Burrill B. Crohn, MD papers

Burrill B. Crohn (1884-1983) was born and raised in New York, attended City College (Class of 1902) and then received his medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (1907). He joined The Mount Sinai Hospital as an intern in pathology and then trained in the Hospitals' house staff program. He served as a volunteer Assistant in pathology and then physiological chemistry from 1911 to 1923, when he was named Chief of Mount Sinai's Gastroenterology Clinic in the Department of Medicine. He joined the in-patient staff in 1926 and ultimately was associated with Mount Sinai for over sixty years. Crohn was President of the American Gastroenterological Association in 1953. Crohn authored four books and over 150 articles, primarily in his chosen specialty of gastroenterology. He is best remembered for his role in the first description of regional ileitis, or Crohn's Disease, along with Mount Sinai surgeons Leon Ginzburg and Gordon Oppenheimer.