About me
Gregory J. Argyros, MD, MACP, FCCP serves as president of MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Dr. Argyros started at the Hospital Center in 2012, and most recently he has been senior vice president, Medical Affairs, and Chief Medical Officer, providing overall clinical leadership and oversight at the hospital with key responsibilities of quality of care, medical education and research.
Prior to his arrival in 2012, Dr. Argyros spent 25 years in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, most recently serving as Chief of Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Director of Education, Training and Research for the National Capital Region. In these roles, Dr. Argyros had the responsibility of merging Walter Reed with the National Naval Medical Center.
Dr. Argyros graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Walter Reed, and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. Dr. Argyros completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Walter Reed.
Dr. Argyros is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine, and is a Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Argyros was named a Master, American College of Physicians (ACP), an honor given only to those physicians who “demonstrate personal character, positions of honor, contributions towards furthering the purposes of the ACP, eminence in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.”
Clinical areas of focus
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchoscopy
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Interventional Bronchoscopy
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Lung Mass
- Mycobacterial Infection
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Sarcoid
- Sleep Disorders
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracoscopy
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acute Bronchitis
- Airway Disorders
- Airway Obstruction
- Airway Scarring
- Allergic Aspergillosis
- Allergic Pneumonitis
- Allergic Wheezing
- Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
- Asbestos Lung
- Aspiration Pneumonitis
- Asthma
- Asthmatic Bronchitis
- Atelectasis
- Autoimmune Pleuritis
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchitis
- Bronchospasm
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Chronic Cough
- Chronic Lung Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Chronic Respiratory Failure
- Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
- Diaphragmatic Disorders
- Drug Induced Pulmonary Disease
- Dyspnea On Exertion
- Emphysema
- Empyema
- Exercise Intolerance
- Hemoptysis
- Hepatic Hydrothorax
- Hypercarbia
- Hypoventilation Syndrome
- Hypoxia
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Laryngotracheitis
- Lung Abscess
- Lung Disease
- Lung Infiltrate
- Lung Mass
- Maternal Respiratory Disease
- Mycobacterial Infection
- Occupational Lung Injury
- Pertussis
- Pleural Diseases
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleural Thickening
- Pleural Tuberculosis
- Pleurisy
- Pleuritic Pain
- Pneumoconiosis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonitis
- Post Infectious Cough
- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Pulmonary Bullae
- Pulmonary Complications Of Neurological Diseases
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Granuloma
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Infections
- Pulmonary Nodule
- Pulmonary Sarcoid
- Radiation Pneumonitis
- Reactive Airway Disease
- Recurrent Lung Infections
- Restrictive Lung Disease
- Rheumatoid Lung
- Shortness Of Breath (SOB)
- Silicosis
- Sleep Disorders
- Smoker Cough
- Stridor
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
- Tracheal Mass
- Tracheal Stenosis
- Tracheobronchitis
- Tuberculosis
- Wheezing
Procedures I perform
- Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure
- Bronchoscopy
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
- Home Sleep Study
- Interventional Bronchoscopy
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Pulmonary And Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Pulmonary Clearance For Surgery
- Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT)
- Pulmonary Stent Placement
- Pulmonary Therapy
- Spirometry
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracoscopy
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Medicare Fee for Service
- CFBCBS EPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Aetna HMO
- Open POS II
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Open EPO Plus
- Opoen HMO Option
- Open HMO
- Innovation Health: POS
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- HealthyBlue PPO
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- PPO and PPO Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Network OA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- United Healthcare Choice
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- United Student Resources
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Tricare Prime
- FIRST HEALTH
- First Health PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
Education
Fellowship Program: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (1994)
Residency Program: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (1991)
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine (1987)