Nathan E. Nachlas, MD

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Nathan E. Nachlas, MD is a double board certified (Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) surgeon who has been practicing in the Boca Raton area since 1987. Educated at Yale, the University of Chicago, and Johns Hopkins Hospital, he has been at the forefront of the delivery of health care as well as the management of health care. He has subspecialized in otolaryngology and plastic and reconstructive surgery of the face, nose and sinuses for his entire career. As the Medical Director and Founder of the Nose and Sinus Institute of Boca Raton, he has remained at the forefront in the development and study of innovative techniques in these areas. He is the immediate past President of the Network of Florida Otolaryngologists and the immediate past President of ENT and Allergy Associates of Florida, the largest single specialty otolaryngology physician group in the country. He is the past President of the Florida Society of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, as well as the past President of the Florida Society of Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery. He is past President of the Palm Beach County Medical Society. He has been selected by US News and World Report as one of the top physicians in his field in the United States. 

Academically and clinically, Dr. Nachlas has remained throughout his almost four decades of practice at the forefront of rhinology and aesthetic nasal surgery. He was one of the first two trained minimally invasive sinus surgeons in the United States (Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1985); he was one of three initial surgeons doing the FDA work for stereotactically guided minimally invasive sinus surgery (1992, Boca Raton, Florida), which remains the standard of care for minimally invasive sinus surgery; he was one of the original balloon sinuplasty surgeons in the United States (Boca Raton, 2007) and was the first surgeon in the United States to perform computer guided balloon sinuplasty (2014). He was the originator of the ‘Total Nose Approach,’ incorporating sophisticated sinus surgery with minimally invasive rhinoplasty techniques (1990). 

He is the cofounder and President of Telamed Partners, a staffing company combining hospitality-trained first-impression staff with AI to improve workflow in medical offices. He is also a cofounder and current board member of Men Giving Back, a nonprofit in South Palm Beach responsible for the donation of millions of dollars to area charities. 

In 2025, he joined the Advisory Board of Marvin VC as a member of its Healthcare Brain Trust, a select group of global healthcare experts who evaluate startups applying artificial intelligence to health care.