Exceptional doctors bring expertise and compassion to your child's care

Inova Children's Heart Program offers some of the most experienced pediatric cardiac surgeons and pediatric interventional cardiologists in the field. Meet our medical directors and physicians and learn more about why they love what they do. 

Inova Pediatric Cardiology Care Team

Cardiology
Cardiac Surgery
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Cardiovascular Anesthesiology
Electrophysiology
Inherited Cardiac Conditions Clinic
Interventional Cardiology
Noninvasive Imaging
Intensive Care
Nursing Leadership
Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Fetal Care Team
Multi-Modal Imaging
Cardiac Research
Single Ventricle Care Team
Child Life Services
Administration

 

Cardiology

• Mitchell Cohen, MD | Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
• Hassan Abdallah, MD
• Annette Ansong, MD
• Alan Benheim, MD
• Patrick Callahan, MD
• Sarah Chambers Gurson, MD
• Amir Dangol, MD
• Jared Hershenson, MD
• Sharon Karr, MD
• William Kirby, MD
• Jennifer Lindsey, MD
• Ramiro Lizano, MD
• Keyur Mehta, MD
• Jennifer O’Neil, MD
• Jin Park, MD
• Jaheedah Roane, MD
• Harish Rudra, DO
• Christopher Talluto, MD
• Sherif Tawfik, MD
• Kalpana Thammineni, MD
• Jim Thompson, MD

Cardiac Surgery

• Lucas Collazo, MD | Chief, Cardiac Surgery
• Marcelo Cardarelli, MD
• Glenn Bailey, PA
• Mechelle Fleischer, PA

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

• Chris Talluto, MD | Medical Director
• Mitchell Cohen, MD
• Lucas Collazo, MD
• Pradeep Nayak, MD
• Carolyn Rosner, CRNP
• Sherif Tawfik, MD
• Mark Tanenbaum, MD

Cardiovascular Anesthesiology

• Benjamin Cramer, MD
• Ahmed Elrefai, MD
• Erin Foley, MD
• James Konigsberg, MD
• Jennifer Maher, MD
• Robert Mesrobian, MD

Electrophysiology

• Mitchell Cohen, MD

Inherited Cardiac Conditions Clinic

• Mitchell Cohen, MD | Co-Director, Pediatrics
• Palak Shah, MD | Co-Director, Adult (IHVI)
• Alan Benheim, MD
• Ryan Hartman, MS CGC 
• Rebecca Miller, MS, CGC

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Interventional Cardiology

• Steve Shapiro, MD | Medical Director
• Jim Thompson, MD
• Sherif Tawfik, MD

Noninvasive Imaging

• Sharon Karr, MD | Medical Director
• Hassan Abdallah, MD
• Annette Ansong, MD
• Melany Atkins, MD, (MRI/CT)
• Alan Benheim, MD
• Patrick Callahan, MD
• Sarah Chambers Gurson, MD
• Amir Dangol, MD
• Jared Hershenson, MD
• William Kirby, MD
• Jennifer Lindsey, MD
• Ramiro Lizano, MD
• Jennifer O’Neil, MD
• Jin Park, MD
• Jaheedah Roane, MD
• Harish Rudra, DO
• Kalpana Thammineni, MD

Intensive Care

• Keith Dockery, MD | Medical Director, Pediatric ICU
• Keith Kocis, MD | Director, Pediatric Cardiac ICU
• Swati Agarwal, MD
• Nina Censoplano, MD
• Kathleen Donnelly, MD
• Cynthia Gibson, MD
• Peter Grundl, MD
• Jeremy Lamkin, MD
• William Stotz, MD
• Mahsheed Taeb, MD

Nursing Leadership

• Lynda Mullinix, MSN, RN, Interim Senior Director
• Gail Green, RN Clinical Director, PICU/CICU
• Deidre Griffith-Ball, RN, Clinical Director, IMG
• Cecilia Harris, Clinical Director, NICU
• Kristine Lewis, RN3, BSN, MS, CCRN, Single Ventricle Nurse Navigator

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

• Maria Liz Bullock, CRNP
• Penny Drake, CRNP
• Kelly Feran, CRNP
• Louis Seay, CRNP
• Lauren Stollar, CRNP

Fetal Care Team

• Margot Ahronovich, MD, Medical Director
• Sarah Chambers Gurson, MD, Medical Director, Fetal Cardiology
• Sharon Karr, MD
• Annette Ansong, MD
• Patrick Callahan, MD
• Jared Hershenson, MD
• Jennifer Lindsey, MD
• Jennifer O’Neil, MD
• Jin Park, MD
• Harish Rudra, DO
• Erin Caufield, BSN
• Melissa Eatherly, FNP-BC

Single Ventricle Care Team

• Harish Rudra, DO, Medical Director
• Annette Ansong, MD, Associate Medical Director
• Marcelo Cardarelli, MD
  
• Lucas Collazo, MD
• Kimberly Hill, CCC SLP, Speech Therapist
• Kristine Lewis, RN, Coordinator
• Glenn Bailey, PA
• Mechelle Fleischer, PA
• Jamie MacIntosh, RN
• Karyn Theis, RD, Nutrition

Cardiac Research

• Suchitra Hourigan, MBCHB, Director of Research, Inova Children’s Hospital
• Marcelo Cardarelli, MD
• Mitchell Cohen, MD
• Lucas Collazo, MD
• Lorna Richards, Pediatric Research Manager
• Erica Christian, Clinical Research Coordinator  

Child Life Services

• Jamie Gentille, Director
• Nicole Johnson, Cardiac CCLS

Multi-Modal Imaging

• Melany Atkins, MD
• Edmund D. Hong, MD

Administration

• Steve Narang, MD, MHCM, President, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
• Christopher O'Connor, MD, CEO, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
• David Ascher, MD, MBA,Chairman, Pediatrics
• Joanna Fazio, Vice President, Pediatric Service Line
• Megan Hindenburg, Program Coordinator