Meet the Team

Here is a list of the staff members that you may encounter during your advanced heart, VAD or heart transplant experience.

Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Physician Team

• Juan Aranda, Jr., MD
  Medical Director, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant
• Mustafa Ahmed, MD
  Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Anita Szady, MD
  Advanced Heart Failure Cardiology
• Juan Vilaro, MD
  Advanced Heart Failure Cardiology

Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Coordinators

• Kim Bain, ARNP
  Ventricular Assist Device Coordinator
• Shannon Bryant, MSN, ARNP
• Christina Archer, ARNP, AGNP-C
• D’Jenie “DJ” Helen, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC
• Suzanne Holder, ARNP, MSN, AGPCNP-BC
• Tracy McGinn, ARNP, MN, ACNP-BC, CCTC
• Shannon McKaig, ARNP, MSN, FNP-BC

Heart Failure Assistants

• Mary Adams
• Venus Chery
• Karen Faulkner

VAD Assistant

• Britt Baldwin
• Kim Feezell

Heart Transplant Coordinators

• Susan Learn, RN, MSN, CCTC
  Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program Manager
• Jami Mackintosh, BSN, RN
• Chuck McGinn, RN, BSN
• Renee Rogers ARNP, MSN, ANP-BC, CCTC
• Dana Rosenberger, BSN, RN

Heart Transplant Assistants

• Valarie Gregoire-Miller
• Lydia Torres-Miller

Donor Coordinators

• Jennifer Fredrick, RN
• Kim Sylvester, RN
• Teresa Edgington, RN

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons

• George Arnaoutakis, MD
• Thomas Beaver, MD, MPH
  Heart Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support

Social Worker

• Inéz Rios, MSW

Pharmacist

• Tara Veasey, PharmD