Ragnar Palsson, MD
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Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
Dr. Ragnar Palsson is a kidney transplant specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed his internal medicine residency training at Duke University Medical Center and his nephrology fellowship training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he subsequently completed an advanced fellowship in transplant nephrology. Dr. Palsson's goal is to optimize the care of patients with kidney failure through transplantation. In keeping with this, he is interested in clinical research in nephrology, including biomarker studies that may lead to improved diagnostic tools in the field and facilitate development of novel therapies.
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Transplant Surgery, 2022
- Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Nephrology, 2019
- Residency: Duke University Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 2015
- Internship: Landspitali University Hospital, Internal Medicine, 2012
- Medical Education: University of Iceland, 2009
Board Certifications
- Nephrology, American Board of Internal Medicine
Languages Spoken
- Icelandic
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Medicaid CT
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Medicaid VT
- Medicaid ME
- Railroad Medicare
- Wellpoint
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Multiplan
- Maine Community Health Options
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Medicare ACO
- Tufts Health Plan
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- WellSense NH
- United Health Care
- Humana
- Medicaid NH
- Medicare
- MassHealth
- WellSense
- Senior Whole Health
- Beech Street
- Coventry
- Cigna
- TriCare
- Fallon Health
- Medicaid RI
- Aetna
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan