Medical Professionals
The George Washington University Medical Center commitment to a tradition of service, teaching, research and compassion is advanced with the establishment of The Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Cardiovascular Institute. The medical professionals of the Institute build on that compassion - a compassion to heal and to discover.
CARDIOLOGY
Richard J. Katz, MD
Director, Division of Cardiology; Bloedorn Professor of Cardiology
Tsung Cheng, MD
Professor of Medicine
Brian G. Choi, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Jannet Lewis, MD
Professor of Medicine; Director of Echocardiography
Lisa W. Martin, MD
Director, Lipid Research Clinic, Cardiac Prevention Clinic
Ramesh Mazhari, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Marco Mercader, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Jonathan Reiner, MD
Professor of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
Allen Solomon, MD
Professor of Medicine
Cynthia Tracy, MD
Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of Cardiology; Director of Electrophysiology
P. Jacob Varghese, MD
Professor of Medicine; Director, Coronary Care Unit
Allan Wasserman, MD
Eugene Meyer Professor of Medicine; Chairman, Department of Medicine
William Weglicki, MD
Professor of Medicine and of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
VASCULAR RADIOLOGY
Robert Zeman, MD
Chairman, Department of Radiology; Professor of Radiology
Esma Akin, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology; Chief of Nuclear Medicine
Anthony Venbrux, MD
Professor of Radiology and Surgery; Director, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
Joseph Giordano, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery
Subodh Arora, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Fredrick Lough, MD
Director, Cardiac Surgery; Clinical Professor of Surgery
Farzad Najam, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery
RENAL/HYPERTENSION
Samir Patel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
BASIC SCIENCES
Allan Goldstein, PhD
Catharine B. & William McCormick Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Timothy McCaffrey, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Director, Catharine Birch McCormick Genomics Center
