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David C. Giammittorio,
M.D., F.A.C.O.G. is the founder and
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Collaborative Practice. He
is a graduate of the University of Richmond and the
Medical College of Virginia. His internship was at M.C.V.
and his residency at Providence Hospital, Washington D.C.
Board certified and with twenty years experience, he is an
acknowledged expert in natural childbirth and an area
authority on the use of midwifery in collaborative
practice. email:
drgmmtto@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Mary E. Cutting, M.D.,
F.A.C.O.G. has been in practice since
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medical school at the
University of Virginia, and completed her residency at
Georgetown University Hospital. She is board certified and
has been in private practice for over twenty years.
email:
drcutting@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Habibollah Ahdoot,
M.D., F.A.C.O.G. was educated at the
University of Tehran |
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Medical College and
completed his residency at the Washington Hospital Center.
He is board certified and has delivered thousands of
babies at Alexandria Hospital over the last twenty-five
years. email:
drhahdoot@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Lalitha Rambhala, M.D.,
F.A.C.O.G. was educated at Gunter
Medical College and |
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completed her residency at
Howard University Hospital. She is board certified and has
been delivering babies at Alexandria Hospital for seven
years. email:
lrambhala@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Deborah Bowers, M.D.,
F.A.C.O.G. did her undergraduate work
in Nursing at |
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Georgetown
University. After working in Critical Care Nursing
for 10 years, she returned to the classroom and graduated
from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in
1994. She did her residency at Sinai Hospital in
Baltimore.
She
joined Physicians and Midwives after the birth of her
second daughter. Her girls Emme and Caroline were
delivered by Catherine and Dr. G! She has a special
interest in normal and high-risk pregnancy, weight loss,
incontinence and vaginal surgery. In her spare time she
loves to garden and do home improvements.
email:
drbowers@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Kenneth Ahdoot, M.D.,
F.A.C.O.G. Kenneth Ahdoot,
M.D., F.A.C.O.G. graduated from
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Georgetown Medical School, Washington D.C. in 1999. He
did his residency at Tufts New England Medical Center in
Boston, Massachusetts. A native of Alexandria, he
returned to this area to join his father, Dr. Habib
Ahdoot, in practice at Physicians & Midwives in 2003.
Dr. Ahdoot and his wife, Samantha (a
pediatrician) are kept busy raising their young
children, Isaac and Ruby.
email:
drkahdoot@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Mark Fracasso, M.D.,
received his BS degree from Fordham University in |
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New
York and his MD in 1981 from Georgetown
University in Washington, DC. He completed his
specialty training at the Washington Hospital Center in
1985 and obtained a MBA from the University of Miami in
Florida in 1988. He is a fellow of the American College
of OB/GYN and he is board certified and re-certified
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Nidhi Rustgi, MPH, PA-C
received her MPH degree from the Rollins School
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of Public Health at Emory University in 2001 and her
Physician Assistant degree also from Emory University in
2003. During her medical training she learned "medical"
Spanish to address the needs of her many Spanish speaking
patients.
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Denise Cunningham, M.D. |
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Denise
graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine
in 1995. Dr Cunningham did her residency at Triple
Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Cunningham was in the
Army and practiced in Seoul, Korea for three years and
DeWitt Arm
Hospital at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia for three years prior
to joining Physicians and Midwives in 2004. She is
married and has two daughters Katie and Madeline.
email:
dcunningham@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Karen B. Gonzales, MS,
CNM received her Bachelors of Science
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at the University of
Virginia. She worked as a labor and delivery nurse at St.
Luke's Hospital in Colorado and received a Masters of
Science in Maternal-Child Health from the University of
Colorado in 1977. Karen moved to Virginia in 1980 and
worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Alexandria
Hospital for eleven years. She left the hospital in 1991
and enrolled at Georgetown University where she received
her Masters of Science in Nurse-Midwifery in 1994.
email:
kgonzales@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Catherine B. Armstrong,
MS, CNM received her diploma in nursing
from Mercy
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Hospital of Nursing in
1968. Married to an Army pilot, she worked in various
nursing positions in Europe and the United States gaining
experience in maternal and childcare nursing. Catherine
returned to the United States in 1988 and enrolled at
Georgetown University where she received her Bachelors of
Science in Nursing in 1992 and her Masters of Science in
Nurse-Midwifery in 1995.
email:
carmstrong@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Patrice Valle, MS, CNM
graduated from midwifery school at the
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Minnesota in 1982 and has
since delivered over two thousand babies. She was raised
in San Antonio, Texas and Panama and is bilingual. She has
a fifteen year old redhead (Ian, born at home in San
Francisco!), loves metaphysics, painting, gardening,
humor, sewing and is just starting a Tae Kwon Do class.
Her husband, Mark, by the way, works at Babies-R-Us!
email:
patricevalle@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Sue Magenheimer, MS,
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Sue
Magenheimer, MS, CNM
received her Bachelor of Science for nursing in Toronto,
where she was born and raised. She moved to the United
States and worked as a labor and delivery nurse in Texas
and Boston. Sue received her Masters of Science in
midwifery in 2001 from the University of Rochester. Sue is
married to John, an environmental engineer, and together
they enjoy running, hiking and biking. She is a new
mother to her son Joey.
email:
smagenheimer@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Sarah Pinkman, CNM |
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Sara Pinkman,
CNM, joined our staff in June 2006. She has 31 years
assisting women with pregnancy and childbirth. She
attended Boston University for her undergraduate studies.
Sara began teaching childbirth education and assisting
women in childbirth in a three year apprenticeship under
two board certified Obstetrician-Gynecologists in Boston.
Sara moved to Florida where she maintained a private
practice after becoming a Licensed Midwife in 1981. After
17 years of attending women with homebirths, Sara earned
her Bachelor of Science and RN degree from Regent’s
College of the University of the State of New York (now
Excelsior College). She earned her certificate in
Nurse-Midwifery in 1993 from Education Programs
Associates, which is affiliated with San Jose State
University. Since that time, she has worked full scope
midwifery in a variety of clinical settings, including
birth centers, private practices and midwifery services at
hospitals in Florida, Baltimore, Maryland and Virginia.
Sara has two daughters, Jessica, age 34, and Michelle, age
31. Her interests include dancing, cooking and
alternative and complimentary therapies for women’s
health.
email:
spinkman@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Elizabeth Itote, CNM
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Liz has been employed at Physicians and Midwives since
June, 2006. She was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya,
East Africa. Liz attended Hesston College, a 2 yr
Mennonite college in the heart of Kansas, in January,
1998 where she earned her first Nursing license in May,
2000. Liz then attended Wichita State University in
Wichita, Kansas where she earned both a Bachelors of
Science in Nursing degree and a Masters of Science in
Nursing degree. Liz received her Certificate in Nurse
Midwifery from the University of Kansas school of
nursing in August, 2005 and became ACNM Certified in
February, 2006.
Prior to
joining the practice, Liz completed her
practicum in Women's Health, Labor and Delivery at
Hasting Indian Medical center in Tahlequa, Oklahoma,
Wesley medical center and Via Christi in Wichita,
Kansas. Liz also participated in a Medical Mission to
Kenya in October, 2005 with Mercy and truth medical
missions of Kansas City, Kansas.
Liz has
enjoyed working in Medical and surgical care, long-term
care, home health, hospice and traveling nursing.
email:
eitote@physiciansandmidwives.com
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Laura
grew up in the Northern Virginia area in Herndon, where
you attended Paul the VI Catholic High School. She
attended
Clemson
University,
where she graduated with her Bachelors of Science in
Nursing in 2004.
Laura
then moved from South Carolina to Baltimore, Maryland,
where she obtained a job as an ICU Labor and Delivery
Nurse. While working as a nurse, Laura obtained her
Master’s Degree in Midwifery at University of Maryland,
Baltimore. She graduated in May 2007 and was ACNM
certified in July 2007.
Laura
is happy to return to the Northern Virginia area to be
close to her friends and family. Laura currently lives in
Centreville and just became engaged to Joseph, her college
sweetheart. In her free time Laura is house hunting,
watching Clemson Football, and enjoying the sun.
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