Dr. John Omara

Dr. John conferring with Cecilia, sonographer

John taking a break while mountain biking

Dr John Omara rejoined us this year after unofficially helping us in 2013 while he was in Kigali on a teaching assignment with HRH/Clinton Foundation.  John went back for more specialized cardiac training in the interim and has thus been invaluable in his critical thinking and evaluation of our current patients.
He has had a fascinating career so far, having studied at U Conn and then did his residency at Montifiore in NYC.  He then went to Kenya for a year and returned to Dartmouth for fellowship and work from 2005 to 2010.  During that time, he spent 1 year in Uganda with Doctors Without Borders, where he worked with HIV and TB patients. After Dartmouth, he came to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he helped start a cardiology fellowship between 2010 and 2014. Finally, he completed another fellowship at Swedish in Seattle (also home of our nurses Joy, Michelle and Corri) and continues to travel and do wonderful work in the Third World.  After leaving Rwanda, he will travel back to Ethiopia for a week to assist in pacemaker placement.
In his "spare time" he enjoys running, rock climbing, tennis, and reading.  We hope he has time to join us again on our next medical trip, not to mention visit us in Spokane, where he might enjoy refining his new-found enjoyment of mountain biking!
LKF (Little Known Fact):  John is fluent in Japanese, and speaks some Swahili, French and Spanish.
(It makes me tired thinking of all he has done, and he is still so young!)