Longtime host Dr. David Doman recently retired from Housecall so he and his wife could move closer to their children and grandchildren. Taking the helm is Dr. Steven Kariya, a board certified pulmonologist.
Each week he covers health issues from the multifaceted viewpoint of physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, government officials and most importantly patients. Some of the topics recently covered include colon cancer screening, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, healthcare reform, women’s health, minority health disparities and many others.
Dr. Steven Kariya graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in biology before earning his MD from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He then pursued fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition, he completed a two year research fellowship in respiratory biology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine and previously held board certification in critical care medicine until 2017.
Dr. Kariya has been a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a longstanding member of the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians. He has held several academic appointments, including Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and he currently serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He is also a Contributing Editor for The New England Journal of Medicine Clinician (formerly Journal Watch).
For decades, Dr. Kariya has served on the Board of the D.C. Thoracic Society, including a term as President. He has been an active member of the medical staff at several Montgomery County hospitals, including Suburban Hospital, Shady Grove Medical Center, and Holy Cross Germantown Hospital. He previously been on the medical staffs at Holy Cross Silver Spring—where he was a member of the Board of Trustees—and at Montgomery General Hospital (now MedStar Montgomery).
Dr. Kariya has received numerous awards, including a firstdegree black belt in judo; the Harvard Ames Award for Most Altruistic Senior; the Hopkins Osler Service Baker Award for Outstanding house officer; multiple teaching awards from George Washington University; Clinician of the Year from the Metropolitan D.C. Thoracic Society; and the James Ronin Award for Clinical Excellence from Mercy Health Clinic. He is also a recipient of the Hopkins Armstrong Award for Excellence in Quality Care. In 1980, he served as a refugee camp physician caring for Cambodian refugees, and from 2010 to 2018 he helped lead weekly medical missions to Haiti with George Washington University students. Since 2010, he has volunteered as a physician at Mercy Health Clinic in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dr. Kariya has been with Pulmonologists PC of Gaithersburg and Kensington since 1988. He became the host of Housecall following Dr. David Doman’s retirement in 2025.
