Castle Connolly

Americas Top Doctors

2008

Americas Best Doctors 2007- 2008

Best Doctors, Inc. operates on the premise that doctors are uniquely qualified to evaluate the skill and experience of their peers because they have an insiders perspective. They know which doctors are at the top of their profession and which MDs are well-informed about the latest advances in their respective fields. The Best Doctors survey asks thousands of board-certified physicians this question: If you ora loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them? Best Doctors, Inc. then compiles the data from this peer review survey into its Americas Best Doctors list. Only five percent of the doctors in America are selected to become Best Doctors. Please join us in congratulating these distinguished University of Illinois Medical Center physicians and surgeons who have been designated as Americas Best Doctors for their leadership and excellence in their respective specialties.
Herand Abcarian
Colon/Rectal Surgery and Surgical Oncology

A New York City-based research and publishing company, Castle Connolly annually conducts national surveys of the best doctors in America. The companys physician-led team of researchers follows a rigorous screening process to select the top doctors regionally and nationally. The firms evaluation process to identify top doctors begins with a randomly selected pool of board-certified doctors who then nominate other physicians they feel are clinically outstanding and exhibit excellence in patient care. In other words, nominating physicians are identifying doctors to whom they would feel comfortable sending members of their own family. Castle Connollys research staff then reviews and verifies credentials and conducts extensive phone interviews before compiling the final list. Please join us in congratulating these distinguished University of Illinois Medical Center physicians and surgeons who have been designated as Americas Top Doctors in 2008 for their leadership and excellence in their respective specialties.

Richard Fantus
Surgery

Bruce Jasper
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Terry L. Nicola
Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation

Jane E. Striegel
Pediatric Specialist and Pediatrics (General)

Virginia C. Fiedler
Dermatology

Mark Thomas Jennings

Pediatric Specialist

Amjad Z. Ahmad
Ophthalmology

Craig S. Niederberger
Urology

Joel Sugar
Ophthalmology

Gerald A. Fishman
Ophthalmology

Philip B. Johnson
Internal Medicine (General)

Sepideh Amin-Hanjani
Neurological Surgery

Richard M. Novak
Infectious Disease

William Swedler
Rheumatology

Geraldine Fox
Psychiatry

Donald Albert Jurivich

Geriatric Medicine

Carey August
Pathology

Christopher Olopade
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine

Howard H. Tessler
Ophthalmology

Esperanza Garcia-Alvarez
Pediatric Specialist

Jorge Kattah
Neurology

Dimitri Azar
Ophthalmology

J. Regan Thomas
Otolaryngology

Peter Geldner
Plastic Surgery

Lawrence Kaufman
Ophthalmology

Stuart Oserman
Internal Medicine

Nathalie Azar
Ophthalmology

Dean M. Toriumi
Otolaryngology / Plastic Surgery

Castle Connolly 2008

Allen Putterman
Ophthalmology

David Gieser
Ophthalmology

Kathleen M. Kelley
Psychiatry

Thomas B. Owley
Psychiatry

National Top Doctors

Herand Abcarian
Colon/Rectal Surgery

Joseph C. Barkmeier
Radiology

Patrick Tranmer
Family Medicine

Lawrence S. Ross
Urology

Debra Goldstein
Ophthalmology

Asra R. Khan
Internal Medicine (General)

Songya Pang
Pediatric Specialist

Arlene N. Barr
Neurology

Neena Tripathy
Pediatrics (General)

Dean M. Toriumi
Otolaryngology

Jay L. Goldstein
Gastroenterology

Sarah J. Kilpatrick
Obstetrics / Gynecology

Barbara Parilla
Obstetrics / Gynecology

Rama Bhat
Pediatric Specialist

Elmer Yuchen Tu
Ophthalmology

Isabelle A. Wilkins
Maternal-Fetal Medicine

James A. Goodwin
Ophthalmology / Neurology

Kevin Kirby
Family Medicine

Mani N. Pavuluri
Psychiatry

Andre Balla
Pathology

Michael Joseph Blend

Nuclear Medicine

John Edward Tulley

Internal Medicine (General)

Philip B. Gorelick
Neurology

George T. Kondos
Cardiovascular Disease

Usha Raj
Pediatric Specialist

Frederick Behm
Pathology

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Enrico Benedetti
Surgery

Top Doctors for Cancer

Herand Abcarian
Colon / Rectal Surgery

William Watson Briner Jr.

Family Medicine

Mark Vajaranant
Obstetrics / Gynecology

Thomas Gross
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Lynn Kraus
Psychiatry

Ruth Goodwin Ramsey

Radiology

Russell D. Brown
Gastroenterology

Carole Leslie Warshaw

Psychiatry

Allan G. Halline
Gastroenterology

Mark S. Kushner
Internal Medicine (General)

Kenneth C. Rich Jr.

Allergy and Immunology and Pediatric Specialist

Judith Hibbard
Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Fady Charbel
Neurological Surgery

David T. Wechter
Internal Medicine

John Halvorsen
Family Medicine

Jeffrey P. Kyrouac
Internal Medicine (General)

Mark Holterman
Surgery

Janet Riddle
Internal Medicine (General)

Andre Balla
Pathology

Ira J. Chasnoff
Addiction Medicine and Pediatric Specialist

Robert A. Weiss
Ophthalmology

Bryna Harwood
Obstetrics / Gynecology

Thomas J. Layden
Hepatology

Bennett L. Leventhal
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry

Robert T. Rosman
Internal Medicine (General)

Charles R. Welford
Internal Medicine

Frederick Behm
Pathology

Theodore Mazzone
Endocrinology/Metabolism

Edwin Haynes Cook Jr.

Psychiatry

Terry Hatch
Pediatric Specialist

Bennett Leventhal
Psychiatry

Sara Rusch
Internal Medicine (General)

Melvin Wichter
Neurology

Scott Jay Cotler

Hepatology

Cathy M. Helgason
Neurology

Jennifer I. Lim
Ophthalmology

David H. Sarne
Endocrinology / Metabolism

Jacob T. Wilensky
Ophthalmology

John Daugirdas
Nephrology

Judith Hibbard
Obstetrics / Gynecology

Daniel Luchins
Psychiatry

Arthur Schneider
Endocrinology / Metabolism

Elizabeth L. Wiley
Pathology

Pedro de Alarcon
Pediatric Specialist

David S. Hillman
Ophthalmology

Irene Maumenee
Ophthalmology

Dean E. Schraufnagel
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine

Isabelle A. Wilkins
Obstetrics / Gynecology

David Deutsch
Pediatric Specialist

George Edward Hoganson

Pediatric Specialist

Brian Ted Maurer

Orthopaedic Surgery

Konstantin V. Slavin
Neurological Surgery

Joyce Elizabeth Wise

Pediatric Specialist

Ali Reza Djalilian

Ophthalmology

Allen L. Horwitz
Medical Genetics and Pediatric Specialist

Charles Miller
Obstetrics / Gynecology

Lisa E. Snyder
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Fred Arthur Zar

Infectious Disease

Robert T. Egel
Pediatric Specialist

Michael W. Naylor
Psychiatry

Mark R. Hutchinson
Orthopaedic Surgery

Brenda R. C. Solomon
Psychiatry

Howard Jerome Zeitz

Allergy and Immunology

Gloria L. Elam
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Jeffrey W. Nichols
Ophthalmology

Sandeep Jain
Ophthalmology

Norman C. Estes
Surgical Oncology