The Colorectal Surgical Section of the Inova Fairfax Hospital Department of Surgery is composed of surgeons specially trained in the surgical treatment of diseases of the colon, rectum and anus. In addition to the five to six years of general surgical training, each surgeon has completed another one to two years of specialized training in colon and rectal surgery. Each surgeon is board certified, or is board eligible.

Donald Colvin, MD, Section Chief Lynda Dougherty, MD Katherine Khalifeh, MD  Kimberly Matzie, MD  Timothy A. Plerhoples, MD Caroline Sanchez, MD  Paul Savoca, MD Lawrence Stern, MD

The Department of Surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital offers a full-cycle surgery residency program as well as two fellowship programs, one in surgical critical care and one in laparoscopic, minimally invasive and bariatric surgery. Learn More Surgery Residency Program Surgical Critical Care Fellowship  Bariatric Surgery Fellowship 

The section of General Surgery consists of over 30 board-certified surgeons trained to diagnose and manage a broad array of surgical problems. Many are fellowship trained and have particular expertise in certain subspecialties. These range from the common to the unusual, and include hernias, gallbladder disorders, endocrine, breast and intestinal diseases. We see a wide variety of cancer patients, including breast, thyroid and parathyroid, gastrointestinal malignancies including stomach, small and large intestine.

Stefano Agolini, MD Robert Ahmed, MD Ghiath Alshkaki, MD  Richard Brenner, MD Oscar Bronsther, MD  Sara Bruce, MD Arun Chowla, MD Kathleen Cleland, MD Costanza Cocilovo, MD Robert Cohen, MD Jan Dekker, MD Jonathan Dort, MD Kirsten Edmiston, MD Hazem Elariny, MD Daniel Fortes, MD Philip Guzzetta, MD Gordon Hafner, MD, Section Chief Johann Jonsson, MD Teruaki Kodama, MD John Moynihan, MD Maureen O’Donnell, MD Esam Omeish, MD Virginia Park, MD James Piper, MD Ashok Prahlad, MD William Purkert, MD H.

John J. Moynihan, MD, FACS Chair, Department of Surgery Dr. Moynihan serves as President of Inova Surgical Services, with oversight responsibilities for surgical services across all Inova hospitals, and has served as Chair of the Department of Surgery at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus since 2013. He is a board-certified general surgeon.

Omar Ahmad, MD Haresh Ailani, MD Tofik Ali, MD Daniel Berinstein, MD Juanita Bryant, MD Steven Bullard, MD Rosan Choi, MD Dal Chun, MD Albert Cytryn, MD Jennifer Dao, MD Francis DiPaolo, MD hon Duong, MD Abdel-Rahman Elbash, MD Mohammed Elbash, MD Forrest Ellis, MD John Essepian, MD Mark Falls, MD, Section Chief Douglas Fraser, MD Michael Goldberg, MD Heather Hartzell, MD Jordan Heffez, MD Amy Jeffrey, MD John Josephson, MD John Karickhoff, MD Julie Leigh, MD Carl Leto, MD Dertad Manguikian, MD Sam Mansour, MD Alex Melamud, MD Fadi Nasrallah, MD Abu Nasrullah, MD Tuan Nguyen, MD James Osher, M

Michael T Gocke, DDS Specialty: Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Close description about Inova Medical Group members Board-certified specialties granted by an ABMS Member Board. Learn more about board certification. Years of Experience: 20 Save Eric A Foretich, DDS Specialty: Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Close description about Inova Medical Group members Board-certified specialties granted by an ABMS Member Board. Learn more about board certification.

Robert Bahadori, MD JamesBatti, MD Antonio Cachay, MD Suzanne Doud Galli, MD Deborah Doyle, MD Timothy Egan, MD Theodore Fetter, MD Eric Furst, MD Richard Gardner, MD Josef Gurian, MD Khanh-Gien Hoang, MD Ramin Ipakchi, MD Arjun Joshi, MD Sarita Kaza, MD Edwin Lee, MD Patty Lee, MD Bryan McKenzie, MD Noah Meltzer, MD Thuy-Anh Melvin, MD Ashkan Monfared, MD Ednan Mushtaq, MD Gregory Neas, MD Laurence O’Halloran, MD, Section Chief Joshua Oppenheim, MD Mohammed Orfaly, MD Michele Roeser, MD Mark Rubinstein, MD Iyad Saidi, MD Gopesh Sharma, MD Ameet Singh, MD Mark Soltany, MD Neil Stern, MD Ravi S