Dr. Fady George Kadifa is a quadruple-certified pulmonologist and critical care physician with four decades of clinical, academic, and administrative leadership in intensive care and pulmonary medicine. He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1980 and his Doctor of Medicine in 1984 from the American University of Beirut. Following surgical training at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, he relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, where he completed his internal medicine residency and served as Chief Resident at The Good Samaritan Hospital within the Johns Hopkins Hospital System. He then completed a specialized fellowship in critical care medicine at the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) in 1992, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center in 1994.

Beginning in 1995, Dr. Kadifa directed critical care, pulmonary, sleep study, and diagnostic services across several healthcare systems, serving as Chairman of Critical Care and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the VA Medical Center and University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita. In 1998, he joined the faculty of UC Irvine as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, a position he held through 2008. He went on to lead intensive care and pulmonary departments as Medical Director at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, Kindred Hospital Westminster, and Monarch HealthCare. Today, he serves as President of Southern California Riviera Pulmonary Group and Managing Partner of Saddleback Respiratory Medical Group.

Dr. Kadifa is certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and NeuroCritical Care. A Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), he possesses advanced expertise in multi-system organ failure, neurotrauma, continuous renal replacement therapy, and advanced interventional procedures, including EBUS, pleuroscopy, and Galaxy Noah navigational bronchoscopy. In addition to authoring medical textbook chapters and peer-reviewed studies in journals such as CHEST, he is an ACE Gold-Certified fitness specialist and an avid endurance athlete.