Dr. Majid is chief of the Section of Interventional Pulmonology (Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. Interventional Pulmonology is the major focus of Dr. Majid’s clinical practice, research and education.
Dr. Majid is actively involved in the innovation of new technologies, as well as industry-sponsored and clinician-initiated research. Currently, he is the principal investigator and co-investigator in multiple clinical trials.
He also has extensive experience in Bronchial Thermoplasty, having completed 45 of these procedures. In addition, he is the PI for a multicenter study that aims to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Bronchial Thermoplasty in the treatment of patients with severe persistent asthma. At the national level, they have introduced several innovative approaches for diagnosis, such as the validation of dynamic flexible bronchoscopy for the diagnosis of TBM.
Furthermore they have described novel minimally invasive endoscopic techniques including the use of cryotechnology for removal of metallic stents, use of linear EBUS for fiducial marker placement, use of rigid bronschoscopy to guide tracheostomy tube placement and external fixation of cervical airway stents.
Their division maintains the largest tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) registry in the U.S.
