Meet the Team

Annette Kesewah Ansong, MD

• Medical Director, Outpatient Cardiology
• Cardiologist

Jeffrey Alan Becker, MD

• Cardiologist

Charles Berul, MD

• Emeritus Chief, Cardiology
• Co-Director, Children's National Heart Center
• Electrophysiologist

Elizabeth A. Bettini, CNS, PCNS

• Nurse Specialist

Kristin M. Burns, MD

• Cardiologist

Michael Ray Bykhovsky, MD

• Adult Congenital Cardiologist
• Cardiologist

Sarah B. Clauss, MD

• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Susan Dona Cummings, MD, MPH

• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Shriprasad R. Deshpande, MD

• Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies and Heart Transplant Program

Niti Dham, MD

• Director, Cardio-Oncology Program
• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist
• Advanced Cardiac Therapies and Heart Transplant Cardiologist

Mary Teresa Donofrio, MD, FAAP, FACC, FASE

• Medical Director, Prenatal Cardiology Program
• Co-Director, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Program
• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Robin Winkler Doroshow, MD

• Cardiologist

Tacy Elizabeth Downing, MD

• Interventional Cardiologist
• Adult Congenital Cardiologist

David Michael Finkelstein, MD, MS

• Cardiologist

Lowell Howard Frank, MD

• Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training
• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Wayne J. Franklin, MD

• Senior Vice President, Heart Center
• Cardiologist

Suma Potiny Goudar, MD

• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Ashraf Saud Harahsheh, MD

• Director, Quality Outcomes in Cardiology
• Medical Unit Director, Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg
• Director, Cardiology Resident Education
• Director, Kawaski Disease Program

Jared Adam Hershenson, MD

• Director, Cardiac Exercise and Rehabilitation
• Cardiologist

Ian Hovis, MD

• Medical Unit Director, HLK
• Cardiologist

Seiji Ito, MD

• Adult Congenital Cardiologist
• Cardiologist

Anitha Sara John, MD, PhD

• Medical Director, Washington Adult Congenital Heart Program
• Adult Congenital Cardiologist

Joshua P. Kanter, MD

• Medical Director, Interventional Cardiology
• Interventional Cardiologist

Sairah A Khan, MD

• Advanced Cardiac Therapies and Heart Transplant Cardiologist

Stephanie Regan Lacey, DO, FAAP

• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Yue-Hin Loke, MD

• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Gerard R. Martin, MD

• Cardiac Ambassador to Global Services
• Cardiologist

Jai Kumar Nahar, MD

• Cardiologist

Jin Hyuk Park, MD

• Cardiologist

Vasum Peiris, MD, MPH

• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Craig A. Sable, MD

• Associate Division Chief, Cardiology
• Director, Echocardiography

Elizabeth Diann Sherwin, MD

• Director, Electrophysiology Advanced Fellowship
• Cardiologist
• Electrophysiologist

Christopher Fore Spurney, MD

• Associate Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training
• Cardiologist

Ravi Vamsee Vegulla, MD

• Advanced Imaging Cardiologist

Yves d'Udekem, MD, PhD

• Division Chief, Cardiac Surgery
• Co-Director, Children's National Heart Center

Manan Desai, MD

• Surgical Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies and Heart Transplant Program
• Cardiac Surgeon
• Director, VAD and Heart Transplant

Aybala Tongut, MD

• Director, Cardiac ECMO
• Surgical Director, Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program
• Cardiac Surgeon

Can Yerebakan, MD

• Associate Chief, Cardiac Surgery
• Director, HLHS Hybrid Program
• Program Director, Cardiovascular Surgery Fellowship

John T. Berger, MD

• Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
• Director, Cardiac ECMO

Hannah Ruth Daughtrey, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Craig Alan Futterman, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Alejandro Jose Lopez-Magallon, MD

• Medical Director, Telemedicine
• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Kathy Sofia Mendieta, MD

Ricardo Alfonso Munoz, MD

• Division Chief, Cardiac Critical Care Medicine
• Executive Director, Telemedicine
• Co-Director, Children's National Heart Center

Bao Nguyen Puente, MD

• Director, Cardiac Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Michael Tsifansky, MD

• Director, Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program
• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist
• Pulmonologist

Gil Wernovsky, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Gregory Kitley Yurasek, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Anna Todaro Brown, MD

• Anesthesiologist

Lauren Alexandria Rupe, CAA

• Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant

Chinwe ChiChi Unegbu, MD

• Anesthesiologist
• Surgical Director, Thyroid Nodule and Thyroid Cancer Clinic

Andrew Tadeusz Waberski, MD

• Medical Director, Cardiac Anesthesiology
• Anesthesiologist

Melissa Anne Dazo, NP

• Nurse Practitioner

Charles Fleming

• Nurse Navigator

Colleen Marie Iler, CNS

• Nurse Practitioner

Laura Rachael Norris, NP

• Advanced Practice Registered Nurse