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Ragnar Palsson

Ragnar Palsson, MD

Nephrology

Mass General Brigham

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Adults
  • Geriatrics

Languages

  • Icelandic
  • English

Gender

Male

About Ragnar Palsson

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.

Locations

  1. Massachusetts General Transplant Center
    • 55 Fruit Street, White Building, 5th Floor, Suite 517, Boston, MA 02114
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  2. Massachusetts General Transplant Center

Expertise

Education

  • 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

  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2017
  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2015

Insurance

Search plans
  • Aetna
  • Beech Street
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
  • Cigna
  • Commonwealth Care Alliance
  • Coventry
  • Fallon Health
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Humana
  • Maine Community Health Options
  • Mass General Brigham Health Plan
  • MassHealth
  • Medicaid CT
  • Medicaid ME
  • Medicaid NH
  • Medicaid RI
  • Medicaid VT
  • Medicare
  • Medicare ACO
  • Multiplan
  • Railroad Medicare
  • Senior Whole Health
  • TriCare
  • Tufts Health Plan
  • Tufts Medicare Preferred
  • United Health Care
  • Wellpoint
  • WellSense
  • WellSense NH