Dr. Fiorella Nawar has been hired to work in the Intensive Care Unit at Sparks Regional Medical Center.
She most recently practiced medicine at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J. She has spent much of her career in ICU’s caring for surgical and pulmonary patients.
As an intensivist, Nawar will work with a patient’s primary care physician, as well as critical care nurses and other medical staff to provide care for the hospital’s most seriously ill patients such as those suffering from cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, strokes, or infections.
Nawar says working in the ICU is rewarding.
“I like intense cases. I thought the ICU would be the best field to go in to because you could make a difference in the patient’s life and the patient’s medical development. You can help them live,” she said. Nawar completed her medical studies at Lebanese University in Beirut in 2005. She is fluent in English, French and Arabic.
Nawar and her husband have an 11-month-old daughter. She says they are happy to be living in a family-oriented place like Fort Smith and working at a hospital like Sparks.