Dr. Catherine Cross grew up in Bethesda. She holds an M.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and she completed a residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston and Boston Medical Center in 2005. For the following two years, she was a staff pediatrician at Children's Hospital Boston, supervising care on the general inpatient wards, and serving as clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She also did part-time primary care work at a pediatric practice in nearby Braintree. Dr. Cross is on the active staff at Inova Fairfax and Fair Oaks hospitals. Her interests include traveling and cooking. She has native fluency in German and can converse in Spanish and French as well.