Donor Impact Report, 2025

Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

A message of gratitude and partnership

2025

We can do more, together.

Each year, I’m reminded of how much we can achieve when clinical excellence, innovation and community support move in the same direction. Your generosity continues to strengthen this partnership and elevate the care we provide across Inova Schar Heart and Vascular.

2025 brought meaningful progress—advances across our clinical innovation efforts supported by donor partnership, new momentum behind transformative ideas and endowed leadership, and continued academic strength driven by protected time and research support. These accomplishments support and enhance the compassionate, team‑based care our clinicians deliver—and our patients experience—every day.

Your philanthropy plays a central role in all of this. Your support helps us recruit and retain extraordinary clinicians and team members, invest in transformative ideas and build programs that serve our patients and families with excellence and empathy. Throughout this report, you’ll see how donor partnership shapes everything from grateful patient stories to emerging transformative projects changing the face of care in our region.

Thank you for your ongoing commitment to this work and for helping us advance the future of cardiovascular care—together.

With gratitude,

Christopher M. O’Connor, MD, MACC, FESC, FHFSA, FHFA President, Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Schar Distinguished Chair, Inova Schar Heart and Vascular

At Inova, we believe in the power of working together to deliver exceptional healthcare for our community.

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