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
• Juan Vilaro, MD
  Advanced Heart Failure Cardiology

Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Coordinators

• Kim Bain, ARNP
  Ventricular Assist Device Coordinator
• Suzanne Holder, ARNP, MSN, AGPCNP-BC
• Laureen Meece, ARNP
• Tracy McGinn, ARNP, MN, ACNP-BC, CCTC
• Shannon McKaig, ARNP, MSN, FNP-BC
• Catarrhine Keller-Warner, ARNP
• Yu (Janet) Wu, ARNP, ACNP

Heart Failure Assistants

• Mary Adams
• Venus Chery

VAD Assistant

• Kim Feezell
• Deepal Shah

Heart Transplant Coordinators

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

Heart Transplant Assistants

• Christine Carr-Freidin
• Lydia Torres-Miller

Pre-Transplant Assistants

• Vickie Connell
• Phyllis Mitchell
• Pan Tilley-Hewlett
• Michaela Wiley

Post-Transplant Assisants 

• Viva Brown
• Edward Harley
• Kathy Henderson
• Latasha William

Donor Coordinators

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

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons

• George Arnaoutakis, MD
• Eric I. Jeng, M.D.

Social Worker

• Inéz Rios, MSW
• Jennifer Zeidman, MSW

Pharmacist

• Tara Veasey, PharmD