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Dr. Daniel Carlson

in Lanham, Bowie, Camp Springs, Largo and Laurel, MD

Colonel Daniel Carlson, MD, FACC, USA, Retired is a board certified Cardiologist who has completed fellowships in Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, and Cardiac Electrophysiology.  

Dr. Carlson gained extensive operational medicine experience in the US Army, first as a Field Surgeon in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and then as a Cardiology Consultant with an Air Force Theater Hospital during Operation New Dawn. He also served in many roles within the continental United States to include as the inaugural Chief of Cardiology in Ft. Carson, Colorado.

After completing an Electrophysiology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital he completed his last military assignment as an Attending Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Interventional Cardiologist at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital and Walter Reed National Naval Medical Center. He retired from the Army in 2021 and served the Fredericksburg, Virginia community at Mary Washington Hospital for 18 months. 

He returns to the DC Metropolitan Region to expand Cardiac Electrophysiology services in Prince George's County. Dr. Carlson’s scope of care includes treatment of common and complex heart arrhythmias via catheter ablations, the implantation of pacemakers, implantable loop recorders, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices for treatment of heart failure.