• Interventional Pulmonology Services
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Services

• American Board of IM/Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary Disease [Internal Medicine]
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine - General

• English
• Farsi

Ialamic Azad University

internal Medicine
Maryland General HospitalInternal Medicine

Good Samaritan Hospital - BaltimoreInternal Medicine
Internal Medicine

Interventional Pulmonology
Lahey Hospital and Medical CenterInterventional Pulmonology
Pulmonary and Critical Care
University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial HospitalPulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

• Assistant Professor — Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCI School of Medicine

Dr. Bahman Saatian is a board-certified UCI Health pulmonologist who specializes in critical care medicine and interventional pulmonology.

His clinical interests include lung cancer and interstitial lung disease. He is trained in advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound-guided needle aspiration of lymph nodes, therapeutic rigid bronchoscopy to insert or remove stents in airways, and bronchoscopy to remove foreign objects. He also manages pleural diseases through the use of medical thoracoscopy, pleural biopsy, pleurodesis, placement of indwelling pleural catheters and thoracostomy tube placement.

He earned his medical degree at Islamic Azad University in Iran. He completed an internship in internal medicine at University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus in Baltimore, Md., followed by an internal medicine residency in internal medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. Next he completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y., followed by a second fellowship in interventional pulmonology at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Mass.

Saatian, who also speaks Farsi, sees patients at UCI Medical Center in Orange.