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
Vacant

Executive Officer
Daniel Lonnerdal, MS, FACHE

Chief Financial Officer
Maria D. Joyce, CPA, MBA

Administrative Management
Chief
Lula Russell, Acting

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 and Clinical Epidemiology Service
Chief
Paul Wakim, PhD

Clinical Research Informatics
Chief
Jon McKeeby, DSc

Clinical Research Training & Medical Education
Director,
Robert Lembo, MD, FAAP

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 & 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

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
General Manager
LT Jamillah Bynum,

Employee Ethics
Chief
Molly Deol

Financial Resource Management
Deputy
Daniel Rinehuls

Hospital Epidemiology Service
Chief
Tara N. Palmore, MD

Hospitality & Volunteer Services 
LT Jamillah Bynum, LCSW

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
Bernard Harper

Medical Records
Chief
Patricia Coffey, RHIA

Nursing
Chief Nurse Officer,
Gwenyth R. Wallen, PhD, RN

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
James Paterson, MS, RN, CNRN, Acting

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
Laura Lee, RN, MSc

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, Nuclear Medicine
Ronald D. Neumann, 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

Director, NIH Center for Interventional Oncology
Chief, Interventional Radiology Section
Bradford Wood, MD

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. Hudson 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
Michaela R. Smith, PT, M Ed

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

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

Transfusion Medicine
Chief
Cathy Conry-Cantilena, MD, Acting

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