The Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Mount Sinai Medical Center

A preeminent academic health sciences center, The Mount Sinai Medical Center is home to one of the country's oldest and largest voluntary hospitals and one of its leading medical schools. This partnership has enabled the merging of superb patient care, cutting-edge research, and pioneering educational programs in a vibrant atmosphere. Here medical breakthroughs are swiftly and frequently ushered from the laboratory to the bedside.

The acclaimed physicians and scientists who collaborate to understand, treat, and prevent disease carry on a legacy of excellence begun nearly a century and a half ago. To be a part of the Mount Sinai community is to share in, and further, that heritage.

Medical Milestones

Mount Sinai has been the source of some of the most important advances in medical history. Since the Hospital's founding in 1852, we have fostered an environment in which innovation is not only possible, but also commonly achieved.

Early discoveries bearing the names of Mount Sinai physicians span Tay-Sachs, Crohn's, and Buerger's diseases, as well as the Schick test for diphtheria and the first cardiac stress test known as the "Master Two-Step." Other breakthroughs include the first: blood transfusion; bronchoscopy; portable kidney machine; and safe use of radio-opaque dye, which paved the way for modern imaging technology.

During the past 30 years, Mount Sinai researchers have unearthed the first strong evidence that asbestos can cause cancerous changes in the DNA of cells, developed the first genetically-engineered influenza vaccine, and, more recently, discovered a marker for pre-term birth and identified the gene for Marfan Syndrome, an often fatal connective tissue disorder.

Pioneering Programs

Setting both the pace and standards in program development nationwide, Mount Sinai's roster of firsts includes a hospital division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Institute, and the only academic Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development. Counted among an elite corps in the northeast to establish a division of laparoscopic surgery, Mount Sinai is also home to one of the country's broadest transplantation programs and the world's only center for the diagnosis and care of Jewish genetic diseases.

Mount Sinai continues to push the frontier of medicine forward, supplanting the conventional to improve prognosis and improve the quality of human life. Indeed, we steadfastly focus talent on — and dedicate state-of-the-art research, diagnostic, and treatment resources to — the most pressing medical issues of our time.