2024 Medical Honoree

Dr. David Steiger is a Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the Mount Sinai Health System. He completed Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at St. Luke’s Hospital, followed by a Fellowship in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He served as an Attending at NYU Medical Center in the Division of Pulmonary Critical Care before joining the Mount Sinai Health System in 2015.

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As Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Mount Sinai, Dr. Steiger works as an in-patient Pulmonary Consult Attending. He has established a large out-patient practice based at Mount Sinai Downtown Union Square at the Mount Sinai -National Jewish Respiratory Institute –as Medical Director.

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Dr. Steiger has been involved in clinical research throughout his academic career with a focus on thromboembolic disease and more recently on Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease. He has published over 60 manuscripts and presented over 120 abstracts at national meetings. As part of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team – along with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians he evaluates patients with acute Pulmonary Emboli risk of mortality, who benefit from effective advanced therapies.

Dr. Steiger serves on numerous committees in the Mount Sinai System and is a Board member of the national CHEST Foundation where he has also served on a number of educational and governance committees. His passion for medical education is exemplified by opportunities to be engaged with Medical Residents and the 18 Fellows who are part of the Pulmonary Critical Care three year Fellowship program. He received the Teacher of the Year on three occasions while at NYU and he has been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

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Dr. Steiger feels extremely grateful and humbled to be the Wonderful World 2024 Honoree. He recognizes the extraordinary and transformative work that the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine provides for patients with a diversity of illnesses including many of his patients with advanced respiratory and cardiac disease. The Center also serves adults and children with emotional, cognitive and devcelopmental needs. Dr. Steiger has a profound interest in music, and he abides by Louis Armstrong’s dictum relating to music that ”if it sounds good, it is good.” Music has immeasurably enriched Dr. Steiger’s life, and it has uniquely provided joy and at times solace.