Dr. Payam Aghassi MD

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Get to know Interventional Pulmonologist Dr. Payam Aghassi, who serves the population of Massachusetts.

Dr. Aghassi graduated with his Medical Degree from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran in 1996, giving him over two decades of experience in his field. After obtaining his Medical Degree he relocated to the United States and completed his internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship with UMass Medical School.

Dr. Aghassi holds certification in sleep medicine, internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine with the American Board of Internal Medicine. To stay up to date in his field, he remains a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Aghassi currently practices as a Interventional Pulmonologist, President, and Founder of the Mass Lung & Allergy PC, as well as the Founder and President of the Tak Medical Group. He is affiliated with the HealthAlliance Hospitals, UMass Memorial-Marlborough Hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center, St. Vincent Hospital, and the Emerson Hospital. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Medical School. He holds an expertise in Interventional Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep disorders, Asthma and COPD.

Pulmonary medicine is the subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and management of disorders of the respiratory system, including the lungs, upper airways, thoracic cavity, and chest wall. Although most common respiratory problems are treated by general internists and other specialty physicians, internists practicing pulmonary medicine (often referred to as “pulmonologists”) are frequently called upon to help diagnose unknown disorders and assist in managing difficult, unusual, or complicated diseases of the respiratory system. Pulmonologists have expertise in structural, inflammatory, infectious, and neoplastic disorders of the lung parenchyma, pleura and airways, pulmonary vascular disease and its effect on the cardiovascular system, and detection and prevention of occupational and environmental causes of lung disease. Diseases commonly evaluated and treated by pulmonologists include asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), emphysema, lung cancer, interstitial and occupational lung diseases, complex lung and pleural infections including tuberculosis, pulmonary hypertension, and cystic fibrosis. Some pulmonologists focus on sleep-disordered breathing (such as sleep apnea) and may provide diagnostic and therapeutic services in sleep laboratories.

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