We hope that these biographies will help people better understand the unique culture of our medical practice.

We begin by saluting Dr. Ray Hoare, a general noninvasive cardiologist who practiced with this office for over thirty years before retiring at the end of 2002. Noted for his model professionalism, clinical expertise, dedication to patient care, tireless leadership in the medical community and service to the community at large, Dr. Hoare’s contributions were a cornerstone of this office.

Dr. Franklin

Dr. William G. Franklin is a Consultative and Interventional Cardiologist, and has practiced in Northern Virginia since 1978.

His credentials include:
Medical Degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1971
Licensure in Common
wealth of Virginia, 1971
Internship and Residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center
Cardiology Fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital
Service in the United States Public Health Service on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico
Board Certification in Internal Medicine, 1976
Board Certification in Cardiovascular Disease, 1979
Fellowship in American College of Cardiology, 1979
Fellowship in American College of Physicians, 1981
Past Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Virginia Hospital Center
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital
Recognition in the Washingtonian magazine as one of the area’s top cardiologists
Member, Arlington County Medical Society and Virginia Medical Society

Dr. Franklin is a dedicated clinician who has performed more than 3,500 procedures, including over 1,000 interventions (angioplasties, stent and rotoblator atherectomies). The clinical restenosis rate has been remarkably low, averaging less than 4% for the past four years. The death rate from his interventions is even more noteworthy: zero.
Having worked in free clinics and hospitals serving the less privileged in Virginia, Michigan, and for two years on the Navajo Reservation, he is attuned to healthcare issues and needs of diverse groups, including those attributable to age and gender differences. His approach to patient care is to individualize a program for each patient rather than follow a prescribed format.

Dr. Franklin believes enthusiastically in disease prevention and patient education, speaking to numerous community gatherings on a variety of preventive health topics, and preparing the health education information found on this website. He has recently participated in several legal/medical panels about the value of advanced medical directives, in order to help more members of the public understand how to make their own medical choices and then clearly express them to those who need to know.

Like Dr. Hoare, Dr. Franklin has also been a community volunteer for decades. During his college summer of 1966, he served with the Winant and Clayton Volunteers, assisting social workers caring for London’s poor. During his medical school years, he tutored an underprivileged student, and helped Legal Services workers to arrange provision of food, clothing, books and medical services to the destitute of Fluvana County. He spent a summer as a medical student interning on the Navajo reservation. While completing his residency in Michigan, he volunteered at the Ann Arbor Free Clinic. He volunteered to serve in the U. S. Indian Health Service for two years from 1973-1975 on the Navajo Reservation where he practiced Internal Medicine. While there, he organized educational and cultural exchanges between members of the Indian Health Service community and the local Navajo community. He also taught Navajo high school graduates to serve as Community Health Medics.
HeartCare has been a consistent supporter of the Arlington Free Clinic and Dr. Franklin has provided follow up treatment for many needy persons referred through the Free Clinic. He continues to provide care in his own practice to those in need at no charge. Since 2000 he has been an enthusiastic member of the medical team of 50 from CROSSLINKS and Virginia Hospital Center that spends a week each fall in Honduras providing free medical care, medicines, eyeglasses and supplies to thousands of needy individuals from the impoverished areas of that country.

He has worked diligently for improved availability of cardiovascular services in Northern Virginia, speaking before regional groups in support of opening the cardiac catheterization laboratory and open-heart surgery program at the Virginia Hospital Center (formerly Arlington Hospital) and speaking in support of a CT Scan Program capable of detecting earliest signs of arteriosclerosis. With the successful addition of this service through the Virginia Hospital Center, he believes it is now possible to detect early those at risk of heart attack due to coronary artery arteriosclerosis and thus play an important role in preventing many of the tragic coronary events that affect 1.2 million Americans a year.

Dr. Franklin has taught Georgetown University medical sudents at Virginia Hospital Center and Inova Fairfax Hospital for over twenty-seven years.

Arlington has been home to Dr. Franklin and his wife since 1976. It is where their three children have grown up, and where their small grandchildren are now arriving on the scene.