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Physician Biographies
Cullen Hardy, MD, FACC
Daniel Reese, MD
Frederic T. Farra, MD, FACC
Jason T. Call, MD, FACC
Jeffrey Skiles, MD
J. Dixon Brown, MD, FACC
Neal Gaither, MD
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Manish J. Lakhani, M.D.
Melanie D. Mattson, MD, FACC
Randolph Renzi, MD
Trisha B. Nashed, MD, FACC
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Cardiology
Frederic T. Farra, MD, FACC
Dr. Farra received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in 1972 and his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1977. He served his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland and Baltimore VA Hospitals from 1977-1980. His fellowship in cardiology was completed at the Milton Hershey Medical Center of Penn State University in 1982.
Dr. Farra joined Winchester Cardiology. in 1988 after being in private practice in Tennessee for six years. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. He specializes in invasive and noninvasive procedures including cardiac catheterization, balloon angioplasty and stenting, rotational atherectomy, pacemaker implantation, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology.
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Jason T. Call, MD, FACC
Dr. Call received his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and then went to Vanderbilt University where he obtained his doctorate of medicine. He completed his internship and residency at Duke and then went to Wake Forest for general and interventional cardiology training.
Dr. Call has obtained additional training in vascular medicine and is board certified in vascular medicine as well as endovascular therapy. He is also board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology and is a registered physician in vascular interpretation.
In addition to general cardiology and interventional cardiology, Dr. Call has a special interest in helping people who are suffering from a variety of vascular disorders such as Peripheral Vascular Disease, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, and Carotid Artery Disease.
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J. Dixon Brown, MD, FACC
Dr. Brown received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. He received his medical degree from Penn State at Hershey in 1979. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1984. He is a Fellow of The American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Brown has been practicing cardiology at Winchester Cardiology since 1984. He is currently board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology and nuclear cardiology.
Dr. Brown provides a wide range of cardiology services, including the implantation of both permanent and biventricular pacemakers for heart failure, as well as echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, nuclear stress testing, angioplasty, including cutting balloons and stents, diagnostic cardiac catheterization, rotablator and directional atherectomy procedures, intravascular ultrasound and pressure wire assessment of coronary physiology. In addition, he reads peripheral vascular ultrasound studies.
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Manish J. Lakhani, M.D.
Dr. Lakhani joined Winchester Cardiology in August of 2008 after completing his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY), Downstate Health Science Center in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to his cardiovascular medicine fellowship, he completed a Research Fellowship at SUNY and worked as a Hospitalist at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Dr. Lakhani completed his Internal Medicine Residency at New York Medical College in Queens, New York. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) at B.J. Medical College in Ahmedabad, India.
Dr. Lakhani is board certified in Internal Medicine, Level II Cardiac CT and Echocardiography. He is board eligible for Cardiovascular Disease.
Dr. Lakhani specializes in Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging and Cardiac Catheterizations.
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Melanie D. Mattson, MD, FACC
Dr. Mattson received her undergraduate degree from Northeast Louisiana University and her medical degree from Louisiana State University in 1987. She served her internship and residency in internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine in Norfolk, VA from 1987-1990. She was a fellow in cardiology at the University of Kentucky from 1990-1993. She was in a group practice in Lexington, Kentucky prior to joining Winchester Cardiology & Internal Medicine, Inc.
Dr. Mattson joined Winchester Cardiology in July 1994. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiology. She provides a full range of cardiology services including cardiac catheterization, balloon angioplasty and stenting, transesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography and reading peripheral vascular ultrasound studies.
Dr. Mattson is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and American College of Chest Physicians.
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Trisha B. Nashed, MD, FACC
Dr. Nashed received her undergraduate and medical degree from the University of Miami. She completed medical school in 1997. She did her Internship and residency at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond from 1997-2000. She continued at the Medical College of Virginia to do fellowship training in cardiology.
Dr. Nashed joined Winchester Cardiology in July 2003. She is certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She specializes in invasive and noninvasive procedures including cardiac catherization, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology as well as clinical and critical care medicine.
Dr. Nashed is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
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