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

Adeeb Aghdassi, MD, FACC

Ashkan Karimi, MD, RPVI, FACC

Aysha Arshad, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA

Balbir Sidhu, MD, FACC

Behdad Aryavand, MD, FSVS, FACS, RPVI

Bianca Kenyon, MD, RPVI

Eugene K. Soh, MD, FACC

Hamid Taheri, MD, FACC

Jesse Chait, DO, RPVI

Joseph C. Lee, MD

Keith Chu, MD, FACC

Khalid Abousy, MD, FACC

Merdod Ghafouri, DO, FACC

Neel K. Shah, MD, RPVI, FACC

Rabia Arshad, MD, FACC

Robert Stenberg, MD, FACC

Shahram Yazdani, MD, FACC

Shahryar Mafi, MD, FACC

Vikram Prasanna, MD, FACC

Angie Arquette-Overman, PA-C

Chanda Powell, FNP-C

Denny Nguyen,
PA-C

Janelle Irizarry, NP-BC

Jawharah Tomawis, MSN, FNP-C

Jessica Ghareeb, PA-C

Kathleen Dawood, DNP, FNP-C

Kristy Diffley, MSN, FNP-C

Leslianne Grendysz, FNP-BC

Mitchell Silverman NP-C

Noel Johnson, PA-C, MPAS

Rachel "Madi" Simons, MMS, PA-C

Rebecca First, MSN, NP

Richelle McGettigan, PA-C

Vanessa Tran, PA-C