Program Director

Christopher M. O’Connor, MD, MACC, FESC, FHFSA, FHFA
President, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine Duke University
Editor in Chief, JACC: Heart Failure
Past President, Heart Failure Society of America

Program Co-Chairs and Planning Committee

Brett Atwater, MD
Director of Electrophysiology
Director of Electrophysiology Research,
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Mona Fiuzat, PharmD, FACC, FHFSA, FHFA
Former Sr. Scientific Advisor to FDA Commissioner
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine

Matthew Sherwood, MD, MHS, FACC
Physician Supervisor, Interventional Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease
Director, LAAC/WATCHMAN Program
Co-Director, Structural Heart Disease Program
Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Program Faculty:

William T. Abraham, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC
Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Cell Biology
Associate Dean for Clinical Research
Director, Clinical Trials Management Office
Deputy Director, Davis Heart and Lung
Research Institute
The Ohio State University

Aysha Arshad, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Inova Fairfax Hospital
Director of EP Lead Extraction & Co-Director, Hybrid AF Ablation, Carient

Wayne Batchelor, MD, MHS, FACC, FSCAI
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

James Daubert, MD, FACC, FHRS
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Professor of Medicine
Member in Duke Clinical Research Institute
Duke University School of Medicine

Christopher deFilippi, MD, FACC
Vice Chairman of Academic Affairs
Director of Cardiology Fellowship Program
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Kelly Epps, MD, MSHP, FACC
Medical Director, Inova Women’s Cardiovascular Health Center
Interventional Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Stephen Gaeta, MD, PhD
Associate Director of Electrophysiology Lab
Director of Electrophysiology Community Outreach
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Inova Heart and Vascular

Nadim Geloo, MD, FACC
General Cardiology
Interventional Cardiology
Structural Heart
Virginia Heart – Fairfax

Nasrien Ibrahim, MD, FACC
Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist
Director of HF Research
Associate Director of CV Fellowship
IHVI

Larry R. Jackson, II, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine

Spencer B. King, III, MD, MACC
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Emory University
School of Medicine,
Former Editor-in-Chief of JACC – Cardiovascular Interventions

Vineet Kumar, MD, FHRS
Medical Director of EP Research
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD, FACC, FHFSA
Director, Advanced Heart Failure / Cardiac Transplantation
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Darren K. McGuire, MD, MHSc, FACC
Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Cardiology Clinics Lead Physician, Parkland Health and Hospital System
Dallas, Texas
Deputy Editor, Circulation

Ann Marie Navar, MD, PhD, FACC
Associate Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine
Population and Data Sciences
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Sean Pokorney, MD, MBA
Cardiologist, Electrophysiologist
Duke Health

Mitchell Psotka, MD, PhD, FACC
Section Chief, Heart Failure & Transplant
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
Director, Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Center

Haroon Rashid, MD, FACC
Medical Director of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation and Research
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Marc Sabatine, MD, MPH, FACC
Chair, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Lewis Dexter, MD Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Eric Sarin, MD, FACC
Co-Director, Structural Heart and Valve Center
Co-Director, Cardiovascular Research
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Scott Solomon, MD
The Edward D. Frohlich Distinguished Chair
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Noninvasive Cardiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

John Spertus, MD, MPH, FACC
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Cardiovascular Division
John T. Milliken Department of Internal Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Hamid Taheri, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Director of Emerging Markets Ambulatory Cardiovascular Clinical Research, Carient

Henry Tran, MD, FACC, FACP
Medical Director of Cardiology Department
Inova Center for Personalized Health
Associate Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Marc Wish, MD, FACC
Medical Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing Laboratories
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Shawn Yazdani, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
Director of CTO, Carient