BehrouzJafariMD

Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease, Sleep Medicine

Associate Professor, Medicine, University of California-Irvine, School of Medicine

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Dr. Behrouz Jafari Associate Professor of medicine is a pulmonologist in Long Beach, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including UCI Medical Center and VA Long Beach Healthcare System. He has been in practice 23 years. He specializes in critical care medicine, and sleep medicine and is experienced in sleep medicine, critical care medicine, and general pulmonology.

Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Sleep Medicine, 2011 - 2012
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2008 - 2011
University at BuffaloResidency, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2007
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesClass of 1994

PubMed

61 citations
Oxidant stress mediates inflammation and apoptosis in ventilator-induced lung injury.
Olga Syrkina, Behrouz Jafari, Charles A. Hales, Deborah A. Quinn
Respirology. 2008-05-01
91 citations
Systemic microvascular leak in an in vivo rat model of ventilator-induced lung injury.
Won-Il Choi, Deborah A. Quinn, Kwon Moo Park, Ramzi K. Moufarrej, Behrouz Jafari
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2003-06-15
6 citations
Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Disorders and Sleep Apnea.
Behrouz Jafari
Sleep Medicine Clinics. 2017-06-01

Journal Articles

Evaluation of human obstructive sleep apnea using computational fluid dynamics
Taherian S, Rahai H,Lopez s, Shin J, Jafari B, Communications Biology, 11/21/2019
An analysis of fear inhibition and fear extinction in a sample of veterans with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA): Implications for co-morbidity with post-traumatic stress...
Reist C, Jovanovic T, Kantarovich D, Weingast L, Hollifield M, Novin M, Khalaghizadeh S, Jafari B, George R, Riser M, Woodford J, Norrholm SD., Behav Brain Res., 4/23/2021
Cerebrovascular Regulation and Sleep Apnea
Jafari Behrouz M.D., Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 7/17/2018

Sleep Medicine Expert Mohsenin Retires from Clinical WorkSeptember 30th, 2021
Skipping CPAP May Mean Return to the Hospital for Apnea PatientsMarch 1st, 2018
Adherence to Sleep Apnea Treatment Affects Risk of Hospital ReadmissionFebruary 22nd, 2018