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Bryan Nicholas Brooke MD, was a British surgeon and pioneer of surgery for ulcerative colitis.

Samuel H. Klein was a surgeon. He trained at the Cornell University Medical College and interned at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he remained throughout his career (1928-1982).

In 1939, a Division of Thoracic Diseases was formally established in the Department of Medicine with Coleman Rabin, MD as its founding chief. The name was changed to the Division of Pulmonary Medicine in 1974. In 2005, the Division was endowed as the Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Mrs. Gaisman was the former Catherine Vance, a graduate of The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1942. She served with the U.S. Army 3rd General Hospital in World War II. This was Mount Sinai's affiliated unit. The staff of the Mount Sinai Hospital has included pulmonological specialists since the late 19th century, when Alfred Meyer, MD, an expert in the treatment of tuberculosis, was a member of the attending staff.

The Narcotics Rehabilitation Center was created in 1969. Barry Stimmel, MD became the Director in 1970 and remained on staff until the Center's closing in 2007.

Before 1993, this was the Dept. of Neoplastic Diseases. This includes the Derald H. Ruttenberg Cancer Center and also serves the Tisch Cancer Institute. The Division of Hematology existed before the merger with Medical Oncology.