Background
Daniel J. Fernicola, Jr., M.D., is the office director, as well as a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians - Heart Care in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Fernicola also has privileges as a cardiologist at Suburban Hospital. He is board certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Fernicola has expertise in cardiac imaging, cardiovascular disease, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and preventive cardiology.
Dr. Fernicola earned his medical degree from Georgetown University and completed an internal medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He was a staff fellow in the Pathology Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health prior to completing a fellowship in cardiology with Georgetown University School of Medicine at Washington Veterans Affairs Hospital, where he went on to serve as director of echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Fernicola also previously served in the U.S. Public Health Service and as an assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Cardiology at Georgetown University.
Dr. Fernicola is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Fernicola has contributed to numerous publications, presentations and abstracts.