Ali Imran Saeed MD

Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease

Medical Director Interventional Pulmonary and Advanced Diagnostics

Summary

Dr. Ali Saeed is a pulmonology specialist based in Phoenix, AZ, with subspecialties in critical care medicine and pleural disease. He completed multiple fellowships in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, including training at the University of New Mexico, Prisma Health, and the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Saeed holds additional qualifications, such as an M.S. in Clinical and Translational Research. He serves as an Associate Professor at UNM Health and has expertise in general pulmonary medicine, interventional pulmonology, pleuroscopy, bronchoscopic thermoplasty, and lung cancer. His published works cover significant topics, such as asthma linked with opioid use disorder and complications in COVID-19. He is recognized as a Fellow by the American College of Chest Physicians and has received awards for his research.

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)Fellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2015 - 2016
University of New MexicoM.S., Clinical and Translational Research, 2012 - 2015
University of New Mexico School of MedicineFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2009 - 2010
Prisma HealthFellowship, Pulmonary Disease, 2007 - 2009
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2002 - 2006

AZ State Medical License 2018 - 2028
NM State Medical License 2010 - 2026
MN State Medical License 2015 - 2016
SC State Medical License 2007 - 2009
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonary (AABIP)Interventional Pulmonary

Fellow American College of Chest Physician ACCP, 2013
Best poster in its category, "Polymethyl-Methylacrylate (PMMA) pulmonary embolism after vertebroplasty, a report of delayed presentation with involvement of hemiazygous vein" American College of Chest Physicians, 2014
Best poster in its category, "Endobronchial ultrasound with fine needle aspiration biopsy: a novel approach in diagnosing Pneumocystis jirovecii in mediastinal lymph nodes" American College of Chest Physicians, 2014

PubMed

Journal Articles

Calcium Pill Aspiration
Hoskote SS, Saeed AI, Arch Bronconeumol, 1/19/2016
Endobronchial foreign body mimicking apositron emission tomography-positive lung malignancy
Hoskote SS, Saeed AI, Edell ES, Arch Bronconeumol, 1/14/2016
HIF-1alpha Plays a Critical Role in the Gestational Sidestream Smoke-Induced Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Mice
Singh SP, Chand HS, Gundavarapu S, Saeed AI, Langley RJ, Tesfaigzi Y, Mishra NC, Sopori ML, PLoS One, 1/11/2015

Abstracts/Posters

Postoperative false alarm: tunneled pleural catheter crossing the midline due to an enlarged azygoesophageal recess
Teixeira M, White D, Skalski JH, Saeed AI, Mullon JJ, Kern RM, American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2016
Medical thoracoscopy images of a rare case of melanoma with pleural metastasis; Pleural fluid lactate dehydrogenase level, a possible prognostic indicator
Saeed AI, Kern RM, Mullon JJ, Edell ES, Lim KG, American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2016
Endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of mediastinal solitary fibrous tumor
Webb A, Yadav H, Saeed AI, Utz J, American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2016

Lectures

Paclitaxel coated balloon for airway stenosis and spontaneous bacterial empyema
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN - 1/31/2016
Interventional Pulmonary and Pleural Procedures for Nephrologists in New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM - 1/29/2016
AERO coated self-expanding stent and tracheobronchial pemphigus
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN - 1/28/2016