Welcome to Family Medicine in Falls Church: Your Comprehensive Healthcare Partner!

Rob Cohen, MD MPH, is a board-certified preventive medicine physician who has worked in the National Capital Region since 2011.  He graduated with an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Harvard College, received his MD from Columbia University, and his Master's of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.  He completed his residency in Preventive Medicine as an Active Duty Army Officer through Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Army Institute of Research, and became board-certified in 2014.  He deployed as an Army Physician to Kuwait and Iraq in 2015 as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, which recaptured Western Iraq from ISIS.  He then spent the next decade at USAID, first working on maternal and child health, then on COVID-19, Ebola, HIV, malaria, plague, and primary care.  He has been working in primary care since 2015.

Dr. Cohen is an accomplished physician-scientist, with sixteen peer-reviewed publications, who combines cutting-edge biochemistry and medical science with compassionate care.  He has many passions, including optimizing the biochemistry of all primary care issues in adults and children, treating and reducing chronic pain,  and promotion of health and well-being with thoughtful prevention and wellness.  As a scientist, he regularly reads the latest developments in medical science, and evaluates which are ready for implementation with patients, and which have not yet reached that threshold.

Dr. Cohen has a personal story of medical recovery that drives and informs his approach to patient care.  After herniating a disc in his back in 2018, he could barely walk for months, and developed severe and chronic pain.  He learned everything there was to learn about the back, and combined the science from the world's most rigorous biomechanics experts with emerging neuroscience around chronic pain.  After a determined three-year recovery, he is now fully recovered and a certified Zumba instructor.  Between his own personal story and that of his many patients, he knows what it takes to recover from illness and restore wellness.  He wants to help you become pain-free.  Finally, he scores very highly on the personality trait of conscientiousness, which in practice means he ensures we do whatever we can to help patients restore health and well-being.

Catherine Lancaster, NP, is a board-certified family nurse practitioner who joined Family Medicine in Falls Church in 2024. She earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from George Mason University in 2021, where her doctoral work focused on implementing COVID-19 protocols and improving health communication among school nurses in Virginia. While at the Mason and Partners Clinic, she led initiatives to increase vaccination rates among elementary and middle school students in Manassas Park. Her leadership and contributions earned her the Sigma Theta Tau Kitty Parker Smith Leadership Award.

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She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Marymount University in 2013 and spent six years as a bedside nurse at MedStar Health in Washington, DC. Additionally, she served as a school nurse at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, DC.

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Dedicated to providing compassionate, patient-centered care, Catherine enjoys working with patients of all ages. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, crocheting, and practicing yoga.