Meet the Team

John T. Berger, MD

• Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
• Director, Cardiac ECMO

Gabriel Aaron Bredin, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Hannah Ruth Daughtrey, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Shriprasad R. Deshpande, MD

• Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Therapies and Heart Transplant Program

Yuliya Domnina, MD

• Medical Director, Quality and Safety for the ICUs
• Medical Director, CICU
• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Craig Alan Futterman, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Alejandro Jose Lopez-Magallon, MD

• Medical Director, Telemedicine
• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Kathy Sofia Mendieta, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Ricardo Alfonso Munoz, MD

• Division Chief, Cardiac Critical Care Medicine
• Executive Director, Telemedicine
• Co-Director, Children's National Heart Center

Bao Nguyen Puente, MD

• Director, Cardiac Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Melissa Iris Yildirim, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Gregory Kitley Yurasek, MD

• Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Laura Hashiguchi, RD, LD, CSP

• Lead Inpatient Dietitian, Expert

Lucy Burrell, BSN, RSN, CCRN

Lauren Theresa Daniel, NP

• Nurse Practitioner

Colleen Marie Iler, NP, CNS

• Nurse Practitioner

Melissa Beaudet Jones, NP

• Director, Neurocardiac Critical Care
• Nurse Practitioner

Christine Marie Riley, NP, CPNP-AC

• Team Lead, Advanced Practice Providers
• Dialysis Nurse Practitioner

Jennifer Ryann Rowe, NP

• Nurse Practitioner

Holly Velez, DNP

• Nurse Practitioner

Sarah Louise Wilson, NP, DNP

• Nurse Practitioner

Justine Fortkiewicz

• Professional Practice Specialist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Martha Goldberg

• Clinical Instructor, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Cara Pleau

• Clinical Instructor, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit