Meet Our Team

Cheryl Johnson
RN, BSN, Executive Director
Cheryl comes to Weinstein Hospice with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the hospice industry. She has worked as an RN in diverse markets including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Alex Rikhter
MD Medical Director
has been the Medical Director of Weinstein Hospice since 2011. He scored in top 3% of all American Internists on the Board of Internal Medicine exam. Dr. Rikhter enjoys unshakable patient loyalty and respect.

Teresa Meehan
RN, CHPN Director of Clinical Operations

has been working with Weinstein Hospice since 2010. Her 38 years of experience includes work as a nurse educator for Hospice Atlanta, CCU charge nurse, dialysis nursing, and nursing in an ICU. She is certified in hospice and palliative care nursing.

Jenny Buckley
RN, BSN, CHPN Community Outreach Coordinator

She has been a team member for 5 years. Jenny takes pride in being part of a quality hospice program that provides outstanding patient and family care. She is ELNEC certified and twice certified in hospice and palliative care.

Jenifer Firestone
LMSW, Volunteer Coordinator

has been a part of our team since 2012. Jenifer manages a corps of nearly 40 volunteers who serve our patients and their families with quality care, understanding and compassion.

Deb Mahovlich
RN Clinical Manager

Deb has been a team member for 4 years. She has worked with hospice for 17 years and considers working in this field a privilege.

Deanna Lawrence
Bereavement Coordinator

joined the team way back in 2004! She has spent most of that time as a certified hospice and palliative care nursing assistant. In late 2015, she transitioned to the office as our referrals and intake coordinator and now is currently our Bereavement Coordinator.

Julie Hamilton
RN, CHPN

has been a dedicated member of the Weinstein Hospice staff since 2008. Prior to that, she ran the AIDS program for Visiting Nurse Health System in Atlanta.

Nolan Teter
RN, CHPN

is a Certified Hospice Palliative Care RN and has been on staff with Weinstein Hospice for 9 years of his 15 year nursing career.

Irina Dubin
RN

has been a Registered Nurse since 1998 after attending New York University. She joined our staff in early 2015. Irina speaks fluent Russian enabling her to have a special rapport with our Russian-speaking patients.

Amanda Robinson
RN

is our week night on-call nurse and has been with Weinstein Hospice since May of 2015. She graduated from Kennesaw State University in 2005 and is a native of Georgia. She enjoys weekend travels with her papillon Pumpkin, gardening and bird watching.

Dana Blackert,
RN, BSN, OCN

Dana has been part of Weinstein Hospice since 2017 as a weekend Triage nurse. She has been a nurse for 12 years, the majority working in Oncology. Dana graduated from Mercer University in 2007. She enjoys traveling and staying busy with her 3 small children.

Connie Caird
LPN

has been with Weinstein Hospice since early 2015. She is a certified hospice and palliative care LPN. When not at work, she enjoys spending time with her children and grandchildren.

Susan Sandler
LMSW

has been with Weinstein Hospice since 2006. She was the Executive Director of JF&CS in Des Moines, Iowa for 8 years and has run Senior Outreach programming in Dallas, Texas.

Carla Polikov
LMSW

joined our team in March of 2017. She has 16 years of hospice and other medical social work experience. She received her Master’s degree in social work from Tulane, but is originally from Mississippi. Carla is married and is mom to two adorable children.

Rochelle Schube
LCSW

joined our team in July 2018. She graduated from Valdosta State university with her MSW. She has previously worked as a hospice social worker and bereavement coordinator. She looks forward to being a resource and support to Weinstein Hospice’s patients and families.

Kristin Pass
Intake Coordinator

Bio Coming Soon!

Chiquitia Pickett
CNA

has been a CNA for 19 years. She joined the Weinstein Hospice team in September 2017.