Naikhoba Munabi

Naikhoba Munabi is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center. She earned her BSc from Stanford University (2008), her MD from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (2015), and an MPH from the University of Southern California, where she also completed her Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery residency. Her research focuses on craniofacial surgery, cleft lip and palate outcomes, craniosynostosis repair, and infantile hemangioma pathophysiology. Recent publications examine virtual surgical planning in endoscopic suturectomy, premaxillary repositioning techniques, and mortality in cleft lip and palate patients. She has received the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA T35 Grant and the Robert G. Bertsch Prize.