Davood Johari
Davood Johari, MD
Attending Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
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As an intensive care physician, Dr. Davood Jahari lives for outcomes like this: A pregnant woman barely out of her teens came into the ICU with eclampsia, a potentially fatal complication marked by dangerously high blood pressure. “We got it under control, she went to the delivery ward and had the baby and then came back to us for monitoring,” he says. “Seeing her holding her baby for the first time after being critically sick just hours earlier is engraved in my memory. It’s something you never forget.”
Dr. Johari attended medical school in Iran but always dreamed of completing his training and practicing in the United States. It was an arduous immigration odyssey – a decade-long process that included a stint in Canada – but Dr. Johari and his wife, also a physician, finally arrived in 2004. He served an internship at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, stayed for his residency and a pulmonary fellowship and spent two years at NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health. In 2012, he returned to Kings County for good.
“As a physician, he is always ready to go the extra mile to ensure our patients receive excellent care, and he is widely seen as someone other physicians seek out for advice on complex patients,” said Kings County Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rajesh Verma. “And as a teacher of fellows, his impact can be seen in the large number of his graduates who have chosen to stay on as attendings in our pulmonary division.”
Dr. Johari says he has a long daily commute from Long Island but that he’ll never leave Kings County. “I grew up here,” he says. “I’ve had so many opportunities to move closer to home but I keep telling everyone, ‘This is home.’ ”