PROFESSOR Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine PROFESSOR Environmental Medicine & Public Health PROFESSOR Pediatrics

A new, less invasive treatment may be on the horizon to help people suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Featured in https://www.mountsinai.org/files/ISMMS/Assets/Media/Profiles/030209_HarkinStentsCOPD.PDF Inside Mount Sinai, Neil Schachter, MD, Medical Director of the Respiratory Care Department and the Maurice Hexter Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Timothy Harkin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Bronchoscopy, (Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine) are examining the potential therapeutic benefits of the Intra-bronchial valve system to improve the condition of patients with lung disorders.