M., Becker, S., Krespi, Y.P.: The "Swinging Door" Technique for Septorhinoplasty.
  8. Krespi Y.P., Ling, E.H: Laser-assisted Serial Tonsillectomy: J Otolaryngol Oct; 23(5): 325-7, 1994.
  9. Krespi, Y.P., Slatkine, M.: Instrumentation for office Laser Surgery. Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 5, No. 2, 211-217, Dec 1994
  10. Krespi, Y.P., Keidar, A.: Laser Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty for the Treatment of Snoring. Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 5, No. 2, 228-234, Dec 1994
  11. Krespi, Y.P., Keidar, A., Khosh, M.M., Pearlman, S.J., Zammit, G.: The Efficacy of Laser Assisted Uvula-Palatoplasty (LAUP) in the Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) and Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS). Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 5, No. 2, 235-243, Dec 1994
  12. Krespi, Y.P., Khosh, M.M., Blitzer, A.: Transnasal Endoscopic Surgery for the Treatment Benign Nasopharyngeal Lesions. Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 5, No. 2, 267-270, Dec 1994
  13. Krespi, Y.P., Mayer, M., Slatkine, M.: Laser Photocoagulation of the Inferior Turbinates. Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 5, No. 2, 287-291, Dec 1994
  14. Krespi, Y.P., Ling, E.H.: Tonsil Cryptolysis Using CO2 Swiftlase. Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 5, No. 2, Dec 1994
  15. Moshe, G., Joachims, H.Z., Golz, A., Har-El, G., Brauerman, I., Podos, L., Elidan, J., Krespi, Y.P.: Nd: YAG Laser Turbinate Surgery Animal Experimental Surgery: Preliminary Report. Laryngoscope 105: No. 3, 319, 1995
  16. Krespi, Y.P., Pearlman, S.J.: Laser Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty for the Treatment of Snoring. Current Opin in Otol-Head and Neck Surg 3:195-200, 1995
  17. Krespi, Y.P.: The Success of LAUP in Select Patients With Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders. Arch Otol Head Neck Surg Vol 124, 1998
  18. Krespi, Y.P., Kacker, A.: Management of Nasopharyngeal Stenosis after Uvulopataloplasty. Arch Otol Head Neck Surg Vol 123 No 6, 2000.
  19. Krespi, Y., Kacker, A.: Hyoid Suspension for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 13, No 2, 144-149, June 2002.
  20. Krespi, Y., Kacker, A.: Management of Nasopharyngeal Stenosis Following Uvulopalatoplasty. Oper Tech in Otol-Head and Neck Surg Vol 13, No 2, 161-165, June 2002.
  21. Krespi, Y. P., Kacker, A.: Laser-Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty Revisited. The Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America 495-500, June 2003.
  22. Krespi, Y.P.: Halitosis. Folio Otorhinolaryngologica Vol 9, No 3 4, 11-15, 2003.
  23. Krespi, Y.P., Shrime, M.G., Kacker, A. The relationship between oral malodor and volatile sulfur compound-producing bacteria. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 135(5):671-6, Nov 2006.
  24. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner. Laser Microbial Killing and Biofilm Disruption. LASER FLORENCE 2008: Selected Presentations at the International Laser Medicine Congress, an AIP (American Institute of Physics) Conference Proceedings 1142, June 2009; ISBN 978-0-7354-0679-7 pp 75-79.
  25. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner, CO Kara. Laser Induced Microbial Reduction in Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis. Am J Rhinol Allergy. 2009 Nov-Dec;23(6):29-32.
  26. Y. P. Krespi, Victor Kizhner, Cynthia Kamami, Yves V. Kamami. In-office Laser Septal Spur Removal. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 2010 Vol.142 (1): 135-136.
  27. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner, Laura Nistico,, L.Hall- Stoodley, P.Stoodley. Laser disruption and killing of MRSA biofilms. The Laryngoscope Volume 119, Issue 0, Date: 2009, Pages: S42
  28. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner, CO Kara, E. Borenstein. Laser-Assisted Nasal Decolonization of MRSA, (In Vitro, Animal and Pilot Clinical Study). AJIC:
  29. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner, L.Hall- Stoodley, P.Stoodley. Laser Generated Shockwave for Clearing Medical Device Biofilms. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 2009 Sup.21 47-48.
  30. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner, L.Hall- Stoodley, P.Stoodley. Laser Generated Shockwave for Clearing Medical Device Biofilms. Accepted for publication in Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, 2010.
  31. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner. Palatal stiffening via transoral, retrograde interstitial laser coagulation. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery September 2009 Vol. 141, Issue 3, Page P228
  32. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner, M.Setzen. Transantral balloon dilatation, plus. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery September 2009 Vol. 141, Issue 3, Page P224
    V.Kizhner, D.Xu, Y.P.Krespi. A new tool measuring oral malodor quality of life. in press.
  33. Y.P.Krespi, V. Kizhner, Laser Assisted Nasal Decolonization of Staph. aureus, including MRSA.. Submitted for publication, American Journal of Infection Control June 2009 Vol. 37, Issue 5, Pages E79-E80
  34. Y.P.Krespi, V.Kizhner, L.Hall- Stoodley, P.Stoodley. Laser Disruption and Killing of MRSA Biofilms. Am J Otolaryngol. 2010 Apr 29.PMID: 20434806.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Har-El, G., Nash, M.: Complications of Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy, Comp in Head and Neck Surg, Krespi, Y.P. and Ossoff, Eds., R.H., W. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1992
  2. Krespi, Y.P., Har-El, G.: Laser Palatine and Lingual Tonsillectomy, Ossoff, R.H. and Duncavage, J.A.: Laser Surgery in Otolarygol, C.V. Mosby, St. Louis
  3. Krespi, Y.P., Khosh, M.M.:Laser-Assisted Uvula Palatoplasty for Snoring. In Cosmetic Laser Surgery. Alster T (ed) J. Wiley and Sons Inc. New York, NY . 1995. pp67-80.
  4. Krespi, Y.P.: Editor Office Based Surgery of the Head and Neck, Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998
  5. Blizter, A., Krespi, Y.P.: Laser Assisted Endoscopic Laryngeal Surgery (LAELS), Office Based Surgery in Otolaryngology Thieme, 1998.
  6. Krespi, Y.P.: Laser Photocoagulation of the Inferior Turbinates, Office Based Surgery in Otolaryngology Thieme, 1998.
  7. Samara, G., Krespi, Y.P.: Endoscopic Control of Nasopharyngeal Lesions, Office Based Surgery in Otolaryngology Thieme, 1998.
  8. Krespi, Y.P., Khosh, M.: Laser-Assisted Serial Tonsillectomy, Office Based Surgery in Otolaryngology Thieme, 1998.
  9. Krespi, Y.P.: Laser-Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty (LAUP), OfficeBased Surgery in Otolaryngology Thieme, 1998.
  10. Krespi, Y.P.: Laser-Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty for Snoring, Office-Based Surgery of the Head and Neck Lippincott-Raven, 1998
  11. Krespi, Y.P., Khosh, M.: The Efficacy of Laser-Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty in the Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Office-Based Surgery of the Head and Neck Lippincott-Raven, 1998
  12. Krespi, Y.P., Khosh, M.: Laser-Assisted Tonsil Ablation, Office-Based Surgery of the Head and Neck Lippincott-Raven, 1998
  13. Krespi, Y.P.: Laser-Assisted Uvulopalatoplasty: Results and Complications in 1000 Patients, Office-Based Surgery of the Head and Neck Lippincott-Raven, 1998
  14. Krespi, Y.P., Karen, M.: Laser Treatment of the Lingual Tonsils, Office-Based Surgery of the Head and Neck Lippincott-Raven, 1998
  15. Blitzer, A., Krespi, Y.P.: Laser-Assisted Endoscopic Laryngeal Surgery, Office-Based Surgery of the Head and Neck Lippincott- Raven, 1998
  16. Krespi, Y.P., Mayer, M., Slatkine, M.: Laser Photocoagulation of the Inferior Turbinates, Office-Based Surgery of the Head and Neck Lippincott-Raven, 1998
  17. Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Jovanovic, S., Krespi, J.: Co-Editor, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Kugler Publications, 2002
  18. Oswal, V., Krespi, J., Kacker, A.: Nasal Turbinate Surgery, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 12, 221-243, 2002.
  19. Oswal, V., Krespi, J., Kacker, A.: Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 14C, 277-287, 2002.
  20. Kamami, Y. V., Krespi, J., Simo, R., Kacker, A.: Laser-Assisted Surgery for Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 21, 2002.
  21. Krespi, J., Kacker, A.: Laser-Assisted Uvuloplasty, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 21A, 384-389, 2002.
  22. Krespi, J., Kacker, A.: Laser-Assisted Septoplasty, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 21B, 389-392, 2002.
  23. Krespi, J., Kacker, A.: Laser Midline Glossectomy and Lingualplasty for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 21C, 392-395,
    2002.
  24. Krespi, J., Kacker, A.: Laser-Assisted Serial Tonsillectomy, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 22B, 404-408, 2002.
  25. Krespi, J., Kacker, A.: Laser Management of Lingual Tonsils, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Eds, Chap 22C, 408-413, 2002.
  26. Oswal, V., Remacle, M., Jovanovic, S., Krespi, J.: Co-Editor, Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery second Edition. Kugler Publications, 2010, Six book chapters, in print.

 
 
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