Faculty | Internal Medicine Residency | Medstar Washington Hospital Center | MedStar Health

MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Department of Medicine employs more than 100 full-time physicians who also serve as faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. These faculty members are skilled and experienced clinicians who have chosen to teach residents and fellows as a large part of their daily activities.

  • Cardiology

    Allen Taylor, MD, Chair

    Brian Baturin, MD

    Itsik Ben-Dor, MD, Fellowship Director, Interventional Cardiology

    Patrick Bering, MD

    Nana Afari-armah, MD

    Nelson Bernardo, MD

    Brian Case, MD

    Joaquin Crespo, MD

    Sarfraz Durrani, MD

    Zayd Eldadah, MD, PhD, Director, Electrophysiology

    Margaret Fischer, MD

    Vaani P Garg, MD

    Richa Gupta, MD

    Syed W Haider, MD

    Cyrus Hadadi, MD

    Hayder Hashim, MD

    Mark Hofmeyer, MD, Fellowship Director, Heart Failure

    Sumbal Janjua, MD

    Ajay Kadakkal, MD

    Christy Kaiser, MD

    Benjamin Kenigsberg, MD

    Preetham Kumar, MD

    Phillip Lam, MD

    Sung Lee, MD

    Diego Medvedofsky, MD

    Susan O’Donoghue, MD

    Alexander Papolos, MD 

    Miguel Pinilla Vera, MD

    Edward Platia, MD

    Sriram Rao, MD

    Maria Rodrigo, MD

    Toby Rogers, MD

    Manish Shah, MD, Fellowship Program Director, Electrophysiology

    Farooq Sheikh, MD

    Sarma Singam, MD 

    David Strouse, MD

    Athanasios Thomaides, MD

    Gaby Weissman, MD, Fellowship Program Director

    Seth Worley, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Endocrinology

    Kenneth Burman, MD, Fellowship Program Director

    Priya Kundra, MD

    Meeta Sharma, MD, Section Director

    Susmeeta Sharma MD

    Leila Shobab, MD

    Jason Wexler, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Gastroenterology

    Ghassan Alzayer, MD

    Nikiya O Asamoah, MD

    Victor Ciofoaia, MD

    Stanley Pietrak, MD

    David Shocket, MD, Section Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • General Medicine

    Godwin Darko, MD, Section Director

    Ronald Distajo, MD

    Ahmar S Hashmi, MD

    Lauren A Mueller, DO

    Arrel Olano, MD

    Nnenna Oluigbo, MD

    Sailaja Pindiprolu, MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Deborah Topol, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Jennifer Tran, MD

  • Geriatrics

    Austin Armstrong, MD

    Eric De Jonge, MD, Section Director

    Guy Vin Chang, MD


  • Hematology/Oncology

    Sosipatros Boikos, MD

    Ami Chitalia, MD

    Christopher Gallagher, MD, Co-Section Director

    Hira Latif, MD

    Edward N Libby, MD

    Kamyar Nader, MD

    Dennis Priebat, MD

    Suthee Rapisuwon, MD

    Aarthi Shenoy, MD, Fellowship Program Director

    Hedy Smith, MD

    Anteneh Tesfaye, MD

    Irina Veytsman, MD, Co-Section Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine

    Aparna Desai, DO

    Hunter Groninger MD, Section Director

    Kristen McElreath, MD

    Clint Pettit, MD

    Michael Pottash MD, Fellowship Program Director

    Anirudh Rao, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Hospitalist Medicine

    Tamara Augustin, MD

    Victor Baez, MD

    Christina Chai, MD

    Nuval Cherian, MD

    Meghan Connelly, MD

    Lini Edwin, MD

    Hooman Fazlalizadeh, MD

    David Fink, MD

    Christopher Gibson, MD

    Shameem Huq, MD

    Osarimabo Imoisili, MD

    Ana Kavtaradze, MD

    Rajkiran Khattra, MD

    Mark Kotlarewsky, MD

    Shaunak Kulkarni, MD

    Lingling Liu, MD

    Amanda Magee, DO

    Lokesh Manjiani, MD

    Roselyn Manus, MD

    Prasun Mishra, MD

    Georges Mora, MD

    Saad Mohammad, MD

    Rooma Nankani, MD

    Soumya Narayan, MD

    Jenesha Narayanan, MD

    Iseri Obadaseraye, MD

    Jay Park, MD

    Nicole Parks, MD

    Pradeep Paul, MD

    Joseph Pawlowski, MD

    Raphael Pristoop MD

    Corica Rodgers, MD

    Rosemarie Rollins-Folks, MD

    Christine Shanahan, MD

    Azhar Shamas, MD

    Scott Shepperd, MD

    Junhui Song, MD

    Tanuj Sood, MD

    Gillian Southwell, MD, Section Director

    Shannon Stegall, MD

    Arathy Vamadevan, MD

    Abubakari Welle, MD

    Daniel Wallach, MD

    Kosuke Yasukawa, MD

    Wissam Zaeeter, MD

  • Infectious Diseases

    Saumil Doshi, MD, Fellowship Program Director

    Hosein Kafimosavi, MD

    Adam Klein, MD

    Leon Lai, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Sheena Ramdeen, MD

    Christian Woods, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Glenn Wortmann, MD, Section Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Nephrology

    Michael Sherman, MD

    Judith Veis, MD, Section Director

  • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

    Eric Ahlstrom, MD

    Chee Chan, MD

    Brian Cuneo, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Aaron Holley, MD

    Anantha Mallia, DO

    Emil Oweis, MD

    Darling Ruiz-Cerrato, MD

    John Sherner, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine

    Andrew Shorr, MD, Section Director

    Jessica Wang-Memoli, MD

    Christian Woods, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Fellowship Program Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Rheumatology

    Elena-Ioana, Ciofoaia, MD

    Florina Constantinescu, MD, Section Director, Fellowship Program Director

    Akrithi Garren, MD

    Benjamin Plotz, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

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