215 UAB physicians listed in ‘Best Doctors in America’

UAB faculty-physicians comprise 85 percent (215) of all Birmingham metropolitan-area medical specialists (253) on the latest list of "Best Doctors in America." Best Doctors is an independent, knowledge-based medical referral service located in Aiken, S.C. Its surveys ask peer physicians, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?” Only about 3 to 5 percent of all specialists worldwide make the list, which currently names 50,000 in the United States. Nominations for the list are anonymous, and doctors’ evaluations are confidential, according to the company. The system of review, based on methodology invented in 1992, includes a method of catching and correcting bias for or against particular physicians or groups of physicians. Listings cannot be purchased. More information is available at www.bestdoctors.com.

The following are the UAB doctors that made the list in alphabetical order by speciality:

Allergy and Immunology
T. Prescott Atkinson
James R. Bonner
Coralie S. Hains
K. Randall Young, Jr.

Anesthesiology
J. Jeffrey Andrews
Susan Black
Arthur M. Boudreaux
James R. Boyce
Russell Brockwell
Philip McArdle
Leonard F. McGovern
Thomas A. Moore II
Timothy John Ness
Albert Pierce
Paul N. Samuelson
Perry W. Smith
Pamela D. Varner

Cardiovascular Disease
Robert C. Bourge
Louis J. Dell’Italia
Andrew E. Epstein
Ami E. Iskandrian
G. Neal Kay
Navin C. Nanda
Suzanne Oparil
Silvio E. Papapietro
Vance Plumb
Barry K. Rayburn
Robert P. Robichaux
William John Rogers, Jr.
James L. Taylor

Dermatology
Boni E. Elewski
Craig A. Elmets
Patricia J. Mercado

Family Medicine
William Fulcher
T. Michael Harrington
Walter V. White

Gastroenterology
Gary A. Abrams
Joseph R. Bloomer
Charles O. Elson, III
Michael B. Fallon
Robert Lewis Slaughter
Christopher D. Truss
C. Mel Wilcox

Geriatric Medicine
Richard M. Allman
Andrew Duxbury
Patricia S. Goode
Richard V. Sims

Hand Surgery
John S. Gould

Infectious Disease
David O. Freedman
Craig J. Hoesley
Edward W. Hook, III
Peter G. Pappas
Michael S. Saag

Internal Medicine (General)
Richard M. Allman
Stuart J. Cohen
Patricia L. Garver
Gustavo Heudebert
Edwin A. Rutsky
Lisa L. Willett

Medical Genetics
Bruce Korf

Medical Oncology and Hematology
John T. Carpenter, Jr.
Peter D. Emanuel
James Posey
Charlie W. (C.W.) Scott, Jr.
William P. Vaughan

Nephrology
John Joseph Curtis
Robert Gaston
Bruce Allen Julian
Stephen George Rostand
Edwin A. Rutsky
Paul W. Sanders
Ashita Tolwani
David G. Warnock

Neurological Surgery
Winfield S. Fisher III
Barton Guthrie
Mark N. Hadley
Paul Matz
W. Jerry Oakes

Neurology
Khurram Bashir
R. Edward Faught, Jr.
Peter H. King
Lanning B. Kline
Louis Burt Nabors III
Shin Joong Oh
Alyssa Reddy
Michael S. Vaphiades
Ray L. Watts

Neurology, Child
Leon Dure
Alyssa Reddy

Nuclear Medicine
Johnny W. Scott

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ronald D. Alvarez
William W. Andrews
J. Max Austin, Jr.
Mack Nathaniel Barnes III
Richard Edgar Blackwell
Cynthia G. Brumfield
Seine Chiang
Richard O. Davis
Brian Gleason
Robert L. Holley
Larry C. Kilgore
Debora F. Kimberlin
Edward E. Partridge
Holly Richter
R. Edward Varner

Ophthalmology
Christopher A. Girkin
Lanning B. Kline
Russell W. Read

Orthopaedic Surgery
Jorge E. Alonso
John M. Cuckler
William P. Garth, Jr.
John S. Gould
Thomas R. Hunt III
Richard D. Meyer

Otolaryngology
Paul Castellanos
Glenn E. Peters

Pathology
Cheung F. (David) Chhieng
David Ralph Crowe
Isam Eltoum
Ona M. Faye-Petersen
Nirag Jhala
Michael Jeffrey Klein
Audrey Lazenby
Jay M. McDonald
Vishnu V. Reddy
Gene P. Siegal

Pediatric Specialist
Namasivayam Ambalavanan
Mark Benfield
Waldemar A. Carlo
Robert P. Castleberry
John Paul Clancy
Edward V. Colvin
Roni Grad
James S. Hagood
Lee Michelle Hilliard
Thomas H. Howard
Susan Cecelia Hutto
Walter Harvey Johnson, Jr.
David Kimberlin
Yung R. Lau
Raymond K. Lyrene
Christopher M. Makris
Frank Bennett Pearce
S. Lane Rutledge
Robert L. Schelonka
Samuel Tilden
Raymond G. Watts
Richard James Whitley

Pediatrics (General)
Carolyn Seymore Ashworth
Kathleen G. Nelson
Anne G. Stafford

Plastic Surgery
R. Jobe Fix
John H. Grant III

Psychiatry
F. Cleveland Kinney
Charles Thoedore Reveley
Samuel Ernst Rubin
Ray Thweatt

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
John Durwood Bradley
Dick D. Briggs, Jr.
J. Allen D. Cooper, Jr.
Joao Alberto M. De Andrade
Nancy E. Dunlap
Susan M. Harding
James E. Johnson
John I. Kennedy, Jr.
Michael R. Waldrum
K. Randall Young, Jr.

Radiation Oncology
Ruby F. Meredith

Radiology
Wanda K. Bernreuter
Cheri L. Canon
Joel Kent Cure
Philip J. Kenney
Robert E. Koehler
Robert R. Lopez
Desiree E. Morgan
Michael J. Pitt
Glenn H. Roberson
Stuart A. Royal
Souheil Saddekni
Patricia Colleen Sanders
J. Kevin Smith
Robert J. Stanley
Franklin N. Tessler
Daniel William Young

Rheumatology
Graciela Alarcon
S. Louis Bridges, Jr.
W. Winn Chatham
Barri Fessler
Louis Heck
Robert P. Kimberly
Larry W. Moreland
Kenneth G. Saag

Sleep Medicine
Susan M. Harding

Surgery
J. Stevenson Bynon, Jr.
Mark H. Deierhoi
Devin Eckhoff
Mary Therese Hawn
William D. Jordan, Jr.
Sherry M. Melton
Loring Washington Rue III
Carlton Young

Surgical Oncology
Kirby I. Bland
Martin J. Heslin
Marshall M. Urist

Thoracic Surgery
Robert J. Cerfolio
James K. Kirklin
David C. McGiffin
Octavio Pajaro

Urology
Anton J. Bueschen
John R. Burns
Jeffrey H. Cohn
David B. Joseph
Lewis Keith Lloyd, Jr.
Alexander Montgomery Nading, Jr.
Donald A. Urban

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