Practicing NYC ENT surgeon. Evidence-based care. Education for the community.
Teaching you what the guidelines say — so you can make informed decisions about your health.
Who I am and why I built this.
New York City
Born and Raised
Practicing ENT
Northwestern
Undergraduate
Quinnipiac
Medical School
Tulane
ENT Residency
20+ Papers
Peer-Reviewed
I grew up in New York City. I went to Northwestern for undergrad — studied Human Communication Sciences, which sounds abstract but turned out to be exactly the right foundation for a career spent explaining complex things to people who need to understand them clearly. Medical school at the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. A research fellowship in otolaryngology at the Medical University of South Carolina, where I started publishing peer-reviewed research — almost twenty papers by the time I finished residency. Then five years of intense surgical training at Tulane University in New Orleans, where I learned to operate on the ear, nose, throat, head, and neck under some of the best surgeons in the country.
Now I’m back where I started — practicing ENT surgery in the Bronx, caring for the people of the city that helped raise me. At ENT & Allergy Associates — the largest ENT private practice in the country — I see children with ear infections, adults with chronic sinusitis, patients who snore and don’t sleep, people with lumps in their neck that turn out to be nothing and some that turn out to be something. The whole range of what this specialty treats.
And every week, the same thing happens. A parent sits across from me and says something like
“my pediatrician told me one thing, the urgent care doctor said another, and the internet said
something completely different. What is actually true?”
That question is what built BoogerDownBronx.
There is a profound gap between what clinical practice guidelines say and what patients are
actually told — or told in a way they can understand and use. That gap gets filled by
misinformation, anxiety, and bad decisions. Not because anyone is malicious. Just because a single appointment isn’t enough time to explain everything, and the internet isn’t designed to
give accurate answers.
BoogerDownBronx is.
Everything I post — every video, every guide, every live session — is anchored to current peerreviewed guidelines published by the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck
Surgery and the American Academy of Pediatrics. I cite my sources. I tell you when evidence is
strong and when experts disagree. I give you the information you need to walk into your next
appointment prepared, confident, and asking the right questions.
That’s the whole thing.
— Dr. Dylan Levy, MD
Credentials and Training
Education
- B.S. Human Communication Sciences — Northwestern University
- M.D. — Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Training
- Research Fellowship — Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina
- Residency — Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Tulane University
Professional
- Practicing Otolaryngologist — ENT & Allergy Associates, LLP, Bronx, NY
- Member — American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
- 20+ peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals
Credentials and Training
Education
- B.S. Human Communication Sciences — Northwestern University
- M.D. — Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Training
- Research Fellowship — Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina
- Residency — Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Tulane University
Professional
- Practicing Otolaryngologist — ENT & Allergy Associates, LLP, Bronx, NY
- Member — American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
- Nearly 20 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals
Research and Publications
My academic work focused on rhinology, pediatric otolaryngology, and evidence-based surgical
decision-making. I’ve published nearly twenty peer-reviewed papers in leading otolaryngology
journals — which is part of why I take guidelines seriously. I know how they’re made.
Featured publications
Aqueous Versus Aerosol Intranasal Corticosteroid Spray for Allergic Rhinitis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy, 2025
Effect of Penicillin Allergy Label on Antibiotic Treatment Outcomes in Adult Patients with Rhinosinusitis
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2026
Development and Validation of Nomograms for Predicting Delayed Postoperative Radiotherapy Initiation in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, 2020
Trends in Complications of Pediatric Rhinosinusitis in the United States from 2006 to 2016
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 2019
Full publication list available on request.
Outside the OR.
When I’m not in clinic or in the OR, I’m usually with my family in New York City. As a husband
and a father of two, I know what it’s like to sit on the other side of the exam room — worried
about your kid, trying to make the right call with incomplete information. That perspective is
part of why this exists.
I’m a percussionist — I’ve played for most of my life. I collect vinyl records with the same
obsessive attention to detail I bring to clinical decision-making. I follow soccer and football
closely enough that I probably shouldn’t admit how much.
I believe medicine is better when physicians are fully human — curious, funny, honest about
uncertainty, and present for the people in front of them. That belief is in every video, every
guide, and every live session I do.
“Every patient deserves the information their physician would give them — if the appointment lasted long enough. BoogerDownBronx is that appointment.”
— Dr. Dylan Levy, MD