Her goal is for the clinic to become a medical home for the local community and to provide high-quality comprehensive care. Dr. Forough Farizani is a trusted medical provider that serves patients in the Gulfton/Sharpstown area, also called the “Ellis Island of Houston.” Patients of all ages continue to return to her at Hillcroft Physicians, P.A. because of the personalized health care tailored to
their needs. For over 20 years, Dr. Farizani has also been teaching, with her experience including being an instructor for Baylor College of Medicine’s medical students and medical physician assistants. Currently, she is a preceptor for the University of Texas, Arlington Nurse Practitioner program. With her goals to make the clinic a “medical home,” Dr. Farizani approaches patients with a holistic method for their care. The majority of her patients are multilingual and multicultural, but under her direction, the clinic employs a diverse medical and clinic staff to ensure patients’ cultural beliefs and restrictions are understood and met. has proven its success for managing its patients’ health and avoiding hospitalization. Dr. Farizani is proud that her clinic offers high-quality health care to both new and established patients, including immigrants entering the United States. She understands her emigrated patients tend to have medical and psychological conditions on top of needing to follow government regulations. To empower her patients, she educates them on how to manage their own health and follow preventative care strategies to lower the chances of illness—which in many cases also becomes a tradition for the patient’s entire family to model. Aside from being a dedicated physician and teacher, she is a mother of two, and her hobbies include yoga, cooking, and gardening.