Spotlight: Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

Interview With Jordan Hamilton, BSN, RN, RCES; Cameron R Mulloy, RN, BSN, CCRN, RCES; and Mike Corley, RN

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Interview by Isabel Vega 

In this episode of The EP Edit, we're highlighting the EP program at Inova Schar Heart and Vascular in Falls Church, Virginia. We sat down with Jordan Hamilton, BSN, RN, RCES; Cameron R Mulloy, RN, BSN, CCRN, RCES; and Mike Corley, RN, to uncover what makes their EP lab unique. This podcast episode is an extension of the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Spotlight Interview from the September 2025 issue of EP Lab Digest. 

Jordan Hamilton: Hi I’m Jordan. I am an EP educator, as well as a navigator for our patients, at Inova Fairfax in our EP lab. I help call our patients and schedule their arrival times for our physicians for their workday.

Cameron Molloy: My name is Cameron Molloy; I'm one of the frontline supervisors in the EP lab at Inova Fairfax Hospital. My role varies from day to day. Sometimes I do charge, I share the charge responsibilities with Brad, sometimes amid staffing, I'm working on the schedule or fixing processes.

Mike Corley: My name is Mike. I'm one of the nurses here in the EP Lab. I've only been here for a brief time, about 2 years. I'm kind of an interim room lead, kind of a jack of all trades, master of none, I guess. That’s what I do here in the EP Lab.

What drove the need to implement an EP program, and what is the size of your EP lab facility?

Cameron Molloy: Sure. Our region has experienced tremendous growth over the past few decades, and it became clear that our population would benefit from specialized EP services. In 1988, cath lab branched off and formed a separate EP department. We now operate 6 dedicated EP labs.

What is the number of staff members at Inova?

Cameron Molloy: We have a total of 37 staff that are dedicated to EP, and that includes our manager, supervisors, Jordan, our educator, our full and part-time nurses, and a few travelers. We've grown in capacity over 50% in the previous couple years, and we're still growing in hiring, and we'll do a little plug. If you're interested in applying, go to inova.org/careers and search electrophysiology. We'd love to have you.

Tell us about Inova’s AFib Center of Excellence. Discuss goals, members of the comprehensive care team, and development of team-based care pathways.

Jordan Hamilton: Sure, our AFib Center of Excellence started in 2021. It's 7 electrophysiologists, 5 APPs, a nurse coordinator, a weight management specialist, as well as a sleep medicine specialist. They aim to treat AFib, but also the underlying and more modifiable risk factors, including preventing stroke, controlling heart rate, blood pressure, and heart rhythm.

I know some of the current initiatives include improving access to care. So, we're working with the emergency department (ED) to get a pathway into our AFib Center of Excellence to get the patients that show up in the ED with AFib, to come over to our center. This provides more patient education resources and educates referring providers that early intervention is key. We hope to decrease the risk of hospitalizations, ED visits, and mortality through all of our efforts.

What is considered historic about your EP program or hospital? Has your program or hospital recently experienced any “firsts”?

Jordan Hamilton: Yes, we are one of the more mature EP programs in the region, and we are Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) accredited. We got that accreditation in 2017 for device implantation, chronic bleed extraction, EP testing, and ablations. We continue to maintain that accreditation. We were one of the first sites to start to use the Affera Mapping System, the Sphere-9 Catheter.

Currently, we are the first hospital globally to have completed 1,000 Affera cases. We started using the system back in January 2025. We currently have 4 Affera systems in use, as well as both of our sister hospitals, Inova Alexandria and Inova Loudoun, each having a system of their own. So, the whole entire health system we actually own 6, which is also the most internationally, which is awesome. We have Dr. Hollis, who implanted the nation's first Bachmann's Bundle Aveir. We also were designated the Press Ganey 2025 Health System of the Year, and we are Magnet-certified. This shows Inova’s great place to work. We are up and coming with new things and new technology. 

Describe your city or general regional area. How is it unique? Are there any specific challenges your hospital faces given its unique geographic service area?

Mike Corley: Northern Virginia is a very busy metropolitan area, basically on the footsteps of Washington, D.C. We have a very diverse community, it’s very transient by nature. Most of our economy is driven by the military and federal government, and all the government contractors. So Inova is the area's largest private employer. Families in our area tend to have a higher average income, household income, and a higher cost of living. Obviously, that adds a lot of stress levels. Tons of commuter stress, irregular work schedules, and just a really increased sedentary lifestyle, which all contribute to increased arrhythmia risk. Through all this, Inova maintains a staff turnover rate lower than national average and is consistently rated a great place to work. 

Please tell our readers what you consider special about your EP lab and staff.

Mike Corley: Our lab is very unique because the nurses and technologists work in interchangeable rows. The nurses will scrub, monitor, and circulate, as well as the technologists. All of our cases are covered by anesthesia personnel, except for when we do temp wires, so we work hand-in-hand with our Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) staff.

We pride ourselves on excellence and professionalism. We also maintain a strong sense of community, and a very great work environment. It's not unusual for us to find time spent outside of work, participating in a bunch of extracurricular activities. We created a kickball league, and we have a committee that orchestrates dinners and holiday parties, called the Sunshine Committee. We also participate in March Madness. 

Is there anything else you’d like to share with our listeners? 

Jordan Hamilton: We at Inova are very early adopters of the Conduction System Pacing (CSP). We have Dr. Atwater and Dr. Gaeta, who hold teaching sessions for outside cardiologists, so they can better understand what CSP is, and offer it as a part of their workup for their patients. Speaking to that, we also host domestic and international visitors to showcase our program. We just had some physicians from Japan come in and look at how we operate our lab, which is awesome. We also have our fellowship program. Inova started a fellowship program this year in July. We have one fellow currently, next year we'll welcome more, so that is officially up and running now, which is exciting.

The transcripts were edited for clarity and length.