Born in Tabriz and raised in Urmia in an Assyrian Christian family Dr. Johnnie Eyvazzadeh traveled to Tehran after high school to study in Medical school as his father wanted him to do. His love for Engineering made him to enroll in the Daneshkadeh Fanni to become an engineer. Once his father became aware of this he asked him to enroll in medical school or to be cut from financial support. He reluctantly went to medical school but excelled in his studies. He believed in work as a sacred function and what is to be done should be accomplished in the best effort without failure.
After he graduated from Medical school he joined Dr. Baher in the hospital known at the time as Baher Hospital and later named as Baher-Eyvazzadeh Hospital. He trained in General Surgery and Obstetric and Gynecology while practicing Medicine and acquired his diploma in the two specialties later while practicing at the Hospital.
He bought out the shares of the hospital from Dr. Baher and created the Eyvazzadeh General Hospital in the year of 1340. In the year of 1349 Dr. Eyvazzadeh broke ground for building the most modern hospital of the time and completed it seven years later in 1356. It was built for serving all specialties in medicine and by the best specialists available.
During the war with Iraq a Scud bomb hit the front yard of the hospital, which ruined the clinic, emergency room, dialysis center and the physiotherapy department. A physician and one mother and her infant child were martyred in this event. The center of the yard where the bomb hit is a flowerbed in perpetual memory of the Shahids.
In spite all the difficulties in obtaining the building material he rebuilt the hospital to serve his patients.
Dr. Eyvazzadeh believed in strong work ethics to serve his patients. He believed that this duty that was given to him by the society and god. He believed that if he curtailed in serving people he has betrayed god and the people trusted in him. He believed that retirement is a disease that can kill the person in a short time. He worked up till the last day before he traveled for treatment.
Dr. Johnnie Eyvazzadeh left behind a legacy of health care. A hospital, Eyvazzadeh General Hospital and four children three of which are in practice of medicine in specialties of Obstetric and Gynecology, Colon and Rectal Surgery, and Rheumatology. His two grand daughters are specialized one in Obstetric and Gynecology with fellowship of infertility, and second in Anesthesiology. His grand son is training for General Surgery.
His legacy will live in Eyvazzadeh Specialty Hospital and in his children and grand children.
Dr. Johnnie Eyvazzadeh served while alive.
