Meet Our Providers

Your heart. Our promise. Carient Heart and Vascular continues to improve the wellbeing of our patients in Northern Virginia for over 20 years. Our patients are the reason we exist and the reason we strive to do our best work every day.

All Carient Heart and Vascular physicians are board certified and have privileges at Inova Fairfax hospital as well as Novant Prince William hospital, Sentara in Woodbridge and Lifepoint Hospital.

We also have a strong team of exceptional physician assistants and nurse practitioners in our group. All of our providers continue to train in subspecialties within Interventional Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Clinical Research, Vascular Disease and Cardio oncology. We are experts across all specialty areas, leaders in advanced research, and we are here to address all of your cardiovascular needs.

Our Physicians

Khalid Abousy, MD, FACC

Adeeb Aghdassi, MD, FACC

Aysha Arshad, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA

Rabia Arshad, MD, FACC

Behdad Aryavand, MD, FSVS, FACS, RPVI

Hooman Bakhshi, MD, FACC

Keith Chu, MD, FACC

Merdod Ghafouri, DO, FACC

Ashkan Karimi, MD, RPVI, FACC

Joseph C. Lee, MD

Shahryar Mafi, MD, FACC

Vikram Prasanna, MD, FACC

Neel K. Shah, MD, RPVI, FACC

Balbir Sidhu, MD, FACC

Eugene K. Soh, MD, FACC

Robert Stenberg, MD, FACC

Hamid Taheri, MD, FACC

Shahram Yazdani, MD, FACC

Emma W. Adelman, MPAS, PA-C

Kathleen Dawood, DNP, FNP-C

Kristy Diffley, MSN, FNP-C

Lauren Dotterer, AGACNP-BC

Jessica Ghareeb, PA-C

Leslianne Grendysz, FNP-BC

Janelle Irizarry, NP-BC

Noel Johnson, PA-C, MPAS

Richelle McGettigan, PA-C

Denny Nguyen,
PA-C

Mitchell Silverman NP-C

Rachel "Madi" Simons, MMS, PA-C

Jawharah Tomawis, MSN, FNP-C

Vanessa Tran, PA-C