Ali Y. Mansour

Ali Mansour, MD, is Medical Director, Advanced Pulmonary Failure and Lung Transplantation and Assistant Professor at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus includes interventional pulmonary medicine, interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, vascular medicine and sleep medicine.

In 2000, Dr. Mansour received his Bachelor of Chemistry at the American University of Beirut. He continued his studies at this institution and received his Doctor of Medicine in 2004. Dr. Mansour began his postgraduate training in 2004 with a yearlong internship at the American University of Beirut Medical College. His training then took him to Kansas, where he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine in 2008 at the Kansas University Medical School. Following this, Dr. Mansour completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care that included advanced fellowship training in pulmonary transplantation at Baylor College of Medicine in 2011. In 2012, he completed a sleep fellowship at the University Hospital Case Western Medical Center. Dr. Mansour is board certified in echocardiography and vascular medicine and is accredited as an interventional pulmonologist.

Dr. Mansour’s research focuses on lung transplant and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support during critical illnesses from severe lung disease. He is also interested in lung cancer staging and advanced airway procedure to improve and prolong survival. More recently, he supervises numerous clinical studies and trials including novel therapies for SARS-CoV-2. His work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed publications, and he has been an invited speaker to numerous national oral presentations.

Dr. Mansour is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Thoracic Society, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.