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Meet Dr. Neil
 Neil
Schachter, MD is considered one of the leading authorities on respiratory disease
in the United States. Professor of Medicine and Community Medicine and Medical
Director of the Respiratory Care Department of the Mount Sinai Medical Center
in New York City, Dr Schachter has served as 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. Other credentials include:
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Author of six books on pulmonary disease and contributions to 16 chapters in medical
textbooks
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Author of four hundred articles
and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals
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Holds triple board certifications in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and
critical care medicine
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Holds the Maurice
Hexter Chair of Pulmonary Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City
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Awarded over 35 grants for clinical and basic research
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Peer reviewer for some of the most prestigious medical journals, including "Annals
of Internal Medicine," "New England Journal of Medicine" and "Chest," Dr Schachter earned
a baccalaureate in mathematics from New York's Lycee Francais, a bachelor of arts
from Columbia University and a degree in medicine from New York University.
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After
serving in the US Navy as lieutenant commander and chief of the Pulmonary Division
at St Albans Naval Hospital, Dr Schachter trained in chest medicine at Yale University
School of Medicine. Upon completing his training, he was appointed medical director
of the Respiratory Care Department at Yale New Haven Hospital where he published
landmark research on the role of vitamin C in treating asthma which is still
cited today. Dr Schachter has been an outspoken advocate for environmental lung
issues, occupational lung disease and tobacco control campaigns. His work with
the Southern Poverty Law Center resulted in healthier factory standards and increased
workers' compensation for men and women laboring in cotton textile mills throughout
the South. His activism in New York State contributed to the passage of some of
the toughest anti-smoking laws in the United States.
Dr
Schachter has conducted dozens of national and local print, radio and television
interviews on pulmonary topics that include air pollution, asthma, influenza,
pneumonia, smoking dangers and allergies. He has appeared on "NBC Nightly News,"
the "Today Show," "CNN Headline News," as well as on ABC, NBC and CBS news programs.
Dr Schachter has been heard on CBS and ABC radio and has been featured in "The
New York Times," "New York Daily News," "New York Post," "More," "Fit," "Prevention," and "New York Magazine."
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