Senior Staff and Departments

Head, Section on Ethics & Health Policy
Marion Danis, MD

Head, Unit on Vulnerable Populations
David S. Wendler, PhD, MA

Deputy Chief; Medical Director, Critical Care Therapy and Respiratory Care Section
Anthony F. Suffredini, MD

Senior Research Physician; Associate Chief; Director of Fellowship
Nitin Seam, MD

Tenure-Track Investigator; Head, Emerging Pathogens Section
Daniel S. Chertow, MD, MPH

Head, Functional Genomics Facility
Robert L. Danner, MD

Senior Investigator; Head, Critical Care Section; Head, Animal Physiology Lab
Peter Q. Eichacker, MD

Tenure-Track Investigator; Head, Pulmonary Vascular Biology Section; Co-Director, Translational Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Program; Assistant Director, 4D Lab
Jason M. Elinoff, MD

Attending Intensivist; Associate Research Physician; Head, Clinical Epidemiology Section
Sameer S. Kadri, MD, MS

Senior Investigator; Head, AIDS Section; Head, Scientific Director, 4D Lab
Joseph Kovacs, MD

Staff Clinician; Head, Medical Education and Global Critical Care
Burton W. Lee, MD

Head, Anesthesia Section
Charles Natanson, MD

Staff Clinician; Head, Cardiology Section; Co-Director, Translational Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Program
Michael A. Solomon, MD

Tenure-Track Investigator; Head, Code Blue Team and Rapid Response Team; Head, Basic and Translational Immunology Section
Parizad Torabi-Parizi, MD

Chief, Clinical Chemistry Service
David B. Sacks, MB ChB, FACP, FRCPath

Chief, Hematology Service
Raul Braylan, MD

Director, Genomics Section, Microbiology Service
John P. Dekker, MD, PhD, FCAP

Deputy Chief Nurse, Research & Practice Development
Gwenyth R. Wallen, PhD, RN

Nursing Service Chief, Medical Surgical Specialties
Ann Marie Matlock, RN, MSN, NE-BC

Nursing Service Chief, Neuroscience, Behavioral Health & Pediatrics
Julieanne George, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CNML, CCRN-K, PCCN-K

Nursing Service Chief, Nursing Operation
Jennifer Kramer, MSN, RN, NEA-BC

Nursing Service Chief, Oncology and Critical Care
Deborah Kolakowski, RN, MSN

Chief, Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care
Zena Quezado, MD

Associate Director for Clinical Services
Elizabeth Jones, MD

Chief, Laboratory of Diagnostic Radiology Research
Director, Imaging Sciences Training Program
Joseph A. Frank, MD, MS

Chief, Clinical Imaging Processing Services
Ronald Summers, MD, PhD

Acting Chief, Nuclear Medicine
Clara Chen, MD

Director, NIH Center for Interventional Oncology
Chief, Interventional Radiology Section
Bradford Wood, MD

Chief, Functional & Applied Biomechanics Section
Diane L. Damiano, PhD, PT

Director, Rehabilitation Medicine Consult Service
Galen Joe, MD

Chief, Occupational Therapy Section
Bonnie C. Hodsdon OTR/L

Chief, Speech Language Pathology Section
Adam M. Politis, M.S., CCC-SLP

Chief, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Section
Elizabeth K. Rasch, PhD, PT

Chief, Recreational Therapy Section
Donna L. Gregory, PhD, MBA, CTRS

Chief, Physical Therapy Section
Michaele R. Smith, PT, M Ed

Chief, Blood Services Section
Kamille West, MD

Chief, Cell Processing Station
David. F. Stroncek, MD

Distinguished NIH Investigator
Harvey Alter, MD

Chief, Laboratory Services Section
Willy A. Flegel, MD

Medical Director, Center for Cellular Engineering
Sandhya R. Panch, MD, MPH