Program Director
Christopher M. O’Connor, MD, MACC
President, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine Duke University
Program Co-Chairs and Planning Committee
Brett Atwater, MD
Director of Electrophysiology
Inova Health System
Wayne Batchelor, MD, MHS
Director of the Interventional Heart Program,
Inova Health System
Director of Interventional Heart Disease Research,
Education, and Innovation
Associate Director
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Mona Fiuzat, PharmD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University
Program Faculty:
Ana Barac, MD, PhD
D’Aniello Chair, Cardio-Oncology Program
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Vanessa Blumer, MD
Fellow, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
Cardiology Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Lindsey A. Cilia, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Inova Heart and VAscular Institute
Virginia Heart
Melissa A. Daubert, MD
Medical Director, DCRI Imaging Core Lab
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University
Shashank Desai, MD
Director of Outreach & Affiliations
Chair, Inova Transplant Council
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Abbas Emaminia, MD
Director, Echo Lab, Inova Fairfax Hospital
Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Kelly Epps-Anderson, MD, MSHP
Director of Interventional Cardiology Clinical Trials
Associate Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Program
Inova Heart & Vascular Institute
James V. Freeman, MD, MPH, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories
Director, Yale AtrialFibrillation Program
Yale University School of Medicine,
Yale New Haven Health
Elizabeth Held, MD
Cardiac Electrophysiology,
Inova Health System
Nasrien Ibrahim, MD
Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist
Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Minority Health Policy
Harvard University
Iyad Isseh, MD
Co-Director of Quality for CICU
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Assistant Professor of Medical Education
University Virginia School of Medicine
Jamie Kennedy, MD
Medical Director, Cardiac Transplantation Program
Director, Cardiology Fellowship
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Spencer B. King, III, MD, MACC
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Emory University
School of Medicine,
Former Editor-in-Chief of JACC – Cardiovascular Interventions
Vineet Kumer, MD
Electrophysiologist
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Roxana Mehran, MD
Mount Sinai Professor in Cardiovascular Clinical Research and Outcomes
Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Laxmi Mehta, MD
Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director of the Lipid Clinics
Section director of Preventative Cardiology and Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Sumeet Mitter, MD, MSc, FACC
Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist
The Mount Sinai Hospital
Hala Moukhachen, MD, FCCP
Medical Director MCCS, CICU
Attending Physician, Medical Critical Care Services (MCCS)
Assistant Professor, University Of Virginia
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
Richard F. Neville, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgery
System Director, Vascular Services
Associate Director, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Clinical Professor of Surgery, George Washington University
Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia
Mitchell Psotka, MD, PhD, FACC
System Section Chief, Heart Failure and Transplant
Director, Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Center
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Michael Roizen, MD
Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus
Cleveland Clinic
Allman T. Rollins, MD
Co-Director, Heart Failure Outreach
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Carolyn Rosner, MSN, NP-C, MBA
Director of Innovative Programs,
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Eric Sarin, MD, FACC
Section Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery
Co-Director, Structural Heart and ValveProgram
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Palak Shah, MD, MS
Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support
Director, Cardiovascular Genomics Center
Director, Heart Failure Research
Associate Professor of Medicine, George Washington University
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Abhinav Sharma, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
McGill University
Garima Sharma, MD
Director of Cardio-Obstetrics,
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Kavita Sharma, MD, FACC
Director, Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation,
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Matthew Sherwood, MD, MHS
System Chief of Structural Heart Disease Program
Co-Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Director of the LAAC/WATCHMAN Program
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Ramesh Singh, MD
Cardiac Surgeon & Surgical Director
Inova Heart & Vascular Institute’s Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Shashank Sinha, MD, MSc
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Director, CV Critical Care Research Program
Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Transplant Cardiologist
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Assistant Professor of Medical Education
University of Virginia
Jared Spitz, MD
Non-Invasive Cardiologist
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Behnam Tehrani, MD
Co-Director, Complex Coronary Therapeutics
Program, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
Co-Director, Cardiogenic Shock Program
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Alexander G. Truesdell, MD
Interventional Cardiologist,
Virginia Heart and Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Eunice Yang, MD, PhD
Director of Electrophysiology Research
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Qiong Zhao, MD, PhD
Regional Medical Director, Cardiac Diagnostics
Director, Echo Research
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
