Bassam Yaghmour MD FACP

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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101 The City Dr SOrange, CA 92868
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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 Tennessee College of MedicineFellowship, 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

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Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2015 - 2027
MI State Medical License 2009 - 2012
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
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
Honor Teaching Faculty of third Annual So Cal PCCM Fellows EBUS Course USC, 2019

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
PHASE2

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Running the risk: extreme right ventricular remodelling in an endurance athlete-a case report.
Jonathan S Ahn, Elizabeth H Dineen, Kristina H Haugaa, Bassam Yaghmour, Jennifer Xu
European Heart Journal. Case Reports. 2025-12-01
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

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