Biennially a patient referral service called Best Doctors surveys more than 50,000 doctors worldwide to compile its Best Doctors in America® database.
In the most recent poll (2011-2012), 315 doctors from UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children's Hospital were named to that list. Of the 524 Iowa physicians recognized, 60 percent provide care through UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children's Hospital.
Our recognized physicians represent the full cross-section of clinical care areas, from primary care to specialty care in both adult and pediatric medicine.
Adult Specialists: UI Hospitals and Clinics
Allergy and Immunology: Richard Ahrens, Zuhair Ballas, Michael Weinberger
Anesthesiology: Javier Campos, Robert Forbes, Bradley Hindman, Mazen Maktabi, John Moyers, Martin Mueller, Robert Raw, Alan Ross, Joss Thomas (also UI Children's Hospital), Michael Todd
Cardiovascular Disease: Mark Anderson, Theresa Brennan, Kanu Chatterjee, Phillip Horwitz, Richard Kerber, Michael Kienzle, Paul Lindower, James Martins, James Rossen, Kimberly Staffey
Critical Care Medicine: G. Patrick Kealey (also UI Children's Hospital), Gregory Schmidt, Jeffrey Wilson
Dermatology: Janet Fairley, Vincent Liu, Kathi Madison, Thomas Ray, Mary Stone, Marta VanBeek
Emergency Medicine: Azeemuddin Ahmed, Gregory Bell, Christopher Buresh (also UI Children's Hospital), Carlyn Christensen-Szalanski, Dana Collaguazo, Mark Graber, Hans House, Harlo Hove, Charles Jennissen, Andrew Nugent, Bobby Peters
Endocrinology and Metabolism: Joseph Dillon, Gregory Doelle, Thomas O'Dorisio, Janet Schlechte, William Sivitz
Family Medicine: David Bedell, George Bergus, Richard Dobyns, John Ely, Jill Endres, Paul James, Gerald Jogerst, Barcey Levy, Alison Lynch, Britt Marcussen, Kelly Skelly, Michelle Weckmann, Jason Wilbur
Gastroenterology: David Elliott, F. Jeffrey Field, Henning Gerke, Frederick Johlin Jr., Frances Meyer, Satish Rao, Warren Schmidt, Konrad Schulze, William Silverman, Robert Summers
Geriatric Medicine: Richard Dobyns, Gerald Jogerst, Margo Schilling, Steven Wolfe
Hand Surgery: Brian Adams
Hepatology: Douglas LaBrecque, Warren Schmidt, Michael Voigt
Infectious Disease: Daniel Diekema, Charles Helms, Loreen Herwaldt, Jeffrey Meier, Rachel Miller, William Nauseef, Phil Polgreen, Jack Stapleton
Internal Medicine: Gwen Beck, Dale Bieber, Ann Broderick, Todd Burstain, Rebecca Davis, Christopher Goerdt, William Iverson, Peter Kaboli, Lauris Kaldjian, Richard LeBlond, Paul Mulhausen, Nicole Nisly, Gary Rosenthal, Margo Schilling, Joseph Szot, Alexandra Thomas, Shawna Westermann, Scott Wilson
Medical Oncology and Hematology: Daniel Berg, Thomas Carlisle, Thomas Carter, Gerald Clamon, Roger Gingrich, Raymond Hohl, Steven Lentz, Brian Link, Mohammed Milhem, Margarida Silverman, George Weiner
Nephrology: Lisa Antes, John Bertolatus, Bradley Dixon, Joel Gordon, Rebecca Hegeman, Lawrence Hunsicker, Roberto Kalil, Carla Nester, Douglas Somers, John Stokes, Manish Suneja, Christie Thomas
Neurological Surgery: Jeremy Greenlee, David Hasan, Patrick Hitchon, Matthew Howard, Hiroto Kawasaki, Arnold Menezes (also UI Children's Hospital)
Neurology: Harold Adams Jr., Patricia Davis, Mark Dyken, Deema Fattal, Pedro Gonzalez-Alegre, Mark Granner, Jun Kimura, Enrique Leira, George Richerson, Robert Rodnitzky, William Talman Jr., Jon Tippin, Ergun Uc, Michael Wall, Malcolm Yeh
Nuclear Medicine: David Bushnell, Michael Graham, Daniel Kahn, Yusuf Menda
Obstetrics and Gynecology: William Davis, Koen De Geest, Stephen Hunter, Susan Johnson, Jennifer Niebyl, Ginny Ryan, Craig Syrop, Bradley Van Voorhis, Jerome (Jerry) Yankowitz
Ophthalmology: Wallace Alward (also UI Children's Hospital), H. Culver Boldt (also UI Children's Hospital), Keith Carter (also UI Children's Hospital), Arlene Drack (also UI Children's Hospital), James Folk, Kenneth Goins, A. Tim Johnson, Randy Kardon, Young Kwon (also UI Children's Hospital), Vinit Mahajan, Thomas Oetting, Stephen Russell, Edwin Stone (also UI Children's Hospital)
Orthpaedics: John Albright, Annunziato (Ned) Amendola, Joseph Buckwalter IV (also UI Children's Hospital), John Callaghan, Charles Clark, John Femino, J. Lawrence Marsh, Todd McKinley, James Nepola, Joseph Smucker, Brian Wolf
Otolaryngology: John Canady (also UI Children's Hospital), Kristi Chang, Gerry Funk, Bruce Gantz (also UI Children's Hospital), Scott Graham, Grant Hamilton, Marlan Hansen (also UI Children's Hospital), Henry Hoffman, Erin O'Brien
Pain Medicine: Timothy Brennan, Richard Rosenquist
Pathology: Jo Ann Benda, Leslie Bruch, Michael Cohen, Lailah Dahmoush, Barry De Young, Chris Jensen, Patricia Kirby, Frank Mitros, Steven Moore, Robert A. Robinson, Nancy Rosenthal
Plastic Surgery: John Canady (also UI Children’s Hospital)
Psychiatry: Arnold Andersen (also UI Children's Hospital), Donald Black, Brian Cook, William Coryell, Raymond Crowe, Laurie McCormick, Delwyn Miller, Peggy Nopoulos, Bruce Pfohl, Richard Rinehart, Robert G. Robinson, Susan Schultz, Scott Stuart, Debra Suda (also UI Children's Hospital), Michelle Weckmann, Nancy Williams
Pulmonary Medicine: John Fieselmann, Douglas Hornick, Jeffrey S. Wilson
Radiation Oncology: Sudershan Bhatia, John Buatti (also UI Children's Hospital), Geraldine Jacobson
Radiology: Monzer Mohammed Abu Yousef, Thomas Barloon, D. Lee Bennett, John Chaloupka, George El-Khoury, Laurie Fajardo, Minako Hayakawa, David Kuehn, Alan Stolpen
Rheumatology: John Cowdery Jr., Elizabeth Field, John Rachow, Haraldine Stafford, Rebecca Tuetken, Scott Vogelgesang
Sleep Medicine: Mark Dyken, Deborah Lin-Dyken (also UI Children's Hospital), Jon Tippin, Thoru Yamada, Malcolm Henry Yeh
Surgery: Hisakazu Hoshi, Daniel Katz, G. Patrick Kealey (also UI Children's Hospital), Alan Reed, Carol Scott-Conner (also UI Children's Hospital), Siroos Shirazi, Ronald Weigel
Surgical Oncology: Carol Scott-Conner (also UI Children's Hospital), James Howe, Ronald Weigel (also Surgery)
Thoracic Surgery: Timothy Thomsen (also in Surgery)
Urology: Bernard Fallon, Karl Kreder, Victoria Sharp
Vascular Surgery: William Sharp (also in Surgery)
Pediatric Specialists: UI Children’s Hospital
Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine: Mary Larew, Anita Moonjely
Allergy and Immunology: Richard Ahrens; Mary Beth Fasano; Miles Weinberger
Anesthesiology: James Choi; Robert Forbes; Tara Hata; Martin Mueller; Joss Thomas
Carcinoid/Neuroendocrine Surgery: M. Sue O'Dorisio
Cardiology: Dianne Atkins; Heather Bartlett; Abhay Divekar; Ian Law; Larry Mahoney; Vickie Pyevich; Ben Reinking; Thomas Scholz
Cardiothoracic Surgery: James Davis
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Jill Liesveld
Critical Care: Jessica Moreland
Emergency Medicine: Christopher Buresh; Charles Jennissen
Endocrinology: Andrew Norris; Michael Tansey; Eva Tsalikian
Gastroenterology: Warren Bishop
General Pediatrics: (UI Children’s Hospital); Lori Christensen; Carlyn Christensen-Szalanski; Donna D'Alessandro; Lois Dusdieker; Ellen Link; Stacy McConkey; Jody Murph; Resmiye Oral (Abused Children); Shannon Sullivan; Debra Waldron; Jerold Woodhead
Hematology/Oncology: Raymond Tannous
Infectious Disease: Charles Grose
Neonatology: Michael Acarregui, Edward Bell, Tarah Colaizy, John Dagle; Jonathan Klein; Julie Lindower; Frank Morriss; Jeffrey Murray; Robert Roghair; Jeffrey Segar; Shannon Sullivan; John "Jack" Widness; Zahi Zeidan
Nephrology: Patrick Brophy
Neurology/Epilepsy: Charuta N. Joshi
Neurology/Neuromuscular Disease: Katherine Mathews
Nutrition: Ekhard Ziegler
Ophthalmology: Arlene Drack
Orthopaedics: Fred Dietz; Jose Morcuende; Stuart Weinstein
Otolaryngology: Jose Manaligod; Richard Smith
Pediatric Neurosurgery: Glenda Rabe; Arnold Menezes
Pulmonology: Paul McCray Jr.; Jeffrey Smith; Timothy Starner; Miles Weineberger
Radiology: Yutaka Sato
Rheumatology: Polly Ferguson
Sleep Medicine: Deborah Lin-Dyken
Sports Medicine: George Phillips
Surgery: Joel Shilyansky
Urology: Christopher Cooper