Dr. Joseph Lindsay completed his undergraduate education at Clemson University and received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine in 1958. He finished his internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Dr. Lindsay held several hospital and teaching appointments before becoming the Director, Section of Cardiology at the Washington Hospital Center in December 1981. Since 2000 he has also assumed additional responsibilities as Director of the Data Coordinating Center for the Cardiovascular Research Institute.

In 1983 Dr. Lindsay developed the Cardiovascular fellowship program at the Washington Hospital Center. He is actively involved in all facets of the program, and is acknowledged as a passionate teacher of clinical cardiology. Dr. Lindsay is also a recognized expert on diseases of the aorta and has published extensively on the subject. His other main research interest is measuring outcomes in interventional cardiology.

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Neil J. Weissman, MD, is Director of Cardiac Ultrasound and Ultrasound Core Laboratories at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Washington Hospital Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. Dr. Weissman received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He then completed his internship, residency, and chief residency in internal medicine at the New York Hospital in New York City. He followed his residency training with a clinical and research fellowship in cardiology and a fellowship in cardiac ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to moving to the Washington Hospital Center, he was the director of the clinical echo lab at Georgetown University. Dr. Weissman’s research interests include valvular heart disease, contrast echo, and intravascular imaging. His ultrasound core laboratory has served as a site for at least 30 multicenter trials, including multiple studies on pharmacologic effects of valvular and ventricular function, prosthetic valve assessments, and intracoronary therapies. Additionally, Dr. Weissman has served as principal investigator for numerous studies. Dr. Weissman has published hundreds of abstracts and original reports in such well-regarded journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Cardiology, American Heart Journal, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He also has written several review articles and book chapters.

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Stuart F. Seides, MD

Dr. Seides is the founder and president of Cardiology Associate, P.C., the largest full-service cardiovascular group practice in the Washington, DC area. The practice currently includes 23 physicians and seven nurse practitioners, encompassing all of the subspecialty areas of cardiology including coronary and peripheral vascular intervention, electrophysiology, ultrasound, nuclear imaging, preventative cardiology, cardiothoracic and peripheral vascular surgery, and an active clinical research program. The group maintains six clinical offices throughout the metropolitan area, as well as active affiliation with the region’s major cardiovascular centers. The group has co-founded the Mid-Atlantic Heart Network, an IPO of over 230 cardiologists in the tristate (MD, DC, VA) region.

Dr. Seides is Associate Director for Cardiology, Washington Heart at the Washington Hospital Center, Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University, and the current Board Chair of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. His clinical work is focused on consultative and interventional cardiology, with board certifications in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology. He received his medical degree at Cornell University in 1970, and did his post graduate training at Beth Israel Hospital-Harvard Medical School, the USPHS, Georgetown University, and the N.I.H.

Ron Waksman, MD

Dr. Ron Waksman is the Associate Director, Division of Cardiology, Washington Hospital Center and the Director of Experimental Angioplasty and Vascular Brachytherapy for the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. He is also a clinical professor of medicine in (cardiology) of Georgetown University. Dr. Waksman is an interventional cardiologist. He has been engaged in research in vascular brachytherapy since 1992 and has been developed the field of vascular brachytherapy for the prevention of restenosis in the last few years. He has been conducting extensive pre-clinical and clinical research in the field, involved in developing systems and consultant to companies to design devices for this technology. He is a member of the ACC and the Society for Cardio Angiography and Interventions. Dr. Waksman is the editor-in-chief of the Cardiovascular Radiation Medicine Journal. He is an editor of three books in the field and has more than 50 peer review manuscripts published in professional journals. Dr. Waksman graduated from the Ben Gurion University in Israel, underwent residency in medicine and cardiology at Hadassah University in Jerusalem, Israel, and at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA. He joined the WHC in September 1996 and founded the Vascular Brachytherapy Institute which facilitates both pre-clinical and clinical research and investigation in the field of vascular brachytherapy.

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Elmo R. Acio, MD

Currently, Dr. Acio is the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the Washington Hospital Center. He has participated in several multicenter trials involving cardiac imaging. Dr. Acio was awarded the “Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award” by the cardiology fellows in June 2000.

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Howard Cooper, MD

Dr. Howard Cooper attended medical school at Duke University and completed his medical residency at Duke University Medical Center. His then pursued a cardiology and clinical trials fellowship in a combined program with Georgetown University Medical Center and the Clinical Trials Group of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. His first faculty position was at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he was also a member of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) research group under the direction of Dr. Eugene Braunwald. He joined the cardiology faculty at the Washington Hospital Center in 2002.

Dr. Cooper’s primary clinical interest is in critical care cardiology, and he is one of three full-time attendings in the Coronary Care Unit. He also is a member of the echocardiography staff, with expertise in transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress echocardiography. Dr. Cooper has a substantial interest in the design and conduct of large-scale clinical trials, particularly with regard to acute coronary syndromes. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of two large-scale, NIH-sponsored clinical trials, and is developing a trial of red cell transfusion in acute MI patients to be conducted in the CCU. Dr. Cooper also helped develop a comprehensive database for patients admitted to the CCU, which began data collection in October, 2002.

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Stephen E. Epstein, MD

Stephen E. Epstein, MD was Chief of the Cardiology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, for over 30 years. In January 1998, he became Director of Vascular Biology Research, Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), Washington Hospital Center. In October of 1999, Dr. Epstein was appointed its Executive Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CRI) at the Washington Hospital Center.

During his long career, Dr. Epstein has been involved in the care of cardiac patients and in the study of the cardiovascular system. His research interests have included investigation of coronary, valvular, and myocardial disease. In recent years his efforts have been directed at understanding and treating cardiovascular disease on the molecular level. His studies have led him and his colleagues to develop gene therapy strategies for the prevention of restenosis, to develop and test approaches that enhance collateral flow to ischemic myocardium and ischemic legs (angiogenesis), and to study the potential role of infection in atherosclerosis and in restenosis following angioplasty. Dr. Epstein is a recognized international authority on angiogenesis and the role of infection on atherosclerosis.

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Anthony Fuisz, MD

Dr. Tony Fuisz has a B.S. degree in Physics from Georgetown University, and an MD degree from Georgetown Medical School. He completed his residency at OHSU in Portland OR, and cardiology fellowship at UAB. While there, he received training in cardiac MRI through an NIH research service award. After finishing fellowship, he became an assistant professor in the department of cardiology at UAB, and the clinical director of Cardiac MRI. Dr. Fuisz is now the director of Cardiac MRI at Washington Hospital Center.

MRI perfusion imaging, Coronary MR angiography, Cardiac MRI training and expanding applications for Cardiac MRI.

Steven A. Goldstein, MD

Steven A. Goldstein, MD joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1978. He completed his undergraduate education at Vanderbilt University in 1966 and received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, in 1970. Dr. Goldstein finished his internship and residency in 1976 at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in Cleveland, OH, and then completed a fellowship in Cardiology in 1978 at St. Georges Hospital, London, and Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC. He served as the assistant director of the Non-Invasive Laboratory at the Washington Hospital Center from 1978 – 1980, since 1980 he has been the director.

Dr. Goldstein is a leader in the field of echocardiography and has published extensively on the subject. His research interests include utility of transesophageal echocardiography in guiding procedures in the catheterization laboratory, including balloon mitral valvuloplasty, alcohol ablation of the septum in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and device closure of ASD and PFO. He also has an ongoing interest in diseases of the aorta.

John R. Laird, MD, FACC, FACP

John R. Laird, joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1996. He completed his undergraduate education at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1980 and received his medical degree from Albany Medical College, Albany, NY in 1984. Dr. Laird finished his internship and residency in 1987 at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA and then completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology in 1990 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He served as the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Director of Interventional Cardiology at Walter Reed from 1991 to 1996. In addition, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Currently, Dr. Laird is the Director of Peripheral Vascular Interventions at the Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Co-Director of the Center for Vascular Care at the Washington Hospital Center. He is a leader in the field of peripheral vascular intervention and has published extensively on the subject. His research interests include new stents for peripheral vascular applications, laser recanalization of long femoral occlusions, radiation therapy for the prevention of restenosis, stent-grafts for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms, gene therapy/therapeutic angiogenesis, and carotid artery intervention.

Thippeswamy Murthy, MD

Thippeswamy H. Murthy MD, graduated in 1990 from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. He obtained his medical degree from Duke University in 1994. Dr. Murthy completed his medical training, including his cardiology fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. From 1999 – 2000 while at Michigan he completed a Fellowship in Echocardiography, Level III.

Dr. Murthy joined the cardiology faculty at the Washington Hospital Center in 2001 as Associate Director of Stress Echocardiography. In October of 2002 he was appointed the Director of Stress Echocardiography. His current research interests include myocardial contrast echocardiography and valvular heart disease.

Susan O'Donoghue, MD

Susan O'Donoghue joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1988. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Connecticut in 1977 and received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1981. Dr. O’Donoghue finished her internship and residency in 1984 at Emory University Hospitals, Atlanta, Georgia (Chief: J. Willis Hurst, MD). She obtained her cardiology fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine and Washington Hospital Center, completing her studies in 1987. Dr. O’Donoghue obtained her fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the Washington Hospital Center under Dr. Edward V. Platia in 1988.

Currently, Dr. O’Donoghue is the Associate Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine. She has published several articles and book chapters in her field. Her research experience includes a 1988 Research Fellowship Award from the American Heart Association, D.C Affiliate for "Clinical Application of Monopha­sic Action Potential Recording ", and participating in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial as a Co-Investigator. Current clinical and research interests include device therapy for arrhythmias, the relationship between estrogen and arrhythmias, and neurocardiogenic syncope and autonomic dysfunction.

Julio Panza, MD

Julio A. Panza joined the Washington Hospital Center in 2001. He received his medical degree from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, in 1981. Dr. Panza finished his internship and residency in 1986 at the Italian Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then completed a Clinical Research Fellowship in the Cardiology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Washington, DC. He then served NIH as a Senior Staff Fellow and Clinical Investigator. From 1990 until 2001 Dr. Panza was the Director of Echocardiography at the NIH, from 1997-2001 he was also a Senior Investigator and Head, Section on Echocardiography.

Currently, Dr. Panza is the Director, Coronary Care Unit at the Washington Hospital Center. He is a leader in the field of endothelial dysfunction and has published extensively on the subject, including co-editing the book Endothelium, Nitric Oxide, and Atherosclerosis. Dr. Panza has an extensive background as a researcher; he was a principal investigator on multiple investigations while at the NIH.

Augusto D. Pichard, MD

Augusto Pichard, MD joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1983 as the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. He completed his undergraduate and medical education at the Catholic University of Chile, where he also finished his medical residency. Dr. Pichard completed his fellowship in Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic in 1972. Upon completion of a Special Fellowship in Cardiology at the Clinic in 1973, he remained for another three years as a practicing cardiologist. In 1975 Dr. Pichard moved to Mt. Sinai School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and also as the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory of Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Under Dr. Pichard’s leadership, the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Washington Hospital Center has moved from a small volume center to one of the largest interventional facilities in the country. He is an acknowledged leader in the field of interventional cardiology, and has contributed to hundreds of publications and textbooks in the field. He is an active participant at all the major cardiac meetings, including the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Meeting, and the Paris Course.

Edward V. Platia, MD

Dr. Edward V. Platia was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from Easton (PA) High School in 1968, graduating first in his class of 600. He attended Lafayette College, majoring in chemical engineering, and graduated in 1972, first in his engineering class. He attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and received his MD in 1976. He served his internship and junior assistant residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following his senior assistant residency at the Stanford University Hospital, he returned to Johns Hopkins for cardiology fellowship. During his cardiology fellowship, his research concentrated in cardiac arrhythmias, both clinical as well as animal models. He worked with Dr. Michel Mirowski, the inventor of the automatic implantable defibrillator, and was involved with the first human implant in 1980. From 1981 through 1985, he was on the Johns Hopkins full-time faculty, as assistant professor of medicine, and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory. In 1985, he moved to Washington, D.C. and became Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at the Washington Hospital Center and Professor of Medicine.

His research interests have focused on cardiac arrhythmias, with nearly all of his publications, including the textbook Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias (J.B. Lippincott), concentrated in this area. He has been principal investigator of a number of major grants, including the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health. He has served on the editorial board of a number of cardiology journals, and continues to be a reviewer for the major cardiology journals, including Circulation, American Journal of Cardiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, and PACE.

Lowell F. Satler, MD

Dr. Lowell Salter is a graduate of the six-year biomedical program at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College. He subsequently completed a medical residency at Albany Medical College and a cardiology fellowship at the University of Alabama. He then pursued a career in academic cardiology, joining the Georgetown faculty in 1983. In 1990, he developed staff privileges at the Washington Hospital Center and since has been well renowned in the application of new coronary device developments in interventional cardiology.

His area of interest is both complex coronary disease, high risk intervention and acute myocardial infarction coronary intervention, participating as the principal investigator in multiple clinical trials. His additional areas of expertise also include carotid artery stenting. He has developed web based software allowing transmission of digital CDs through the web, increasing tele-cardiology capabilities for the evaluation of patients.

Pamela Sears-Rogan, MD

Pamela Sears-Rogan MD, joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1991. She completed her undergraduate education at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA in 1977 and received her medical degree from Tufts University Medical School, Boston, MA in 1981. Dr. Sears-Rogan finished her internship and residency in 1984 at the Washington Hospital Center and then completed a cardiology fellowship in 1987 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. From 1987 until 1990 Dr. Sears-Rogan was the Director, Echocardiography Laboratory at Georgetown University Hospital. She served there an additional year as the Director of Clinical Echocardiography.

Since 1991 Dr. Sears-Rogan has been the Director of Echocardiography at the Washington Hospital Center. She is a recognized expert in the field of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. Her research interests include examining the role and utility of intraoperative echocardiography in planning operative strategy for patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, antithrombotic therapy in patients with unexplained cerebral ischemia, and the intraoperative evaluation of mitral valve repair surgery using transesophageal echocardiography.

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S. Adam Strickberger, MD

Adam Strickberger MD, is the Director of the Arrhythmia Center. He graduated from Penn State in 1983. His medical school education and internal medicine residency were completed at Johns Hopkins. Cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology training were completed at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1992. Adam joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1992, and left in 2002 when he joined the faculty here at the Washington Hospital Center. He has published widely in areas related to defibrillators, defibrillation, ablation, and mechanisms of arrhythmias.

The areas of arrhythmia research include issues relating to defibrillators, defibrillation, bi-ventricular pacing, ablation, and mechanisms of arrhythmias.

Zuyue Wang, MD

Zuyue Wang joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1997. She received her medical degree from Shanghai Medical University in Shanghai, Chine, in 1985. Dr. Wang finished her residency and cardiology fellowship in 1989 at the Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical University. She also completed a medical residency and cardiology fellowship at the Washington Hospital Center in 2000.

Currently, Dr. Wang is an attending physician for the Department of Cardiology at the Washington Hospital Center. She is one of three full-time attendings who rotate coverage of the critical care unit. Dr. Wang has been involved in teaching residents and medical students since 1985, and she is currently a faculty member for resident and fellow training at the Washington Hospital Center. Her research interests include echocardiography, including evaluation of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and hemodynamic assessment with contrast echocardiography.

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Susan K. Bennett, MD

Susan K. Bennett joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1997. She completed her undergraduate education at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1982 and received her medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1988. Dr. Bennett finished her internship and residency in 1991 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and then completed a cardiology fellowship in 1994 at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore. MD.

Currently, Dr. Bennett is a practicing cardiologist as well as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology, Georgetown University Medical Center. She has a special interest in echocardiography and is widely recognized for her work on women and heart disease.

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Brian Carlos, MD

Brian D. Carlos joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1997. He completed his undergraduate education at Kent State in Ohio in 1986 and received his medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio in 1990. Dr. Carlos finished his internship and residency in 1994 at Akron General Medical Center in Akron, OH and then completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases in 1997 at the Washington Hospital Center.

Currently, Dr. Carlos is a clinical cardiologist for the Washington Regional Cardiac Surgery PC, specializing in management of the patient with severe congestive heart failure. Dr. Carlos has always been active in teaching, beginning as a Clinical Teaching Assistant in 1992 and an Associate Clinical Instructor for two years in 1994. During this period Dr. Carlos was named the Resident Teacher of the Year at the Akron General Medical Center. His current research interests include pharmacologic and device treatment for CHF.

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Richard H. Cooke, MD

Richard H. Cooke joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1990. He received his medical degree from Victoria University in Manchester, England, in 1980. Dr. Cooke completed an internship and residency in 1982 in England, and then finished an internship and residency in Internal Medicine in 1985 at Georgetown University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Washington, DC. He completed a fellowship in Hypertension and Cardiology Research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in 1986, a Cardiology Fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital in 1988, and an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Georgetown in 1989.

Currently, Dr. Cooke is a Clinical Cardiologist for the Washington Regional Cardiac Surgery PC, specializing in management of the patient with severe Congestive Heart Failure. He is also the Medical Director for Cardiac Transplantation at the Washington Hospital Center as well as Chair of the Heart Transplant Core Committee. Dr. Cooke has experience with the care of patients undergoing the Dor procedure and high risk mitral valve repair His current research interests include drug (A-Heft) and device (Acorn) treatment for CHF. He is also involved with Lionheart, a totally implantable pulsatile LVAD. He is a co-investigator of a Washington Hospital Center study looking at BNP and LV function in chemotherapy patients.

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Andrew Farb, MD

Andrew Farb completed his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, in 1979 and received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College, NY, in 1983. Dr. Farb finished his internship and residency in 1986 at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and then completed a residency in pathology in 1987 at the same institution. He finished his cardiology fellowship at Cornell in 1989, and then completed a one-year fellowship in cardiac pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC.

Currently Dr. Farb is a staff cardiologist and cardiovascular pathologist for the Department of Cardiovascular Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Pathology at Georgetown University. Dr. Farb is an Invited Lecturer and Moderator at the continuing Cardiac Pathology Conferences held at Walter Reed Medical Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, the Washington Hospital Center, and the Washington Veterans Medical Center. He is a leader in the field of cardiac pathology and has published extensively on the subject. Dr. Farb’s research interests include sudden coronary death, mechanical interventions for the treatment of atherosclerosis, and sudden cardiac death.

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Kenneth M. Kent, MD, Ph.D

Kenneth M. Kent joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1990. He completed his undergraduate education at the Emory University in 1964 and received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine in 1965. Dr. Kent finished his PhD in Physiology at Emory in 1970. While completing his PhD Dr. Kent was an intern at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He finished his residency in 1969 at Emory and then became a Clinical Associate at the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, MD. He served as a Senior Investigator, Cardiology Branch, National Heart and Lung Institutes from 1972 to 1975. Dr. Kent was the Head, Section on Experimental Physiology and Pharmacology, Cardiology Branch at the NHLBI from 1975 to 1976. He was also the Head, Section on Cardiovascular Diagnosis at the NHLBI from 1976 to 1981. Dr. Kent became a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University in 1981, and in 1983 became the Director of the Catheterization Laboratory at Georgetown.

Currently, Dr. Kent is a Director, Washington Cardiology Center, as well as the Director, Cardiac Services, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital. He is a leader in the field of interventional cardiology and cardiac physiology and has published extensively on these subjects. His research interests include all aspects of interventional cardiology. He was a Principle Investigator for the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI), and is a Principle Investigator for BARI 2D, a multicenter randomized trial designed to determine the best treatment strategy for Type 2 diabetic patients with stable CAD.

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Benjamin I. Lee, MD, FACC, FACP

Benjamin I. Lee, joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1987. He completed his undergraduate education at New York University in 1973 and received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1977. Dr. Lee finished his internship and residency in 1980 at Georgetown University Hospital and then completed a cardiovascular fellowship 1983 at Barnes and Wohl Hospitals, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. During his fellowship he was also a research instructor in medicine at the university.

Currently, Dr. Lee is a practicing cardiologist as well as the Director of Pharmacologic Trials for the Cardiovascular Research Institute. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at both Georgetown and George Washington University Hospital.

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Kenneth M. Lee, MD

Kenneth Lee joined the Washington Hospital Center in 1990. He completed his undergraduate education at Duke University 1974 and received his medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, in 1979. Dr. Lee finished his internship in 1980 at Portsmouth Naval Regional Medical Center and his residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, in 1984. From 1976 until 1986 Dr. Lee served in the United States Navy Medical Corps, including a tour of duty in Okinawa, Japan, and in The White House as Internist to President Ronald Reagan.