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Physician Biographies
Ather Anis, M.D.
Edward V. Bonyak, M.D.
Frederic T. Farra, M.D.
James T. Rittelmeyer, M.D.
J. Dixon Brown, M.D.
Manish J. Lakhani, M.D.
Melanie D. Mattson, M.D.
Trisha B. Nashed, M.D.
Cardiology
Ather Anis, M.D.
Dr. Anis joined Winchester Cardiology in July of 2008 after completing his fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to his interventional cardiology fellowship, he completed fellowships in Cardiovascular Diseases from University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, and Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine from Thomas Jefferson University. He has had an internship for Internal Medicine at DC General Hospital, along with General Surgery and Internal Medicine internships at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan after completing his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) at Allama Iqbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan.
Dr. Anis is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Nuclear Cardiology. He is board eligible in Interventional Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Anis specializes in Interventional Cardiology and Peripheral Vascular Interventions.
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Edward V. Bonyak, M.D.
Dr. Bonyak received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He completed medical school at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 1989. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia in 1992, and completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in 1996, serving as Chief Fellow during the final year of fellowship. He served as a faculty member in the department of internal medicine at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center from 1992 to 1993.
Dr. Bonyak is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American Heart Association. He has been board certified in internal medicine since 1992, cardiovascular medicine since 1996, and interventional cardiology since 2000.
Dr. Bonyak joined the Winchester Cardiology in July 1996. He offers cardiovascular services in consultative cardiology, cardiac catheterization and intervention, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography and stress echocardiography.
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Frederic T. Farra, M.D.
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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James T. Rittelmeyer, M.D.
Dr. Rittelmeyer was raised in McLean, Virginia and graduated form Langley High School in 1969. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1974 with a B.S. in Chemistry and Georgetown University Medical School in 1978. His residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Cardiology were completed at the Naval Hospital in San Diego in 1983. During the next 4 years he served as Director of the Electrophysiology Lab and Director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Naval Hospital. Since being discharged from the Navy in 1987 he has been in private practice in the specialty of Cardiology. He has been a member of Winchester Cardiology since 1989.
He has been involved in the evaluation and treatment of complex arrhythmias for his entire professional career and has a special interest in pacemaker and defibrillator implantation and follow-up. His practice in interventional cardiology began in the early 1980’s. He has been involved with stent implantation since they were first approved by the FDA. He was a principal investigator in a large thrombolytic study (Gusto) that was a landmark study in the treatment of acute MI (heart attack).
Dr. Rittelmeyer has an interest in education and frequently has Family Practice residents rotate with him. He frequently speaks to Family Practitioners and General Internists on updates in Cardiology. His areas of interest include treating patients with pacemakers, defibrillators, congestive heart failure, chest pain, heart attack, complex arrhythmia, and cardiac intervention (balloons and stents).
Dr. Rittelmeyer is board certified in Internal Medicine (1981), Cardiology (1983) and Interventional Cardiology (1999).
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J. Dixon Brown, M.D.
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, M.D.
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, M.D.
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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