The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

 

Volume 70 Number 5
October 2003		 back to contents
The History of Thoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai 326-332

Paul A. Kirschner

Professor Emeritus of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address correspondence to Paul A. Kirschner, M.D., 331 College Road, Bronx, NY 10471.

Accepted for publication March 2003.

ABSTRACT

The birth, development and maturation of thoracic surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital, and its pioneering contributions are presented.

These achievements were accomplished not only by the individual surgeons who had an abiding interest in the surgery of the chest, but also with the fruitful collaboration of pathologists, radiologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, endoscopists, neurologists, immunologists, and others. Continuing interactions of these specialists promise to yield new and important advances in the field of thoracic surgery at Mount Sinai.

KEY WORDS

Thoracic surgery, The Mount Sinai Hospital, history of thoracic surgery.

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