Posted October 26, 2005
The latest list of "Best Doctors in America" includes 232 UAB physicians, comprising more than two-thirds of all specialists from the Birmingham metropolitan area now in the Best Doctors database.
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% of all specialists worldwide make the list, which currently names 33,000 in the U.S.—including 345 physicians in the Birmingham area.
“This is yet another indicator of the extraordinary concentration of medical expertise available to Alabamians at UAB,” said Robert R. Rich. MD, UAB senior vice president for medicine and dean of the UAB School of Medicine. “I am proud that so many UAB faculty physicians have achieved this distinction.”
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.
Consumers can learn more about Best Doctors at www.bestdoctors.com.
L.G. Blanchard
Media Relations
The following are the UAB doctors that made the list in alphabetical order by specialty:
Allergy and Immunology
T. Prescott Atkinson
James R. Bonner
Coralie S. Hains
Harry W. Schroeder, Jr.
Allergy and Immunology; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
K. Randall Young, Jr.
Anesthesiology
J. Jeffrey Andrews
Susan Black
Arthur M. Boudreaux
James R. Boyce
Russell Brockwell
Juan F. Gutierrez
John D. Lang
William Lell
Philip McArdle
Leonard F. McGovern
Thomas A. Moore
Timothy John Ness
Albert Pierce
Perry Smith
Pamela D. Varner
Mark S. Williams
Cardiovascular Disease
Robert C. Bourge
Louis J. Dell'Italia
Andrew E. Epstein
Ami E. Iskandrian
G. Neal Kay
Navin C. Nanda
Suzanne Oparil
Sylvio Papapietro
Vance Plumb
Barry K. Rayburn
William John Rogers, Jr.
James L. Taylor
Dermatology
Boni E. Elewski
Craig A. Elmets
Patricia J. Mercado
Endocrinology and Metabolism
David S. H. Bell
Elizabeth D. Ennis
Family Medicine
Morris Cochran
William Fulcher
T. Michael Harrington
Beverly VonDer Pool
Walter V. White
Gastroenterology
Joseph R. Bloomer
Charles O. Elson III
Michael B. Fallon
Robert Lewis Slaughter
Christopher Dee Truss
Charles M. Wilcox
Geriatric Medicine
Andrew Duxbury
Patricia S. Goode
Clare I. Hays
Richard V. Sims
Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine
Richard M. Allman
Infectious Disease
C. Kirk Avent
William Ernest Dismukes
David O. Freedman
Craig J. Hoesley
Edward W. Hook III
Peter G. Pappas
Michael S. Saag
Internal Medicine (General)
Stuart J. Cohen
Patricia L. Garver
Gustavo Heudebert
Michael A. Moore
Lisa L. Willett
Internal Medicine (General); Nephrology
Edwin A. Rutsky
Medical Genetics
Eric J. Sorscher
Medical Oncology and Hematology
Frank Amos Bailey
John T. Carpenter, Jr.
Peter D. Emanuel
James Posey
Charlie W. (C.W.) Scott, Jr.
William P. Vaughan
Allen Yeilding
Nephrology
John Joseph Curtis
Robert Gaston
Bruce Allen Julian
Stephen George Rostand
Paul W. Sanders
Ashita Tolwani
David G. Warnock
Neurological Surgery
Robert Q. Craddock
Winfield S. Fisher III
Barton Guthrie
Mark N. Hadley
Paul Matz
Richard B. Morawetz
W. Jerry Oakes
Neurology
Khurram Bashir
R. Edward Faught, Jr.
Peter H. King
Louis Burt Nabors III
Shin Joong Oh
Michael S. Vaphiades
Ray L. Watts
Neurology, Child
Alan K. Percy
Neurology, Child; Neurology
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
Katharine D. Wenstrom
Ophthalmology
Michael A. Callahan
Frederick J. Elsas
Greer Lauren Geiger
Christopher A. Girkin
Lanning B. Kline
John Alva Long
Robert E. Morris
Robert L. Phillips
Russell W. Read
Milt White
Clark Douglas Witherspoon
Orthopaedic Surgery
Jorge E. Alonso
John M. Cuckler
William P. Garth, Jr.
Thomas Hunt
Richard D. Meyer
Otolaryngology
Glenn E. Peters
Michael J. Sillers
Brian Wiatrak
Audie Lee Woolley
Pathology
Cheung F. (David) Chhieng
D. 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
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
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
Pediatric Specialist; Pediatrics (General)
Walter Harvey Johnson, Jr.
Pediatrics (General)
Carolyn Seymore Ashworth
Robert Levin
Kathleen G. Nelson
Anne G. Stafford
Plastic Surgery
R. Jobe Fix
Paul M. Gardner
John H. Grant III
Psychiatry
F. Cleveland Kinney
Charles T. Reveley
Ray Thweatt
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
John Durwood Bradley, Jr.
Dick D. Briggs, Jr.
Richard M. Champion
J. Allen D. Cooper, Jr.
Joao Alberto M. De Andrade
Nancy E. Dunlap
James E. Johnson
John I. Kennedy, Jr.
Michael R. Waldrum
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Sleep Medicine
Susan M. Harding
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
William J. Koopman
Larry W. Moreland
Kenneth G. Saag
Surgery
J. Stevenson Bynon, Jr.
Mark H. Deierhoi
Devin Eckhoff
Mary Therese Hawn
William D. Jordan
Sherry M. Melton
Loring Washington Rue III
Selwyn M. Vickers
Carlton Young
Surgical Oncology
Kirby I. Bland
Martin J. Heslin
Marshall Urist
Thoracic Surgery
Robert J. Cerfolio
James K. Kirklin
David C. McGiffin
A. D. Pacifico
Urology
Anton J. Bueschen
John R. Burns
Jeffrey H. Cohn
David B. Joseph
Lewis Keith Lloyd, Jr.
Alexander Montgomery Nading, Jr.
Donald A. Urban