Dr. Steven Paul Shikiar M.D.

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Get to know General & Laparoscopic Surgeon Dr. Steven P. Shikiar, who serves patients in Englewood, New Jersey.

Dr. Steven P. Shikiar was born in New York City and raised in upstate New York. He received his undergraduate education at Brandeis University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude in 1984.

He attended medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received his medical degree in 1988.

Following five years of surgical residency training at New York Medical College, Westchester County Medical Center, he started General Surgery Practice of Northern New Jersey, PC.

He currently holds full admitting and operating privileges at Holy Name Medical Center, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Palisades Palisades Medical Center, Hudson Regional Hospital and New Bridge Medical Center. 

Dr. Shikiar received his board certification in 1994 and became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1998.  He maintains offices in Englewood and West New York, New Jersey.

Though Dr. Shikiar has comprehensive training in all aspects of General Surgery, he has a special interest in the application of minimally invasive techniques in the provision of surgical care. 

To this end he trains continuously in the most recent innovations to apply these minimally invasive alternatives to the treatment of the most common surgical problems. 

 Dr. Shikiar was the President of the Hudson County Medical Society for 2004 – 2005 and served  on the Board of Trustees of the Medical Society of New Jersey.

Dr. Shikiar currently serves on the Delegation to the AMA from the Medical Society of New Jersey and is the Assistant Program Director for the Department of Surgery, Hackensack/Meridian UMC at Palisades Medical Center

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