Mount Sinai establishes an in-patient tuberculolsis service.

Mount Sinai physicians describe pulmonary hypertension as a separate clinical entity.

Mount Sinai’s Ameil Glass, MD, names and describes bronchopulmonary segments, a hitherto unnoticed feature of the pulmonary lobe.

Within the Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai establishes a sarcoidosis clinic, led by Louis Siltzbach, MD.

A.L. Loomis Bell, Jr., MD, is named director of the cardiopulmonary laboratory at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital.

J. Maxwell Chamberlain, MD, Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, develops a technique of segmental pulmonary resection for the treatment of tuberculosis, an innovative procedure which becomes universally adopted.

Under the direction of Charles A. Betrand, MD, a cardio-pulmonary laboratory is established at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital to diagnose and evaluate disorders of the heart, circulatory system, and lungs.

The Pulmonary Division is established at Mount Sinai.

United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare designates Mount Sinai a Pediatric Pulmonary Center, solidifying its status as a regional resource for pediatric diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment.

The first annual  Dr. Coleman Rabin Lecture in Pulmonary Medicine is held within the Department of Medicine, with Murray G. Baron, MD, serving as the inaugural speaker.

Mount Sinai Medical Center receives state approval to do lung transplants.

The James P. Mara Center for Lung Diseases opens at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital.

Mrs. Henry J. (Catherine) Gaisman endows the Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine within the Department of Medicine.

The Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Division creates the Center for Advanced Medical Simulation, one of the first of its kind in the nation.

The Mount Sinai-National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute opens.

A second location for the Mount Sinai-National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute opens in Union Square, Manhattan.

To expand critical care expertise in adult intensive care units,The Mount Sinai Hospital launches the Night Intensivist Coverage Service.

Mount Sinai Health System expands its capacity to conduct sleep studies by adding six beds at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

The Mount Sinai Hospital opens a new Transplant intensive care unit with twelve critical care beds, designed to deliver intensive care for living donors, complex hepatobiliary cases, pre- and post-liver, kidney, and intestinal transplant patients.

Mount Sinai Health System launches a new program on bronchiectasis in partnership with the National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute in Denver.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai establishes the Institute for Airway Sciences to streamline research in sinus, laryngotracheal airway, and lung diseases.

Scott Scheinin, MD, FACS, joins Mount Sinai Health System as the Director of Lung Transplantation, and launches a Lung Failure and Transplant Program, giving patients new options for life-saving lung procedures. The program’s first double lung transplant takes place on March 3, 2022.