Paul M Hassoun, M.D.

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  • Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
  • Professor of Medicine
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Languages: English, Arabic, French

Expertise

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Hypertension ...read more

Research Interests

Acute lung injury; Regulation and role of xanthine oxidase in lung injury; Molecular determinants of pulmonary hypertension; Pulmonary hypertension/Scleroderma-associated pulmonary hypertension ...read more

Locations

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1830 E. Monument Street
1830 Building 5th Floor Pulmonary
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-614-6311 | Fax: 410-614-7451
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Background

Paul M. Hassoun, M.D., is professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the director of the pulmonary hypertension program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Faculté de Médecine Lariboisière-Saint Louis at the University of Paris, France, completed an internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, both at Harvard Medical School. He was on faculty in the pulmonary division at New England Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine (Tufts-NEMC) in Boston, MA, until 2002 when he joined the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Hassoun has served or currently serves on numerous American Thoracic Society (ATS) assemblies and committees, including the Pulmonary Circulation Long Range Planning Committee, the Pulmonary Circulation Program Committee (for which he served as chair for 2008-2009), the ATS Scientific Advisory Council, Pulmonary Circulation Leadership Committee, and the American College of Chest Physicians Vascular Steering Committee. He served as the ATS Pulmonary Circulation chair (2011-2012) and on the ATS Publications Policy Committee. He was recently elected president of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI; 2018-2019).

Dr. Hassoun has held numerous editorial activities including serving on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine (2010 to present), CHEST (2006-2015) and the European Respiratory Review (2008-2015). He currently serves as associate editor of the European Respiratory Journal (2013-present) and has served as associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation (2017-2022).

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Titles

  • Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
  • Professor of Medicine

Departments / Divisions

Centers & Institutes

Education

Degrees

  • MD; Faculte' de Medecine Lariboisiere - (1981)

Residencies

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (1984)

Fellowships

  • Massachusetts General Hospital (1987)
  • Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospitals (1988)

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine) (1984)
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (Pulmonary Disease) (1986)

Research & Publications

Research Summary

Since 2002, Dr. Hassoun has been the director of the Johns Hopkins pulmonary hypertension (PH) program, a large clinical program with outpatient and inpatient practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment, in a multidisciplinary fashion, of all 5 disease groups from the World Classification of PH. Dr. Hassoun has led programmatic efforts to develop both clinical and basic research in PH. He was the PI of the Hopkins NIH/NHLBI Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) in pulmonary vascular disease (1/2007-12/2014-NCE), with a focus on highly translational research to understand the complex pathobiology of scleroderma-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and was recently the co-PI of an R01 dedicated to uncovering the mechanisms of right ventricular dysfunction in PAH (08/2012-05/2017). He is currently the co-PI of the NIH/NHLBI/PAH-sponsored Johns Hopkins Clinical Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease Phenomics (PVDOMICS) program, a project dedicated to establishing a clinical center for the diagnosis and treatment of PH offering a unique expertise of multidisciplinary and highly integrated team of experts with the capacity to use clinical, imaging, and molecular tools to redefine PH phenotypes. Under his directorship, the Johns Hopkins PH program has become a premier center for the comprehensive and multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment of patients with PH. Using state-of-the art-imaging techniques, epidemiological and genetic studies, and basic research, the program's team has advanced the understanding of unique aspects of right ventricular myocardial dysfunction in PAH. Dr. Hassoun has also led a successful research program in the field of pulmonary vascular and endothelial cell biology and has maintained continuous NIH funding since 1989.

Contact for Research Inquiries

1830 E. Monument Street, Room 530
Baltimore, MD 21205 map

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Activities & Honors

Honors

  • The David M Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award, Johns Hopkins University Department of Medicine, 2008
  • Chair, American Thoracic Society, 2008
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Tufts University School of Medicine, 2002
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Tufts University School of Medicine, 2001
  • Oliver Smith Award, New England Medical Center, 2001
  • Clinical Investigator Award, 1988 - 1990
  • Winthrop Breon/ACCP Scholar Award, American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society, 1986

Memberships

  • American Heart Association
  • American Thoracic Society
  • European Respiratory Society
  • Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
  • Maryland Thoracic Society
  • Massachusetts Thoracic Society
  • Physicians for Human Rights

Professional Activities

  • Chair, American Thoracic Society, 2008
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