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Meet Shawn Aghili

Pulmonologist, Critical Care & Interventional Pulmonary Specialist & Board Certified Sleep Medicine in Roseville and Sacramento, CA

Shawn Aghili, MD

Shawn Aghili, MD, FCCP, is a skilled and practiced Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Specialist at Pulmonary Medicine Associates. Dr. Aghili joined PMA in 1996 and sees patients at the PMA Roseville, California office.

Growing up in a family of physicians, Dr. Aghili has always had a love for the profession. He immigrated to the United States as a teenager and grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dr. Aghili’s Biomedical Engineering background certainly helped him in advancing further in the subspecialty of Pulmonary Medicine. His selection of pulmonary medicine as a specialty was influenced by his affection for his pulmonary professor. 

He completed his pulmonary training at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) in California.

He feels privileged to train with a fantastic group of pulmonary physicians where he learned the skills of his professional passion — invasive pulmonary medicine including laser bronchoscopy for treatment of a variety of tumors in the lungs, as well as placement of different endobronchial stents and limited chest surgery, thoracoscopy, and open-lung biopsies.

Dr. Aghili has been included in Sacramento Magazine’s list of “Best Pulmonologists in the Sacramento Area”. He was the winner of the University of Pennsylvania’s undergraduate engineering thesis competition and was a sigma xi award winner for undergraduate research at East Carolina University.

His certifications and professional associations include:

  • Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Diplomate, Subspecialty Board of Sleep Medicine
  • Diplomate, Subspecialty Board of Pulmonary Medicine
  • American Medical Association
  • American College of Chest Physicians
  • American Thoracic Society
  • American Board of Sleep Medicine
  • Sierra-Sacramento Valley Medical Society
  • California Medical Association

He speaks English and Farsi.