Johnny Jaber

Clinical Assistant Professor | Assistant Director University of Florida

Gainesville FL

Johnny Jaber's research focuses on sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease and critical care.

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Biography

Johnny Jaber is a clinical assistant professor in the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine and assistant director of the Medical ICU at UF Health Shands. His clinical and research focus is sarcoidosis and interstitial lung disease, with ongoing work to identify biomarkers of disease activity and treatment response in sarcoidosis, including novel imaging modalities such as hyperpolarized xenon MRI. In the ICU, his work centers on quality and process improvement — standardized operating procedures and an evidence-based morbidity and mortality conference — as well as mechanical ventilation and sedation practices. He teaches fourth-year medical students and pulmonary/critical care fellows and serves on the ATS Clinical Problems.

Areas of Expertise

Shock

ICU

MICU

ARDS

CTD

ILD

Connective Tissue Disease

Myositis

Autoimmune Disease

Lung Transplantation

Cardiomyopathy

Sarcoidosis

Influenza

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Sepsis

Critical Care

Pulmonary Hypertension

Advanced Lung Disease

Interstitial Lung Disease

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Articles

Understanding Racial Disparities in Lung Transplant Outcomes: A Comparative Study of White and Hispanic Patients

Clinical Transplantation

Brunson, et al.

2025-08-30

Hispanic/Latino individuals are the fastest growing subset of the US population. Although racial and ethnic differences in outcomes following lung transplantation have been recognized, they are not entirely understood. We compared long-term post-lung transplant outcomes in Hispanic/Latino and White non-Hispanic recipients and aimed to determine whether any differences are attributable to a specific racial-ethnic effect.

Difficulties in the Concurrent Diagnoses of Sarcoidosis and Autoimmune Disorders

CHEST

Jaber, et al.

2025-01-01

We read with interest the paper published in CHEST by Rossides et al in which the authors conducted a population-based case-controlled study to determine prevalence and association of immune-mediated diseases and sarcoidosis. The authors highlighted findings of higher prevalence of immune-mediated disease in patients with sarcoidosis and aggregation of these disease processes in families. Although these findings have been reported in other similarly conducted studies, the identification of the studied population using only charted International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes raises questions on the validity of the diagnoses that were given to the patients without referenced information on pathology and serology.

Real-World Characteristics of U.S. Veterans Who Have Undergone Robot-Assisted Bronchoscopy to Diagnose Lung Cancer

Journal of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology

Peterson, et al.

2025-11-11

Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy (RAB) is used to evaluate pulmonary nodules, particularly in populations at high risk for lung cancer. While its diagnostic utility and procedural safety have been established, limited data exist on the characteristics of patients, particularly Veterans, who undergo RAB in real-world clinical settings. This research examines the demographic, clinical, and procedural characteristics of Veterans who underwent RAB.