Asghar Fakhri is a Cardiologist in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Dr. Fakhri is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Atrial Fibrillation, Pulmonary Edema, Heart Failure, and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF).

Paul Young is a Cardiologist in Glen Burnie,, Maryland. Dr. Young is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Atrial Fibrillation, Familial Neurocardiogenic Syncope, and Apoplexy.

Ratnakar Mukherjee is an Interventional Cardiologist in Glen Burnie,, Maryland. Dr. Mukherjee is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Arterial Embolism, Apoplexy, Pacemaker Implantation, and Endoscopy.

Jorge Ramirez is a Cardiologist in Glen Burnie,, Maryland. Dr. Ramirez is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Sitosterolemia, Atherosclerosis, Coronary Heart Disease, and Atrial Fibrillation.

Hariharan Regunath is a Cardiologist and an Infectious Disease provider in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Dr. Regunath is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, Sepsis, Infective Endocarditis, Thrombectomy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Regunath is currently accepting new patients.

Mohan Amlani is an Infectious Disease provider in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Dr. Amlani is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Sepsis, Myelitis, AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Amlani is currently accepting new patients.

Jeffrey Atkinson is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Pasadena, Maryland. Dr. Atkinson is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism, Hypertension, Familial Hypertension, and High Cholesterol. Dr. Atkinson is currently accepting new patients.

John Baddley is an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Baddley is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Cryptococcosis, Shingles, Sepsis, and Febrile Neutropenia.

Dr. Katherine Wu is a general cardiologist for the Heart and Vascular Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine with an interest in caring for patients with cardiomyopathies, coronary artery disease, and valvular heart disease as well as those interested in cardiovascular prevention. She has additional expertise in non-invasive cardiology imaging techniques. Dr. Wu received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Health System School of Medicine, and completed her residency and a cardiology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the School of Medicine faculty in 2000. Dr. Wu's research interests include improving individualized risk prediction for sudden cardiac death and heart failure by developing and validating methods that incorporate novel cardiac imaging indices. Her lab is funded by the NIH/NHLBI. Dr. Wu has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging and is a standing member of the NIH Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences Study Section. Dr. Wu is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. Her top areas of expertise are Cardiomyopathy, Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Attack, and Pulmonary Hypertension.

Dr. Ghoreishi is an internationally recognized expert. He brings exceptional skill in open and endovascular aortic repair, including aortic valve repair, Ross operation, valve sparing aortic root repair, innovation in minimally invasive techniques for aortic aneurysm repair, endovascular repair of high risk patients with acute type A or type B aortic dissection, and first-in-human procedures such as the Endo-Bentall repair for aortic dissection. His clinical leadership and innovation have drawn national and international referrals and advanced standards of care in this challenging field. Dr. Ghoreishi has served as Principal Investigator on several federally funded studies through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and is a frequent contributor to national guidelines and surgical education symposia. Dr. Ghoreishi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Aortic Dissection, Cystic Medial Necrosis of Aorta, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Embolectomy, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Thorsten Leucker is a Cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Leucker is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Apoplexy, Heart Attack, Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), and Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).

Chetan Pasrija, M.D. is a cardiothoracic surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Pasrija specializes in heart and lung transplantation, aortic surgery, and the surgical treatment of ischemic heart disease. He also has a particular interest in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. He has published extensively on the topics of heart and lung transplant, massive pulmonary embolism, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, and minimally invasive left ventricular assist device implantation. As a trainee, Dr. Pasrija was heavily involved with the surgical implantation and postoperative management of the first cardiac xenotransplant performed in the world at the University of Maryland. During his time as faculty at Vanderbilt University, he was a part of one of the largest heart and lung transplant programs in the United States. This included significant involvement with cutting-edge technologies to expand the donor pool, including normothermic regional perfusion and the Transmedics Organ Care System. Dr. Pasrija was co-surgeon in a combined heart-lung transplant with a groundbreaking 9.5 hour period of time without any blood flow using a novel 10⁰C cooler. He has also performed heart transplants with travel as far as Puerto Rico. Outside of transplantation, Dr. Pasrija is a high-volume cardiac surgeon, with an interest in complex open and endovascular aortic surgery. He performed the first ascending stent in the state of Tennessee, as well as the first total arch replacement without cooling the patient’s body in Tennessee using the Thoraflex device. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Bioengineering at the University of Maryland and his Medical Degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed an Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery residency at the University of Maryland. During his training, he spent time at Vanderbilt University to learn advanced heart failure techniques as well as time at the University of Toronto to learn advanced lung transplant and pulmonary thromboendartectomy techniques. Additionally, he has a Masters in Clinical Research from the University of Maryland. Outside of his clinical interests, Dr. Pasrija is an accomplished investigator. During his post-doctoral research fellowship, he received a competitive American Heart Association post-doctoral fellowship award in addition to institutional awards for excellence in research. His research efforts focus on improving donor preservation with novel perfusion and temperature techniques, improving donor evaluation methods, and establishing novel immunologic therapies for transplant tolerance. Dr. Pasrija is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Aortic Dissection, Embolectomy, and Heart Transplant.

Dr. Cingolani is an Associate Professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. He earned his medical degree from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and completed his Internship and Internal Medicine Residency at CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and hypertension research post-doctoral fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. After completing his Internal Medicine Residency at The Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania, Dr. Cingolani joined The Johns Hopkins Hospital as a Cardiology fellow, where he remained in the Faculty after his training. Currently, he is the Associate Director of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Coronary Care Unit, Director of the Hypertension Center and member of the Echocardiography Lab and Outpatient Cardiology Clinic. He also teaches pathophysiology to medical students. Dr. Cingolani’s research interests focus on hypertensive heart disease and its transition to heart failure. He aims to elucidate the mechanism/s by which certain matricellular proteins present in the heart seem to play a protective role. His research is mainly supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH). He is also the principal investigator of the DREAM study group, studying the effect of Melatonin in preventing atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Dr. Cingolani has been recognized by the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association for his work in hypertension and is the 2011 recipient of the PJ Schafer Memorial Heart Research Award, the 2012 Michel Mirowski Discovery Fund Award, and 2013 Magic that matters Fund. Dr. Cingolani is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT), Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT), Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia, Cardiac Ablation, and Tissue Biopsy.

Rani Hasan is an Interventional Cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hasan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Apoplexy, Heart Attack, Aortic Valve Replacement, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Dr. Moon’s area of clinical expertise is infectious diseases. She earned her M.D. at the Ross University School of Medicine. Dr. Moon completed her residency at Allegheny General Hospital and performed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Moon is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. Her top areas of expertise are Hepatitis C, Hepatitis, Osteomyelitis, and HIV/AIDS.

Jelani Grant is a Cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Grant is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Heart Failure, Atherosclerosis, Aortic Valve Replacement, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Lena Mathews specializes in general cardiology and echocardiography. She received her medical degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed fellowships in cardiology and echocardiography at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Mathews is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. Her top areas of expertise are Apoplexy, Heart Attack, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), and Atherosclerosis.

Dr. Damani Piggott is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the inaugural Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships and Director of the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of clinical expertise include HIV and infectious diseases. Dr. Piggott has worked on clinical and research projects in urban and rural communities in the United States, the Caribbean, West Africa and South Africa. His research centers on understanding the biological, epidemiologic and social determinant pathways necessary to improve survival and quality of life for persons aging with HIV, with particular focus on the investigation of frailty and other aging phenotypes. Dr. Piggott serves as Co-Director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases RISE Fellowship Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is a founding member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Piggott received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in Immunology from Yale University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital and fellowship training in infectious diseases and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. Selected Publications Piggott DA, Bandeen-Roche K, Mehta SH, Brown TT, Yang H, Walston JD, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty Transitions, Inflammation and Mortality among Persons Aging with HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use. AIDS 2020; 34: 1217-25 Piggott DA, Muzaale AD, Mehta SH, Brown TT, Patel KV, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty, HIV Infection, and Mortality in an Aging Cohort of Injection Drug Users. PLoS ONE 2013; 8: e54910 Piggott DA, Muzaale AD, Varadhan RD, Mehta SH, Westergaard RP, Brown TT, Patel KV, Walston JD, Leng SX, Kirk GD. Frailty and Cause-Specific Hospitalization among Persons Aging with HIV Infection and Injection Drug Use. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2017; 72: 389-94 Piggott DA, Tuddenham S. The Gut Microbiome and Frailty. Transl Res 2020; S1931-5244(20)30062-1 Macias Gil R, Marcelin JR, Zuniga-Blanco B, Marquez C, Mathew T, Piggott DA. COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparate Health Impact on the Hispanic/Latinx Population in the United States. J Infect Dis 2020; 222: 1592-5. Dr. Piggott is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, Hepatitis C, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

Dr. Allison Hays is a general cardiologist and Medical Director of Echocardiography Programs at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is also an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Hays graduated from Stanford University with degrees in biology and English. She received her medical training at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and did her residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia. Dr. Hays pursued cardiology fellowships at New York University Medical Center and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Hays studies ways to use noninvasive imaging to detect cardiovascular disease. She has advanced multimodality imaging training from Johns Hopkins and attends in the Adult Echocardiography Lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In terms of research, she uses Cardiac MRI as a tool to study coronary and systemic endothelial function. Dr. Hays is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. Her top areas of expertise are Familial Ventricular Tachycardia, Cardiomyopathy, COVID-19, Heart Attack, and Tissue Biopsy.

Dr. Cosgrove is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease (ID) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the Director of Research for the ID Fellowship Program and PI of the T32 training grant that supports ID fellow training. She serves as the Director of the Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship and an Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Cosgrove’s research interests include the epidemiology and outcomes of antimicrobial resistance, the development of tools and programs to promote the rational use of antimicrobials, the prevention of hospital-acquired infections, and the epidemiology and management of S. aureus bacteremia. Early in her career, she recognized the critical need to study antimicrobial stewardship strategies and has led a series of outcomes studies over the past 20 years that have defined the practice of antimicrobial stewardship in the United States. Her recent research focuses on strategies for implementation of antimicrobial stewardship activities across all healthcare settings via a large, multi-center project including hospitals, long-term care facilities and ambulatory practices funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and approaches to improve how antibiotics are given via a randomized trial to compare intravenous and oral therapy for Gram negative bacteremia funded by PCORI. She is the PI of the Johns Hopkins Prevention Epicenter, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded program that integrates antimicrobial stewardship, healthcare epidemiology, human factors engineering, data science, and implementation science to address knowledge gaps and develop strategies to optimize patient safety by preventing transmission of pathogens and improving antibiotic use in diverse healthcare settings and patient populations. She is a past voting member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. She is a Past President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology’s Board of Directors. Dr. Cosgrove received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and her master of science degree in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her postgraduate training in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and underwent subsequent training in ID at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Cosgrove is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Endocarditis. Her top areas of expertise are Sepsis, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Pneumonia, and Pseudomonas Stutzeri Infections.