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

    Nana Afari-Armah, MD

    Brian Baturin, MD

    Itsik Ben-Dor, MD

    Patrick Bering, MD

    Nelson Bernardo, MD

    Brian Case, MD

    Joaquin Crespo-Mejias

    Zayd Eldadah, MD

    Vaani Garg, MD

    Charles German, MD

    Richa Gupta, MD

    Cyrus Hadadi, MD

    Syed Haider, MD

    Hayder Hashim, MD

    Mark Hofmeyer, MD

    Sumbal Janjua, MD

    Ajay Kadakkal, MD

    Christy Kaiser, MD

    Benjamin Kenigsberg, MD

    Preetham Kumar, MD

    Phillip Lam, MD

    Sung Lee, MD

    Diego Medvedofsky, MD

    Ricardo Nieves, MD

    Susan O'Donoghue, MD

    Alexander Papolos, MD

    Miguel Pinilla Vera, MD

    Edward Platia, MD

    Maria Rodrigo, MD

    Toby Rogers, MD

    Lowell Satler, MD

    Manish Shah, MD

    Farooq Sheikh, MD

    Margaret Stevenson MD

    Athanasios Thomaides, MD

    Apostolos Tsimploulis, MD

    Tania Vora, MD

    Anam Waheed, MD

    Ron Waksman, MD

    Allen Taylor, MD - Department Chair

    Gaby Weissman, MD - Fellowship Program Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Endocrinology

    Neelam Baral, MBBS

    Kenneth Burman, MD - Fellowship Program Director

    Priya Kundra, MD

    Noor-ul-huda Mehdi, MD

    Meeta Sharma, MD , Section Director

    Susmeeta Sharma, MD

    Leila Shobab, MD

    Jason Wexler, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Gastroenterology

    Ghassan Alzayer, MD

    Nikiya Asamoah, MD

    Samer Charbel, MD

    Michele Fischer, MD

    Lauren George, MD

    Abdalla Khouqeer, MBBS MD

    Alireza Meighani, MD

    Katherine Murphy, MBBCH MD

    Stanley Pietrak, MD

    I. David Shocket, MD , Section Director

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • General Medicine

    Tanuja Devaraj, MD

    Godwin Darko, MD , Section Director

    Donald Distajo, MD

    Laurel Mueller, DO

    Nnenna Oluigbo, MD

    Sailaja Pindiprolu, MD - Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

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

    Jennifer Tran, MD

    Vivien Vivien, MD

  • Geriatrics

    Austin Armstrong, MD

    Sharareh Badri, MD

    Eric De Jonge, MD, Section Director

    Guy Vin Chang, MD

  • Hematology/Oncology

    Elizabeth Barrows, MD

    Ami Chitalia, MD

    Hyen Jeon, MD

    Salem Kim, MD

    Hira Latif, MD

    Cristina Merkhofer, MD

    Kamyar Nader, MD

    George Philips, MD

    Suthee Rapisuwon, MD

    Luidmila Schafer, MD

    Aarthi Shenoy, MD - Fellowship Program Director

    Hedy Smith, MD

    Kristen Whitaker, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine

    Anca Dinescu, MD - Section Director and Fellowship Program Director

    Hunter Groninger, MD

    Clint Pettit, MD

    Lissa Berroa-Garcia, MD

    Hala Ashraf, DO

    Mikisa Solomon, MD

    Shannon Stegall, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Hospitalist Medicine

    Ehson Aligholizadeh, MD

    Ennis Alsaadi, MD

    Tamara Augustin, MD

    Victor Baez, MD

    Dweep Barbhaya, MD

    Manish Bastakoti, MD

    Eliana Bonifacino, MD

    Marilyne Cadieux, DO

    Naveed Choudry, MD

    Meghan Connelly, MD

    Toluwashe Davies, MD

    Farah Da'as, MD

    Kyle Dillon, MD

    Lini Edwin, MD

    David Fink, MD - Associate Program Director

    Lea Fisher, MD

    Christopher Gibson, MD

    Mehdi Hemmati, MD

    Shameem Huq, MD

    Osarimabo Imoisili, MD

    Christopher Itua, MD

    Ana Kavtaradze, MD

    Rahel Kebede, MD

    Maryam Khavandi, MD

    Mark Kotlarewsky, MD

    Shaunak Kulkarni, MD - Associate Program Director Clinician Educator Track

    Benjamin Kurth, MD

    Lifan Liang, MD

    Lingling Liu, MD

    Amanda Magee, DO -  Section Director

    Christina Maguire, MD

    Lokesh Manjani, MD

    Roselyn Manus, MD

    Prasun Mishra, MD

    Saad Mohammad, MD

    Georges Mora, MD

    Soumya Narayan, MD

    Jenesha Narayanan, MD

    Iseri Obadaseraye, MD

    Erik Oran, MD

    Pradeep Paul, MD

    Joseph Pawlowski, MD

    Rafael Pristoop, MD

    Corica Rodgers, MD

    Stephen Sebastian, MD

    Azhar Shamas, MD

    Christine Shanahan, MD

    Scott Shepperd, MD

    Vaibhavi Silamgari, MD

    Shreenivas Sreenivasan, MD

    Junhui Song, MD

    Tanuj Sood, MD

    Tad Umali, MD

    Arathy Vamadevan, MD

    Daniel Wallach, MD

    Abubakari Welle, MD

    Yani Zhang, MD

  • Infectious Diseases

    Saumil Doshi, MD

    Hosein Kafimosavi, DO

    Adam Klein, DO

    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

    Kevin Abbott, MD

    Michael Sherman, DO

    Lonnie Thach, 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

    Aaaron Holley, MD

    Anantha Mallia, MD, Associate Program Director POCUS, Associate Program Director Critical Care Fellowship

    Emil Oweis, MD, Associate Program Director Simulation Training

    Darling A. Ruiz Cerrato, MD, Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    John Sherner, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine

    Andrew Shorr, MD, Section Director

    Jessica Waters, MD

    Jessica Wang Memoli, MD, Associate Program Director Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship

    Christian Woods, MD, Program Director Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship and Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

  • Rheumatology

    Amarah Baluch, MD

    Florina Constantinescu, MD, Section Director

Jourdan Frankovich, MD

    Sabah Khalafalla, MD

    Cristina Lanata, MD

    Fellowship Training program: Yes

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