Inova Health System Physicians Featured Among the Region’s Best in Washingtonian Magazine

March 28th, 2008

More than 500 Inova Physicians Are Named in All 36 Specialties

Falls Church, VA — More than 500 physicians from Inova Health System’s five hospitals are listed among the region’s top doctors by Washingtonian magazine in its 2008 “Top Doctors” issue. The magazine sent questionnaires to 6,500 randomly selected physicians in the area, asking them what doctors they would send family members to in each of 36 medical specialties. The magazine received more than 1,250 responses, and Inova physicians were recommended by their peers in every specialty.

Allergies/Immunology
Oral Alpan, MD
Kenneth R. Bergman, MD
Jyothi Gadde, MD
Paul M. Goldberg, MD
Claus K. Helbing, MD
Stuart Henochowicz, MD
Richard C. Loria, MD
Barbara M. Mackie, MD
A. Larry Miller, MD
Richard R. Rosenthal, MD
Donna L. Schuster, MD
John A. Simpson, MD
Ngoc T. Vu, MD

Breast-Cancer Surgery
Kirsten H. Edmiston, MD
John J. Moynihan, MD
William J. Purkert, MD

Cardiac Surgery
Nelson A. Burton, MD
Lucas R. Collazo, MD
John R. Garrett, MD
Edward A. Lefrak, MD
Paul S. Massimiano, MD
John W. Rhee, MD
Irving Shen, MD
Alan M. Speir, MD

Cardiology
Marjaneh Akbari, MD
Alan Benheim, MD
Carl P. Bon Tempo, MD
Kenneth M. Brooks, MD
Patrick F. Callahan, MD
Keith H. Chu, MD
Nicholas Cossa, MD
Paul E. DiLorenzo, MD
Ted D. Friehling, MD
Frank M. Galioto Jr., MD
Merdod Ghafouri, MD
Brian N. Glick, MD
Seymour I. Hepner, MD
Robert T. Herron, MD
Thomas J. Hougen, MD
Sharon S. Karr, MD
Joseph M. Kiernan, MD
Christopher J. Leet, MD
Mohamed K. Mardini, MD
Robert G. Matthews, MD
Francis J. McGrath, MD
Pradeep R. Nayak, MD
John T. O’Brien, MD
Antonio R. Parente, MD
Jin Hyuk Park, MD
Dean M. Pollock, MD
Bryan D. Raybuck, MD
Kevin M. Rogan, MD
Stephen P. Rosenfeld, MD
Stephen R. Shapiro, MD
Harvey S. Sherber, MD
Robert A. Shor, MD
Anne E. Summers, MD
Hassan Tabandeh, MD
Hamid Taheri, MD
Sherif S. Tawfik, MD
James A. Thompson, MD
Jonathan E. Yager, MD
Shahram “Shawn” Yazdani, MD

Colon and Rectal Surgery
Allyson A. Askew, MD
Donald B. Colvin, MD
Lynda S. Dougherty, MD
Daniel P. Otchy, MD
Paul E. Savoca, MD
William Seid, MD
Thomas P. Wright, MD

Dermatology
Moses K. Albert, MD
Rebecca R. Barry, MD
Julie P. Henry, MD
Martin S. Horn, MD
Alexandra M. Kazakis, MD
Ho Jin Kim, MD
Andrew D. Montemarano, MD
Fran Rotter, MD
William S. Sawchuk, MD
Theodore S. Sebastien, MD
Robert A. Silverman, MD
Mark L. Welch, MD

Endocrinology
Albert W. Coo, MD
Frank R. Crantz, MD
Michael J. Horwath, MD
Howard M. Lando, MD
Roy W. Langley, MD
Kathleen M. Link, MD
Patrick W. Mason, MD
Suchithra A. Nancherla, MD
Suzanne Rogacz, MD
Peter S. Ross, MD
Harvey A. Rubenstein, MD
Ali M. Safa, MD
S. Mark Tanen, MD

Family Practice
David M. Abbot, MD
Scott F. Bartram, MD
Susan H. Burroughs, MD
Craig C. Clark, MD
Stephen L. Cornwell, MD
P. Jean Drew, MD
Thomas P. Ehrlich, MD
Michael A. Filak, MD
Charles W. Gardner, MD
Allen B. Horne, MD
Thomas M. Howard, MD
Samuel M. Jones, MD
Alexander H. Krist, MD
David D. Leonard, MD
G. Michael Lynch, MD
Terence J. McCormally, MD
Kavain S. Milani, MD
Scott H. Nagell, MD
Eugene W. Overton, MD
Mark A. Paster, MD
Mercedes Quintos-Gomez, MD
Stephen Rex, MD
Michele A. Romano, MD
Eugene A. Shmorhun, MD
Marie Steinmetz, MD
Maura J. Sughrue, MD
Mark E. Vasiliadis, MD
Andrew E. Wise, MD
Brett A. Wohler, MD

Gastroenterology
Tonya Adams, MD
Alan F. Ansher, MD
Ronald J. Barkin, MD
Lucy Beck, MD
R. Allen Blosser, MD
Catherine S. Chao, MD
Lynn F. Duffy, MD
Ali Fazel, MD
Michael A. Garone, MD
Stafford S. Goldstein, MD
Pradeep K. Gupta, MD
Gabriel B. Herman, MD
W. William Immel, MD
Peter Lee, MD
Ian H. Leibowitz, MD
Otto Louis-Jacques, MD
Kenneth R. Mirkin, MD
Robert E. Morton, MD
Martin G. Prosky, MD
Richard C. Ranard, MD
Peter L. Scudera, MD
Ian M. Shenk, MD
Scott Sirlin, MD

General Surgery
Robert F. Ahmed, MD
Allyson A. Askew, MD
Mark A. Bartolozzi, MD
Jan J. Dekker, MD
Gordon H. Hafner, MD
Teruaki Kokama, MD
John J. Moynihan, MD
Kurt D. Newman, MD
Michael F. Nigro Jr., MD
William J. Purkert, MD
Russell P. Seneca, MD
Alexander D. Soutter, MD
Robert C. Wagner, MD

Geriatrics
Joanne G. Crantz, MD
Terence J. McCormally, MD
Ulrich B. Prinz, MD

Gynecological Oncology
Annette Bicher, MD
John C. Elkas, MD
B. Frederick Helmkamp, MD
Hans B. Krebs, MD
Paul J. MacKoul, MD

Hand Surgery
J. Mark Evans, MD
Mustafa A. Haque, MD
Jeffrey Lovallo, MD
David R. Miller, MD
Stephen W. Pournaras Jr., MD
Thomas R. Shepler, MD

Infectious Diseases
Sarfraz A. Choudhary, MD
Arthur D. Chutuape, MD
William B. Furlong, MD
Daniel E. Keim, MD
Allan J. Morrison Jr., MD
Donald M. Poretz, MD
Eric D. Reines, MD
Henry H. Rhee, MD
Richard K. Sall, MD
Mary E. Schmidt, MD
Marsha D. Soni, MD
John S. Symington, MD
Stephen E. Weinroth, MD
David A. Wheeler, MD
David S. Yoho, MD

Infertility
Pierre Asmar, MD
Paulette E. Browne, MD
Michael DiMattina, MD
John D. Gordon, MD
Stephen Greenhouse, MD
Naveed M. Khan, MD
Suheil J. Muasher, MD
David S. Saffan, MD

Internal Medicine
Elizabeth F. Anderson, MD
Maurice N. Atiyeh, MD
A. David Bernanke, MD
Joanne G. Crantz, MD
Victoria R. Currall, MD
Marc Eisenbaum, MD
Peter J. Fecanin, MD
Les H. Gavora, MD
Thomas R. Graziano, MD
Frederick Lennon, MD
David B. McDonald, MD
Robin B. Merlino, MD
Stephen M. Minton, MD
Foster R. Montalbano, MD
Roger A. Noel, MD
Robert P. Sileo, MD
James N. Sipes, MD
Lewis Suskiewicz, MD
Joel M. Temme, MD
Jay C. Tyroler, MD
Cecilia Young, MD

Interventional Radiology
Rodney J. Butch, MD
Theodore P. Chambers, MD
Alain T. Drooz, MD
Nakul Jerath, MD
Allen E. Joseph, MD
Michael G. Karnaze, MD
Slaman S. Mufti, MD
Richard S. Pergolizzi Jr., MD
Christopher M. Putman, MD
Kenneth S. Rholl, MD
Keith M. Sterling, MD
Arina van Breda, MD
Frank M. Volberg, MD

Nephrology
Ali R. Assefi, MD
Varshasb Broumand, MD
Ranjit Cheriyan, MD
Robert D. Fildes, MD
Stephen G. Goldberger, MD
Robert E. Greenspan, MD
Andrew D. Howard, MD
Robert C. Mackow, MD
David L. Mahoney, MD
Paul Modlinger, MD
Franco Musio, MD
Jenny J. Nazzal, MD
Thomas A. Rakowski, MD
Samir F. Shabshab, MD
Abdul Wahab, MD
Lynne P. Yao, MD

Neurology
Marco D. Castro, MD
John W. Cochran, MD
Sylvia Edelstein, MD
Robert N. Kurtzke, MD
Bennett L. Lavenstein, MD
William M. McClintock, MD
Bibhuti Mishra, MD
Philip L. Pearl, MD
Linda S. Sigmund, MD
James P. Simsarian, MD
Eric B. Sklar, MD
Stuart R. Stark, MD
Amy R. Stone, MD
Leslie B. Williams, MD

Neurosurgery
Charles J. Azzam, MD
Anthony J. Caputy, MD
Kathleen B. French, MD
Robert M. Gorsen, MD
Donald G. Hope, MD
James W. Melisi, MD
John S. Myseros, MD
Ben Nguyen, MD
Joseph Watson, MD

Obstetrics/Gynecology
Glenna R. Andersen, MD
Robert L. Castle, MD
Carolyn F. Davis, MD
Scott T. Forrest, MD
David C. Giammittorio, MD
Sarita Gopal, MD
Nancy L. A. Hafner, MD
Joyce P. Hair, MD
Walter J. Hodges Jr., MD
Nicolette Horbach, MD
Damon Hou, MD
Alfreda Jones, MD
James Kacedan, MD
Alfred N. Khoury, MD
Darya B. Maanavi, MD
John F. Maddox, MD
Karen R. Maser, MD
Lisa C. Muasher, MD
Barbara M. Nies, MD
Laura T. Pickford, MD
Vincent A. Policelli, MD
Leonard A. Rosen, MD
Barry S. Rothman, MD
Peter G. Rothschild, MD
Thomas W. Scott, MD
Michelle P. Stas, MD
Melissa J. Thiel, MD
Christine L. Tran, MD
Jeffrey A. Welgoss, MD
Ray A. Wertheim, MD
Kathy E. Wolf, MD
Jamie L. Zaita, MD

Oncology/Hematology
Ivan Aksentijevich, MD
Roy A. Beveridge, MD
Thomas P. Butler, MD
Patrick J. Byrne, MD
Raymund Cuevo, MD
David M. Dunning, MD
John M. Feigert, MD
Anthony J. Felice, MD
Jay Greenberg, MD
David M. Heyer, MD
Arthur N. Kales, MD
Daniel Katcher, MD
Robert J. Meister, MD
Gregory J. Orloff, MD
Dipti Patel-Donnelly, MD
Eva Perdahl-Wallace, MD
Rangappa Rajendra, MD
Robert L. Reid, MD
Nicholas J. Robert, MD
Alexander I. Spira, MD
Winston M. Ueno, MD

Opthalmology
Mark D. Falls, MD
David J. Forster, MD
Richard A. Garfinkel, MD
Michael H. Goldberg, MD
Mohamad S. Jaafar, MD
Carl J. Leto, MD
Mary Beth McAteer, MD
Arnold L. Oshinsky, MD
Edward S. Parelhoff, MD
William L. Rich, MD
Reginald J. Sanders, MD
Kevin Scott, MD
David J. Seidman, MD
Michael C. Tigani, MD
Manfred A. von Fricken, MD

Orthopedics
Brent R. Ain, MD
Christopher C. Annunziata, MD
Anthony N Aram, MD
Peter D. Bruno, MD
Michael P. Cassidy, MD
Gabriel Gluck, MD
Samuel M. Hawken, MD
David C. Johnson, MD
Ben W. Kettredge IV, MD
Thomas J. Klein, MD
Mark P. Madden, MD
Thomas A. Martinelli, MD
C. Michael Reing, MD
Thomas Schuler, MD
Robert B. Stinger, MD
Raymond Thal, MD
Mark M. Theiss, MD
Felasfa M. Wodajo, MD

Otolaryngology
Alidad Arabshahi, MD
Robert S. Bahadori, MD
Deborah J. Doyle, MD
Eric J. Furst, MD
Richard E. Gardner, MD
Josef Gurian, MD
Patty Lee, MD
Richard E. Linde, MD
Edward D. Marion, MD
Timothy P. McBride, MD
Bryan McKenzie, MD
Vesna Mrzljak, MD
Laurence R. O’Halloran, MD
Josh Oppenheim, MD
Daniel D. Rooney, MD
Mark I. Rubinstein, MD
Iyad S. Saidi, MD
Andrew B. Silva, MD
Mark A. Soltany, MD

Pain Management
Virgil A. Balint, MD
Abraham A. Cherrick, MD
Rodney B. Dade, MD
Roger A. Denney, MD
Greg D. Fischer, MD

Pediatrics
Katherine Abbot, MD
Samantha Ahdoot, MD
Vincent Ascrizzi, MD
Bassam A. Atiyeh, MD
Ghassan N. Atiyeh, MD
Amin J. Barakat, MD
James R. Baugh, MD
Gary J. Bergman, MD
John G. Bitar, MD
Catherine S. Casey, MD
Lisa M. Crim, MD
Thomas R. Crock, MD
Anthony DiPaola, MD
John D. Farrell Jr., MD
Eduardo Fox, MD
Linda A. Friehling, MD
Mary G. Garrett, MD
Frank J. Giancola, MD
William D. Goldman, MD
Diane Halpin, MD
Stephen Harrison, MD
Martha W. Hogan, MD
Michael J. Hopper, MD
Evan B. Karp, MD
Nancy C. Kim, MD
Russell C. Libby, MD
Catherine A. Lischwe, MD
Michael Martin, MD
Lynne D. Myers, MD
Kathleen O. Parente, MD
Bruce W. Pfeffer, MD
Christopher N. Rossbach, MD
Vojislava C. Russo, MD
Richard H. Schwartz, MD
Paul E. Schweisthal, MD
Hope Scott, MD
Thomas J. Sullivan, MD
Richard E. Trabert, MD
Elizabeth H. Watts, MD
Debra A. Zeh, MD

Plastic Surgery
Haven J. Barlow Jr., MD
George J. Bitar, MD
Barry J. Cohen, MD
Gloria Duda, MD
Craig R. Dufresne, MD
Albert F. Fleury Jr., MD
James H. French, MD
Roberta Gartside, MD
Andrew G. Goldberg, MD
Wendy R. Gottlieb, MD
Christopher L. Hess, MD
Martin A. Morse, MD
Talal A. Munasifi, MD
Anne M. Nickodem, MD
G. Wesley Price, MD
Adam G. Tattelbaum, MD
Khalique S. Zahir, MD

Psychiatry
Edward P. Curcio, MD
Thomas M. Fogarty, MD
Gordon M. Gondos, MD
Philip S. Greco, MD
Robert W. Johnson, MD
Bernard M. Snyder, MD
Susan B. Trachman, MD
Thomas N. Wise, MD

Pulmonology
George C. Bazaco, MD
Robert L. Bloom, MD
James E. Clayton, MD
John B. Cleary, MD
Vas Devan, MD
Barry S. Dicicco, MD
Maura P. Foley, MD
Robert D. Herscowitz, MD
Richard A. Hoffman, MD
Sunil A. Kapoor, MD
James P. Lamberti, MD
Eric A. Libre, MD
Thoman J. LoRusso, MD
Thomas A. McCabe, MD
John P. Osborn, MD
Douglas A. Rennert, MD
Marla L. Shuman, MD
Depak Soni, MD
Richard A. Swift, MD
Ellen C. Vaughey, MD
Roger B. Wigton, MD
Matthew D. Williams, MD

Radiation Therapy
Kin-Sing Au, MD
Gopal K. Bajaj, MD
Stephen Banks, MD
Susan E. Boylan, MD
Jane Grayson, MD
Anu Gupta, MD
Stella Hetelekidis, MD
Samir P. Kanani, MD
Susan M. Pierce, MD
Glenn L. Tonnesen, MD

Rehabilitation
Heidi K. Archer, MD
Ali G. Ganjei, MD
Roger V. Gisolfi, MD
Wan Shin, MD

Rheumatology
Bita Arabshahi, MD
Maria Chou, MD
Margaret Gradzka, MD
Philip W. Kempf, MD
Phong Q. Nguyen, MD
Kathleen N. Price, MD
Paul G. Rochmis, MD
Claudia Saba, MD
Neil I. Stahl, MD
Matthew O. Swartz, MD
M. Jack Wilkenfeld, MD

Thoracic Surgery
John R. Garrett, MD
Paul D. Kiernan, MD
John W. Rhee, MD
Alan M. Speir, MD

Urology
Robert A. Ball, MD
John J. Basile, MD
Michael E. Beall, MD
Simon Chung, MD
Anshu S. Guleria, MD
Michael Y. Han, MD
Michael R. Hardy, MD
Robert R. Hart, MD
John W. Klousia, MD
Nicholas G. Lailas, MD
Walter M. O’Brien, MD
Jeff J.S. Pan, MD
Todd B. Tescher, MD
Anthony R. Vara, MD

Vascular Surgery
Maseer A. Bade, MD
Sydney S. Guo, MD
Homayoun A. Hashemi, MD
Dipankar Mukherjee, MD
Robert S. Podolsky, MD
Alan M. Speir, MD

Inova Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern Virginia that consists of hospitals and other health services, including emergency- and urgent-care centers, home care, nursing homes, mental health and blood donor services, and wellness classes. Governed by a voluntary board of community members, Inova’s mission is to improve the health of the diverse community it serves through excellence in patient care, education and research. Inova provides a healthy environment for its patients, families, visitors, staff and physicians by prohibiting tobacco use on its campuses.