Dr. Edwin Neil Schachter MD

Expert Publications

• Epidemiology and epidemiologic methods: an introduction for respiratory care practitioners.
• Air pollution and respiratory health.
• The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS): current status and implications for respiratory care practitioners.
• Pharmacologic effects of cocoa and rye flour extracts on isolated guinea pig trachea.
• Respiratory findings in mail carriers.
• Respiratory findings in chemical workers exposed to low concentrations of organic and inorganic air pollutants.
• Pulmonary granulomas in a patient with pulmonary veno-occlusive disease.
• Respiratory function in female workers occupationally exposed to organic dusts in food processing industries.
• Pharmacologic properties of brewery dust extracts in vitro.
• Respiratory findings in livestock farmworkers.
• Respiratory function in active firefighters.
• Occupational airway diseases.
• Hyperlucent lung after radiation therapy.
• Respiratory findings in farmworkers.
• Respiratory findings in livestock farmworkers.

Media Releases

Get to know Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Physician Dr. E. Neil Schachter, who serves patients in New York, New York.

Neil Schachter, MD, pulmonologist and medical director at the Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute, and affiliated with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been named a 2017 Top Doctor in New York City.

Top Doctor Awards is dedicated to selecting and honoring those healthcare practitioners who have demonstrated clinical excellence while delivering the highest standards of patient care.

Neil Schachter, MD, earned a baccalauréat in mathematics from Lycee Francais of New York, a bachelor of arts from Columbia University and a degree in medicine from New York University.

After he served in the U.S. Navy as lieutenant commander and chief of the Pulmonary Division at St. Albans Naval Hospital, he trained in chest medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. After completing his training, Dr. Schachter was appointed medical director of the Respiratory Care Department at Yale New Haven Hospital.

Dr. Schachter is currently the Maurice Hexter Professor of Pulmonary and Community Medicine and medical director of respiratory care at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Author of five books and over 400 articles and abstracts on pulmonary disease, Dr. Schachter is past president of the American Lung Association of the City of New York, the Connecticut Thoracic Society and the National Association of Medical Directors of Respiratory Care.

He currently serves on the board of directors of ALA of New York State and as a board member and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Board of ALA.    

Dr. Schachter has been an advocate for environmental lung issues such as air pollution, occupational lung disease and anti-smoking campaigns.

He has worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center for healthier factory standards and increased workers’ compensation for men and women who worked in cotton textile mills throughout the South.

He has lobbied extensively for tougher anti-smoking laws in New York City on behalf of the American Lung Association CONY and the Coalition for Smoking or Health. In November of 2005 he was an honoree of the American Lung Association of the City of New York at its annual Life and Breath Gala. 

His major clinical interest is chronic obstructive lung disease the umbrella term for chronic bronchitis, emphysema and some forms of asthma.

His practice and clinical research focuses on new improved methods for treating these illnesses. In 2005 he established the Mount Sinai Pulmonary Rehabilitation program, which he currently directs.

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