Ali I. Musani, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Interventional Pulmonology Program-Presbyterian Medical Center
Associate Director, Interventional Pulmonology Program

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division
823 W. Gates
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
tel.: (215) 615-0786
fax.: (215) 614-0518
email: amusani@mail.med.upenn.edu

Education:

MD: Dow Medical College, Pakistan

Residency: State University of New York

Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Specialized Training: (Endotracheal and Endobronchial Diseases), Marseille, France

Specialized Training: Endobronchial Ultrasound, Hiroshima, Japan

Specialized Training: Medical Thoracoscopy, Marseille, France

Dr. Musani is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, Director of Interventional Pulmonary Program at Presbyterian Hosptial and serves as an Associate Director of the Interventional Pulmonology Program at Penn. His area of expertise includes invasive bronchoscopy, management of endobronchial and endotracheal diseases, lung cancer, and pleural diseases.

Dr. Musani specializes in lung cancer diagnosis using bronchoscopy and management of airway disorders with techniques such as airway stenting, endobronchial laser, brachy therapy (radiation therapy), electrocautery and rigid bronchoscopy. He also specializes in insertion and management of indwelling pleural catheters for malignant pleural effusions. Dr. Musani is affiliated with the lung cancer program of the PENN lung center.

He has been also involved in clinical and research programs in Asthma, empysema, and Pulmonary alveolar proteionosis. Some of his current research projects include, indwelling pleural catheters for malignant pleural effusion, lung volume reduction stents for patients with emphysema, and endobronchial ultra sound study of the airways.

Dr. Musani received medical education at Dow Medical College in Pakistan. He started his research training in molecular biology at the University of California, San Francisco. He then did residency in Internal Medicine at the State University of New York at Brooklyn. During which he was involved in transplant immunology and lung transplant research. During his fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University, he was an integral part of the bronchoscopic research studies of asthma. Dr. Musani did an additional fellowship at PENN as a first Interventional Pulmonology fellow. He received extensive training, both locally and internationally in complicated lung diseases requiring bronchoscopic procedures and Pleural procedures.

Martin L. Mayse, MD; Michel Laviolette, MD; Adalberto S. Rubin, MD; Noel Lampron, MD; Michael Simoff, MD; David Duhamel, MD; Ali I. Musani, MD; Rex C. Yung, MD; Atul C. Mehta, MD
Clinical Pearls for Bronchial Thermoplasty.
Journal of Bronchology: 14 (2); 115-123, April 2007

William Krimsky, M.D. Saiyed Sarkar, M.D., Noriaki Kurimoto, M.D., Ph.D., Ali I. Musani, M.D.
Endobronchial Ultrasound, A review paper
Journal of Bronchology: 14 (1); 63-69, Jan 2007

.Beau Duea MD. Daniel Sterman MD. Ali I. Musani MD.
Tumors of Mediastinum, A review paper
CHEST /128 / 4 / Oct, 2005

Musani AI, Haas A, Seijo L, Wilby M, Sterman DH. Outpatient Management Of Malignant Pleural Effusions With A Tunneled Pleural Catheter: Pleurodesis Without Sclerosing Agents. Respiration,71:559-566,2004.

Dutau H, Musani AI. Treatment of Severe Tracheobronchopathia Osteochondroplastica: Case report and literature review. Journal of Bronchology, Vol 11, No 3, 182-85, July 2004.

Hastie AT, Kraft WK, Nyce KB, Zangrilli JG, Musani AI, Fish JE, Peters SP. Asthmatic Epithelial Cell Proliferation and Stimulation of Collagen Production. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med,165: 266-272, 2001

Chapters:

Asthma:
Musani AI, Pascua RM, Peters SP. The Manual of Allergy and Immunology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 4TH Edition; March 2002

Lung Cancer:
Ali I. Musani, Daniel H. Sterman.Tumors of the Mediastinum, Pleura, Chest wall and Diaphragm: Baum’s Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases, 7th edition: Chap 41 Edited by James D. Carpo, Jeffery Glassroth, Joel Karlinsky and Talmadge E. King, Jr. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia © 2004