NIH Clinical Center Senior Staff

Chief Executive Officer
James K. Gilman, MD

Chief Operating Officer
Pius A. Aiyelawo, FACHE

Chief Scientific Officer
John I. Gallin, MD

Chief Medical Officer
Colleen Hadigan, MD, MPH

Chief Nurse Officer, Acting
Barbara A. Jordan, DNP, RN, NEA-BC

Executive Officer
Daniel Lonnerdal, MS, FACHE

Chief Financial Officer, Acting
Pius A. Aiyelawo, FACHE

Administrative Management
Chief, Acting
Dan Fogarty, FACHE

Animal Program
Chief
Lisa G. Portnoy, DVM

Bioethics
Chief & Head, Section on Human Subjects Research
Christine Grady, PhD, MSN

 Additional Bioethics Leadership

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

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

Biomedical Translational Research Informatics
Chief
Jon McKeeby, DSc, Acting

Biostatistics & Clinical Epidemiology Service
Chief
Paul Wakim, PhD

Blood & Immune Deficiency Cellular Therapy Program
Chief
Theresa Jerussi, PA-C

Chief Diversity Officer
Chief
Walter Jones, MHSA

Clinical Research Informatics
Chief
Jon McKeeby, DSc

Clinical Research Training & Medical Education
Director,
Thomas R. Burklow, MD, Acting

Communications & Media Relations & Patient Recruitment
Chief
Justin Cohen, MS, MA

Credentialing Services
Chief
Joseph Hendery, RHIA

Critical Care Medicine
Chief
Henry Masur, MD

 Additional Critical Care Medicine Leadership

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

Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge
Acting General Manager
Vivian Yang, MHA

Employee Ethics
Chief
Molly Deol

Executive Office
Chief
Daniel Lonnerdal, MS, FACHE

Financial Resource Management
Deputy
Daniel Rinehuls

Health Information Management Department
Chief
Patricia Coffey, RHIA

Hospital Administrative Support
Chief
David Saeger

Hospital Engineering & Facilities Services
Chief
Craig Rodgers

Hospital Epidemiology Service
Chief
Brooke K. Decker, MD

Hospitality & Volunteer Services 
Acting Chief
Vivian Yang, MHA

Internal Medicine Consult Service
Chief
Naomi P. O'Grady, MD

Laboratory Medicine
Chief
Karen M. Frank, PhD, MD, D(ABMM)

 Additional Laboratory Medicine Leadership

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

Management Analysis & Reporting
Chief
Vacant

Materials Management & Environmental Services
Chief
Tsehai Crockett-Lynn

Nursing
Chief Nurse Officer, Acting
Barbara A. Jordan, DNP, RN, NEA-BC

 Additional Nursing Leadership

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
Genevieve Mbamalu, RN, PhD

Nursing Service Chief, Nursing Operation
Barbara A. Jordan, DNP, RN, NEA-BC

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

Nutrition
Chief
Annie Cichocki, MS, MSS, RD, LD

Operations
Deputy Executive Officer
Ila Anita Flannigan, MHSA, FACHE

Pain & Palliative Care
Chief
Ann Berger, MD

Patient Representative
Antoinette Jones, MSOD, RN

Patient Safety & Clinical Quality
Chief
David M. Lang, MD, MPH

Patient Support Services
Chief
Karen Kaczorowski, RN, MHSA

Pediatric Service
Chief
Deborah P. Merke, MD, MS

Perioperative Medicine
Chief
Andrew Mannes, MD, ME, MBA

 Additional Perioperative Medicine Leadership

Chief, Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care
Zena Quezado, MD

Pharmacy
Chief
Richard DeCederfelt, RPh, MS, Acting

Positron Emission Tomography
Chief
Peter Herscovitch, MD

Protocol Services
Chief
Kim Mitchell, RHIA

Purchasing & Contracts
Chief
Susan Nsangou

Radiology & Imaging Sciences
Director
Elizabeth Jones, MD

 Additional Radiology & Imaging Sciences Leadership

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

Rehabilitation Medicine
Chief
Leighton Chan, MD, MPH

 Additional Rehabilitation Medicine Leadership

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

Research Support & Compliance
Chief
Virginia Guptil, PhD

Social Work
Chief
Kathleen M. Baxley, MHA, MBA, LIC SW, LCSW

Spiritual Care
Chief
John M. Pollack, MDiv., BCC

Transfusion Medicine
Chief
Barbara Jean Bryant, MD, FCAP, FASCP

 Additional Transfusion Medicine Leadership

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

Translational Behavioral & Health Disparities
Chief
Gwenyth R. Wallen, PhD, RN

Workforce Management & Development
Chief
Charlotte Pak