Nitsana A. Spigland, M.D.
Nitsana A. Spigland, M.D.
One of America's Top Doctors - Castle Connolly Top Doctors
Rated one of New York Magazine's Best Doctors

Nitsana A. Spigland, M.D.

Pediatric Surgery
One of America's Top Doctors - Castle Connolly Top Doctors
Rated one of New York Magazine's Best Doctors
Specialties
Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Thoracic Surgery, more

Locations and Appointments


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Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Trauma-Upper East Side

520 East 70th Street
L-718
New York, NY 10021
US
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Insurances Accepted

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  • AETNA
  • Aetna - NYP
  • Aetna [Weill Cornell Employee Plan]
  • Affinity [HMO]
  • Affinity Health Plan
  • CIGNA
  • Emblem Select Care
  • Emblem/Hip
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield [Pathway Enhanced]
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
  • Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
  • Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus
  • Fidelis Care
  • GHI
  • Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP)
  • Healthfirst
  • March Vision
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Oxford Health Plans
  • Oxford Health Plans [Metro/Core/Charter (HMO)]
  • Rockefeller University - CoreSource
  • United Empire
  • United Healthcare
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • VNSNY CHOICE

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About Nitsana A. Spigland, M.D.

Dr. Spigland received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her M.D. degree from New York Medical College. She completed her General surgery residency at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and her Pediatric surgical fellowship at St. Justine Children's Hospital in Montreal, Canada in 1989. She subsequently joined the surgical faculty of the UMDNJ -Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1995, she relocated to New York City and joined the surgical staff of the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus.


Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Surgery
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Expertise

  • Choledochal Cyst

  • Complex Anorectal Malformation

  • Esophageal Atresia

  • Hirschsprungs Disease

  • Imperforate Anus

  • Intestinal Atresia

  • Minimally Invasive Surgery

  • Pediatric Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Malignancy

  • Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

  • Pediatric Laparoscopic Surgery

  • Pediatric Minimal Access Surgery

  • Pediatric Surgery Consult

  • Pediatric Surgical Oncology

  • Tracheoesophageal Fistula

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Education

  • Fellowship: St. Justine's Children's Hospital

  • Internship: Lenox Hill Hospital

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Titles & Positions

  • Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College

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Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center

  • NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital

Education

  • Fellowship: St. Justine's Children's Hospital
  • Internship: Lenox Hill Hospital

Titles & Positions

  • Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College

Board Certifications

  • Pediatric Surgery

Languages Spoken

  • English