200 UW Health Physicians Named to 2015-16 Best Doctors in America List
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Madison, Wisconsin - More than 200 UW Health physicians appear on the Best Doctors in America® List for 2015-2016, officials have announced. Only five percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor.
The list is a product of validated peer review, in which doctors who excel in their specialties are selected by their peers in the profession. Doctors cannot pay to be included in the Best Doctors database, nor are they paid to provide their input.
Best Doctors works with expert physicians from its Best Doctors in America® List to help its 30 million members worldwide get the right diagnosis and right treatment.
The Best Doctors in America® List, assembled by Best Doctors, Inc. and audited and certified by Gallup®, results from exhaustive polling of more than 40,000 physicians in the United States. Doctors in more than 40 specialties and 400 subspecialties of medicine appear on this year's list.
In a confidential review, current physician listees answer the question, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer?" Best Doctors, Inc. evaluates the review results, and verifies all additional information to meet detailed inclusion criteria.
UW Health is an academic health system associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including:
- UW School of Medicine and Public Health, the nation's only combined school of medicine and public health
- UW Medical Foundation, the state's second largest medical practice group representing the school's 1,300 faculty physicians
- University Hospital, a nationally recognized 592-bed regional referral center that is home to a Level One adult and pediatric trauma center, American College of Surgeons-verified burn center, one of the nation's largest organ transplant program, the 87-bed American Family Children's Hospital with pediatric and surgical neonatal intensive care units, an innovative regional Telestroke Program and the Carbone Cancer Center, one of 40 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive centers in the country
- UW Health at The American Center, a 56-bed community-based health and wellness facility
- UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 50-bed post-acute inpatient program.
About Best Doctors, Inc.
Best Doctors works with the best five percent of doctors, ranked by impartial peer review, to help people get the right diagnosis and right treatment. Gallup has certified Best Doctors as using the highest industry standards survey methodology and processes in polling physicians to discover the doctors they would choose for their own care. Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School physicians, the global health solutions company, which has grown to over 30 million members worldwide, uses state-of-the-art technology capabilities to deliver improved health outcomes while reducing costs. Best Doctors seamlessly integrates its trusted health services with Fortune 1000 employers, insurers and other groups in every major region of the world.
UW Health 'Top Doctors' Honorees
Below are the more than 200 UW Health physicians who were awarded Best Doctors in America® recognition for 2015-16. To learn more about our doctors and view their bio pages, visit uwhealth.org/findadoctor and enter a doctor's name in the Quick Search field.
| Specialty | Doctors |
| Addiction Treatment | Michael Fiore |
| Allergy and Immunology | Robert F. Lemanske, Jr. |
| Anesthesiology |
George Arndt |
| Arthritis and Rheumatology | Kevin McKown |
| Cardiovascular Disease |
Amish Raval |
| Colon and Rectal Surgery |
Bruce Harms Eugene Foley |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Family Medicine |
Adam Rindfleisch |
| Critical Care Medicine |
Douglas Coursin |
| Dermatology |
Gary Wood |
| Diagnostic Radiology |
Jeffrey Kanne |
| Emergency Medicine | Azita Hamedani |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism | Diane Elson |
| Family Medicine |
Beth Potter |
| Gastroenterology |
Arnold Wald |
| Gastroenterology and Hepatology | Mark Reichelderfer |
| Geriatric Medicine |
Amy Kind Elizabeth Chapman |
| Geriatric Medicine, Sleep Medicine | Steven Barczi |
| Geriatrics and Family Medicine | Robert Przybelski |
| Hematology/Oncology | Mark Albertini |
| Hepatology and Gastroenterology | Michael Lucey |
| Infectious Disease |
Andrew Urban |
| Infectious Disease and Critical Care Medicine | Dennis Maki |
| Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine | David Andes |
| Internal Medicine |
Pamela Ryan |
| Internal Medicine, Hospitalist | Ann Sheehy |
| Medical Oncology | Sam Lubner |
| Medical Oncology and Hematology |
Howard Bailey |
| Nephrology | Arjang Djamali |
| Neurological Surgery |
Daniel Resnick |
| Neurological Surgery, Pediatric Specialist | Bermans Iskandar |
| Neurological Surgery, Spine Medicine | Gregory Trost |
| Neurology |
Andrew Waclawik |
| Neurology and Pediatric Specialist | Frederick Edelman |
| Nuclear Medicine | Scott Perlman |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Mary Sue Landry |
| Oncology, Gynecologic | Ellen Hartenbach |
| Oncology, Surgical | Sharon Weber |
| Ophthalmology |
Barbara Blodi |
| Orthopaedic Surgery |
David Goodspeed |
| Orthopaedic Surgery and Spine Medicine | Paul Anderson |
| Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation | John Heiner |
| Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Spine Medicine | Thomas Zdeblick |
| Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine | Ben Graf |
| Otolaryngology |
Benjamin Marcus |
| Palliative Medicine | Toby Campbell |
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Pediatric Specialist: Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine |
Timothy Chybowski Patricia Kokotailo |
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Pediatric Specialist: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
De-Ann Pillers |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology |
Robert F. Lemanske, Jr. Mark Moss |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Cardiology |
Heather Bartlett |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Critical Care |
Thomas B. Brazelton III Scott Hagen Gregory A. Hollman Michael Wilhelm |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology |
David Allen |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Hematology and Oncology |
Kenneth De Santes Carol Diamond Margo Hoover-Regan |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Infectious Disease |
James H. Conway Gregory P. De Muri Bruce S. Klein Ellen R. Wald |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Ophthalmology |
Yasmin Bradfield Burton Kushner Terri L. Young
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery |
Kenneth Noonan |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Otolaryngology |
Diane Heatley |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Pulmonary Disease |
Christopher Green Mary Schroth |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Plastic Surgery |
Michael Bentz |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Rheumatology |
Anna Huttenlocher |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Sports Medicine |
Gregory Landry |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Surgery |
Daniel Ostlie |
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Pediatric Specialist: Pediatric Urology |
Patrick McKenna |
| Pediatrics, General |
Catherine Kelley Thomas Meier Karen Pletta |
| Psychiatry | Ronald Diamond |
| Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine | William Ehlenbach |
| Pulmonary Medicine | Nizar Jarjour |
| Radiation Oncology |
Mark Ritter |
| Radiology |
Cristopher Meyer |
| Radiology/Neuroradiology | Howard Rowley |
| Rheumatology | Alan Bridges |
| Sleep Medicine | Mary Klink |
| Sleep Medicine, Neurology | Rama Maganti |
| Sports Medicine | David Bernhardt |
| Surgery and Thoracic Surgery | Lucian Lozonschi |
| Surgery, Bariatric | Michael Garren |
| Surgery, Colon/Rectal | Charles Heise |
| Surgery, General Plastic Surgery | Michael L. Bentz |
| Surgery, Hand/Microsurgery and Plastic and Reconstructive | Venkat Rao |
| Surgery, Plastic: Reconstructive Surgery and Microsurgery |
John Siebert |
| Surgery, Transplantation |
Anthony D'Alessandro |
| Thoracic Surgery | Nilto de Oliveira |
| Thoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery | Takushi Kohmoto |
| Urology |
Daniel Williams IV |
| Vascular Surgery |
Charles Acher |
Date Published: 12/30/2015
