Lenox Hill Hospital, established in 1857, has proven to be an innovative leader in many fields. The Hospital and its physicians:

• performed the first angiocardiogram in the U.S. in 1938
  
• performed the first coronary angioplasty in the U.S. in 1978
  
• established the first Lyme Disease Center in the City in 1989
  
• inserted one of first coronary stents in the region in 1991

2009 Press Releases

• Lenox Hill Hospital Receives Gold Performance Award from the American Stroke Association
  
• Lenox Hill Hospital Host Site For Annual Meeting of Largest Regional Endoscopic Society in The United States
  
• Konstadinos Plestis, MD, Named Director of Aortic Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital
  
• Free Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Screening For the Community
  
• Elliott Hershman Named Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery
  
• Lenox Hill Hospital Announces Clinical Breakthrough in Valve Repair
  
• United Hospital Fund Honors Two Lenox Hill Hospital Volunteers
  
• Laboratory Receives Accreditation From College Of American Pathologists
  
• Lenox Hill Hospital to Serve as Live Transmission Site For Digestive Disease Week
  
• Andrea Dowd Named Vice President of Development and External Affairs at Lenox Hill Hospital
  
• Lenox Hill Hospital Trustee Caroline Davis Honored by United Hospital Fund
  
• Lenox Hill Hospital Physicians Featured as Among the City’s Best in New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” Issue

• Allergy & Immunology
• Dermatology
• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Pathology
• Radiology

• Pediatrics
• Gastroenterology
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedic Surgery

• Neurology
• Nephrology
• Hematology & Oncology
• Rheumatology
• Urology

Anesthesiology

• Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery
  
• Pediatric Anesthesia
  
• Obstetric Anesthesia
  
• Regional Anesthesia and Interventional Pain Management
  
• Anesthesia for Neurosurgery
  Anesthesia for Ambulatory Surgery.

Surgery

• Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
  
• Neurosurgery
  
• Colorectal Surgery
  
• Bariatric Surgery
  
• Vascular Surgery

Gastroenterology

• Colonoscopy
  
• Endoscopy
  
• Capsule endoscopy
  
• Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) with fine-needle aspiration (FNA)
  
• Pancreatic and Biliary Endoscopy (ERCP)
  
• Early cancer detection and treatment
  
• Palliation of advanced cancer
  
• Large and complex polyp removal

Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery

• Head and Neck Tumor Surgery
  
• Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands
  
• Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery
  
• Surgery for Sleep Apnea
  
• Surgery for Disorders of the Nose and Sinuses
  
• Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  
• Ear Surgery

Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Surgical laser revascularization
  
• Surgical ablation
  
• Defibrillator and pacemaker implant or replacement

Cardiology

• Abraham, Saji MD, FACC
  
• Ahmed, Pervez A., M.D.
  
• Baquiran, Lestrino C., M.D.
  
• Berkowitz, Israel S., M.D.
  
• Blaufarb, Ira M.D.

General Surgery

• Ahmed, Maher S., M.D., F.A.C.S.
  
• Aldoroty, Robert A., M.D.
  
• Ansanelli, Vincent W., M.D.
  
• Ansari, Parswa MD
  
• Aronoff, Jeffrey S., M.D.

Radiology

• Byrne, Kristin Colleen.,
  
• Charles, Eric L.,
  
• Dym, Jean-Paul M.D.
  
• Epstein, Neal F.,

Neurology

• April, Robert S., M.D.
  
• Barrett, Robert E., M.D.
  
• Bender, Adam N., MD
  
• Berliner, Randall M.D.

Orthopedic Surgery

• Alexiades, Michael M., M.D.
  
• Bharam, Srino MD
  
• Bitan, Fabien D., M.D.
  
• Bronson, Michael J., M.D.

Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery

• Anand, Vijay K., M.D.,F.A.C.S.
  
• Apicella, Sheila A.,
  
• Bennett, Garrett H.,
  
• Blaugrund, Stanley M., M.D.

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

• Abramson, David L., M.D.
  
• Alizadeh, Kaveh M.D.,F.A.C.S
  
• Antell, Darrick E., M.D.,F.A.C.S.
  
• Aston, Sherrel J., MD, FACS