Seventy-six (76) faculty physicians in the Department of Medicine have been named to the 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America® list. Only five percent of doctors in America earn this peer selected honor as a result of the biennial Best Doctors Poll.
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Physicians included in the Best Doctors in America® database provide the most advanced medical expertise and knowledge to patients with serious conditions – often saving lives in the process by finding the right diagnosis and right treatment.
A selected Best Doctor doesn’t remain in the database forever. The peer-review process requires every listed physician to be re-evaluated by their peers in each poll. Best Doctors does not pay physicians to be included in the database, nor can physicians or their organizations pay Best Doctors. A physician cannot apply to become a Best Doctors physician. The only way for a physician to be selected is to be nominated by and then receive voting consensus from current Best Doctors physicians.
Congratulations to the following faculty physicians in the department of medicine, by division.
Division of Cardiology
Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr., MD
Anil, Gehi, MD
Jeffrey L. Klein, MD
Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
John B. Buse, MD, PhD
David R. Clemmons, MD
George Decherney, MD, MPH
Jean M. Dostou, MD
Elizabeth Harris, MD
Deepa Kirk, MD
Marian Kirkman, MD
Eric Klett, MD
Janet E. Rubin, MD
Maya Styner, MD
Laura Young, MD, PhD
Division of Gastroenterology
Todd Baron, MD
Alfred S. Barritt, MD
Jama M. Darling, MD
Evan Dellon, MD, MPH
Spencer Dorn, MD
Michael W. Fried, MD
Lisa M. Gangarosa, MD, AGAF, FACP
Ian S. Grimm, MD
Paul H. Hayashi, MD, MPH
Hans Herfarth, MD, PhD
Millie Barritt Long, MD
Ryan D. Madanick, MD
Anne Peery, MD, MSCR
Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH
Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH
Steve Zacks, MD, MPH
Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
Marco A. Alemán, MD
Timothy S. Carey, MD, MPH
Paul R. Chelminski, MD, MPH, FACP
Cristin M. Colford, MD, FACP
Thomas M. Miller, MD
Shana Ratner, MD
Amy Shaheen, MD
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Ethan Basch, MD
Lisa A. Carey, MD
Elizabeth C. Dees, MD
Nigel S. Key, MD, ChB, FRCP
William Y. Kim, MD
Matthew Milowsky, MD
Stephan Moll, MD
Hyman Muss, MD
Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH
Thomas C. Shea, MD
Jared Weiss, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases
Myron Cohen, MD
Joseph J. Eron, Jr, MD
David A. Wohl, MD
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Romulo Colindres, MD
Randal K. Detwiler, MD
Ronald J. Falk, MD
Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH
Gerald A. Hladik, MD
Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, MD
Patrick H. Nachman, MD
William Pendergraft, III, MD
Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine
Raymond D. Coakley, MD
Shannon S. Carson, MD
Scott H. Donaldson, MD
James F. Donohue, MD
David C. Henke, MD
Michael R. Knowles, MD
Peadar G. Noone, MD
Maria P. Rivera, MD
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Scott Commins, MD
Beth L. Jonas, MD
Joanne M. Jordan, MD, MPH
Alfredo C. Rivadeneira, MD
Division of Geriatrics
Debra L. Bynum, MD
Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD
Mac Andrew Greganti, MD
Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH
John S. Kizer, MD
About Best Doctors, Inc.
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