Education
In 1880 his family emigrated to the United States, and he attended several elementary schools in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. He graduated from Columbia University in New New York
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Leo Buerger
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Career
Buerger"s disease is named for him. At a New York City college from 1897, he obtained a (Bachelor) then a general (Master of Arts 1901), followed by medical studies at the (College of Physicians and Surgeons (Doctor of Medicine 1901). Initially Buerger practiced at the Lenox Hill Hospital (1901-1904), then the Mount Sinai Hospital (1904-1905), then as a volunteer in the surgical clinic at Wrocław with study visits to Vienna and Paris.
From 1907 to 1920, Buerger worked as a pathologist and surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital.
There in 1908 he gave the first accurate pathological description of thromboangiitis obliterans or Buerger"s disease, a disease of the circulatory system associated with smoking first reported by Felix von Winiwarter in 1879. Later, as a surgeon, he practiced at several other clinics in New York: Beth David Hospital, Bronx Hospital, and Wyckoff Heights Hospital, Brooklyn.
In 1917 he received a professorship at the Medical Urology Outpatient Clinic New York, which he held until 1930. He then took up a similar position of the College of Medical Evangelists, Los Angeles (California), but worked there for only a short time before returning to New York to work in private practice.
