Scientific Highlights
1895
The genitourinary service at Mount Sinai was established under Dr. William Fluhrer
1907
Dr. K. Tilden Brown, one of Mount Sinai’s earliest interns, develops the Brown cystoscope. This was later modified by Dr. Leo Buerger in collaboration with Rheinhold Wappler (ACMI), and became known as the Brown-Bueger cystoscope, still in use today
1910
Dr. Edwin Beer describes a child’s cystoscope
1911
Dr. Beer appointed Chair of the Urology service
1920s
Dr. Maximilian Stern develops the resectoscope and later joins with Dr. Joseph McCarthy to produce the Stern-McCarthy resectoscope, still in use today
1930
Dr. Beer and Dr. Abraham Hyman co-author a textbook on Pediatric Urology in New York City. Dr. Beer was also the first in the United States to use electrocoagulation to treat bladder tumors. Under Dr. Beer’s direction, the Urology service of Mount Sinai is considered to have contributed greatly to the growth of the urologic field
1947
Dr. Gordon Oppenheimer secures approval of a two-year urologic residency program
1954
Residency program expands to three years
1966
Dr. Herbert Brendler, Chair, incorporates Elmhurst, Queens into the residency program
1969
Residency program expands to include training at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, and the number of residents increased to 14
1979
Residency program expands from three to four years following a preliminary year of general surgery
1984
Dr. Michael Droller appointed Chair. Introduces formal laboratory research into resident curriculum and an additional year added to the residency program to include both research and sub-specialty training
1985
Department renamed Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology
2004
Simon J. Hall, MD, named Chair
2013
Ash Tewari, MBBS, MCh, named Chair