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Meet Our Physicians |
| Augustus H. Hill, M.D.
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Dr. Hill's childhood aspiration growing
up in St. Louis, Missouri was to become a physician and a surgeon. He
fulfilled his desire by completing a premedical program at Drake
University in Des Moines, Iowa, followed by graduation from the
University of Missouri Medical School, an internship at the University
of Cincinnati, Ohio and completing his surgery residency at Howard
University in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Hill entered private practice in 1982 in the District of Columbia,
Maryland and Virginia and achieved Board Certification in General
Surgery.
He did a brief stint in trauma surgery while beginning his
practice and then continued his interest in laparoscopic surgery begun
during his residency by demonstrating proficiency in advanced
laparoscopic procedures and achieving membership in the prestigious
Society of
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Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons very early in his
career. In addition to his duties as medical director of a busy
multi-specialty medical practice, Dr. Hill is a clinical instructor at
Howard University School of Medicine and Chief of Surgery at both the
Premier Ambulatory Surgical Center in Washington, D.C. and Metro
Surgical Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Dr. Hill is married and the father of four children and an avid sailor
who also enjoys skiing and world travel..
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Lorena L. Guevara, ANP-BC |
Lorena is an Adult Care Nurse Practitioner, board certified
by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Her scope of practice
encompasses diagnosis and management of common & complex health care
problems, well-woman, as well as pre operative examinations.
Lorena’s academic background includes a Bachelor’s of Science of Nursing
from George Mason University and a Master of Science from the Nurse
Practitioner program at Catholic University. Lorena is currently
pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Nursing.
Lorena’s solid experience is based on her practice in multiple community
clinics and private practice.
She has also enjoyed working at the National
Institutes of Health as part of the Human Genome Research Institute
where she was the research coordinator for the Microbiome Project.
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Lorena’s professional memberships include: current vice president
of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses-D.C. Chapter and Corresponding
Secretary of the Nurse Practitioner Association of the District of Columbia.
Lorena is originally from Peru and speaks Spanish fluently, she loves to travel,
has volunteered in multiple medical missions abroad. She has 2 dogs and enjoys
running, hiking, and spending time with her fiancé and family. |
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Mingliarti Tjahjana, M.D. |
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Dr. Tjahjana received her Medical
Doctorate, cum laude, from Padjadjaran University in Indonesia. She then pursued
studies in Chinese literature and culture in Guangzhou, China where she met her
husband. She quickly passed all three parts of the United States Medical Licensing Examination within the year after
she and her husband moved to the United States.
Dr. Tjahjana entered her Internal Medicine residency at
Interfaith Medical Center (formerly the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital) in New
York City, and was awarded several honors during her tenure. She
received additional training in medical acupuncture at the University of
California Los Angeles School of Medicine and performed endocrinology
research with the Medstar Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Before
joining our practice she was in private practice in Falls Church and Alexandria,
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Dr. Tjahjana and her husband are the parents of two active school-age
boys. They enjoy, travel, music, gardening, and international cuisine. |
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Weiyu Xie, PA-C |
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My Family Doctor was pleased to add Dr. Hill
and Dr. Tjajhana's colleague, Ms. Weiyu “Vicky” Xie to the Silver Spring office
in early 2010. Ms. Xie brings to the patients of the Silver Spring office the
depth of both Eastern and Western medical philosophy and training that was
formerly available in the Virginia office with Dr. Tjahjana's practice. Ms. Xie
obtained her Bachelors of Medicine from the highly-regarded Shanxi Medical
University in China in 1993 and after further study, practiced as a surgeon in
China for five years. After coming to the United States, she further
enriched her medical knowledge by obtaining a Masters of Medical Science from
the St. Francis University in Pennsylvania and fulfilled the State of Maryland's requirements to become a
Physician's Assistant in 2008. She worked at the Shady Grove Hospital Department
of Surgery before joining our practice.
Ms. Xie resides in Montgomery County Maryland with her husband Bradley,
a software engineer and two children ages 6 and 10. The highlight of her
family's year was participating in the White House Easter Egg roll and taking home a prized Obama White House Easter
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