BassamYaghmourMDFACP

Critical Care Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology, Pulmonary Vascular Medicine

Associate professor of Medicine, Director of Pulmonary Hypertension, Director of Pulmonary Hypertension Research University of California Irvine School of Medicine University of California Irvine Medical Center (UCIMC)

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Office
333 City Blvd W
Ste 400
Orange, CA 92868
Phone+1 714-456-6870

Fax+1 714-456-3597

Summary

I am a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician with American Board certification in Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Medicine | Critical Care Medicine | and Advanced Echocardiography, specializing in Pulmonary Vascular Disease | Pulmonary Hypertension and Right heart failure. Special interests in Medical Education, Quality improvement and Clinical Research

Education & Training

University of TennesseeFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2012 - 2015
Henry Ford Health/Henry Ford HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2009 - 2012
University of Aleppo Faculty of MedicineClass of 2008

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2015 - 2025
MI State Medical License 2009 - 2012
American Board of Critical Care EchocardiographyAmerican Board of Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Southern California Rising Star Physician/Super doctor Recognition Super Doctor Magazine, LA Times, Los Angeles, 2021
Honor Teaching Faculty USC Gasper Symposium University of Southern California, 2020
Southern California Rising Star Physician/Super doctor Recognition Super Doctor Magazine, LA Times, 2019
Honor Teaching Faculty of third Annual So Cal PCCM Fellows EBUS Course USC, 2019
WAW Award | Recognition for exceptional Patient Care in Critical Care Unit USC Keck School of Medicine, 2018
Recognition as a leader in Chest/Honor for Excellence, Dedication and Leadership in Chest ACCP, 2018
Chest Foundation Travel Award ACCP, 2018
Honor Teaching Faculty of Second Annual So Cal PCCM Fellows EBUS Course USC, 2018
Honor Teaching Faculty of First Annual So Cal PCCM Fellows EBUS Symposium USC Keck School of Medicine, 2017
Honor Teaching Faculty of Third Annual So Cal PCCM Fellows Ultrasound Symposium Cedas-Sinai Medical Center, 2017
Honor Teaching Faculty of Second Annual So Cal PCCM Fellows Ultrasound Symposium UCLA, 2016
Honor Teaching Faculty of First Annual So Cal PCCM Fellows Ultrasound Symposium USC Keck School of Medicine, 2015
Fellow Symposium Award American College of Chest Physician, 2014
Fellow Symposium Award American Thoracic Society, 2014
Fellow Symposium Award American College of Chest Physician (ACCP), 2013
WAW Award | Outstanding Resident for Patient Care Henry Ford Hospital, 2010
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Clinical Trials

Phase 2 Study to Assess Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Once Weekly SC Pemziviptadil (PB1046) in Subjects With Symptomatic PAH Start of enrollment: 2018 Jul 15
Terminated
Phase 2

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1 citations
Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction as Initial Presentation of Atypical Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome.
Edward Chau, Shiqian Li, Peter Xu, Grace X. Li, Wesley Ghasem
JACC. Case Reports. 2021-04-01
5 citations
Air Should Not be There: A Case of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in COVID-19
Shiqian Li, Edward Chau, Wesley Ghasem, Jina Sohn, Bassasm Yaghmour
Cureus. 2020-11-25
First reported case of BRAF V600E mutation in T-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia.
Stephen Dong, Tarek Khedro, Pamela Ward, Louis Dubeau, Bassam Yaghmour
British Journal of Haematology. 2020-07-25

Abstracts/Posters

Prevelence and Outcome of inhaled, Oral and Parenteral prostacyclin therapy in Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic Patients: Retrospective Cohort Study.
Jared Geibig, Ashil Panchal, Moses Koo, Tiffany Chang, Lucas Cruz, Bassam Yaghmour, Chest Journal. 158(4): supplement A2237, 2020 Oct 1., 10/1/2020
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adults living in Los Angeles. A Single Ceneter Large Retrospective Study in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Tiffany Chang, Lucas Cruz, Ashil Panchal, Jared Geibig, Moses Koo, Bassam Yaghmour, CHEST journal. 158(4): Supplement A2268, 2020 Oct 1, 10/1/2020
Prevalence and Clinical Implications of Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
Ashil Panchal, Jared Geibig, Moses Koo, Tiffany Chang, Lucas Cruz, Bassam Yaghmour, Chest Journal. 158(4) Supplement, A2269, October 01, 2020, 10/1/2020
Predictive Factors for the Development of Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm Among Patinets with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Ashil Panchal, Jared Geibig, Moses Koo, Tiffany Chang, Lucas Cruz, Bassam Yaghmour, Chest Journal. 158(4) Supplement, A2270, October 01, 2020., 10/1/2020
Initial Multi-Vasodilator therapy outperforms no therapy and Monotherapy among patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Retrospective Cohort Study
Jared Geibig, Ashil Panchal, Moses Koo, Tiffany Chang, Lucas Cruz, Bassam Yaghmour, Chest Journal. 158(4): supplement A2237, 2020 Oct 1, 10/1/2020
Cardiac Tamponade Following Catheter Directed Thrombolysis
J. Geibi, B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 5/2020
Primary Mediastinal Liposarcoma Presenting with Neck pain And Upper Extremity Numbness
J. Tang, B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2020/ATS, 5/2020
Radiation Induced Lung Leiomyosarcoma Fifty Years Later
J. Tang, B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 5/2020
Anti-MA5 as a Harbinger of Diffuse Alveolar Damage in Dermatomyositis
J.Tang, B. Yaghmour, CCM 48:524, Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) 48th Critical Care Congress, 2/2020
Livedo Reticularis: A warning sign in Septic Shock
J.Tang, B. Yaghmour, CCM 48:789, December 2019/Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) 48th Critical Care Congress, Orlando, Florida, 2/2020
A Novel Case of Sinus Arrest Resulting from Stage IV Nasal Type Extranodal Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma.
J. Rees , J. Tang , T. Konecny , K. Fan , B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019;199:A6526/American Thoracic Society, Dallas, texas, 5/2019
Embolic Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Adult with Congenital Heart Disease and Eisenmenger Syndrome
A. Chao , P. Chan , D. Shavelle , S. Ganesh , B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019;199:A1925/American Thoracic Society, Dallas, TX, 5/2019
Right Ventricular Diverticulum In Scimitar Syndrome
J.C. Tang, A. Chao, B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019;199:A1959/American Thoracic Society 2019, Dallas, TX, 5/2019
Malignant Mycobacterium: MAI Complex Masquerading as an Endobronchial Mass.
W. Kareem, W.T. Singh, R. Mahdavi, B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019;199:A7489/oral Presentation at American Thoracic Society, Dallas, TX, 5/2019
Chagas Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension
W. Singh, L.S.H. Cruz, B. Yaghmour., Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019;199:A3611/American Thoracic Society, Dalla, TX, 5/2019
Asymptomatic but Lethal Systemic Amyloidosis
P. Chung, A. Fong, B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019;199:A1737/American Thoracic Society, Dallas, TX, 2019
Pulmonary Pathology in Abernethy Malformation
W. Kareem, H.H. Gordon, B. Yaghmour, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019;199:A3616/American Thoracic Society, Dallas, TX, 2019
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Other Languages

French, Arabic