More than two-thirds of the best doctors in Alabama practice at UAB, according to the 2009-10 edition of The Best Doctors in America. The new edition recognizes 297 UAB physicians among the nation's best doctors, a total of 67 percent of the 446 physicians selected from the state of Alabama. A complete list of the UAB physicians named in Best Doctors is available at www.uabmedicine.org/Bestdoctors.
The previous Best Doctors edition, published in 2007, named 277 UAB physicians to the list, comprising 60 percent of Alabama's 460 listed physicians.
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 5 percent of all physicians make the list, which contains the names of about 50,000 physicians.
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.
About Best Doctors
For almost 20 years, Best Doctors has provided information to help people make better choices about health-care providers. Today Best Doctors is the trusted resource that individuals and physicians use to better ensure the appropriate diagnosis and treatment. The company serves hundreds of employers, insurers and health plans, touching more than 15 million people in 30 countries.
Allergy and Immunology
T. Prescott Atkinson
James R. Bonner
Harry W. Schroeder, Jr.
Anesthesiology
Susan Black
Arthur M. Boudreaux
James R. Boyce
Richard Clark Cross
W. Quinton Gurley, Jr.
Colleen Henling
Keith A. Jones
Thomas A. Moore II
Albert Pierce
Perry W. Smith
Pamela D. Varner
Mark S. Williams
Cardiovascular Disease
Vera Astrid Bittner
Robert C. Bourge
Louis J. Dell'Italia
William B. Hillegass
Ami E. Iskandrian
G. Neal Kay
Navin C. Nanda
Suzanne Oparil
Silvio E. Papapietro
Gilbert Jack Perry
Vance Plumb
Barry K. Rayburn
Robert P. Robichaux
William John Rogers, Jr.
James L. Taylor
Critical Care Medicine
Edward Abraham
J. Allen D. Cooper, Jr.
Jennifer J. Davis
Nancy E. Dunlap
James E. Johnson
John I. Kennedy, Jr.
Philip McArdle
Michael R. Waldrum
K. Randall Young, Jr.
Dermatology
Boni E. Elewski
Craig A. Elmets
Patricia J. Mercado
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Elizabeth D. Ennis
Family Medicine
T. Michael Harrington
Walter V. White
Gastroenterology
Charles O. Elson III
Robert Lewis Slaughter
Christopher D. Truss
C. Mel Wilcox
Geriatric Medicine
Ali Ahmed
Richard M. Allman
Cynthia J. Brown
Andrew Duxbury
Kellie L. Flood
Patricia S. Goode
Clare I. Hays
Christine Ritchie
Marisol S. Sanchez-Lance
Richard V. Sims III
Hand Surgery
John S. Gould
Thomas R. Hunt III
Hepatology
Joseph R. Bloomer
Infectious Disease
David W. Barnes
Dennis G. Delgado
William Ernest Dismukes
David O. Freedman
Craig J. Hoesley
Edward W. Hook III
Peter G. Pappas
Michael S. Saag
Internal Medicine
Ray J. Browne
Stuart J. Cohen
William A. Curry
Patricia L. Garver
David Gettinger
Gustavo Heudebert
Gorman Robinson Jones III
Amy LeJeune
Joseph Mark LeJeune
Sarah L. Morgan
William Guy Patterson
Stephen W. Russell
Edwin A. Rutsky
Mark A. Stafford
Douglas C. Tilt
Roxanne Travelute
Lisa L. Willett
James E. Williams, Jr.
Medical Genetics
Bruce Korf
Medical Oncology and Hematology
Mack Nathaniel Barnes III
John T. Carpenter, Jr.
Andres Forero-Torres
Lisle Maire Nabell
James Posey
Charlie W. (C.W.) Scott, Jr.
William P. Vaughan
Nephrology
Suzanne M. Bergman
Ruth C. Campbell
John Joseph Curtis
Robert Gaston
Bruce Allen Julian
Clifton E. Kew
Roslyn J. Bernstein Mannon
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
James MacDowell Markert, Jr.
Neurology
Khurram Bashir
Gwendolyn Campbell Claussen
R. Edward Faught, Jr.
Peter H. King
Lanning B. Kline
Louis Burt Nabors III
Shin Joong Oh
Alyssa Reddy
John F. Rothrock
David G. Standaert
Michael S. Vaphiades
Ray L. Watts
Nuclear Medicine
Janis O'Malley
Johnny W. Scott
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ronald D. Alvarez
William W. Andrews
J. Max Austin, Jr.
Mack Nathaniel Barnes III
Joseph R. Biggio
Richard Edgar Blackwell
Cynthia G. Brumfield
Richard O. Davis
Brian Gleason
Robert L. Holley
Warner K. Huh
Larry C. Kilgore
Debora F. Kimberlin
Holly Richter
J. Michael Straughn, Jr.
R. Edward Varner
Ophthalmology
Michael A. Callahan
Christopher A. Girkin
Christopher L. Kelly
Lanning B. Kline
John Alva Long
John O. Mason
Marc A. Michelson
Robert E. Morris
Robert L. Phillips
Russell W. Read
Matthew G. Vicinanzo
C. Douglas Witherspoon
Orthopaedic Surgery
William P. Garth, Jr.
John S. Gould
Richard D. Meyer
Kenneth David Moore
James Stannard
Rena Stewart
Steven M. Theiss
David A. Volgas
Otolaryngology
William R. Carroll
Paul Castellanos
Glenn E. Peters
Eben L. Rosenthal
Pain Medicine
Timothy John Ness
Mark S. Williams
Pathology
Walter Charles Bell
Michael Gus Conner
William Joseph Cook
David Ralph Crowe
Isam Eltoum
Ona M. Faye-Petersen
Omar Hameed
Darshana Jhala
Nirag Jhala
Silvio H. Litovsky
Marisa Bicca Marques
Jay M. McDonald
Vishnu V. Reddy
Gene P. Siegal
Thomas S. Winokur
Pediatric Specialist
Jeffrey Alten
Namasivayam Ambalavanan
Joycelyn A. Atchison
T. Prescott Atkinson
E. Martina Bebin
Mark Benfield
Jeffrey Blount
Suresh B. Boppana
William J. Britt
Mark Buckmaster
Waldemar A. Carlo
John Paul Clancy
Martin Steven Cogen
Carl H. Coghill
Edward V. Colvin
Reed Dimmitt
John Scott Doyle
Leon Dure
Keith Georgeson
John H. Grant III
Hector H. Gutierrez
James S. Hagood
Lee Michelle Hilliard
Thomas H. Howard
Susan Cecelia Hutto
Walter Harvey Johnson, Jr.
David B. Joseph
David Kimberlin
Yung R. Lau
Mark A. Law
Charles R. Law
Raymond K. Lyrene
Christopher M. Makris
Jan Eddy Mathisen
William S. McMahon
W. Jerry Oakes
Rees E. Oliver
Frank Bennett Pearce
Alan K. Percy
Priya Prabhakaran
Alyssa Reddy
Robb L. Romp
Stuart A. Royal
Samuel Ernst Rubin
S. Lane Rutledge
Shehzad A. Saeed
Sergio Stagno
Yoginder Vaid
Raymond G. Watts
John C. Wellons III
Kimberly F. Whelan
Richard James Whitley
Margaret K. Winkler
Daniel William Young
Pediatrics
Carolyn Seymore Ashworth
Kathleen G. Nelson
Stephen W. Russell
Anne G. Stafford
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Amie B. Jackson
Plastic Surgery
Sherry S. Collawn
R. Jobe Fix
John H. Grant III
Psychiatry
Lee I. Ascherman
Daniel Carl Dahl
Jacqueline M. Feldman
F. Cleveland Kinney
Samuel Ernst Rubin
Terri Sue Steele
Ray Thweatt
Pulmonary Medicine
John Durwood Bradley, Jr.
J. Allen D. Cooper, Jr.
Joao Alberto M. De Andrade
Mark T. Dransfield
Nancy E. Dunlap
Susan M. Harding
James E. Johnson
John I. Kennedy, Jr.
Rufus Waid Shelton, Jr.
Michael R. Waldrum
Keith MichaelWille
K. Randall Young, Jr.
Radiation Oncology
Ruby F. Meredith
Radiology
Lincoln L. Berland
Wanda K. Bernreuter
Cheri L. Canon
Joel Kent Cure
David Hogg
Robert E.Koehler
Philip Lander
Mark C. Langston
Mark Elwood Lockhart
Robert R. Lopez
Desiree E. Morgan
Reginald F. Munden
Michael J. Pitt
Glenn H. Roberson
Stuart A. Royal
Souheil Saddekni
Patricia Colleen Sanders
J. Kevin Smith
Robert J. Stanley
Franklin N. Tessler
Edgar Smith Underwood
Rheumatology
S. Louis Bridges, Jr.
W. Winn Chatham
Barri Fessler
Robert P. Kimberly
Kenneth G. Saag
David M. Spalding
Sleep Medicine
Susan M. Harding
Jeffrey W. Hawkins
Christopher M. Makris
Surgery
J. Stevenson Bynon, Jr.
Mark H. Deierhoi
Devin Eckhoff
Michael J. Hanaway
Mary Therese Hawn
Sherry M. Melton
Loring Washington Rue III
Carlton Young
Surgical Oncology
Juan Pablo Arnoletti
Kirby I. Bland
Martin J. Heslin
Helen Krontiras
Marshall M. Urist
Thoracic Surgery
Constantine L. Athanasuleas
Robert J. Cerfolio
James K. Kirklin
Octavio Pajaro
Urology
John R. Burns
David B. Joseph
Peter N. Kolettis
Lewis Keith Lloyd, Jr.
Vascular Surgery
William D. Jordan, Jr.
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