Medical Milestones and Pioneers
Many important milestones in the advancement of medical knowledge have been made at Lenox Hill Hospital, including:
- Introduction of antiseptic methods in obstetrics
- Installation of one of the first X-ray machines in America in 1897
- First tuberculosis pavilion in any American hospital
- First hemophilia center
- Introduction of the technique for bone marrow examination in 1931
- Development of the specialty of thoracic surgery
- First successful esophagectomy for carcinoma
- First surgical treatment of undescended testicles
- First angiocardiogram in the United States
- First coronary angioplasty in the United States
- Implantation of the first drug-eluting stent in the United States
Many medical pioneers were early members of the hospital's attending staff. Among them were:
- Henry Jacques Garrigues – introduced antiseptic obstetrics to North America
- Willy Meyer, M.D. – performed some of the earliest pulmonary surgery in America
- Abraham Jacobi, M.D. – the father of American pediatrics
- Leo Buerger, M.D. – described the disease that bears his name
- Carl Eggers, M.D., and Dewitt Stetten, M.D. – founding members of the American College of Surgeons
- Franz Torek, M.D. – performed the first successful esophagectomy for carcinoma and also developed the surgical treatment of undescended testicles
- William H. Stewart, M.D. – a former director of radiology, performed the first angiocardiogram in the United States in 1938.
- Simon Stertzer, M.D. of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and Richard K. Myler, M.D. of St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco – performed the first coronary angioplasties in the United States on the same day, March 1, 1978
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