Yaser Abu El Sameed

American board in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Yaser Abu El-Sameed is a Pulmonary Consultant at SKMC. Dr. Abu El-Sameed completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio. He then pursued his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Brown University in the United States. He has American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He was an Assistant Professor at Brown University before joining SKMC.

He runs the Interventional Pulmonology program at SKMC where he performs advanced pulmonary procedures like airway stenting, tumor ablation and medical thoracoscopy. Other services provided at this program include mediastinal lymph node sampling, peripheral pulmonary nodules biopsy and long-term indwelling pleural catheters.