Dr. Shams Karimi

"Dr. Karimi is kind, patient, understanding, and very validating of parents concerns. I'm so happy we found her and appreciate her common sense approach to care."

"Dr. Karimi is a very good pediatrician. Took my teenager son for his annual check up and she took time to explain him and us about changes in health as compared to last year. She highlighted the importance of healthy dietary habit to my son and very professionally answered his questions. Strongly recommended!"

"Disappointing taking in a sick child only to encounter this Dr's big ego approach. Further, clinic admin lacks process to accept/handle complaints. It didn't work out for my family and we feel safer elsewhere."

"She has been my kids Dr. for 22 years! We started seeing Dr. Karimi after another Dr. refused tubes to my son who had chronic ear infections and was on constant antibiotics. She has seen both of my boys, one is now 24 and the other is 18. She listens to the parent and to the child. She always asks the patient to tell her how they feel and where it hurts. That is important as they get older. Dr. Karimi goes above and beyond. She has called me from home after hours when she wasn't on call to check on my kids. She has called me on her cell while driving to or from the office to check on my kids. She has shown up at the hospital when she wasn't on call but received notification my youngest son had been admitted into the hospital. She is kind, caring, compassionate, thorough and always listens to your concerns. My kids have had every childhood illness you can possibly think of. Over the years we have battled chronic asthma, ear infections, fifths disease, hand foot and mouth, strep, flu, RSV, whooping cough, mono, high blood pressure, knee problems and even viral meningitis. My 18 year old still sees her and willingly sits in the waiting room with the babies just so he can see her. My oldest aged out at 21 but would still see her if he could. Dr. Karimi is absolutely the best of the best and we absolutely love her."

"I hate to have to leave a negative review, but the more I think about what happened, the more frustrated I get. I brought my son in for a Sunday visit so unfortuantely had no choice on which Dr we saw. We brought my son in for breathing troubles associated with what we thought was a cold. He ended up testing positive for Flu. I was extremely worried with how troubled his breathing was, but Dr Karimi sent us home with Tamiflu and refused steroids and breathing treatments, even said he was breathing fine. We get home and he continues struggling to breath so we end up going to urgent care Alliance, and get sent by ambulance to Cooks hospital. His oxygen was low and his breathing could not even be stabalized with several treatments. This ended in a hospital stay with my son on oxygen Iv And breathing treatments with continual monitoring. All of these extra trips could have been prevented if the Dr would have done her job correctly and recognized that something was really wrong with my baby. We have had a prior negative experience with her as well when my daughter was younger and we brought her in on a weekend, said she just had a virus, went back the next day and she in fact had ear infection and strep throat."