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Top Doctors 2025
Health & Wellness
November 2025


EVERY YEAR IT IS OUR PRIVILEGE to ask the region’s physicians to put forward the peers they believe are stellar in their field. This year, 635 doctors have been recognized with this honor in 126 specialties, from addiction medicine to weight management and everything in between.

But this is not an easy time to be a medical professional. With vaccine deniers, federal funding cuts to medical research, high rates of workplace violence, burn out, and student debt, this once most respected of careers has become something of a battleground. In “The Weight of the White Coat,” Baltimore contributor Dan Cook asks physicians the burning question: Why would anyone want to be a doctor now? Through interviews with young physicians fresh out of medical school and those more seasoned, the story explores medicine’s challenges—and the ways it continues to be rewarding.

How Do We Decide Who Is a Top Doctor?

HOW DO WE GET OUR RESULTS? We hold open nominations on our website where physicians nominate the peers they believe are preeminent in their fields. After nominations close, we number crunch to determine the physicians with the most nominations.

WHY CAN'T PATIENTS NOMINATE A DOCTOR?Our list is based on professional assessment of clinical skill, which we believe is best done by physician peers.

WHO CAN BE ON THE LIST? Any M.D. in good standing in the readership area.

WHY DON’T I SEE A CERTAIN SPECIALTY LISTED? Only specialties that have enough physicians nominated are included. If a particular specialty is not included one year, it is because there were insufficient or no nominees in that category.

DOES ADVERTISING AFFECT THE LIST? Absolutely not. In fact, the list is finalized prior to ad space being offered for sale.

WHO OVERSEES THE LIST? In addition to our editorial staff, winning doctors are fact-checked by staff to ensure they are licensed and in good standing, and our panel of physician advisors provides advice and oversight. (Advisers are not eligible to be included on the list in the year they serve.)

DO DOCTORS ONLY PRACTICE AT THE LOCATION LISTED? Not necessarily. Many doctors have multiple locations and privileges at different hospitals. We list a physician’s primary appointment location. Unless otherwise noted, the primary location is Baltimore.

IF MY DOCTOR ISN’T ON THE LIST, OR WAS ON IN THE PAST AND IS NOT THIS YEAR, ARE THEY NOT A GOOD DOCTOR? Absolutely not! This list, which is limited by space, is a snapshot of the many amazing physicians in the region.

Health & Wellness

The Weight of the White Coat

Today’s physicians must overcome bureaucratic burdens, burnout risks, and a broken health care system to focus on why they entered the profession in the first place.

Our Advisors

Linda Greif Adler, M.D., F.H.M., is the chief of the division of hospital medicine at University of Maryland (UM) St. Joseph Medical Center and has served as past president of the UM St. Joseph medical staff. Dr. Adler earned her medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2000 and subsequently completed her internship and residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Melvin S. Blanchard, M.D., M.A.C.P., is the chairman of medicine at GBMC and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Maryland. He was professor of medicine, vice chair for Medical Education in the Department of Medicine, and chief of General Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. He was also chairman of the board for the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM). Dr. Blanchard earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from University of Tennessee Health Science Center and completed his residency in internal medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University.

Carole Fakhry, M.D., M.P.H., is a head and neck surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins (JH). She received her medical degree from JH and a master’s in public health from JH Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a professor, serves as associate dean of clinical affairs for JH School of Medicine, chief of the division of Head and Neck Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, director of the Head and Neck Cancer Center, and director of the head and neck group in the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Samuel Smith, M.D., is vice president physician advisor for LifeBridge Health, having recently retired as chief medical officer for Northwest Hospital. Prior to assuming that role, he served as the chief quality officer and chair of the Department of Gynecology for the hospital. Smith earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, completed his residency at Georgetown University Medical Center, and completed his fellowship in reproductive endocrinology-infertility at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Smith is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology-infertility.

Jennifer Taylor, M.D., earned her medical degree at State University of New York at Buffalo and completed her residency in OB-GYN at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She now practices at Mercy Medical Center. Board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, she has participated in several research initiatives and has numerous honors, publications, and presentations to her credit. She is a fellow of the American College of OB-GYN, and a member of the American Medical Association and the Douglass Obstetrics and Gynecology Society.

TOP DOCTORS 2025

ADULT SPECIALITIES

* Indicates a physician has a joint appointment with Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System

Anesthesiology

RICHARD BARNHART

Johns Hopkins, Bayview Medical Center, 410-955-5608

JOSHUA DISHON

MedStar Union, Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6559

JESSICA HOBBS

LifeBridge Health, Carroll Hospital, Westminster, 410-848-3000

OMOLARA KARUNWI

Ascension Saint, Agnes Hospital, 667-234-6000

KIRAN KUNA

LifeBridge Health, Carroll Hospital, Westminster, 410-848-3000

KARA SEGNA

Johns Hopkins Bayview, Medical Center, 410-955-5000

Addiction Medicine/ Substance Use Disorder

Drew Fuller

BrightWell Health, Glen Burnie, (844) 387-7469

Cardiology–Electrophysiology

GLENN MEININGER

MedStar Union, Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6727

SUNJEET SIDHU

MedStar Union, Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6727

Cardiology–Preventative & Vascular Medicine

ELIZABETH RATCHFORD

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lutherville, 443-997-0270

Cardiac Anesthesia

NICHOLAS MANTEL

MedStar Union, Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6559

SAMHATI MONDAL

University of Maryland, Medical Center, 410-328-6056

RODNEY TAYLOR

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE THIS SPECIALTY? The vast array of both medical and surgical conditions that are cared for by otolaryngologists is what attracted me. In addition, I find appealing some of the key research areas we investigate in otolaryngology, particularly those relating to the cure for cancer. And as someone who values the sacredness of the patient-doctor relationship, I am gratified that otolaryngologists are able to have longitudinal relationships with their patients that last many years. Finally, as the majority of my patients are diagnosed with head and neck cancer, providing comfort and hope to patients with this condition is something that gives me deep fulfillment and satisfaction.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT THIS WORK? Curing patients of their cancer is very important to me, but I most enjoy patients returning to their full humanity, pursuing their passions and hobbies as well as enjoying friends and family. The stories that they share during their visits affirming their return to form absolutely fill me up and inspire me.

FINISH THIS SENTENCE: IF I WEREN'T A PHYSICIAN, I’D PROBABLY BE... in the field of health care policy where my efforts could impact and improve patient’s lives on a broader scale. I believe that health is foundational to our happiness and ensuring that as many as possible have access to and enjoy good health is my passion.

CARDIOLOGY-INTERVENTIONAL

DANIEL AMBINDER

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-427-2580

DARPAN BANSAL

Baltimore Heart Associates, 410-367-0100

CHARLES CUMMINGS

LifeBridge Health, 410-469-4000

MATTHEW CZARNY

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Odenton, 443-997-0270

ANUJ GUPTA

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-9098

RANI HASAN

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lutherville, 443-997-0270

ANTONY KALIYADAN

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6550

AMIR NAJAFI

Cardiovascular Associates of Maryland, Bel Air, 410-638-9950

MUKTA SRIVASTAVA*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-7877

JOHN WANG

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6550

SYED SHUMILE ZAIDI

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-427-2580

Colo-Rectal

IRINA BERNESCU

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 443-574-8500

REBECCA BROWN

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-7904

ALODIA GABRE-KIDAN

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-550-5900

Cosmetic Surgery–Facial

Theda Kontis

Dr. Theda Kontis- Aesthetic Center at Woodholme, 410-486-3400

Jigar Sitapara

Prime Facial Plastic Surgery, Columbia, 301-302-7272

CARMEN ELENA CERVANTES

JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL

NEPHROLOGY

WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE THIS SPECIALTY? The intellectual curiosity and the fact that nephrologists [a doctor who specializes in kidney disease] get to specialize while still remaining proficient in internal medicine. Nephrology requires both deep expertise and broad medical knowledge. What’s unique is that we work heavily both inpatient and outpatient, which allows us to establish real longitudinal relationships with our patients.

DO YOU HAVE A STORY THAT UNDERSCORES WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT THIS JOB? I took over the care of a patient with kidney stones. Her calcium levels were borderline high, initially attributed to one of her medications. Despite stopping the medication, her calcium levels remained borderline high, and her parathyroid hormone level was inappropriately normal, which suggested primary hyperparathyroidism.

After coordinating with surgery for parathyroid adenoma removal, I saw her months later via video and she had a big “Thank You” message written on colored paper. She told me that symptoms like mild anxiety and restlessness had also resolved, and she didn’t even know they were related to her calcium and stone problems. Seeing that transformation and knowing that careful attention to detail can make a difference in someone’s life, that’s what drives my passion for nephrology.

CARDIOLOGY-NON-INTERVENTIONAL

Mohammed Abuzahra

LifeBridge Health Pikesville, 410-521-5600

Brian Barr

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-7877

George Bittar

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 427-2580

Catherine Campbell

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Srivasavi Chaganti

LifeBridge Health, Pikesville, 410-521-5600

Jesse Doran

Ascension Saint Agnes, Heart Care, 410-644-5111

Benjamin Dubois

Woodholme Cardiovascular Associates, Pikesville, 410-469-4000

Martin Engelhardt

Woodholme Cardiovascular Associates, Ellicott City, 410-469-4000

Raktim Ghosh

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-366-5600

Carlos Ince

The Heart Center at Mercy Medical Center, 443-275-5000

Kerunne S. Ketlogetswe

MedStar Harbor Hospital, 410-350-3200

Frederick Kuhn

The Heart Center at Mercy Medical Center, Overlea, 410-663-6986

Jose Madrazo

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Columbia, 443-997-0270

Sunal Makadia

LifeBridge Health, 410-367-2590

Salman Malik

MedStar Health, 410-761-8007

Mansoor Mozayan

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 410-574-1330

Monica Mukherjee

JHH/Bayview 443-997-0270

Manu Mysore

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-7877

Amir Najafi

Cardiovascular Associates of Maryland, Bel Air, 410-638-9950

Jaideep Patel

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-8989

Matthew Peters

Clinical Associates Reisterstown, Reisterstown, 410-494-1397

Jeremy Pollock

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-427-2580

James Porterfield

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-0270

Gautam Ramani

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-7877

Jasmin Sahbaz

Howard County General Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Columbia, 443-997-0270

Emil Thattassery

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Cosmetic Surgery–Breast/Body Contouring

Emile Brown

Aesthetic Center at Woodholme, 410-486-3400

Emily Clarke-Pearson

Charm City Plastic Surgery, 443-885-9644

Nassif Soueid

Advanced Plastic Surgery, Lutherville, 410-321-0808

Maakan Taghizadeh

U Plastic Surgery + Aesthetics, Owings Mills, 410-205-6595

Dermatology–General

Meg Gerstenblith

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lutherville, 410-955-5933

Jamie Goldberg

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Zaineb Makhzoumi

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 410-328-5823

Tola Oyesanya

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, 1-800-777-7904

Linda Wang

Wang Dermatology, Lutherville, 443-288-1870

Dermatology–Medical

Diane Orlinsky

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lutherville, 410-955-5933

Emergency Medicine

Brian Corwell

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-8025

Andrew Frei

UM Upper Chesapeake Health/US Acute Care Solutions, Bel Air, 443-643-1000

J. David Gatz

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-8025

Hania Habeeb

MedStar Harbor Hospital, 410-554-2626

Chava Hobbs

LifeBridge Health, Carroll Hospital Westminster, 410-848-3000

Sarah Sommerkamp

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-8025

Ryan Spangler

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-8025

Mark Sutherland*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-8025

Danielle Warren

LifeBridge Health, Carroll Hospital Westminster, 410-871-3000

R. Gentry Wilkerson

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-8025

Cosmetic Surgery–General

Nassif Soueid

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-321-0808

Endocrinology

Nelly Arnouk

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4193

Issam Cheikh

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-4511

Malek Cheikh

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4193

Elizabeth Lamos

University of Maryland Medical Center, 443-682-6800

Rana Malek

University of Maryland Medical Center, 443-682-6800

Rozalina McCoy

University of Maryland Medical Center, 443-682-6800

Nawar Suleman

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-6351

Hilary Whitlatch

University of Maryland Medical Center, 443-682-6800

Environmental/Occupational Health

Romarius Longmire

Mercy Medical Center, 410-332-9240

DAVID SILL

MERCY MEDICAL CENTER

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

WHAT IS SOMETHING NON-PHYSICIANS MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY (IR)? I suspect it would be that IR exists in medicine. We are a small field that is mostly hospital-based, so many patients don’t know who we are. We do a wide variety of procedures throughout the human body that all have one thing in common: They can be done through a needle or a small catheter inserted through a tiny incision that can be closed with a Band-Aid. We do many types of biopsies, treatment of tumors using intense heat or cold delivered through needles, delivering chemotherapy through catheters directly into tumors, draining abscesses with small catheters, draining blockages in the biliary or urinary systems if they cannot be treated with conventional surgical procedures, and many other procedures.

HOW DO YOU UNWIND OUTSIDE OF THE OFFICE? Gardening and working on cars. We’re eating something from the garden almost yearround, between fresh harvests and careful storage of the harvest like winter squash that keeps well for many months in a cool dry place. There’s always work to do in the garden.

FINISH THIS SENTENCE: IF I WEREN’T A PHYSICIAN, I’D PROBABLY BE... Three years ago, my wife convinced me to take welding lessons. Welding really is a very interesting process that involves a lot of physics and chemistry and using your hands. When it’s done well, it’s almost artwork. Now, I’m always looking for something to weld. If I had taken welding lessons after high school or in college, I might not have gone to medical school.

Family Medicine

Amy Bernardino

Luminis Health Primary Care Annapolis, Annapolis, 443-481-1150

Kevin Carter

GBMC Healthcare at Owings Mills, Owings Mills, 410-581-7804

Katherine Jacobson

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 410-706-2500

Alkesh Patel

Family Health and Beauty Center, Columbia, 410-997-9751

Lise Satterfield

Clinical Associates Towson, Towson, 410-769-6269

Family Medicine, Hospitalist

Amelita Woodruff

Johns Hopkins Hospital 410-955-5000

Gastroenterology–Liver Disease

Neha Jakhete*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-5780

Tinsay Woreta

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-933-7495

Gastroenterology–General

Joshua Forman

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-296-4210

Eric Goldberg

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-5780

Ekta Gupta

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-225-8301

Niraj Jani

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3400

Eiad Nasser

UM Upper Chesapeake Health/Harford Gastroenterology Assoc., Bel Air, 443-347-4700

Sandra Quezada

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-2877

Abhinav Sankineni

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-782-7640

Anusha Vittal

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4372

Jordan Wolff

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Gynecology–High-Risk Obstetrics

Jessica Bienstock

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-502-3200

Michelle Garner

Kaiser Permanente, Annapolis, 1-800-777-7904

Cescili Hopkins

Kaiser Permanente, Annapolis, 1-800-777-7904

Jaquelyn Pelham

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 667-234-2523

Jeanne Shefield

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-502-3200

Rauda Amanda Tellawi

Kaiser Permanente, Towson, 1-800-777-7904

Geriatrics

George Hennawi

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4720

David Hurwitz

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-0925

Ernestine Wright

Mercy Medical Center, 410-332-4291

Gynecology–OB/GYN

Suzanne Abdelazim

University of Maryland Medical Center, 667-214-1300

Dominique Allen

Capital Women’s Care, Towson, 410-938-8960

Tangela Anderson Tull

The Family Childbirth and Children’s Center at Mercy, 410-663-6300

Rochelle Arbuah-Aning

The Family Childbirth and Children’s Center at Mercy, 410-327-0687

Hamayara Aziz

Aziz ObGyn, Columbia, 410-775-6430

Wael Bitar

MedStar Harbor Hospital, 410-354-0800

Joyce Bonsu

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 410-644-2582

Diane Boykin

Kaiser Permanente, Glen Burnie, 1-800-777-7904

Yves-Richard Dole

The Family Childbirth and Children’s Center at Mercy, 410-332-1092

Adaku Exeike

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, Columbia, 410-997-8444

Julie Hurvitz

University of Maryland Medical Center 667-214-1300

Tanya Kalmar

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, Columbia, 410-997-8444

Cyrus Lawyer

The Family Childbirth and Children’s Center at Mercy, 410-332-1092

Jessica Lee*

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1300

Julita Lett

Kaiser Permanente, Annapolis, 1-800-777-7904

Ginny Merryman

Capital Women’s Care, Towson, 410-938-8960

Janna Mudd

The Family Childbirth and Children’s Center at Mercy, 410-633-6300

Kerri Nardone

Kaiser Permanente, Glen Burnie, 1-800-777-7904

Sarah Rivera

Capital Women’s Care, Westminster, 410-876-2003

Namrata Singhania

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 410-650-2191

Heart Failure

Kavita Sharma

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-0270

Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology

Erika Feller

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Bel Air, 410-877-8088

Sandeep Jani

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6550

Samer Najjar

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6550

Hematology

Myo Min

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, 443-643-1000

Hepatology

Neha Jakhete

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-5780

Hospitalist Medicine

Elie Cheikh

Kaiser Permanente Towson 1-800-777-7904

Hyperbaric Medicine

Kinjal Sethuraman

University of Maryland Medical Center 410-328-6152

Hospitalist, Internal Medicine

Maria-Perez Agin Muoghalu

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, 443-777-8186

Kirmanj Ahmed

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, 443-777-8186

Malaz Alissa

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-8000

Michael Aughenbaugh

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-8186

Manisha Bahl

UM Upper Chesapeake Health/Adfinitas Health, Bel Air, 443-643-1500

Margie Banzuelo-Rio

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4362

Daniel Bashari

GBMC Healthcare, Towaon, 443-849-8046

Sahitya Bhandari

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-8186

Daniel Brotman

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-5000

C. Nicholas Cuneo

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-5000

Pankti Desai

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-7000

Philip Dittmar*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 667-214-1515

Katelyn Donohue*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6335

Jeremy Epstein

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-5000

Angelita Estadilla

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-8186

Sonal Gandhi

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-0100

Puneet Gandhi

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital 443-444-8000

Kavneet Gill

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-7186

Jyotsna Gunnadi

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, 443-777-8186

Christopher Haas

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, 443-777-8186

Karim Hafez

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-8000

Syed Hissam Haider

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Barakelle Haile

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-9000

Syed Rameez Jafri

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-8000

Adrien Janvier

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center 443-777-7000

Astha Joshi

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Waseem Khaliq

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-0100

Mariam Khan

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Keshav Khanijow

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-0100

Beau Landry-Weggner

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-5000

Niloo Latifi

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-5000

Kara-Grace Leventhal

Johns Hopkins Hospital 410-955-5000

Ekta Mantri

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Anaam Mubin

MedStar Harbor Hospital 410-350-3200

Haider A. Naqvi

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center 443-777-7000

Tim Niessen

Johns Hopkins Hospital 410-955-5000

Ashwini Niranjan-Azadi

Johns Hopkins Hospital 410-955-5000

Tolulope Ogriki

LifeBridge Health, Carroll Hospital Westminster, 410-848-3000

Michael Osnard

Johns Hopkins Hospital 410-955-5000

Elizabeth Otto

US Acute Care Solutions, Glen Burnie, 410-787-4000

Nilesh Patel

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-9000

Nilo Rashvand Jalaly

MedStar Health, 410-554-2000

Sunita Sharma

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-8186

Anees Siddiqi

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-7000

Sujan Thapaliya

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital 410-554-2000

Philip Wagner

Johns Hopkins Hospital 410-955-5000

Bing Wang

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center 443-777-7000

John Wollier III

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-5000

JI SU HONG

KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE

CHILD ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

WHAT ARE SOME MAJOR FACTORS AFFECTING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH TODAY? There’s a lot going on in kids’ lives these days. Family stress, school pressure, social media, and even bigger issues like community violence or financial hardship can all take a toll. The pandemic added even more layers——like isolation and disrupted routines.

HOW CAN A PARENT OR GUARDIAN TELL WHEN IT’S TIME TO REACH OUT FOR HELP? If a child’s mood or behavior changes and it lasts for a few weeks, starts affecting their daily life, or causes stress at home or school, it’s a good idea to talk to a specialist. Things like pulling away from friends, being unusually irritable or anxious, trouble sleeping, falling grades, or saying things that sound hopeless are all signs to watch for.

WHAT CAN WE ALL DO TO SUPPORT YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH? It starts with creating spaces where kids feel safe to talk and be themselves. Listening without judgment, showing empathy, and encouraging open conversations are key. Schools, families, and communities can help by talking more about mental health and breaking down the stigma around asking for help. And we all have a role to play in making care more accessible and inclusive.

WHAT’S THE MOST REWARDING PART OF YOUR WORK? Seeing a young person start to feel hopeful again is incredibly meaningful. Helping families reconnect and heal is just as powerful. Every time a child feels truly understood and supported, I’m reminded why I do this work.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Paul Auwaerter

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-0334

Robin Avery

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lutherville, 443-287-6217

John Baddley

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-287-6217

Cassandra Black

LifeBridge Health, Randallstown, 410-871-3000

Eyad Cheikh

MedStar Harbor Hospital, Columbia, 410-418-8550

Joel Chua

University of Maryland Medical Center 410-328-9106

Karoll Cortez

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-2327

Sara E. Cosgrove

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-550-9080

Dilraj Deol

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-5835

M. Veronica Deioverti

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-287-6217

Christine Durand

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-287-6217

Brandon Eilertson

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, 1-800-777-7904

Uzoamaka Eke

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-225-8369

Samuel Holzman

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-4501

Elisa Ignatius

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-2590

Mettassebia Kanno

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Sara Karaba

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-9080

Olivia Kates

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-287-6217

Sonya Krishnan

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-0334

Christopher Lippincott

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-0334

Shivakumar Narayanan

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-225-8369

Kathleen Page

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-0334

Nitipong Permpalung

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-287-6217

Jessica Queen

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-0334

Eileen Scully

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-0334

Maunank Shah

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-0334

Ravi Tripathi*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-225-8369

Intensivists/Critical Care

Mustafa Abdulmahdi

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 410-494-1662

Madhat Arnouk

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-832-3400

Paul Clark

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Lee Daugherty Biddison

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-927-1782

Kelli Eimer

Mercy Medical Center, 410-332-9610

Emily Esposito

Shock Trauma Associates, 410-328-6110

Paul Kleinow

LifeBridge Health, Carroll Hospital Westminster, 410-848-3000

Nimesh Shah

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Hasan Shakoor

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, 443-638-2500

William Teeter

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6110

Audrey Wagner

Mercy Medical Center, 410-332-9610

Lasik Surgery

Sonny Goel

Goel Vision, Columbia, 410-888-2020

RACHEL E. HARRISON

MEDSTAR UNION MEMORIAL

CARDIAC SURGERY

WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE THIS SPECIALTY? My journey into cardiac surgery began long before medical school, at my mother’s side in the cardiac intensive care unit where she worked as a nurse. I was captivated by the idea that we could stop a human heart, repair it with precision, and bring it back to life. To this day, it feels like one of the great miracles of medicine.

WHAT DO YOU FIND MOST REWARDING IN THIS JOB? The most rewarding part for me is the immediacy of our work; there’s nothing abstract about saving a failing heart. You see the problem, you fix it, and you watch someone’s future open before them.

WHAT IS SOMETHING NON-PHYSICIANS MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT CARDIAC SURGERY? Most people imagine a lone surgeon operating on a heart, but in the operating room alone there are at least seven highly trained individuals . . . all working in perfect coordination.

ANOTHER SURPRISING TRUTH: To operate on the heart, we actually stop it. We use advanced technology to take over its life-sustaining work, giving us the opportunity to repair arteries or valves. Then, we restart it. What’s even more surprising is that even though I held their heart in my hand less than 24 hours ago, most times patients are sitting in a chair the very next morning.

Internal Medicine

Prakash Archarya

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-8046

Katherine Addai

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 410-368-6000

Vinutha Akki Vivekanand

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-5600

Michael Albert

Johns Hopkins Personalized Care, Lutherville, 410-847-3565

Syed Ali

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital 443-444-8000

John Allen

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1515

Atsoufuni N.E. Amewuame Epse Kpehor

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Hasan Awan

Lansdowne Medical Center, 410-242-5350

Danielle Baek

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 443-643-1000

Samir Bhalodia

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4362

Raman Bharaj

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Youngjee Choi

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lutherville, 410-583-2774

Sarah Clever

Johns Hopkins Personalized Care, Lutherville, 410-847-3565

Andrew Delapenha

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1515

Jennifer Evans

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-7000

Dara Farber*

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1515

Ayesha Gulistan

Clinical Associates Reisterstown, Reisterstown, 410-526-3053

Christina Koch

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1515

Jessica Ruth Lee

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 410-328-6640

Elyse Michelson

Clinical Associates Reisterstown, Reisterstown, 410-526-3041

Sadaf Mustafa

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4818

Athmananda Nanjundappa

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-8186

Sahara Neupane

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-8000

Kinerly Peairs

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lutherville, 410-583-2774

Rosemarie Rampersad-Maraj

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4818

Ragia Saikali

LifeBridge Health, Sinai Hospital Edgewood, 410-469-4910

Stacy Schwartz

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1515

Viray Shah

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-8000

Himani Shishodia

Greenspring Personal Medicine, Lutherville, 410-616-2802

Alireza Zarrabi

Bay Medical and Wellness Center, Towson, 410-237-7455

Internal Medicine/Lifestyle Medicine

Nkechinyerem Eseonu-Ewoh

Kaiser Permanente, Woodlawn, 1-800-777-7904

Internal/Geriatric Medicine, Hospitalist

Shahla Grewal

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2000

Naveen Silva

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-8000

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Andera Desai

University of Maryland, Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1300

Krista Mehlhaff

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1300

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Adina Maniu

Kaiser Permanente, Columbia, 1-800-777-7904

Janelle Taylor-Thomas

Kaiser Permanente, 1-800-777-7904

Brian Swehla

MedStar Health, (443) 444-4343

ALICIA MORGAN-COOPER

MAIN STREET PEDIATRICS

GENERAL PEDIATRICS

WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE THIS SPECIALTY? I chose pediatrics because this is what I’ve always wanted to do. My parents tell the story that I came home from preschool one day and said that I wanted to be a “baby doctor,” and that never changed.

WHAT’S THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF YOUR WORK? The most challenging aspect of working with children is having to give a parent bad news about their child’s health. That really affects me in a profound way. It’s something you never forget. Thankfully, in general pediatrics, it doesn’t happen too often, but even one is too many.

WHAT IS MOST REWARDING? Each day I can work with young people is the reward. Seeing not only the patients grow but seeing the parents and guardians grow as their caregivers is very rewarding. I do love telling the stories of a few of my patients who have endured illnesses such as severe seizures leading to coma and others who have had cancer. They have all survived and are thriving. I call them “my miracle babies.”

WHAT ARE YOUR TOP THREE TIPS FOR PARENTS/GUARDIANS TO KEEP THEIR KIDS HEALTHY? Give your child a healthy diet, encourage good sleep routines, and vaccinate to help prevent disease.

FINISH THIS SENTENCE: IF I WEREN’T A PEDIATRICIAN, I’D PROBABLY BE... An engineer.

Nephrology

Carmen Elena Cervantes

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-0670

Ikenna Ezumba

LifeBridge Health Westminster 410-386-9099

Mohamad Hanouneh

Nephrology Center of Maryland, Fallston, 443-981-3130

Jia Liu

MidAtlantic Nephrology Associates, Columbia, 410-772-8822

Mokhtar Nasir

LifeBridge Health, Westminster, 410-840-0420

Irfan Shukrullah

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 443-559-5063

Neurocritical Care

Scott Deboer

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-7000

Neurointerventional Surgery

Dheeraj Gandhi

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Shyam Majmundar

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Timothy Miller

University of Maryland, Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Neurology–Epilepsy

Mark Fehr

Mercy Medical Center, 410-649-3485

Jennifer Hopp*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-4323

Crystal Janani

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 667-234-2842

Neuro–Oncology

Lily Pham

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Orthopedic Surgery–Shoulder

Gregory Gasbarro

The Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist and Hand Center at Mercy, 410-332-9032

Orthopedic Medicine––General

Michael Assayag

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-2663

Babar Shafiq

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-2663

Neurosurgery

Louis Chang

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 301-896-6073

Jacob Cherian

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Timothy Chryssikos*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Kenneth Crandall

University of Maryland Medical Center 410-328-6034

James Frazier III

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-4417

Mark Iguchi

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-8807

Alexender Kesendzovsky

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Mohamed Labib

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Jon McIver

Mercy Medical Center 410-332-9717

Debraj Mukherjee

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 410-550-3367

Jordina Rincon Torroella

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-1040

Charles Sansur

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Gary Schwartzbauer*

Mercy Medical Center 410-332-9717

Samir Sur

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 202-887-5026

Graeme Woodworth

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6034

Omar Zalatimo

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-4417

Neurology–General

Jaishri Blakeley

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-502-6732

Bonnie Gerecke

Mercy Medical Center, 410-649-3485

Runwani Gunawardane

Center for Brain and Neuro Care, Fulton, 301-490-3700

Sumanjit Kaur

LifeBridge Health, Randallstown, 410-601-9515

Sandra Ruby

LifeBridge Health, Westminster, 410-848-3000

Syed Salahuddin

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Syed Shaukat

UM Upper Chesapeake Health/Harford Neurology Assoc., Bel Air, 443-643-3335

Neurology–Movement Disorder

Lynn Chouhfeh

UM St. Joseph's Medical Center, Towson, 410-427-5505

Obesity Medicine

Sadaf Mustafa

MedStar Health, 443-444-4818

Oncology–Breast

Priyanka Mittar

Medical Oncology at GBMC, Towson, 443-849-3051

Bhargavi Pulluri

Ascension Saint Agnes Breast Center, 667-234-2910

Suman Rao

Ascension Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, 667-234-2910

Oncology–Gynecologic

Fouad Abbas

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-9030

Teresa Diaz-Montes

Mercy Gynecologic Oncology Center, 410-332-9200

Dwight Im

Mercy Gynecologic Oncology Center, 410-332-9200

Oncology–Hepatobiliary

Mark Yarchoan

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-8964

Oncology––Melanoma

Evan Lipson

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-8964

Oncology–Sarcoma

Christian Meyer

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-8964

Oncology–Surgical

Debashish Bose

Mercy Medical Center, 410-332-9294

Melissa Camp

Johns Hopkins Hospital Lutherville, 410-583-2970

Jin He

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-614-7551

Humair Quadri

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 443-574-8500

Oncology–General

Saira Ahmed

Ascension Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, 667-234-2910

Ashkan Bahrani

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Belair, 443-643-1000

Gang Chen

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3051

Robert Donegan

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3051

Ari Elman

Maryland Oncology, Hematology, 410-964-2212

Pragnan Kancharla

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 410-971-5009

Sandy Kotiah

Mercy Medical Oncology and Hematology, 410-783-5858

Zhuoyan Li

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3051

Andrew Mener

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, 410-964-2212

Mashsa Mohebtash

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-3991

Mohit Narang

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, 410-964-2212

Tejasswi Sastry

Maryland Oncology Hematology, 410-964-2212

Najeff Waseem

Maryland Oncology Hematology, 410-964-2212

Oncology–Orthopedic

Albert Aboulafia

Johns Hopkins Hospital 443-997-2663

S. Mohammed Karim

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 4105542715

Adam Levin

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-2663

Vincent Ng

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-448-6400

Oncology–Prostate

Michael Adashek

Chesapeake Urology, Towson, 410-825-5454

Mohit Narang

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, 410-964-2212

Ophthalmology

Eva Devience

Kaiser Permanente, 1-800-777-7904

Laura Green

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-2020

Anjana Jindal

Glaucoma Consultants, 410-825-9225

Malav Joshi

Kaiser Permanente, 1-800-777-7904

Sachin Kalyani

Kalyani Eye Care, Hanover, 410-782-3233

Alice Kim

Kaiser Permanente, Glen Burnie, 1-800-777-7904

Kenneth Olumba

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, 1-800-777-7904

Benjamin Rubin

Kaiser Permanente 1-800-777-7904

Divya Srikumaran

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Odenton, 410-874-1425

Lazaros Valikas

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, 1-800-777-7904

Orthopedic Medicine–General

Michael Assayag

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-2663

Babar Shafiq

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-2663

Orthopedic Surgery–Foot & Ankle

Amiethab Aiyer

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 443-997-2663

Jeffrey Brodie

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Kenneth Defontes

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Walter Hembree

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6530

Nigel Hsu

Johns Hopkins Howard County General Hospital Health Care & Surgery Center, Columbia, 443-997-2663

Clifford Jeng

Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy, 410-659-2800

Stuart Miller

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6844

OTOLARYNGOLOGY-GENERAL

Kevin Motz

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 997-6467

Alpen Patel

Total ENT Care, (410) 889-0795

Nicholas Rowan

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (443) 997-6467

Han Sohn

Total ENT Care, Towson, (410) 889-0795

Rodney Taylor

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6866

Jeffrey Wolf

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-3197

Orthopedic Surgery–Hand

Ngozi Akabudike

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, Columbia, 667-240-2738

Clayton Alexander

Mercy Medical Center, 410-332-9032

Alexander Choo

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Christopher Frothman

Curtis National Hand Center Union, Memorial Hospital, 410-235-5405

Aviram Giladi

Curtis National Hand Center Union, Memorial Hospital, 410-235-5405

Brian Janz

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, 410- 644-1880

Kristin Karim

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-235-5405

Emery Kim

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, 1-800-777-7904

Dawn LaPorte

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-2663

Kenneth Means Jr.

Curtis National Hand Center Union, Memorial Hospital, 410-235-5405

Duc Nguyen

Johns Hopkins Howard County General Hospital Health Care & Surgery Center, Columbia, 443-997-2663

Raymond Pensy

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-448-6400

Khurram Pervaiz

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, 410- 644-1880

Sophie Strike

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-2663

Bruce Wolock

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, 410-337-7900

Ryan Zimmerman

Curtis National Hand Center Union Memorial Hospital, 410-235-5405

Orthopedic Surgery–Shoulder

Gregory Gasbarro

The Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist and Hand Center at Mercy, 410-332-9032

Orthopedic Surgery– Joint

Henry Boucher

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6890

Joseph Ciotola

Mercy Orthopedics and Joint Replacement, 410-539-2227

Timothy Codd

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Frank Ebert

MedStar Health Timonium 410-554-2850

Mark Hasenauer

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6890

Vishal Hegde

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-0453

James Huang

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Theodore Manson

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Gergory Mendez

Mercy Orthopedics and Joint Replacement, 410-539-2227

Brian Mulliken

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Anand Murthi

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-4382

James Nace

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-2663

Sumon Nandi

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-448-6400

Lucas Nikkel

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Columbia, 443-997-2663

David Schroder

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Scott Silverstein

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, 410-644-1880

Savyasachi Thakkar

Johns Hopkins Howard County General Hospital Health Care & Surgery Center, Columbia, 443-997-2663

Ke Xie

Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics Central MD, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Orthopedic Surgery–Sports Medicine

Scott Adams

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Craig Bennett

LifeBridge Health Owings Mills, 410-601-7529

Lysa Charles

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Mark Clough

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Alvin Detterline

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

James Dreese

Medstar Health, Timonium, 410-821-5380

Allison Fillar

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2865

Sarah Hobart

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Richard Levine

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-821-8896

Jonathan Packer*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-448-6400

M. Brian Polsky

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, 410-644-1880

John-Paul Rue

Mercy Orthopedics and Joint Replacement, 410-539-2227

Scott Silverstein

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, 410-644-1880

Mark Slabaugh

Mercy Orthopedics and Joint Replacement, 410-539-2227

Michael Wallace

Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics Central MD, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Richard Winakur

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Ralph Zade

Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics Central MD, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Orthopedic–Malunions, Nonunion, Bone & Joint Infections

Janet Conway

LifeBridge Health, Sinai Hospital, 410-601-1726

Orthopedics–Shoulder & Elbow Surgery

Jason Stein

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6867

Otolaryngology–General

James Clark

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-6467

Praveen Duggal

Chesapeake Ear Nose & Throat, Columbia, 410-356-2626

Natalie Justicz

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6866

Alpen Patel

Lifebridge Health, Mt. Airy, 443-289-3459

Thomas Lee

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Randallstown, (410) 601-6597

Efraín Pérez Bravo

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-6597

Gurtej Singh

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, (410) 644-1880

Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Malignancies

Leila Mady

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-6467

Rodney Taylor*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 667-214-2396

Jeffery Wolf*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 667-214-2396

Pain Management

Oluseyi Fadayomi

Clearway Pain Solutions, Glen Burnie, 877-621-1269

Jefferey Gambel

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Felix Gurman

Clearway Pain Solutions, Nottingham, 443-693-7246

Arash Khoie

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6497

Gurtej Singh

Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics Central MD, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Palliative Medicine

Ivy Akid

Johns Hopkins Hospital 410-955-5000

Aaron Charles

LifeBridge Health, Westminster, 410-871-3000

Ethan Goldstein

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-8000

Pathology

Ashley Gable

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 667-234-6000

Christopher Grove

LifeBridge Health, Westminster, 410-871-6794

Long Yang

LifeBridge Health, Westminster, 410-601-8425

Physical Medicine/Rehab/Physiatry

Nicholas Anastasio

Mercy Orthopedics and Joint Replacement, 410-539-2227

Michael Demarco

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, 410-303-7363

Efrain Perez-Bravo

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-5597

Podiatry

Paul Carrol

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-7631

Mikel Daniels

We Treat Feet Podiatry, Owings Mills, 410-363-4343

Jonathan Furmanek

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-6360

Tiffany Hoh

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-1392

Marc Lipton

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Kyung Seo

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-6360

Michael Smith

We Treat Feet Podiatry, Owings Mills, 410-618-4959

Pulmonary

Suresh Basnet

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6196

Steven Cassady

University of Maryland Medical Center 410-225-8301

Steven Cocciardi

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Kala Davis

Lung Center at Saint Agnes Hospital, 410-644-3890

Janaki Deepak*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-225-8301

Chelsi Green

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3901

Dafna Koldobskiy

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 410-644-3890

Stephen Mathai

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-550-5864

Fiona Meller Azrieli

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Kathryn Robinett

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-255-8301

Nirav Shah

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-225-8301

Podiatry–Foot & Ankle Surgery

Hayden Hoffler

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Psychiatry–General

Hinda Dubin

Hinda Dubin, MD, 410-218-9887

Marissa Flaherty

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-2207

Rishi Gautam

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-5457

Renz Juaneza

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-4540

Constance Lacap

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-462-5799

Julie Stancliff

Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, 443-843-8050

Radiation Oncology

Maria Jacobs

Mercy Medical Center, 410-332-9055

Mark Mishra

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6080

Amol Narang

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-502-8000

Christian Okoye

Mercy Medical Center 410-332-9055

Sleep Medicine

Danielle Glick*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-225-8301

Stephanie Wappel

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3901

Raya Wehbeh

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3901

Radiology

Edward Ahn

Advanced Radiology, 443-436-1650

Randy Becker

Advanced Radiology, 443-436-1650

Saleem Farooqui

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 410-955-5000

David Fox

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Russel Gelman

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Kevin Jarrell

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Haleema Javid

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Amit Kalaria

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Nick Lomis

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Loralie Ma

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Evelyn May

Mercy Center for Women’s Imaging, 410-332-9102

Zina Novak

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Bertan Ozgun

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Jessica Record

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Rebecca Roller

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

David Safferman

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Randall Schultz Jr.

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, 443-436-1100

Hardeep Rosy Singh

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, 443-436-1100

Arvinder (Daisy) Uppal

Charter Radiology, Columbia, 443-917-2855

Shadi Yousefi

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, 1-800-777-7904

Radiology–Diagnostic

Puneet Devgun

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, 443-436-1100

Laura Fayad

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-7237

Julia Flukinger

Advanced Radiology, 888-972-9700

Pam Johnson

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-7237

Rheumatology/ Clinical Immunology

Asha Alex

Annapolis Rheumatology, Owings Mills, 410-987-1941

Laura Hummers

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-7715

Bernadette Saiton*

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-6733

Fredrick Wigley

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Reisterstown, 443-997-1552

Sports Medicine

Valerie Cothran

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, 667-214-1800

Claudia Dal Molin

University of Maryland Medical Center, Columbia, 410-448-6400

Mohammed Emam

Johns Hopkins Healthcare & Surgery Center, Lutherville, 443-997-5476

Jasmine Toor

Mercy Orthopedics and Joint Replacement, 410-539-2227

Surgery–Cardiac

Brian Bethea

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6550

Rachel Harrison

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-6550

Rawn Salenger

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-337-1783

Surgery–Bariatric

Alain Abdo

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, 443-777-1158

Shauna Costinett

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-3779

Isam Hamdallah

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 667-234-8725

Catriona Swift

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 667-234-8725

Surgery–Emergency

Marcie Feinman

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-5544

Farheen Qurashi

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-0600

Surgery–Breast

Maen Farha

Comprehensive Breast Center at Medstar, 443-444-3413

Kristen Fernandez

Ascension Saint Agnes Breast Center 667-234-3434

Neil Friedman

The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy, 410-332-9330

Sara Fogarty

GBMC Healthcare Towson 443-849-2600

Jennifer Joh

The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy, 410-332-9330

Noeline Rajarajan

Ascension Saint Agnes Breast Center, 667-234-3434

Surgery–General

Alok Gupta

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 410-766-1444

Steven Johnson

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-444-5930

Jay Mittal

Carroll Health Group Westminster, 410-848-1818

Shirali Patel

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 443-574-8500

Atena Rosak

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-427-5430

Surgery– Minimally Invasive

Stephen Kavic*

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-7320

Surgery–Chronic Venous Disease/ Varicose Veins

Margaret Arnold

MedStar Health, 443-777-1900

Surgery–Podiatric

Michael Gerrity

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

Surgery– Reconstructive

Rex Hung

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-777-7631

Surgery–Thoracic

Christine Lau

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6366

Duane Monteith

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, 443-777-1133

Surgery–Colo-Rectal

Jessica Felton

LifeBridge Health, 410-601-0601

Surgery–Spine

Oren Blam

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, 410-644-1880

Daniel Cavanaugh*

University of Maryland Medical Center 410-448-6400

Charles Edwards II

Maryland Spine Center, 410-539-3434

David Falk

Maryland Spine Center, 410-539-3434

Amit Jain

Johns Hopkins Medicine, 443-997-2663

Julio Jauregui

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-448-6400

Steven Ludwig

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-448-6400

Bradley Moatz

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, 410-554-2867

Zan Naseer

MedStar Health, Perry Hall, 410-554-2861

Justin Park

Maryland Spine Center, 410-539-3434

Surgery–Vascular

Richard Bafford

Vascular Surgery Associates, 855-648-9982

Andre Biuckians

UM St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Towson, 410-427-2345

Carter Freiburg

Vascular Surgery Associates, Towson, 443-289-9277

Mark Gonze

Maryland Vascular Specialists, Bel Air, 410-420-4355

Paul Lucas

Mercy Vascular Center, 410-332-9404

Khanjan Nagarsheth

University of Maryland Medical Center, 732-757-7618

Vincent Noori

Mercy Vascular Center, 410-332-9404

Alain Tanbe

Mercy Vascular Center, 410-332-9404

Kristian Ulloa

Vascular Surgery Associates, 855-648-9982

Surgery–Dermatologic

Saif Syed

SCS Physicians, Lutherville, 410-252-9090

Surgery–Plastic & Reconstructive

Salih Colakoglu

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 443-997-94666

Surgery–Reconstructive

Rex Hung

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, 443-777-7631

Trauma

Yvonne Chung

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6110

Jaclyn Clark

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6110

Richard Wittmeyer

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6110

Urogynecology

Madeline Dick-Baiscoechea

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-5570

Weight Management

Marci Laudenslager

Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center, Greenspring Station, Lutherville, 410-616-7420

Urology

Marisa Clifton

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-550-6362

Benjamin Cohen

Chesapeake Urology Towson, 410-825-5454

Damon Davis

The Urology Specialists of Maryland at Mercy, 410-332-9654

Nwamaka Fadahunsi

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 1-800-777-7904

David Goldstein

Chesapeake Urology, Towson, 410-825-5454

Andrew Harbin

Chesapeake Urology, Westminster, 410-876-1633

Alan Kusakabe

The Urology Specialists of Maryland at Mercy, 410-332-9654

Brian Neuman

Chesapeake Urology, 410-467-7665

Chirag Patel

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, 1-800-777-7904

Sunil Patel

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-614-1312

Marc Siegelbaum

Chesapeake Urology, Towson, 410-825-5454

Nirmish Singla

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-502-3692

Robert Thompson

The Urology Specialists of Maryland at Mercy, 410-332-9654

PEDIATRIC SPECIALTIES

Adolescent Medicine

Matthew Grant

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-8336

Anesthesiology

Jennifer Lee-Summers

Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, 410-955-5000

Neonatal–Perinatal

Maria Pane

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, 443-849-2780

Neonatology

Natalie Davis

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-6794

Bernadette Crowder

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, 410-578-8600

Natalie Davis

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-6794

Francesca Okolie

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6794

Erin Schofield

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-6794

Pediatric ENT

Amal Isaiah

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-6866

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Runa Watkins

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-6950

Pediatric Behavior & Development

Ajoke Ajayi-Akintade

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, 410-578-8600

Pediatric Cardiology

Peter Gaskin

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-4348

Priya Nigam

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-4348

Nicholas Pietris

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-4348

Pediatric Critical Care

Ester Ana Lia Graciano

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-6957

Adrian Holloway

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6957

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Vanessa Jeffries

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, 667-234-2011

Jennifer Lammers

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-6335

Pediatric Endocrinology

Paula Newton

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-5887

Pediatrics General

Christina Brown

Kaiser Permanente, Nottingham, 800-777-7904

Rebecca Carter

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-856-2850

Tekeema Dixon

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, 800-777-7904

Jason Goldstein

Pavilion Pediatrics, Timonium, 410-583-2955

Michele Jules-Chapman

Mercy Family Care, Physicians, 410-500-5500

Dawan King

Mercy Family Care Physicians, 410-500-5500

Alicia Morgan-Cooper

Main Street Pediatrics, Towson, 410-494-1369

Theresa Nguyen

GBMC Healthcare Pediatric Group, Towson, 443-849-4000

Mutiat Onigbanjo

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-856-2850

Dipanwita Saha

Kaiser Permanente, 800-777-7904

Kamana Verma

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, 410-578-8600

Michelle Williams

Mercy Family Care Physicians, 410-500-5500

Amy Winkelstein

Maryland Pediatric Group, Lutherville, 410-321-9393

Ashanti Woods

Mercy Family Care Physicians, 410-500-5500

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Regina Macatangay

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-2808

Aziza Shad

LifeBridge Health, Sinai Hospital, 410-601-5864

Yoram Unguru

LifeBridge Health, Sinai Hospital, 410-601-6704

Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine

Nidhi Goel

University of Maryland Medical Center, 410-328-5887

Cyynthia Roldan

LifeBridge Health, Carroll Hospital, Westminster, 410-601-5217

Krista Tookhan

UM Baltimore Washington Medical Group, Glen Burnie, 410-553-8540

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

James Campbell

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-706-8695

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Mari Groves

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-7337

Whitney Parker

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-6034

Pediatric Oncology

Stacy Cooper

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 410-955-8751

Pediatric Nephrology

Meredith Atkinson

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 410-955-4427

Jeffrey Fadrowski

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 410-955-4427

Stephen Thompson

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-706-6091

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Lan Chang

Kaiser Permanente, 800-777-7904

Pediatric Orthopedics

R. Jay Lee

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 443-997-2663

Pediatric Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery

Emily Boss

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Lutherville, 443-997-6467

Pediatric Psychiatry

Ji Su Hong

Kennedy Krieger Institute, 443-923-7630

Leslie Miller

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 410-550-0104

Gulafsheen Quadri

Villa Maria Behavioral Health, Catholic Charities, Abingdon, 667-600-3220

Arman Taghizadeh

Valley Integrative Psych, 410-616-0591

Pediatric Rheumatology

Julia Shalen

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 443-997-5437

Pediatric Sports Medicine

Terri MaCambridge

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, 410-337-7900

Pediatric Urology

Heather Di Carlo

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 443-287-5078

Charlotte Wu

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 410-955-3534

Pediatric Intensivist

Alison Miles

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital 410-578-8600

Pediatric Surgery

Samuel Alaish

Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, 443-997-5437

Helena Crowley

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410 328 5730

Kimberly Lumpkins

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-5730

Isam Nasr

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 410-955-5210

Eric Strauch

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 410-328-5730

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Top Doctors 2024

Edited by Christianna McCausland

with Sofia Appolonia, Casey Bacot, Olivia Borgula, Kirstin Nichols, and Sarah Sternhagen

Photography by Christopher Myers

Health & Wellness

Top Doctors 2024

This is our 38th year compiling our list of Baltimore’s best physicians.

Edited by Christianna McCausland

with Sofia Appolonia, Casey Bacot, Olivia Borgula, Kirstin Nichols, and Sarah Sternhagen

Photography by Christopher Myers

November 2024


This is our 38th year compiling our list of Baltimore’s best physicians.

While this list takes a monumental amount of effort to create, it is still only a small representation of the abundant medical skill we are fortunate to have in this region. In fact, we’ve been so impressed over the years by the many incredible medical advances that take place in little ol’ Charm City, that we decided to bring them all together in a compendium of medical marvels. In our feature story, “The City that Cures,” editors Jane Marion and Christianna McCausland take a deep dive into the many medical innovations upon which our world depends—all of which have roots in Baltimore. From surgical gloves to Dramamine, assistive devices for the blind to the discovery of HIV, you’ll be astounded by all this area has contributed to the healthcare field.

METHODOLOGY

To arrive at our results, we held open nominations on our website, where thousands of physicians nominated the peers they believe are preeminent in their fields. After nominations closed, a furious Excel number-crunch got us to our list, which we vetted to ensure that all doctors are licensed and in good standing. The list is never prescriptive but rather a dynamic reflection of the physicians nominated that year; one year we may have a large number of a particular specialty, the next year that specialty may not appear at all if we didn’t receive sufficient nominations in the field. Finally, we turned the list over to our panel of physician advisers whom we rely on for their professional expertise and inside intel on the medical community for final review. (Advisers are not eligible to be included on the list in the year they serve.)

Health & Wellness

THE CITY THAT CURES

From the automatic defibrillator to the first public medical school in the United States, we celebrate the countless contributions Baltimore has made to modern medicine.

Our Advisors

DR. LINDA GREIF ADLER

Linda Greif Adler, M.D., F.H.M., is the chief of the division of hospital medicine at University of Maryland (UM) St. Joseph Medical Center. She is also currently serving as the president of the UM St. Joseph medical staff. She earned her medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed her internship and residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

DR. MELVIN S. BLANCHARD

Melvin S. Blanchard, M.D., F.A.C.P., is the chairman of medicine at GBMC and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Maryland. Most recently, he was chairman of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM). He was also professor of medicine, vice chair for Medical Education in the Department of Medicine, and chief of General Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Blanchard earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from University of Tennessee Health Science Center and completed his residency in internal medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University.

DR. CAROLE FAKHRY

Carole Fakhry, M.D., M.P.H., is a head and neck surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins (JH). She received her medical degree from JH and a master’s in public health from JH Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a professor, and serves as associate dean of clinical affairs for JH School of Medicine, chief of the division of Head and Neck Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, director of the Head and Neck Cancer Center, and director of the head and neck group in the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

DR. SAMUEL SMITH

Samuel Smith, M.D., is vice president physician advisor for LifeBridge Health, having recently retired as chief medical officer for Northwest Hospital. Prior to assuming that role, he served as the chief quality officer and chair of the Department of Gynecology for the hospital. Smith earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, completed his residency at Georgetown University Medical Center, and completed his fellowship in reproductive endocrinology- infertility at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Smith is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology-infertility.

DR. JENNIFER TAYLOR

Jennifer Taylor, M.D., earned her medical degree at State University of New York at Buffalo and completed her residency in OB-GYN at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She now practices at Mercy Medical Center. Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, she has participated in several research initiatives and has numerous honors, publications, and presentations to her credit. She is a fellow of the American College of OB-GYN, and a member of the American Medical Association and the Douglass Obstetrics and Gynecology Society.

TOP DOCTORS 2024

ADULT SPECIALITIES

ADDICTION MEDICINE/SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER

Drew Fuller

BrightWell Health, Glen Burnie, (844) 387-7469

Kofi Owusu-Antwi

University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, (410) 225-8240

ALLERGY/IMMUNOLOGY

Michael Goldman

Allergy & Asthma Center of Central Maryland, Columbia, (410) 730-6000

Alvin Sanico

Asthma Sinus Allergy Program at GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (410) 583-8393

Paula Whittington

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

ALTERNATIVE/ COMPLEMENTARY

Jyothi Rao

Shakthi Health and Wellness Center, Mt. Airy, (301) 703-5067

ANESTHESIOLOGY

Glen Hessinger

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 337-3904

Omolara Karunwi

Ascension Saint, Agnes Hospital, (667) 234-2000

Avi Leibowitz

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Randallstown, (410) 601-7657

Robert Wong

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9375

CARDIAC ANESTHESIA

Michael Boss

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 337-1000

CARDIOLOGY (PREVENTIVE) & VASCULAR MEDICINE

Shireen Khoury

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lutherville, (410) 583-2727

CARDIOLOGY-ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Konstantinos Aronis

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 997-0270

Hugh Calkins

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 502-1953

Timm Dickfeld

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6056

Glenn Meininger

MedStar Health, (410) 554-6727

Sunjeet Sidhu

MedStar Health (410) 554-6727

Ajay Soodan

Baltimore Heart Associates, Pikesville, (410) 521-5600

Wen Shen

JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
Menopause Medicine/Women’s Health

Why did you choose to pursue menopause medicine?

During my first few years of practice after residency, I had many patients coming to see me for menopausal symptoms. These women suffered with severe life-affecting symptoms as well as morbidities that affected them for a third of their lives. As I researched information to help them, I found the field of menopause to be essential and deserving of emphasis in women’s health.

Why did you decide to start the Women’s Wellness and Healthy Aging Program at Johns Hopkins?

Midlife women are the “sandwich generation.” They are caretakers of their children, partners, and aging parents. While they shoulder all the responsibilities for their families, they often neglect their own medical needs. The Women’s Wellness and Healthy Aging Program (or as we fondly call it, “WWHAP”) was started to provide integrated Hopkins-quality medical care in an efficient manner.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?

It is difficult to underestimate the impact menopause symptoms can have on a woman’s life—her sense of self, her moods affecting her relationship with her loved ones and colleagues, and her cognitive function affecting work. The best part of any day is when a patient comes in for a follow up appointment and says, “I’m back. I’m myself again.” —Casey Bacot

CARDIOLOGY-INTERVENTIONAL

Daniel Ambinder

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 427-2580

Darpan Bansal

Baltimore Heart Associates, Pikesville, (410) 521-5600

Diljon Chahal

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-2583

Charles Cummings

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Pikesville, (410) 469-4000

Anuj Gupta

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

Rani Hasan

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (410) 614-1132

Fady Iskander

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6550

Antony Kaliyadan

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6550

Amir Najafi

Cardiovascular Associates of Maryland, Bel Air, (410) 638-9950

Nauman Siddiqi

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6550

Mukta Srivastava

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

John Wang

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6550

Shumile Zaidi

UM St. Joseph Medical Center (410) 427-2278

COLO-RECTAL

Irina Bernescu

Maryland Surgeons, (443) 574-8500

Rebecca Brown

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6187

Alodia Gabre-Kidan

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Tola Oyesanya

KAISER PERMANENTE
Dermatology

What’s your favorite part about working in dermatology?

I am able to care for patients of all ages—which allows me to take care of the whole family. I might see the parents for skin cancer screenings, the teenage daughter for acne, the toddler for eczema, and get to know the entire family over years of working with them to care for their skin.

What’s something unique you bring to the field?

I bring my outgoing, personable nature to the clinic every day to make patients feel safe and comfortable. This allows me to really connect with my patients. As a Black female dermatologist, I am also an expert in treating patients with skin of color.

What’s the most recent thing you learned on the job?

Everyone on the team has something to offer, independent of their years or experience (or lack thereof). Trust is earned, not gifted.

What’s one piece of health advice you wished people would pay more attention to?

I wish more people would treat their body like a temple. Wear sunscreen daily, avoid peak hours of the sun between 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and if a lesion is bleeding, enlarging, or causing pain, have it evaluated. —Olivia Borgula

CARDIOLOGY-NON-INTERVENTIONAL

Mohammed Abuzahra

Baltimore Heart Associates, (410) 367-0100

Manjula Ananthram

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

Sonia Baker

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 427-2580

Brian Barr

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

R. Michael Benitez

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

Catherine Campbell

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Srivasavi Chaganti

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Pikesville, (410) 521-5600

Vivek Dhruva

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-3800

Jesse Doran

Ascension Saint Agnes Heart Care, (410) 644-5111

Erika Feller

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Bel Air, (410) 877-8088

Raktim Ghosh

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 366-5600

Susie Hong-Zohlman

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

Carlos Incen

Mercy Medical Center, (443) 275-5000

Sandeep Jani

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 550-6550

Frederick Kuhn

Mercy Personal Physicians at Overlea, (410) 663-6986

Sunal Makadia

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 367-2590

Mansoor Mozayan

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (410) 574-1330

Monica Mukherjee

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (410) 550-4642

Manu Mysore

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

Amir Najafi

Cardiovascular Associates of Maryland, Bel Air, (410) 638-9950

Samer Najjar

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6550

Anoop Patel

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, (410) 427-2278

Stephen Plantholt

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9752

Jeremy Pollock

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 427-2580

Gautam Ramani

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7877

Elizabeth Ratchford

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 287-7342

Elliot Sultanik

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 437-2580

Emil Thattassery

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Hakim Uqdah

Ascension Saint Agnes Heart Care, (410) 644-5111

COSMETIC SURGERYBREAST/ BODY CONTOURING

Michele Shermak

Dr. Michele Shermak Plastic Surgery, Timonium, (410) 324-6592

Nassif Soueid

Advanced Plastic Surgery, Lutherville, (410) 321-0808

Maakan Taghizadeh

U Plastic Surgery + Aesthetics, Owings Mills, (410) 205-6595

DERMATOLOGY-GENERAL

Jamie Goldberg

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Tola Oyesanya

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, (800) 777-7904

Shivani Patel

Anne Arundel Dermatology-Towson, Towson, (443) 734-3376

Amie Sessa

SCS Physicians, Timonium, (410) 252-9090

Linda C. Wang

Linda C Wang, MD, LLC, Lutherville, (443) 288-1870

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Kamna Balhara

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Reginald Brown

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (410) 328-8025

Brian Corwell

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-8025

Chanel Garcia

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4040

J. David Gatz

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-9595

Shannon Graf

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2626

Hania Habeeb

MedStar Harbor Hospital, (410) 554-2626

Candice Jordan

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4040

Daniel Teklay

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2626

ENDOCRINOLOGY

Nelly Arnouk

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4193

Issam Cheikh

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-4511

Malek Cheikh

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4193

Rita Kalyani

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (410) 955-7140

Elizabeth Lamos

University of Maryland Medical Center, (443) 682-6800

Rana Malek

University of Maryland Medical Center, (443) 682-6800

Kashif Munir

University of Maryland Medical Center, (443) 682-6800

Marjorie Pennant

University of Maryland Medical Center, (443) 682-6800

Jordan Perlman

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (410) 955-9270

Asha Thomas

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-9000

Reginald Brown

UM UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH
Emergency Medicine

What do you bring to the field that’s unique?

I’m passionate about caring for patients and their families and incorporating them in the decision-making. Medicine is no longer patriarchal, where we just dictate to patients what the diagnosis and next steps are; we often discuss with patients the treatment options and we arrive at a treatment plan together.

What’s the hardest part about working in medicine?

It’s the unknown. You never know what’s coming in, in emergency medicine, so it keeps us always on our toes.

Can you describe a rewarding moment that reaffirmed your choice of profession?

I’ve had the opportunity to mentor a number of folks who have gone from starting with me to assistant directors to medical directors, and that’s been truly rewarding.

What advice do you have to someone who wants to go into medicine?

Remember why you went into it. There are certainly challenges. There’s long hours, but your initial intention was to care for people and to help guide families through some of their most difficult moments. —Olivia Borgula

FAMILY MEDICINE

Amy Bernardino

Kaiser Permanente, Annapolis, (800) 777-7904

Kevin Carter

GBMC Healthcare at Owings Mills, (410) 581-7804

Diana Carvajal

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1800

Kyle Fletke

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1800

Thy Nguyen

FirstChoice Family Medicine, Timonium, (443) 318-4141

Shana Ntiri

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1800

Alkesh Patel

Family Health and Beauty Center, Columbia, (410) 997-9751

Kristin Reavis

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1800

Armel Simo

MedStar Health, (410) 216-0206

GASTROENTEROLOGY INTERVENTIONAL

Abhinav Sankineni

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-2475

Eric Goldberg

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-5780

Ekta Gupta

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Columbia, (410) 933-7495

Matilda Hagan

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9356

Eiad Nasser

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-4722

Rudrajit (Rudy) Rai

Gastro Center of Maryland, Columbia, (410) 290-6677

Missale Solomon

Gastro Health, Catonsville, (410) 247-7500

Jordan Wolff

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

GASTROENTEROLOGY-LIVER DISEASE

Tinsay Woreta

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 614-3369

GASTROENTEROLOGY-INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

Lauren George

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 706-3387

Seema Patil

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 706-3397

Sandra Quezada

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-2877

GERIATRICS

Jessica Colburn

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 550-3350

Tonye Eluchie

Baltimore VA Medical Center, (301) 790-8000

George Hennawi

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4720

Ernestine Wright

Mercy Personal Physicians, (410) 332-4291

Omar Zalatimo

LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP
Neurosurgery

Why did you choose to practice neurosurgery?

A combination of intellectual curiosity, a desire to help others, and a passion for the intricate and awe-inspiring workings of the human brain and spine. It’s a demanding field, but one that I find deeply fulfilling and wouldn’t trade for anything.

What do you find most fascinating about the human brain?

The neurons in our brain define who we are. Every thought, emotion, and action shapes our brains, making each one of us unique. The brain’s ability to change and reorganize throughout our lives is truly remarkable. Even after injury or disease, the brain can find new ways to function, forming new connections and pathways to compensate for lost abilities. The brain is truly a marvel of nature, and we are only just beginning to understand its full potential.

What keeps you motivated on challenging days?

Making a tangible difference in people’s lives. When a patient comes to me with a neurological condition, they often face significant challenges and uncertainty. Being able to offer them hope through diagnosis, treatment, and, ultimately, improved quality of life is incredibly rewarding. —Casey Bacot

GYNECOLOGY-OB/GYN

Tangela Anderson Tull

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9000

Lindsey Appel

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9123

Rochelle Arbuah-Aning

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 327-0687

Fatima Bangura

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, Columbia, (410) 997-8444

Wael Bitar

MedStar Harbor Hospital, (410) 354-0800

Madeline Dick-Biascoechea

University of Maryland Medical Center, (667) 214-1300

Yves Dole

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-1092

Victoria Dowling

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, (800) 777-7904

Ada Emarievbe

Kaiser Permanente, Columbia, (800) 777-7904

Laura Erdman

Capital Women’s Care/ GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (410) 823-1120

Alyssa Hammer

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Cescili Hopkins

Kaiser Permanente, Annapolis/Glen Burnie, (800) 777-7904

Julie Hurvitz

University of Maryland Medical Center, (667) 214-1300

Aimee Jacobs

Aurora Women’s Health, Owings Mills, (410) 581-9200

Doee Kitessa

University of Maryland Medical Center, (667) 214-1300

Cyrus Lawyer

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-1092

Jessica K. Lee

University of Maryland Medical Center, (667) 214-1300

Julita Lett

Kaiser Permanente, Annapolis, (800) 777-7904

Lindsay Morrell

GBMC Healthcare, (410) 823-1120

Wen Shen

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, (410) 614-4495

Namrata Singhania

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8005

Mofolusho Sodeke

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, Columbia, (410) 997-8444

GYNECOLOGY

Latasha Murphy

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 321-8452

GYNECOLOGY-HIGH-RISK OBSTETRICS

Jeanne Sheffield

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 614-5186

HEMATOLOGY

Ashkan Bahrani

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-3010

Myo Min

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-3010

Mohit Narang

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, (410) 964-2212

INFECTIOUS DISEASE/ HIV PRIMARY CARE

Gregory Taylor

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

HOSPITALIST MEDICINE

Kirmanj Ahmed

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Syed Saad Ali

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4362

Claudiu Austin

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-0594

Manisha Bahl

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-1500

Margie Banzuelo-Rio

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4362

Daniel Bashari

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (443) 849-8046

Samir Bhalodia

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4362

Daniel Brotman

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 287-3631

Mohamad Chehab

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Elie Cheikh

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Pankti Desai

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Jeremy Epstein

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Angelita Estadilla

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Qinglin Gao

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-1500

Kavneet Gill

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Jyotsna Gummadi

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-8186

Lisa Harvin

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Syed Rameez Jafri

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4361

Waseem Khaliq

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 550-0100

Maria Perez Muoghalu

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-8186

Athmananda Nanjundappa

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Timothy Niessen

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 287-4362

Ashwini Niranjan-Azadi

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 614-4474

Michael Osnard

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 614-4474

Robert Paz

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Fadi Saikali

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, (410) 427-2574

Minus Vasiliades

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

Bing Wang

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-8186

John Woller

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 614-4474

Amelita Woodruff

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 614-4474

Jonathan Furmanek

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center
PODIATRY

What drew you to podiatry?

I grew up doing carpentry, construction, and working with my hands, so I knew I wanted to be in a surgical specialty. When I shadowed a podiatrist, I saw how patients would come into the office or hospital having significant pain or trouble walking, and they would leave happy and able to get back to life. Podiatry truly is a hidden gem among the medical specialties and can make a huge impact on improving peoples’ lives.

What do you bring to the field of podiatry that is unique?

I am a board-certified histotechnologist having worked in a pathology lab for several years, which allows me to treat unique pathologies of the lower extremities, such as plantar fibromas, fragility fractures of the foot and ankle, necrotizing fasciitis, and other musculoskeletal pathologies.

Describe a moment that made you remember why you chose this profession.

I’m fortunate that I get to experience giving the gift of walking quite often in my profession. Every time I see a patient walking in, pain free and in the shoe wear of their choice after a significant injury, that reaffirms that I chose the right medical specialty. —Casey Bacot

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Joel Chua

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-9102

Dilraj Deol

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-5835

Omar Harfouch

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

Samuel Holzman

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2000

Samuel Holzman

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2000

Mettassebia Kanno

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Mariam Khambaty

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

Poonam Mathur

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

Shivakumar Narayanan

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 706-4750

David Riedel

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

Patrick Ryscavage

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

Prashanth Santhekadur

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, (667) 723-4600

Kathryn Schlaffer

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

Sarah Schmalzle

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

Ravi Tripathi

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 225-8369

INTENSIVISTS/ CRITICAL CARE

Heidi Abdelhady

Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Columbia, (410) 740-7890

Michael Allison

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 337-1863

Madhat Arnouk

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 832-3400

Andrea Levine

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-8141

George Pyrgos

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (410) 682-5282

NEONATOLOGY

Francesca Okolie

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6003

Jana Friedman

THE EYE CENTER AT GBMC
Pediatric Ophthalmology

What advice do you have for someone who wants to go into medicine?

It’s a long haul, but the end result is entirely worth it. When deciding on a specialty, spend time with various providers in your field of interest to get a sense of the day-to-day routine, patient population, character of the field, and opportunity for work-life balance.

What do you bring to the field of pediatric ophthalmology that’s unique?

In addition to treating some of the more common conditions in pediatric ophthalmology, such as amblyopia, strabismus, and nasolacrimal duct disorders, I take care of pediatric patients with cataracts, which often involves surgery and specialty contact lens fitting.

What’s your favorite part about being in pediatrics?

I am in the position to treat not only young patients but to help the entire family from day one of a child’s life into early adulthood. I value being able to help educate a family on the specific relevant eye condition and offer guidance through the management and treatment. —Olivia Borgula

INTERNAL MEDICINE

Kwame Akoto

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

John Allen

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1515

Bimal Ashar

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-9819

Hasan Awan

Lansdowne Medical Center, (410) 242-5350

Danielle Baek

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1515

Sumanth Kumar Bandaru

MedStar Harbor Hospital, (410) 350-3200

Raman Bharaj

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2000

Youngjee Choi

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lutherville, (410) 583-2774

Sarah Clever

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lutherville, (410) 847-3565

Andrew Delapenha

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1515

Alyssa Hammer

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Qinglin Gao

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-1500

Ayman Khaddam

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4351

Waseem Khaliq

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 550-0100

Jessica R. Lee

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1515

Anuradha Reddy

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital (410) 225-8153

Ragia Saikali

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Edgewood, (410) 469-4910

Stacy Schwartz

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1515

Aseem Sood

University of Maryland Medical Center, (667) 214-1515

Alireza Zarrabi

Bay Medical and Wellness Center, Towson, (410) 237-7455

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Yousaf Awan

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-4528

Christopher McGinn

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Shreyas Patel

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Andrew Rodgers

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Randallstown, (410) 601-5832

Brian Swehla

MedStar Health, (443) 444-4343

LUPUS NEPHRITIS

Homa Timlin

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (410) 550-2044

MATERNAL-FETAL MEDICINE

Jessica Bienstock

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Pamela Matia

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

NEPHROLOGY

Carmen Elena Cervantes

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-0670

Mohamad Hanouneh

Nephrology Center of Maryland, (443) 444-3775

Tanuja Mishra

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Aiman Shammas

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 559-5063

Irfan Shukrullah

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, (443) 559-5063

NEURO INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Dheeraj Gandhi

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6034

Timothy Miller

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6034

NEURO-ONCOLOGY

Haroon Ahmad

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-7609

NEUROCRITICAL CARE

Scott Deboer

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-8292

NEUROLOGY-NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

Sarah Fredrich

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-4323

NEUROLOGY-EPILEPSY

Stephanie Chen

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-4323

Peter Crino

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-4323

Jennifer Hopp

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-4323

Crystal Janani

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, (667) 234-8444

Sumanjit Kaur

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-9515

Syed Shabbir

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Rosedale, (443) 777-7320

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY-SHOULDER

Gregory Gasbarro

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9032

OPHTHALMOLOGY

Shruti Aggarwal

Horizon Eye Physicians, Fulton, (301) 760-7771

Eva Devience

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Lily Im

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1111

Sachin Kalyani

Kalyani Eye Care, Hanover, (410) 782-3233

Divya Srikumaran

Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, (410) 955-5080

Fasika Woreta

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5080

ORTHOPEDIC MEDICINE-GENERAL

Michael Assayag

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-9852

NEUROLOGY-GENERAL

Charlene Gamaldo

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 740-7944

Crystal Janani

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, (667) 234-8444

Syed Salahuddin

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Syed Shaukat

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-1000

NEUROLOGY-MOVEMENT DISORDER

Lynn Chouhfeh

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 427-5505

Ashley Paul

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-9441

NEUROLOGY-NEUROMUSCULAR

Bonnie Gerecke

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 649-3485

Elizabeth Michelle

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-9515

Lindsay Zilliox

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-4323

NEUROLOGY-VASCULAR

Nicole Mahdi

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-9515

Michael Phipps

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-5803

ONCOLOGY-BREAST

Priyanka Mittar

Sandra and Malcolm Berman Comprehensive Breast Center at GBMC, (443) 839-3051

ONCOLOGY-COLON

Saira Ahmed

Ascension Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, (667) 234-2576

Mohit Narang

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, (410) 964-2212

ONCOLOGY-GYNECOLOGIC

Dwight Im

Mercy Gynecologic Oncology Center, (410) 332-9200

Rebecca Stone

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-8240

ONCOLOGY-GENERAL

Michael Adashek

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 427-5585

Ashkan Bahrani

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-3010

Kevin Chen

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-7147

Ari H. Elman

Sandra and Malcolm Berman Cancer Institute at Crossroads, Owings Mills, (443) 650-3870

Sandy Kotiah

Mercy Medical Oncology and Hematology, (410) 783-5858

Andrew Mener

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, (410) 964-2212

Myo Min

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-3010

Priyanka Mittar

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (443) 849-3051

Mahsa Mohebtash

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 444-3991

Mohit Narang

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, (410) 964-2212

Bhargavi Pulluri

Ascension Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, (667) 234-3416

Najeff Waseem

Maryland Oncology Hematology, Columbia, (410) 964-2212

ONCOLOGY-ORTHOPEDIC

Albert Aboulafia

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 997-2663

Vincent Ng

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 448-6400

ONCOLOGY-PANCREATIC

Daniel Laheru

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-8964

ONCOLOGY-SURGICAL BREAST

Melissa Camp

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY-FOOT AND ANKLE

Amiethab Aiyer

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 550-0100

Christopher Bibbo

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-2663

Jeffrey Brodie

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, (410) 337-7900

John Campbell

Mercy Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction (410) 659-2800

Rebecca Cerrato

Mercy Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction, (410) 659-2800

Natalie Danna

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 448-6400

Kenneth DeFontes III

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, (410) 337-7900

Gregory Guyton

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6844

Hayden L. Hoffler

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, (410) 644-1880

Nigel Hsu

Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Columbia, (443) 546-1580

Clifford Jeng

Mercy Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction, (410) 659-2800

Stuart Miller

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6530

Jacob Wisbeck

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6844

OTOLARYNGOLOGY-GENERAL

Kevin Motz

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 997-6467

Alpen Patel

Total ENT Care, (410) 889-0795

Nicholas Rowan

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (443) 997-6467

Han Sohn

Total ENT Care, Towson, (410) 889-0795

Rodney Taylor

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6866

Jeffrey Wolf

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-3197

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY-HAND

Clayton Alexander

Mercy Orthopedics and Joint Replacement, (410) 332-9032

Brian Cho

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Owings Mills/Westminster, (410) 876-8081

Alexander Choo

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Aviram Giladi

Curtis National Hand Center Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 235-5405

John Ingari

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Randallstown, (667) 219-6261

Brian A. Janz

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, (410) 644-1880

Emery Kim

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, (800) 777-7904

Elizabeth Langhammer

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, (410) 337-7900

Dawn LaPorte

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-3134

Michael Marion

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, (410) 337-7900

Duc Nguyen

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Columbia, (443) 997-2663

Raymond Pensy

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 448-6400

Khurram Pervaiz

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, (410) 644-1880

Bruce Wolock

Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Towson, (410) 337-7900

Ryan Zimmerman

Curtis National Hand Center, Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 235-5405

OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK MALIGNANCIES

Kyle Hatten

UM Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, (667) 214-2397

Leila Mady

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 997-6467

Rodney Taylor

UM Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, (410) 328-6866

Jeffrey Wolf

UM Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, (410) 328-3197

PAIN MANAGEMENT

Michael DeMarco

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, (410) 644-1880

Oluseyi Fadayomi

Clearway Pain Solutions, Annapolis, (667) 444-4307

Felix Gurman

Clearway Pain Solutions, Nottingham, (855) 527-7246

Rajesh Jari

Clearway Pain Solutions, White Marsh, (443) 678-0510

Arash Khoie

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-6497

Thomas Lee

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Randallstown, (410) 601-6597

Efraín Pérez Bravo

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-6597

Gurtej Singh

Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, Catonsville, (410) 644-1880

PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Ivy Akid

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Ian Borison

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Danielle J. Doberman

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Ambereen Mehta

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (410) 955-9441

PATHOLOGY

Fadi Habib

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 634-1000

Leonard Howard

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9447

PSYCHIATRY

Christina Lee

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

PODIATRY

Paul Carrol

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-7631

Mikel Daniels

We Treat Feet Podiatry, Owings Mills, (410) 363-4343

Jonathan Furmanek

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-6360

Michael Gerrity

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Carron Grant

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Tiffany Hoh

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-1392

Kyung Seo

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-7631

Jacob Wynes

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 448-6400

PSYCHIATRY-GENERAL

Margaret Chisolm

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 550-9744

Hinda Dubin

Hinda Dubin, M.D., (410) 218-9887

Marissa Flaherty

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-2207

Renz Juaneza

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, (443) 444-4540

Constance Lacap

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 462-5799

Christina Lee

Kaiser Permanente, (410) 933-7810

Durga Roy

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 550-6337

Karen Swartz

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 287-1644

Arman Taghizadeh

Valley Integrative Psych, Lutherville, (410) 616-0591

Michael Young

Sheppard Pratt, Towson, (410) 938-3000

PULMONARY

Kala Davis

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, (410) 644-3890

Panagis Galiatsatos

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 493-4866

Dafna Koldobskiy

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, (410) 644-3890

Stephen Mathai

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 550-5864

Fiona Meller Azrieli

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Peter Olivieri

UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Glen Burnie, (410) 787-4000

Nirav Shah

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-8141

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Sylwester Dziuba

Ascension Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, (667) 234-2965

Richard Hudes

Ascension Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, (667) 234-2965

Maria Jacobs

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9055

Mark Mishra

UM Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, (410) 328-6080

Elizabeth Nichols

UM Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, (410) 328-6080

Christian Okoye

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9055

Kruti Patel

GBMC Healthcare, (443) 849-2540

William Regine

UM Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, (410) 328-6080

RADIOLOGY

Shivani Ahlawat

Johns Hopkins Medicine, (410) 955-5000

Edward Ahn

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Randy Becker

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Puneet Devgun

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Laura Fayad

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

Anis Frayha

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Russel Gelman

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Laurence Goldstein

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Elizabeth Hartman

Washington Radiology at the Colonnade, Bel Air, (410) 838-6767

Kevin Jarrell

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Haleema Javid

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Nick Lomis

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Loralie Ma

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Aimee Maceda

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Zina Novak

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Bertan Ozgun

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Amy Pepperney

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Stephen Pomerantz

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Jessica Record

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Rebecca Richardson

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

David Safferman

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Satyajit Sarangi

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Nils Schnor

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Julian Simmons

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Hardeep Singh

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Ethan Spiegler

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Robert Stroud

Advanced Radiology, Owings Mills, (443) 436-1102

Arvinder Daisy Uppal

Charter Radiology, (443) 917-2855

Shadi Yousefi

Kaiser Permanente, Timonium, (800) 777-7904

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY/IVF

Emily Barnard

Shady Grove Fertility, (888) 761-1967

Stephanie Beall

Shady Grove Fertility, Towson, (888) 761-1967

Chantel Cross

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 847-3835

Vasiliki Moragianni

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Columbia, (410) 583-2750

SURGERY-MINIMALLY INVASIVE GYNECOLOGY

Adina Maniu

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

SURGERY-DERMATOLOGIC

Elise Ng

Howard County Medical Pavilion, Columbia, (410) 955-5933

SLEEP MEDICINE

Charlene Gamaldo

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-6733

Jonathan Jun

Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, (443) 287-3313

Rachel Salas

Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep and Wellness, Columbia, (410) 740-7944

Raya Wehbeh

GBMC Healthcare, (443) 849-3901

SPORTS MEDICINE

Valerie Cothran

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-2233

Matthew Sedgley

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Ellicott City, (410) 751-8800

Jasmine Toor

Sports Medicine at Mercy, (410) 539-2227

Kyle Yost

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-2233

SURGERY-MINIMALLY INVASIVE GYNECOLOGY

Adina Maniu

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

SURGERY-BARIATRIC

Alain Abdo

MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, (443) 777-1158

Shauna Costinett

GBMC Healthcare, (443) 849-3779

Isam Hamdallah

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, Catonsville, (667) 234-8725

Kuldeep Singh

Maryland Bariatric Center at Mercy, (410) 332-9528

Catriona Swift

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, Catonsville, (410) 368-8725

SURGERY-CARDIAC

Bartley Griffith

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-5842

Rawn Salenger

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 337-1783

SURGERY-BREAST

Kristen Fernandez

Ascension Saint Agnes Breast Center, Columbia, (667) 234-3434

Sara Fogarty

GBMC Healthcare, (443) 849-2600

Neil Friedman

Mercy Hoffberger Breast Center, (410) 332-9330

Jennifer Joh

Mercy Hoffberger Breast Center, (410) 332-9000

SURGERY-EMERGENCY

Sameer Damle

Maryland Surgeons, (443) 574-8500

Farheen Qurashi

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-0600

SURGERY-GENERAL

J. Lawrence Fitzpatrick

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9265

Marc Gertner

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, Owings Mills, (410) 581-0700

Alok Gupta

Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, (410) 766-1444

Shirali Patel

Ascension Saint Agnes Maryland Surgeons, (443) 708-9320

Atena Rosak

UM St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, (410) 427-2024

Raina Wallace Sola

MedStar Health, (443) 777-1158

Samana Zulu

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

SURGERY-MINIMALLY INVASIVE

Hien Nguyen

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 500-0409

SURGERY-PODIATRIC

Noman A. Siddiqui

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-8500

SURGERY-RECONSTRUCTIVE

Kristen Broderick

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (443) 997-0400

Brendan Collins

Mercy Breast Reconstruction and Restoration Center, (410) 332-9700

Theda Kontis

Aesthetic Center at Woodholme, (410) 415-9229

Yvonne Rasko

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-2360

SURGERY-TRANSPLANT

Daniel Maluf

UM Medical Center, (410) 328-5408

SURGERY-SPINE

Paul Asdourian

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2867

Oren Blam

Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics, Catonsville, (410) 664-1880

Daniel Cavanaugh

UM Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, (410) 448-6400

Kenneth Crandall

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6034

Charles Edwards II

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9000

Steven Ludwig

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 448-6400

Zan Naseer

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2867

Justin Park

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 539-3434

SURGERY-VASCULAR

Richard Bafford

Vascular Surgery Associates, Bel Air, (410) 879-2006

Andre Biuckians

Vascular Surgery Associates, Towson, (855) 648-9982

Carter Freiburg

Vascular Surgery Associates, Towson, (410) 825-4928

Mark Gonze

UM Upper Chesapeake Health, Bel Air, (443) 643-3500

Paul Lucas

Mercy Vascular Center, (410) 332-9404

Khanjan Nagarsheth

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-5840

Vincent Noori

Mercy Medical Center, (410) 332-9404

Alain Tanbe

Mercy Vascular Center, (410) 332-9404

Kristian Ulloa

Vascular Surgery Associates, Westminster, (443) 640-4827

Raghuveer Vallabhaneni

MedStar Union, Memorial Hospital, (410) 554-2950

SURGICAL-ONCOLOGY

Vinay Gupta

MedStar Health, (443) 777-7911

SURGERY-THORACIC

Gavin Henry

UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center, (410) 801-4000

Alexander Sasha Krupnick

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6366

Christine Lau

University of Maryland Medical Center, (410) 328-6366

TRAUMA

Jaclyn Clark

UM R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, (410) 328-7611

Rebecca Schwartz

UM R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, (410) 328-8976

Richard Wittmeyer

UM R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, (410) 328-3179

UROGYNECOLOGY

Joan Blomquist

GBMC Healthcare Towson, (443) 849-2767

R. Mark Ellerkmann

Mercy Gynecologic Oncology Center, (443) 275-5050

Danielle Patterson

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (443) 997-0400

UROLOGY

Marisa Clifton

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 955-6100

Benjamin Cohen

Chesapeake Urology Towson, (410) 825-5454

Damon Davis

Mercy Urology Center, (410) 332-9654

Nwamaka Fadahunsi

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Brian Neuman

Chesapeake Urology, (410) 825-5454

Christian Pavlovich

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 550-3338

Marc Siegelbaum

Chesapeake Urology, Towson, (410) 825-5454

Robert Thompson

Mercy Urology Center, (410) 332-9654

WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

Marci Laudenslager

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Lutherville, (410) 616-7420

PEDIATRIC SPECIALTIES

ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

Matthew Grant

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-8336

Maria Trent

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5710

AUDIOLOGY

Roni Dinkes

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 550-2368

NEONATOLOGY

Natalie Davis

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-6749

Francesca Okolie

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-6003

Maria Pane

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (443) 849-2591

Manisha Patel

MedStar Franklin, Square Medical Center, (443) 777-7000

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Mary Leppert

Kennedy Krieger Institute, (443) 923-3265

PEDIATRIC ALLERGY

Manav Singla

Allergy Asthma Specialists of Maryland, White Marsh, (410) 933-9404

PEDIATRIC AMBULATORY INTENSIVE CARE

Virginia Keane

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, (410) 578-8600

PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA

Stephanie Kahntroff

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-6323

PEDIATRIC BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT

Joyce Wong

Kennedy Krieger Institute, (443) 923-9400

PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY

Alicia Chaves

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-4348

Peter Gaskin

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-4348

Melanie Nies

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (410) 955-5987

Michael Slack

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-6484

Sudhir Vashist

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-4348

PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE

Adrian Holloway

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-6957

Jamie Schwartz

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-5000

PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY

Dakara Wright

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Forrest Closson

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-6335

Getachew Teshome

UM Medical Center, (410) 328-2079

PEDIATRIC GENETICS

Antonie Kline

GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (443) 849-3131

PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY/ ONCOLOGY

Aziza Shad

Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai, (410) 601-5303

PEDIATRIC HOSPITALIST MEDICINE

Michelle Chudow

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, (410) 578-8600

Nidhi Goel

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-5887

Lorena Hawkins

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, (240) 677-1800

Julia Rosenstock

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, (410) 578-8600

Krista Tookhan

UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Glen Burnie, (410) 553-8540

PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Susan Lipton

LifeBridge Health Medical Group, (410) 601-1100

PEDIATRIC MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

Christine Pratilas

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (410) 955-8751

PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY

Olga Charnaya

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 955-2467

PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY

Mari Groves

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-6406

Whitney Parker

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-6034

PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY

Stacy Cooper

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center (410) 955-8751

PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY

Janet Alexander

UM Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1111

Samuel Andorsky

Pediatric Eye Care of Maryland, (410) 433-8488

Mary Louise Collins

GBMC Healthcare Eye Center, Towson, (443) 849-8082

Dean Fiergang

Pediatric Eye Care of Maryland, (410) 433-8488

Jana Friedman

The Eye Center at GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (443) 849-8082

Allison Jensen

The Eye Center at GBMC Healthcare, Towson, (443) 849-8082

Moran (Roni) Levin

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians, (667) 214-1111

PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDICS

Jay Lee

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 997-2663

Philip McClure

LifeBridge Health Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, (410) 601-2663

PEDIATRIC PSYCHIATRY

Carmen Lopez-Arvizu

Kennedy Krieger Institute, (443) 9237600

Leslie Miller

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, (410) 550-9014

Arman Taghizadeh

Valley Integrative Psych, Lutherville, (410) 616-0591

PEDIATRIC PAIN MANAGEMENT

M-Irfan Suleman

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (410) 955-5210

PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY

Christy Sadreameli

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (443) 997-5437

PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY

Julia Shalen

Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, (443) 997-5437

PEDIATRIC SPORTS MEDICINE

Teri McCambridge

Towson Orthopedic Associates, Towson, (410) 337-7900

PEDIATRIC SURGERY

Clint Cappiello

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 324-5100

Alejandro Garcia

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (410) 955-5210

Isam Nasr

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (410) 614-4615

Daniel Rhee

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (410) 955-5210

Eric Strauch

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 328-5730

PEDIATRIC SURGERYORTHOPEDIC

Erin Honcharuk

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (443) 997-2663

Ranjit Varghese

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (443) 997-2663

PEDIATRIC UROLOGY

Heather Di Carlo

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-6108

Adam Kern

Chesapeake Urology, Annapolis, (443) 231-1500

Charlotte Wu

Johns Hopkins Hospital, (410) 955-6108

PEDIATRICS GENERAL

Nevin Body

Main Street Pediatrics, Owings Mills, (410) 526-7993

Christina Brown

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Claudia Cardenas

Kaiser Permanente, (800) 777-7904

Rebecca Carter

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 225-8780

Ruby Dey

Kaiser Permanente, Columbia, (800) 777-7904

Tekeema Dixon

Kaiser Permanente, Halethorpe, (800) 777-7904

Melanie Garcia

Kiddie Health Pediatrics, (410) 687-0808

Jason Goldstein

Pavilion Pediatrics, Lutherville, (410) 583-2955

Michele Jules-Chapman

Mercy Family Care Physicians, (410) 500-5500

Dawan King

Mercy Family Care Physicians, (410) 500-5500

Julie King

Pavilion Pediatrics, Lutherville, (410) 583-2955

Mutiat Onigbanjo

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 225-8780

Vandana Racherla

UM Children’s Hospital, (410) 225-8780

Michelle Williams

Mercy Family Care Physicians, (410) 500-5500

Amy Winkelstein

Maryland Pediatric Group, Lutherville, (410) 321-9393

Ashanti Woods

Mercy Family Care Physicians, (410) 500-5500

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]]> Top Doctors 2020 https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/health/top-doctors-in-baltimore-2020/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:00:45 +0000 https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=99124
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Heroes of Health Care

Top Doctors 2020

Here are more than 800 of Greater Baltimore’s best physicians—in every specialty imaginable.

By Ken Iglehart, Rebecca Kirkman, and Jane Marion
Photography by Christopher Myers

Health & Wellness

Top Doctors 2020

Here are more than 800 of Greater Baltimore’s best physicians—in every specialty imaginable.

By Ken Iglehart, Rebecca Kirkman, and Jane Marion. Photography by Christopher Myers.

Reputations of different professions can ebb and flow with the times.

DURING A MAJOR WAR, for instance, the military often wins hero status among the anxious public. And during a health crisis, such as the one we’re in now, it’s the health care workers who earn our greatest approbation. After all, they’re the ones in the trenches, so to speak, risking their lives to save others and to defend the nation against the pandemic threat.

Which makes our 34th-annual Top Doctors survey even more important this year. Not only are physicians the heroes of the day, but, as pandemic restrictions loosen, they’re about to be busier than ever. People have avoided hospitals and medical offices since the lockdown began, but they’ll soon be flocking to M.D.s to catch up on everything from routine physicals to treatment of non-life-threatening disorders that they just learned to live with during the quarantine.

And that’s where we come in: No matter which body part you’re talking about, there’s a specialist on our Top Doctors list who’s regarded as preeminent in his or her field—not anointed by us, but by other doctors. Which is what makes this roster—derived from a nine-month-long peer survey—the most discriminating and comprehensive such resource in the region.

How picky are we about who we name? Our peer-chosen winners represent only about 5 percent of the roughly 14,000 physicians licensed to practice in Baltimore’s readership area.

But there’s more to this undertaking than just a string of names of great physicians: We profile one, too. In “No Average Joe,” editor Jane Marion introduces us to Dr. Joseph Cofrancesco, a physician who remembers all too well the AIDS epidemic and now is trying to save lives during the pandemic, despite some very personal COVID pain of his own. He’s one of many extraordinary doctors on these pages who are more than living up to the Hippocratic Oath.

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Methodology

To arrive at our results, we polled thousands of physicians in the region in our annual online survey—now in its 34th year—asking them which doctors are the best of the best in more than 100 specialties. Participation is always high, and this year was no exception, with close to 20,000 physician names submitted. Only those with the highest number of peer recommendations make the list. (There also are a handful of non-M.D. specialties included, such as podiatry.)

Assisting with the survey were our three physician advisers, whose professional expertise and inside intel on the medical community was invaluable. Advisers are not eligible to be included on the list in the year they serve.

Health & Wellness

Doctors Directory

Explore our comprehensive and searchable list of medical professionals.
 
Health & Wellness

No Average Joe

As he pushes past his own personal pain, Dr. Joseph Cofrancesco continues to dedicate his life’s work to helping others.

Our Advisers

DR. BIMAL ASHAR

Ashar is an associate professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the clinical director for the Division of General Internal Medicine, and the director of the Executive and Preventive Health Program. His research interests include preventive medicine, dietary supplements, and medical education. He is also editor of The Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine Board Review, a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

DR. MONIQUE SATPUTE

Monique Satpute, MD, FAAP, is the director for the Sheila S. and Lawrence C. Pakula Center for Infant Specialty Care at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital (MWPH). She has served children and their families at MWPH for nine years, focusing on general pediatrics as well as pre-term and term infants with complex medical needs. She is a board-certified neonatologist and completed her fellowship in neonatology at The Johns Hopkins University.

DR. JENNIFER TAYLOR

Taylor, who earned her medical degree at State University of New York at Buffalo and completed her residency in OB-GYN at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, now practices at Mercy Medical Center. Board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, she has participated in several research initiatives and has numerous honors, publications, and presentations to her credit. She is a Fellow of the American College of OB-GYN, and a member of the American Medical Association and the Douglass Obstetrics and Gynecology Society.

David L. Gold

MEDSTAR ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE, SECTION CHIEF

Can you recall a particularly gratifying patient case? One recently was a woman in remission from cancer, but her treatment likely caused her hip to essentially crumble. She was having such severe pain and couldn’t walk. Her pain was relieved quickly after I replaced her hip, and she has her life back.

What’s the proudest moment of your career? I think that moment is now, being able to help people during this pandemic. Most of my patients truly show their appreciation for our efforts during this crisis.

What’s your passion outside of work? Cycling: I actually chose orthopedics because of my love for sports and science. I wanted to be a sports-medicine doctor early in my career. I love the challenge of long-distance biking and have enjoyed many challenging adventures seeing incredible beauty both in the U.S. and abroad. I recently traveled to Colorado, where I climbed to the top of Mt. Evans by bike. This is the highest paved road in the U.S. at 14,285 feet. Not much oxygen up there.

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Ashanti W. Woods

MERCY MEDICAL CENTER, GENERAL PEDIATRICS

Why did you choose your specialty? I love children and enjoy helping sick children feel better. Also, selfishly, I figured being a pediatrician would allow me to stay youthful—I could stay a kid forever.

If you could change one thing in health care, what would it be? I wish the system would allow physicians to spend a little more time with patients. We do our best, and often can be in a room for 20 minutes with a family trying to address their needs, but sometimes, we still feel there is more to be done.

The proudest moment of your career? Perhaps hearing a young child say they saw me on TV talking about pediatric issues and then telling me what I said. It reinforced the indirect impact that one can have on their community. I had no idea a child so young would be watching the news and listening. Children are quite observant.

What hobbies or after-hours causes do you have? Playing with my two kids, traveling with my wife (with no kids!), and mixing music.

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Jung-Soo John Hong

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER, GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

If you could change one thing in health care, what would it be? I’d eliminate senseless regulations, paperwork, and bureaucracy.

What attracted you to internal medicine? I like its broadness—building relationships, getting to know the whole person.

What’s one of the most satisfying parts about your job? Besides serving as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Medicine, I’m also an associate professor. And when I help a student or colleague achieve his or her goals and dreams, I feel more pride than I feel about my own accomplishments. Those individuals have gone on to help others and accomplish great things.

What would you have been if not a doctor? A computer software designer.

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Sherita Hill Golden

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE, ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES, AND METABOLISM

What has been the proudest moment of your career? Being the 2017 co-recipient of the Walter Reed Distinguished Achievement Award from my medical school—University of Virginia School of Medicine. This was special for me and my family because my grandmother, who was born near UVA in 1914, could not receive care at the University of Virginia Hospital because she was Black.

What hobbies or after-hours causes do you have? I enjoy doing Zumba for exercise and creating digital scrapbooks. After-hours causes include being an active member of the Baltimore County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., serving on the National Board of Directors for the American Diabetes Association, serving as board chair for the MERIT Leadership Academy to support the next generation of STEM students, and co-directing the Health Ministry at Clearview Baptist Church with my husband, Dr. Christopher Golden.

What would you have been if not a doctor? I would have been a teacher because I like to inspire young people. That’s why I’ve always worked in an academic environment—so I can still teach and mentor.

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Richard Hudes

SAINT AGNES HOSPITAL, CHESAPEAKE UROLOGY, CHIEF OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Why did you pick the specialty you’re in? As a medical student, I was lured to train in radiation oncology by both the sophisticated and intriguing technology of the field and the challenge of dealing with a complicated, life-threatening disease. My passion increased during residency as I began to understand how a cancer diagnosis can affect a patient and how humanizing their journey, while optimizing the outcome, is a true privilege. Many years later, I find the tremendous pace of change in oncology to be both exciting and challenging.

If you could change one thing in health care, what would it be? On the macro level, I would advocate for universal health care.

The proudest moment of your career? I was asked in 2001 to become chief of the Radiation Oncology Department at Saint Agnes Hospital, where I have had the good fortune to remain ever since. I have really enjoyed serving on the Ethics Committee of Saint Agnes Hospital and most recently joined the board of directors of Saint Agnes Healthcare.

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Lauren A. Schnaper

GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER, BREAST SURGERY

What would you have been if not a doctor? A teacher. Good doctors have to be teachers. One of their most important roles is to help patients understand what is happening to them.

Why did you pick the specialty you’re in? The specialty picked me. When I first began practice, at the University of Maryland, I was the only woman general surgeon in town. Women began to come to me with breast complaints, and the rest is history.

Can you recall a particularly gratifying or challenging patient case? They are all gratifying. Some are challenging.

The proudest moment of your career? My participation in a national study that changed the way women over 70 with breast cancer are treated. It was to determine whether there is a benefit to adjuvant radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery and tamoxifen in these older women.

What hobbies do you have? I had a lot of causes when I was younger. Now I have hobbies: growing orchids, birdwatching, traveling, and spending time with my granddaughter.

View our full list of Top Doctors, here.

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TOP
NURSES
2020

Getting their due: here are our 2020
excellence in nursing winners.

OUR SIXTH ANNUAL AWARDS PROGRAM SALUTES
THE R.N. HEROES OF HEALTH CARE.

EDITED BY KEN IGLEHART
Written by Ken Iglehart and Rebecca Kirkman

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER MYERS

Health & Wellness

Top Nurses 2020

Getting their due: here are our 2020 excellence in nursing winners.

Edited by Ken Iglehart
Written by Ken Iglehart and Rebecca Kirkman

Photography by Christopher Myers

OUR SIXTH ANNUAL AWARDS PROGRAM SALUTES THE R.N. HEROES OF HEALTH CARE.

WHAT A YEAR TO BE A NURSE: As the pandemic swept from east to west, sickening— and killing—millions, it was the R.N.s in front-line specialties who put themselves at greater risk than most other health-care workers. And people took notice. For once, the spotlight was not entirely on the physicians, as the nation saluted the critical contribution made by these dedicated professionals.

During the crisis, we’ve seen that nurses are now at least as likely as physicians to be the ones directly attending to patients, and those with specialized training can not only perform many of the same roles as a physician, but are the backbone of health care today.

There are few metro areas with more great nurses than Baltimore, and our job in Baltimore’s sixth annual Excellence in Nursing survey was to identify the best of the best. To arrive at the results, we solicited nominations from peers, supervisors, and patients of registered nurses—both in and out of hospitals—who represent the finest in their field, and we received an overwhelming response. And in our accompanying story, we went behind the scenes at a local VA hospital to see the double duty that faced those nurses—caring for wounded veterans plus protecting them from COVID-19.

There were 18 nursing specialties for which we accepted nominations in a process that took nine months. Then the hard part began: picking the finalists. For that, we relied on an impressive panel of highly experienced R.N. advisors, who divvied up the specialties and pored over the hundreds of nominations to arrive at our winners. Congratulations to all 68 of them.

On behalf of Baltimore magazine, we are honored to celebrate, congratulate, and thank the 68 incredible 2020 Excellence in Nursing winners for their bravery and courage during these unprecedented times.

Health & Wellness

Top Nurses 2020: The List

Here are this year's Excellence in Nursing winners.
Health & Wellness

A Fight on Two Fronts

Caring for vets, then coping with COVID, means double duty for VA Nurse LT. MeShondra Collins
Health & Wellness

2020 Excellence in Nursing Video

A special video presentation celebrating our Excellence in Nursing winners

Our Advisors

Our thanks to the survey’s seven registered-nurse advisors, who lent their time and considerable expertise to the process. The role of the advisors——several of whom have served on the panel in the past——was to review the hundreds of nominations we received in order to identify the winners. Advisors may not be on the winner’s list in the year they serve.

CARLENE FREW is the director of nursing resources at Saint Agnes Healthcare, where she provides oversight to staff, including those in the float pool, IV therapy, and patient escort. Frew earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Phoenix and was a 2016 recipient of Baltimore’s Excellence in Nursing award.

SARAH AFONSO is a director of nursing programs at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she is responsible for assisting the vice president of nursing with coordination of executive priorities and implementation of operational and strategic objectives. She received her bachelor of nursing degree at Florida Gulf Coast University and her master’s in nursing informatics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

DR. AMY ALSANTE is the magnet coordinator and nursing practice innovation lead at MedStar Harbor Hospital. Her more than 20 years of nursing experience includes critical care, clinical education, and leadership. Alsante earned her bachelor’s degree from Towson University, her master’s in nursing leadership and management from the University of Maryland, and doctor of nursing practice in executive leadership from The George Washington University.

DR. LINDA K. COOK is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Cook has more than 40 years of nursing experience, mainly in critical care and nursing education. She received her initial nursing education at The Genesee Hospital School of Nursing in Rochester, New York, and completed her graduate work at University of Maryland, Baltimore. In her various positions, she has served as a mentor for nurses and nursing students.

CHRISTINE HEIMER currently works as an outpatient R.N. at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital (MWPH), where she has served children and their families for the past 20 years. She earned her BSN at Towson University and is certified in pediatrics. Heimer’s experience at MWPH includes roles as a staff R.N., nursing supervisor, and nurse manager.

KAYLENE ROSS is a director of peri-op education at MedStar Harbor Hospital, managing a team of nurses and physicians to provide high-quality, safe patient care to surgical patients. Her more than 40 years of nursing experience includes open-heart surgery, pediatrics, labor and delivery, education, general and orthopedic surgery, ICU, and nursing leadership.

MICHELLE M. RIVERS earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland School of Nursing at Baltimore and master’s degree at Stevenson University. She has 28 years of experience as a medical-surgical nurse and educator. She is an education and resources nurse planner at the American Nurses Association and is a member of the Association of Nursing Professional Development.

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By Ken Iglehart, Rebecca Kirkman, and Corey McLaughlin
Photography by Mike Morgan, Christopher Myers, and Sean Scheidt
Health & Wellness

Top Doctors 2019

Here are 702 of Greater Baltimore’s best physicians in every specialty under the sun.

By Ken Iglehart, Rebecca Kirkman, and Corey McLaughlin. Photography by Mike Morgan, Christopher Myers, and Sean Scheidt.

Here are 702 of Greater Baltimore’s best physicians in every specialty under the sun.

You’ve been under the weather, and, naturally, turned to the internet to self-diagnose. And, according to your not-that-scientific search, it’s clear: You either have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, Dercum’s disease, or bilharzia. Or maybe it’s just an autumn flu generously left by your coworkers on an office doorknob. But if you want to be sure instead of freaking out over bad information, you’ll need the best physician you can find.

And that’s where we come in: No matter which body part you’re talking about, there’s a specialist on our Top Doctors list who’s regarded as preeminent in his or her field not by us, but by other doctors. That’s what makes this roster derived from a nine-month-long peer survey the most dependable, discriminating, and comprehensive such resource in the region.

We know that 702 docs sounds like a lot, but if you want to know just how discriminating this list is, check the math: Our peer-chosen winners represent only about five percent of the roughly 14,000 physicians licensed to practice in Baltimore’s readership area.

But there’s more to this undertaking than just a string of names of great physicians.

In “This Is His Lane,” contributor Corey McLaughlin tells the story of Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon Joseph Sakran, who was shot in the throat as a teenager, and who now is a leading gun-violence prevention advocate.

And we take a look in the issue at the rapid growth of medical centers devoted just to women, a fairly recent initiative by area hospitals that’s turned out to be a big success.

Methodology

To arrive at our results, we polled thousands of physicians in the region in our annual online survey now in its 33rd year asking them which doctors are the best of the best in 129 specialties. Participation is always good, and this year was no exception, with close to 20,000 physician names submitted. Only those M.D.s with the highest number of peer recommendations make the list. (There also are a handful of non-M.D. specialties, such as podiatry.)

Assisting with the survey were our three physician advisers (see related biographies, below), whose professional expertise and inside intel on the medical community was invaluable. Advisers are not eligible to be included on the list in the year they serve.

The list of specialties is broken down into five categories: general medical, women’s health, pediatrics, surgery, and elective.

Health & Wellness

Doctors Directory

Explore our comprehensive and searchable list of medical professionals.
Health & Wellness

A Winning Formula

Women’s health centers in Baltimore have multiplied—and they’re meeting a need.
News & Community

This is His Lane

Emergency surgery chief has become a leading gun-violence prevention advocate.

Our Advisers

Dr. R. Mark Ellerkmann

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Challenging case files, exclusive 2014 survey, getting sick in the age of social media, sleep disorders, and how to annoy your doc!

Edited by Ken Iglehart.
By Ron Cassie, Ken Iglehart, and Amy Mulvihill. Research assistance by Rebecca Kirkman.
Photography by Christopher Myers.


2014 Top Doctors Listing

From allergy specialists to X-ray experts, we've listed the physicians who their peers believe are the best in their respective fields.

Science of Sleep

The consequences of poor sleep can go far beyond irritability, potentially driving significant physical health issues.

Media Matters

For cancer patients, social media outlets have relegated suffering in silence to a thing of the past.

How to Annoy your Doc!

What do patients do that really gets under the skin of their physicians? We asked around and, turns out, we pushed a hot button.

Challenging Case Files

We chronicle area physicians' most challenging cases, from a devastating injury to usually deadly bacteria.

Medical Profiles 2014

Special Advertising Section

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Gretchen Sims couldn’t get to sleep at night. A diligent Towson University freshman, she’d spend her lonely, insomnia-filled hours doing her homework, inevitably falling asleep in classes the next day. Despite completing her assignments, professors assumed she was either uninterested in the lecture material or wrung out from late-night partying — not uncommon for college students.

She’d taken AP classes in high school, played volleyball, sung in the choir, and worked during the summer, and she wanted to pursue vigorous academic and extracurricular activities in college, too. But she struggled now merely to function each day. “If I went to hang out in a friend’s dorm, went to the library or a movie with a group of people, I was always the person that fell asleep,” she says. “The things I wanted to do, I wasn’t engaged in them—I was too tired or couldn’t focus.”

She did okay academically as a freshman, but her sleeping woes worsened. That summer, at home, she’d often be up all night and then doze off for 10 hours into the middle of the day. Still not refreshed, however. Then, during her sophomore year, she suddenly fell into a state of paralysis in front of schoolmates at Towson’s Albert S. Cook Library—fully conscious, but unable to move, her face muscles slackening completely as her iced tea fell to the ground beside her chair. She revived a few minutes later, groggy and unsure what had happened. Her friends, she says, convinced her that she needed “to get that checked out.”

Eventually, Sims landed the University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Center in downtown Baltimore—“in a room that looked somewhere between a nice dorm and a hotel”—hooked up to an array of electrodes and equipment designed to measure everything from her cardiovascular and respiratory systems to her brain waves while she slept. That first overnight ruled out sleep apnea—an interruption in her breathing—as the cause of her problems. But a subsequent daytime follow-up visit during which she took five naps (sleep lab visits are also videotaped and monitored by technicians), revealed the then-19-year-old suffered from narcolepsy, a potentially devastating chemical and biological disorder in the brain. During her naps, for example, Sims fell into deep REM sleep in less than five minutes, when it typically takes people about an hour and a half to do so each night. This interrupts her normal, restorative nighttime sleep cycles in addition to creating uncontrollable daytime sleep episodes. The sudden bouts of waking paralysis that Sims experiences, known as cataplexy, are found in about 70 percent of narcolepsy sufferers.

“My biggest problem is that I can’t get a driver’s license. That’s just something I’m going to have to learn To live with.”

“It was a great relief to get diagnosed,” says Sims, who takes a regimen of medication, including amphetamine-based Adderall and anti-depressants, designed to keep her awake during the day. Two years later, she still meets with Dr. Steven M. Scharf, who founded the University of Maryland sleep center a dozen years ago, on a semi-regular basis. “Since I’ve been diagnosed, I meet with my professors before each semester, and I’ve been able to receive accommodations at school, like getting extra time for assignments. I also get time and a half to take my exams, which are monitored by a proctor, in case I fall asleep.” Meanwhile, her grades have improved and she hopes to graduate this spring and then pursue a master’s degree in occupational therapy.

“My biggest problem is that I can’t get a driver’s license,” says Sims. “That’s just something I’m going to have to learn to live with. Or rather, live without.”

Sims, in fact, is lucky in one regard. University of Maryland researcher and clinician Jeanne Geiger-Brown notes she has several narcolepsy patients for whom the disorder is so prominent that they are unable to work at all, forced to live on disability income. “It’s sad, really,” Geiger-Brown says. “Their lives are severely compromised, unable to sleep in normal cycles, they are exhausted all the time.”

Thankfully, narcolepsy, whether manageable, as in Sims’s case, or of the more profound variety, remains a relatively rare condition, affecting an estimated one in every 3,000 people. Today, the majority of patients at Maryland’s sleep disorder clinic present with sleep apnea, even more so than insomnia. But all chronic sleep pattern disruptors, researchers are now learning, don’t merely produce what we think of as classic slumber-deprived symptoms such as irritability and an inability to concentrate. Insomnia has been linked to weight gain, hypertension, and depression. Sleep apnea, in particular, if untreated, can drive a plethora of long-term, potentially dire physical health consequences, increasing the risk for high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, stroke, heart attack, and even sudden-death cardiac arrest—which killed former NFL All-Pro Reggie White at age 43.

In fact, all sorts of bad things begin to happen as a result of sleep apnea.

“For 20 years, all anyone has been talking about, in terms of improving health, is diet and exercise,” says Scharf. “No one has been talking about sleep, which is at least as important to good health as either one of those.”

The University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Center, which recently moved into a new wing at the school’s midtown campus, includes eight beds, and logs about 150 sleep studies a month in its lab. The clinic side of the center, in which physicians and counselors meet with patients one-on-one to discuss treatment and ongoing issues, also sees between 120 and 150 patients a month.

A Ph.D. and researcher as well as an M.D., Scharf has been especially interested in the cardiovascular effects of sleep-disordered breathing. Though many cases go undiagnosed, an estimated 18 million Americans have obstructed sleep apnea, enduring brief and repeated interrupted sleep for anywhere from 10 seconds to a couple of minutes, sometimes 30 times or more an hour, when the muscles in the back of the throat fail to keep the airway open. Doctors can’t detect the condition during routine office visits, and there’s no blood test to diagnose the condition. Usually, it’s a family member or partner who first notices signs of sleep apnea because of the loud snoring that typically takes place as air struggles to squeeze past the blockage.

Scharf, whose initial medical focus was in pulmonary and critical-care medicine, shifted to the study (and treatment) of the effects of sleep on health, as the inexorable link between the two became more and more apparent. “We’ve always known that obesity is associated with heart problems and high blood pressure, but now what we’ve learned is that there is a mechanism related to poor sleep, where apnea, the interruption in breathing, causes a drop in oxygen levels in the blood,” Scharf says. “When sleep apnea has been induced in rats and mice, we can track the damage down to the chambers in their hearts.”

Dr. Steven M. Scharf, who founded the University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Center a dozen years ago.

In fact, Scharf says, all sorts of bad things begin to happen as a result of sleep apnea, including the release of stress hormones and inflammatory chemicals. “Blood pressure rises, the heart walls thicken, and there’s measureable, immediate effects in brain function,” he says. “With mice, who’ve learned how to swim to a place where they can stand in the water—they won’t be able to recall where the dock is stationed. They literally have to start their search all over.”

The most common cause of obstructive apnea is obesity, a growing epidemic in the U.S., which leads to an increase in the soft tissue of the mouth and throat, blocking the airway when throat and tongue muscles are more relaxed—as they are during sleep. Increased childhood obesity is also driving a dramatic increase in apnea among kids, with a Centers for Disease Control study reporting a 436 percent increase in the number of hospital discharges for sleep apnea among children over the last 20 years. (The University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Center includes two pediatric beds.)

But not all sleep apnea problems are related to obesity. Some have to do more with the genetic shape of the mouth and throat—or tonsils and adenoids in children. Also, simply size and weight, not necessarily fat, can create problems. When a person with a large chest and upper body, like an NFL lineman such as White, lies down, the sheer weight can cause a downward pressure on the narrow passages of the upper respiratory areas.

Baltimore Ravens’ tackle Ryan Jensen, cut after a disappointing training camp this summer, was eventually resigned to the practice squad after being diagnosed with sleep apnea. “Looking back, it probably started about two years ago,” says Jensen, adding that Ravens director of player development Harry Swayne had noticed a change in his behavior, as well as his performance, during training camp and helped set up an overnight visit to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center’s Sleep Center in Towson. “Part of is that you’re groggy and irritable, and then, in terms of football, the other thing is that your body isn’t recovering from the workouts.”

Following his sleep study, Jensen learned that he stopped breathing for as long as 35 seconds at some points, suffering from as many as 90 breathing episodes a night, while waking up close to 30 times in the course of a single evening. He now uses a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine and mask—the standard treatment for sleep apnea—which pumps a flow of air into the nasal passages to keep them open. “In terms, of my overall health, this is something that I’ve learned could have potential devastating effects. The way I look at it, getting this diagnosed and treated will save my life.”

Beyond apnea, narcolepsy, and a number of other less common sleep issues, such as restless leg syndrome and sleepwalking—not rare, but generally not dangerous—insomnia brings many clients to sleep centers at area hospitals. Geiger-Brown says that insomnia episodes typically begin as an event-driven phenomena—anxiety or stress related to a particular life situation. “Insomnia affects about 30 percent of the population, who have either difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep, or both,” says Geiger-Brown, a University of Maryland Ph.D., who also studied adult psychiatric and mental health nursing at Columbia University. “For a small percentage, three percent, there is a primary psychiatric diagnosis, but for most people it stems from something else—a divorce, financial difficulties, a job crisis, or a medical issue.” Generally, she says, the insomnia disappears when the life situation gets resolved, but not always.

“We don’t focus on the underlying issues, but changing sleep behavior—what we refer to as ‘sleep hygiene,’” she says. “That starts with getting up at the same time every day and going to bed at the same time every night.” Other good sleep hygiene habits, Geiger-Brown says, include making sure that the bedroom and bed are only used for “sleeping and sex.”

“No TV, working, or eating in the bedroom,” she says. “And definitely no computer or smartphone use. Surfing the Internet or engaging with social media—that’s even worse than television, which is more passive.” Even reading in bed isn’t encouraged. “You don’t want anything that’s sending input to the brain,” Geiger-Brown says. “You want the brain to be winding down.” She notes that light—particularly the blue light of electronic screens—keeps sleepiness at bay by inhibiting the natural release of melatonin in the brain. It’s a particular challenge for teenagers today, she says, noting that they require more sleep to begin with than adults and start their school days early. “But we see people from all walks of life,” Geiger-Brown says. “I had a guy, a public servant in his early 50s, whose name you would know, to truck drivers and nurses. We see a lot of people in service and transportation industries who work off-hour schedules and changing schedules, which create real challenges.”

“I have a stressful job and when I lie down, it’s ‘Start your engines’ time.”

According to Geiger-Brown, exercise is helpful in combatting insomnia, as is a well-balanced meal, so long as neither occur too close to bedtime. Sometimes, she admits, even the best treatments and sleep hygiene routines can only manage sleeping problems without completely eliminating them, as is the case with Gretchen Sims. Naps can assist in eliminating symptoms of sleepiness, as long as they’re in the 20-30 minute range and not longer, which could interfere with falling asleep at night. Both Scharf and Geiger-Brown say they are neither pro- nor anti-sleeping pills, which they will prescribe, but they say sleeping pills lose effectiveness over time and are not a long-term solution.

One state employee, who works in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and did not want her real name used, says she finally visited the University of Maryland Sleep Disorders Center recently, after dealing with insomnia for years, and learned she suffers from mild sleep apnea as well.

“The insomnia started in my mid- to late- 40s when I found myself unable to sleep, roaming around at night, and I remember thinking it was menopause, a biological thing,” she says. “I tried Ambien and a variety of things, but nothing worked for long.

“I have a stressful job and when I lie down, it’s ‘Start your engines’ time,” she says, explaining that her mind starts racing about her next day’s to-do list and general anxiety.

She has tried white-noise machines and, eventually, has settled into watching TV, mostly sitcom re-runs or late-night talk shows—nothing potentially disturbing, in other words. But she hasn’t committed to trying a CPAP mask, yet, despite knowledge of the potential health consequences, and she’s not sure she’s ready to give up her self-medicating television viewing, either.

“I have a hard time letting go, that’s part of the problem,” she says. “I do have a timer that turns the TV off, and there’s no smartphone in the bedroom. Dr. Geiger-Brown has also suggested that I intentionally shorten my sleep on the weekend, when I normally sleep in, to help me get on a regular schedule, but I haven’t been able to do that. I’m still working on ‘Sleep Hygiene 101.’”


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Jennifer Aparicio and Maria Dennis in front of The Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

At 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 20, Jennifer Aparicio was told she had leukemia. Between 5 and 6 p.m., she and her husband, sports-talk-radio host and WNST founder “Nasty” Nestor Aparicio, focused on telling their family and some close friends and business associates. Then, in individual Facebook posts announcing the diagnosis, they told everyone.

Nestor published his first, a little after 6 p.m.

“My wife, the most beautiful girl in the world, was diagnosed with leukemia tonight. She’ll be in Johns Hopkins for the next month battling. She’s the strongest person I’ve ever met. Please keep her in your thoughts and spirit. #JennStrong,” he wrote above a picture of his smiling wife taken on the island of Moorea during their recent vacation.

Jenn’s post came a few hours later and was even more specific:

“Tonight I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia [Ed note: Her diagnosis was later changed to acute bilineal leukemia, or ABL]. I actually feel and look fine, but had some pain under my arm. Bloodwork [sic] done last Friday showed cells are low and the doctors wanted me to check myself into Johns Hopkins ER last night. So, here I now sit for 3-4 weeks. I will begin chemo tomorrow or the next day, I have a great chance for remission and I’m in the best hospital possible. If anyone wants to reach out to me, I’ll be here— feeling optimistic.”

Combined, the two posts were read by thousands and generated 540 comments, 739 likes, and 17 shares. Additionally, each interaction—message, “like”, share, what have you—was noted on the timeline of each respondent, which, in turn, reached the respondent’s friends, and then, potentially, their friends’ friends, and on and on until, if you were a Baltimorean with an Internet connection, you were likely no more than one or two degrees removed from the news.

“Within an hour, it was completely batshit electric,” says Nestor, a Dundalk native who made his name as a sports writer and music critic at The Evening Sun before switching to radio in the early ’90s.

Amazingly, Jenn and Nestor were not the only high-profile Baltimore media personalities to announce such grave news that day. That same morning, Mix 106.5 FM DJ Maria Dennis had called into her own radio show to explain her recent absence.

“We gotta come clean. We gotta let everybody know what’s going on. It’s important,” she said, speaking to her co-hosts Reagan Warfield and Jon Boesche from her hospital bed at The Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, where both she and Jenn were to receive treatment and forge a new friendship.

“I have been just diagnosed with leukemia. It’s a mind-blower,” she admitted, sounding subdued and dazed in the wake of her official diagnosis with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL.

“People were so nice, But it was a lot.”

Within minutes, Mix 106.5 had a page up on its website recapping the conversation with an embedded audio clip and a message from Warfield and Boesche directing well-wishers to the show’s Facebook page. The very next day, Warfield and Boesche posted a photo on Facebook of 40 printed pages worth of texts, Facebook messages, e-mails, and tweets they had received in support of Maria.

And while you would expect people to be interested in disclosures from high-profile figures, it’s not just the famous that command attention. For every Angelina Jolie revealing her preventative double mastectomy in The New York Times, there is a Zachary Lederer, the Ellicott City-raised, University of Maryland College Park men’s basketball team student manager whose unflaggingly positive outlook in the face of terminal brain cancer made him an Internet phenomenon and whose death this March at the age of 20 was marked with obituaries in The Washington Post and USA Today.

This is illness in the age of social media. Whereas disease was once a closely held private matter, a reason to draw the curtains and cancel all engagements, it is now, like so many other life events, a public act, documented in sometimes startlingly intimate detail on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, personal blogs, and even good-old-fashioned media like print, television, and radio. And while the benefits of such an approach are real and manifold, so too are the potential complications.

“With the changing of the times, it’s definitely something we see a lot of,” says Elissa Bantug, a two-time breast cancer survivor and the program manager of breast cancer communication, education, and survivorship at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. “But there’s a privacy or anonymity part to that that can be a challenge.”

Clockwise from left: Jenn Aparicio with Kitty; picking tomatoes in Dundalk; with Maria Dennis at Hopkins; sending a message to followers; at Ravens training camp in July.

To hear the Aparicios and Dennis tell it though, there was no intricate calculus to be done in weighing the pros and cons. The decision to go public was essentially a foregone conclusion, necessitated by their already public lives. (Although Jenn actually works for Verizon, she is heavily involved in Nestor’s world and travels with him to most professional events.)

For the Aparicios, the timing demanded especially swift and decisive action. Nestor had retired from daily radio in 2004, but he and Jenn had decided the time was right for him to return with a daily show. He announced his comeback the morning Jenn was diagnosed, a declaration that was sure to garner press coverage. “So I said, ‘Look, I’m trying to go back on the radio, I don’t know how we’re going to do this,’” Nestor recalls. “She said, ‘You can tell anyone you want because I’m not going to die.’”

Jenn, admittedly the steadier of the two throughout the ordeal, figured she had bigger concerns than media attention. If being public simplified things, then so be it.

“I was on board from the get-go. It didn’t make sense to try and hide it, you know?” she says with a shrug.

Dennis, who has been on the air at Mix 106.5 since 1997, felt similarly. “I was always the person to just lay it all out. I’ve always done that. So I just laid it all out,” she says.

For Dennis, this meant calling into the station periodically for status updates that touched on everything from hair loss to her curiosity about the bone marrow donor who provided the new, healthy tissue for her June 26 transplant. (HRSA mandates that bone marrow donations be kept anonymous for a period of time, though some contact may be permitted.) It also meant occasional missives posted by her or her sister-in-law on CaringBridge.org, a micro-blogging site with approximately 500,000 daily users that allows those experiencing illness to communicate en masse with loved ones. Dennis says the page, which has received over 4,000 views, relieved her of the burden of having to retell her story ad nauseam.

“It didn’t make sense to try and hidE it, you know?”

“When people ask you how you’re doing, you feel sick,” she says, “So it’s a great way to have people get information without having to either text or e-mail. I mean, how many times can I tell the same thing?”

At the same time, Dennis says she has been careful not to over-share for her own sake, as well as the sake of her audience.

“If you post that you’re doing well and something happens that day, you don’t want to disappoint, so you’ve got to kind of be careful,” she says, noting that after her successful transplant, she has battled graft-versus-host disease, a condition in which the newly transplanted cells war with the patient’s native cells.

And perhaps unsurprisingly for someone whose job it is to engage listeners, Dennis also worries about alienating
her audience.

“I don’t want to be one of those people that comes on every other day and people get sick of it, you know what I mean? Because that happens. ‘Okay, she’s got cancer, whatever.’”

Though Dennis isn’t referencing any specific criticism, it is not an irrational fear. People can and do have unsympathetic reactions to any number of tragic phenomena. And there does seem to be something about cancer that inspires particularly strong opinions and harsh judgments. Witness Melissa Etheridge calling Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preventative double mastectomy “fearful.” Or Google The New York Times’ January op-ed about Lisa Bonchek Adams, a Connecticut woman who tweets and blogs regularly about her stage IV metastatic breast cancer. The op-ed, written by former Times executive editor Bill Keller, criticized Adams’s treatment choices and seemed to deride her social-media presence as undignified. Its condescending tone spurred a torrent of responses both for and against the piece. The only thing the controversy settled was that nobody can expect cancer to inoculate them from criticism. In fact, the shield of anonymity provided by the Internet often breeds intensely virulent strains of it.

“You get people who get really aggressive about how they feel in any type of online program,” acknowledges Bantug. “I know it sounds crazy, but you actually see some—for lack of a better term—cyberbullying.”

That hasn’t been Jenn Aparicio’s experience, though. Through her own CaringBridge page, her Facebook profile, and Nestor’s frequent, lengthy updates via WNST’s website and his own Facebook and Twitter accounts, she has been embraced in a cyberhug.

“The pros [are] all the support we’ve gotten,” she says, “not just from family and friends, but people who are fans of Nestor’s, who have now become fans of mine. It has been nice to have that support.” Asked if she thinks she would have received the same amount of support without going public, she replies matter-of-factly: “I don’t think so. I mean, people would have found out, but it’s not like people would have reached out to me directly, whereas, now, I have a following, too.”

And that following has been there with her every step of the way. Indeed, in between the many pictures of her beloved calico rescue cat, Kitty, and the requisite funny viral videos, a look back through her Facebook timeline provides a detailed, well-rounded account of her experience. In March, she has a full head of long dirty-blonde hair. She looks healthy and tan from her recent vacation, and the statuses are often lighthearted and funny such as one from March 27 in which she chides, “I got to stop eating in bed, darned crumbs are everywhere! #JennStrong #BmorePositive”

By April 29, her hair is gone and she is gaunt, but the couple celebrates her release from the hospital after 41 days with a picture of Jenn reuniting with Kitty. On May 30, the day before her birthday, she receives word that a bone marrow donor match has been found. And then, on June 26—the same day as Maria Dennis—she celebrates her “re-birthday” by posting a picture of her in-progress bone marrow transplant, the caption noting that she listened to Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” during the procedure.

Accompanying each of those statuses—and the many in between—are thousands of messages of support from family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and total strangers. Some even ask how they can send gifts or offer to help in other ways, ranging from fundraising to shaving their heads in solidarity.

Only a few times did the couple feel like their boundaries had been crossed.

“People were so nice, but it was a lot,” remembers Nestor. “People started showing up in the hospital unannounced.”

Jenn is able to laugh it off now but was rattled at the time. “It was like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on?!’ Because at that time it was still flu season, so anyone who came in my room had to wear a mask. It didn’t help that [Nestor] slipped [on the radio] saying, ‘Yeah, she’s on the fifth floor at Hopkins!’ We won’t be doing that part again,” she declares.

Maria Dennis experienced similar levels of generosity and awkwardness when her sister set up a fundraising page to help Dennis pay her hefty medical bills.

“She didn’t tell me. I was so pissed. I was like, ‘What are you doing? You can’t do that!’” Dennis recalls.

Though she was initially angry, she now admits that the almost $3,000 the page raised was incredibly helpful.

“It really, really helped,” allows Dennis, who lives in Pikesville with her husband, Eddie, and their two sons, Noah, 10, and Ben, 8. “I wasn’t even thinking about that, and I was uncomfortable asking for it.”

Overall, though, both the Aparicios and Dennis feel going public was the right decision for them, especially when they were able to use the spotlight to raise awareness for blood cancer charities like There Goes My Hero, which was founded by Bel Air’s Erik Sauer in the wake of his own battle with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). The Aparicios have organized several bone marrow drives for the nonprofit, which have attracted the support of several Ravens, including Joe Flacco and Dennis Pitta. Nestor also has provided a weekly platform for Sauer on his show.

“We do it every week at this point, but the fact that we are talking about it, we get tons of exposure. It’s hugely important,” Sauer says.

More than seven months removed from their diagnoses, both Jenn Aparicio and Maria Dennis are officially in remission. Their hair and appetites are returning and they are starting to think about going back to work. “I just want to not push it,” Dennis says. “I get tired real easy. I’ve got to make sure I’m clear of the graft-versus-host, and I also have one more chemotherapy treatment that I have to go through before I go back.”

Ever the even-tempered optimist, Jenn says she appreciates that her illness further strengthened her relationship with her husband and helped her make new friends.

“There’s always good that comes out of bad,” she says. “You may not see it in the beginning, but everything has a silver lining.”

Even cancer?

“It’s one hell of a way to make new friends, but it never hurts to have too many friends,”—Facebook or otherwise.


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The No Show

“As a plastic surgeon, my initial consultations with patients take time,” says Top Docs winner Dr. Nassif Soueid. “At my practice, we offer free one-hour consultations, and it’s very frustrating when these patients don’t show up for their appointment. The hour blocked for the missed consult could have benefited other patients if the appointment had been canceled or rescheduled in a timely manner.”

Falling for TV Ads

“Patients often fall for these,” says Dr. Michael P. Zimring, who specializes in internal medicine and travel medicine at Mercy Medical Center. “But that drug may not be for them for other medical reasons they don’t understand.” Patients are often “going down the wrong diagnostic or therapeutic path due to marketing efforts directed toward the sale of a specific product or service,” agrees Mercy Medical Center orthopedic surgeon Dr. Charles Edwards (our cover doc).

 

Obesity

“One of the main issues we struggle with . . . is obesity and diet,” says Dr. Eskander “Alex” Yazaji, vice chairman of medicine at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. “Many patients with obesity-related complications such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and sleep apnea do not understand that those conditions are completely reversible and even curable in many cases when obesity is addressed.”

Under (and over) Medicating

Two things that bug Dr. Jay Gopal, chief of pediatrics at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, involve the use and abuse of pharmaceuticals. On the one hand, he says, patients are refusing vaccines for their children, putting them at risk for a variety of serious illness. “On the other hand,” he says, “there’s tremendous abuse of antibiotics, especially by urgent-care clinics and ERs.”

Smoking

“It really bothers me when I repeatedly tell patients to quit smoking, especially in advance of surgery, because it affects healing, and they don’t listen,” says Dr. George Apostolides, GBMC’s director of colorectal surgery. “Because it constricts the blood flow, it has a 30 percent negative effect on healing—it’s really bad.”

Not Managing Their Meds

“We sit down with our patients and carefully go over their medications, and they’ll tell us they have enough to last until the next appointment, but then a few days later, their pharmacy calls saying they need more,” says Mercy’s Dr. Zimring. “It’s just a hassle.” Worse yet, though, are the patients who don’t follow instructions. “Even after we carefully explain what the meds are for and the dosage, some don’t take the meds, and they don’t tell us, so when we see them again, their blood pressure, for instance, is really high.”

Googling the Cure

So you plug your symptoms into Google, and it tells you you’ve got bubonic plague. The chances your self-diagnosis is right without 10 years of medical training under your belt? Not very good, says GBMC’s Apostolides. “I see so many people who either just make the wrong diagnosis using the Internet, or worse yet, it’ll be so wrong they’ll just make themselves paranoid with every imagined affliction that their search comes up with. I would say the Internet is probably more useful for them to educate themselves on a condition after they’ve been correctly diagnosed by a doctor.”

It’s A Family Affair

Dr. Hina Ghafoor, a physician specializing in internal medicine at Medstar Union Memorial Adult Medicine Specialists in Lake Falls Village Center, asks the question, “Can we have a little privacy, please?” “Women will come in for a Pap smear or GYN exam, and their boyfriends will insist on sitting right there in the exam room,” she says. “Or they’ll plug in their phone chargers in the exam room and be chatting away on the phone while I’m trying to talk to them.” Then there’s the baby-makes-three annoyance: “Women with appointments for themselves will bring their babies into the room and feed them or change their diapers while I’m trying to do the exam.”

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From left: Stephen Bartlett, M.D.; Gavin Class; William Hutson, M.D.; Rolf Barth, M.D.

gavin’s app

case no. 1: heat stroke

University of Maryland Medical Center: Gavin Class

It’s not uncommon to faint when you’re overdoing it in the heat— especially in football practice on a scorching hot day. So when Towson University football player Gavin Class collapsed on the practice field at Towson University in August, 2013, everyone figured it was a simple case of heat stroke. But for 20-year-old Class, then a junior, it was not so simple.

Taken to St. Joseph Medical Center, doctors saw his internal body temperature was causing multi-organ failure.

Coincidentally, only a month before, Dr. Rolf Barth, director of liver transplantation at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), had met with St. Joseph pulmonary critical-care division chief Jason Marx about a new app that alerts UMMC quickly to the very sickest patients needing more advanced care. And that app helped put the wheels in motion for Class’s transfer downtown.

“We have occasionally had referrals for heat stroke, but only when the liver is so damaged it’s non-recoverable,” says Barth. “Then transplantation is the only answer. And it was clear to our team that in Gavin’s case, the heat stroke was causing everything to fail.”

Doctors from UMMC’s shock trauma and transplant teams, including Drs. Stephen Bartlett and William Hutson, acted immediately by using a new liver support machine called MARS to buy Gavin some time while a donor could be identified for an emergency liver transplant.

“Maybe five percent of people with heat stroke will have liver failure,” says Barth. But the results for this type of transplant were incredibly poor in the past—most liver failures with heat stroke had died. “Among even those with transplantation, 75 percent died,” he says. “And the chance of dying when the patient also has kidney failure is 85 percent or higher.”

The difficult recovery course took several weeks, but all of his other organs eventually recovered, and Class is living a normal life today on a borrowed liver. He’s even back on the field supporting the Tigers (albeit from the sidelines).

So now, this burly football player has a badge of courage he could use as an ice-breaker at frat parties: “He has a nice scar he likes to show off, and he’s not embarrassed to pull up his shirt and show you,” says Barth.

Dr. Adrian Park, chair of surgery at Anne Arundel Medical Center.

A gastric gambit

case no. 2: severe gastrointestinal reflux disease

Anne Arundel Medical Center: Patricia Reilly-Butcher

It was after weight-loss surgery in May, 2013, at a hospital in Delaware that Patricia Reilly-Butcher’s problems began. Within weeks of having a gastric-sleeve procedure that reduced her stomach size, the then-52-year-old nurse developed symptoms of severe gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD) caused by a stricture and a recurrent hiatal hernia (HH), which is the protrusion of the stomach into the chest through a weakness in the diaphragm.

Before long, she couldn’t eat, drink, or work, and other experts she consulted offered no options, except for her local GI doctor.

“He said, ‘You have to see Dr. Adrian Park, he’s the best. This is not something you can fix three or four times, it has to be done right,’” recalls Reilly-Butcher.

So, desperate, she came to Park, chair of surgery at Anne Arundel Medical Center and a renowned laparoscopic surgeon in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, complex hiatal hernias, and intestinal disorders.

“She came out of that weight-loss procedure with severe problems,” says Park, 53, many of whose patients are seeking a solution to previous unsuccessful treatments, what he calls “end of line” cases. “A few weeks after the bariatric surgery, besides not being able to eat or drink, she couldn’t even swallow her own saliva, was vomiting all day, and started to waste away,” says Park, who also teaches at The Johns Hopkins University.

“When you have bariatric surgery, you’re supposed to lose weight, but not that way,” says Reilly-Butcher, who went into the Delaware surgery at 320 pounds and had lost 80 by the time she saw Park. “I was vomiting my own spit.”

“This was previously a high-functioning lady,” says Park. “But she was in a desperate way, basically starving to death in front of her husband. She was losing five pounds a week six months after the bariatric surgery. And she was right on the verge of needing tube or intravenous feeding to sustain life.”

He discovered that she had a stricture at the level of the gastro-esophageal junction and a recurrent hiatal hernia. Her extreme difficulty with swallowing also led him to study the muscular function of her esophagus, which revealed that she had almost no normal peristalsis, or muscular propulsion, within her esophagus.

Laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery corrected the stricture of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction, and Dr. Park repaired her hiatal hernia, as well as separated of the muscle layers of the bottom of her esophagus to improve her swallowing ability.

Two days into recovery, she could drink water. And within a few days, she was eating on a restricted diet. “I’m not in any pain anymore, I can eat normally, and my weight has stabilized at 225,” says Reilly-Butcher. “My goal is to lose another 40.”

From left: Among the team in Forrest Allen’s case is Dr. Nicholas Dalesio, anesthesiology; Dr. Anand Kumar, pediatric plastic and reconstructive surgery; and Dr. Eric Jackson, pediatric neurosurgery.

A Fighting Chance for Forrest

case no. 3: skull injury

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center: Forrest Stone Allen

It was nearly four years ago that the ordeal for then-18-year-old Forrest Stone Allen and his family began. That was when the teenager suffered a devastating skull injury in a snowboarding accident that crushed his cranium from above his eyebrows to the top of his head.

And it was the beginning of a series of surgeries—not all of them successful—that eventually led him to Dr. Anand Kumar, a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center plastic and reconstructive pediatric surgeon. Kumar is a seven-year Navy veteran with experience as a surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he treated soldiers with traumatic injuries, expertise that is paying off for Forrest.

Forrest is benefitting from a protocol Kumar developed to treat Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with severe craniofacial injuries sustained on the battlefield.

“It was a sad case,” says Kumar. “This was a totally normal kid who had the accident after hitting a fence with no helmet. He needed a series of procedures at other hospitals that required the removal of large sections of cranial bone to treat the brain injury. Then they tried to reconstruct it with synthetic implants, including plastic and woven titanium, but none of them were successful.”

To deal with that, Kumar and his Hopkins colleagues, including Drs. Nicholas Dalesio and Eric Jackson, are employing a staged reconstruction process, approaching the job in smaller sections—first in August and again this month—using microsurgery to transfer bone from the back of the head as well as skin, tissue, and blood vessels from Forrest’s back to improve blood flow to the affected area.

“He went through three previous failed attempts. So we’re trying to turn an incredibly unfavorable thing into a success story for this kid,” says Kumar, who also does lab research looking for new ways to build cranial and facial bones from muscle stem cells.

Forrest, meanwhile, is at his Northern Virginia home with his family between procedures, winning the admiration of all around him for his determination to recover.

Writes his mother, Rae Stone, on Forrest’s family-generated blog, “You [Forrest] still tire easily and are in some discomfort, but your characteristic good humor and determination challenge us all to keep up.”

From left: Sunjay Kaushal, M.D., Ph.D.; Susan Mendley, M.D.; Adnan Bhutta, M.D.; and Isaiah Cannon, seated.

MISSION: MRSA

case no. 4: A deadly Bacteria

University of Maryland Medical Center: Isaiah Cannon

It was a lucky thing for 15-year-old Isaiah Cannon that his older brother, John Jr., was an EMT; he was the one who noticed one day in early April that something was seriously wrong with the Edgewood teenager. The symptoms—which quickly worsened to gray coloring, shortness of breath, and inability to walk—were not just the flu. Rushed first to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Isaiah was then flown to the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), where he suffered cardiac arrest within an hour.

“I think we suspected it was related to an infection, but didn’t know what infection right away,” says Dr. Adnan Bhutta, 45, who oversees pediatric critical care at University of Maryland Children’s Hospital. Within a day, tests showed a worst-case scenario: MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a drug-resistant bacteria that kills most of its victims with fast-spreading and difficult-to-treat infections.

During the hours that followed, Isaiah spiraled into multi-system organ failure and was put on a state-of-the-art machine called ECMO (short for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation). The machine, which the pediatric program had only acquired a year earlier, basically bypasses the heart and lungs, oxygenating the blood and pumping it back into the patient. In an induced coma to protect his brain, Isaiah also needed dialysis to support his kidneys and drugs to maintain his plummeting blood pressure. His muscles were showing signs of injury, and his bone marrow, which helps fight disease, was also suppressed.

“I think we all agreed if that if we didn’t use ECMO, he was likely to suffer another cardiac arrest, so we put him on it instead of waiting for him to sustain more damage to his organs,” says Bhutta. “In situations like this, where septic shock is involved, the survival rate for MRSA [pronounced “mersa”] can be extremely low, about 25 percent.”

“Survival probably would have been zero without the machine,” says Dr. Sunjay Kaushal, a pediatric cardiac surgeon who worked with Bhutta and the rest of the team.

Slowly, though, the UMMC team, which included Dr. Susan Mendly, brought Isaiah around, but it took an amazing 59 days in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital, 20 days in rehab at the University’s Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute, and about $800,000 in patient expenses to get him on the mend.

Unfortunately, doctors had to amputate his lower right leg due to the lack of blood flow caused by the infection. And he still has a stent in his aorta to treat the damage.

“Right now, he just wants to be able to run again, but today was a good day,” says his mother Marcy Cannon on a Wednesday in late September. “Isaiah got his new leg today. He’s trying it out around the house. He’s been on an amazing journey.”

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Welcome to the results of our 2013 Top Doctors peer survey, the most selective such list in 
the region and a resource our readers have trusted for 27 years.

Just how selective? Peer-chosen winners represent only about 4 percent of all the physicians licensed to practice in our readership area.


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Methodology

To arrive at our results, we surveyed nearly 10,000 physicians in the region to find out where they would send a member of their own family in dozens of specialties. This included an online poll of physicians to augment the responses we got from several thousand mailed surveys.

As in years past, the survey revealed clear choices early in the process, both perennial winners and a number of new faces.

Assisting us with the survey were our four physician advisers, who were thus not eligible themselves to be included on the list.

* An asterisk denotes that physician may not be accepting new patients at this time.
† A cross denotes that the physician practices in multiple locations.

Our Survey Advisers

Gabriel Soudry, M.D., is the section chief of nuclear medicine and director for nuclear medicine services at Medstar Franklin Square Hospital Center, as well as the medical director of the PET-CT for Advanced Radiology at Medical Arts. He is also an instructor at Franklin Square, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland, and works as an attending physician in the Department of Radiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and at George Washington University Hospital.

A former Baltimore Top Doctor, Soudry trained in nuclear medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Joint Program of Nuclear Medicine and is board-certified in internal medicine and nuclear medicine.

Alyson Wells, M.D., is a plastic surgeon in private practice at Valley Plastic Surgery and Medi-Spa in Hunt Valley.  She received her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis and completed her residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following this, she finished a second residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Wells is board-certified in plastic surgery as well as otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Her areas of expertise include cosmetic and reconstructive facial surgery, cosmetic breast surgery, breast reconstruction, and body contouring.

Cynthia F. Bearer, M.D., Ph.D., is the Mary Gray Cobey Professor of Neonatology, chief of the Division of Neonatology, and associate chair for research in the Department of Pediatrics at University of Maryland School of Medicine.  Bearer is board-certified in both pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine.
She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University, her M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, and training in neonatology at Harvard University. She has published extensively on issues related to fetal and pediatric environmental exposures. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Her major research interests are the effect of environmental chemicals on the central nervous system.

John W. Blenko, M.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and an attending anesthesiologist at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. A graduate of Haverford College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, he completed an anesthesiology residency at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and fellowship training in pediatric anesthesiology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He sits on the board of a national patient-safety organization and has particular interests in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and sedation of patients for medical procedures, andhas lectured on both of these topics nationally.

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Allergy/Immunology

John Bacon
The Professional Centre, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., Ste. 201, Towson, 410-321-0284

Jonathan Matz†
Golden & Matz, 7939 Honeygo Blvd., Ste. 219, White Marsh, 410-931-0404

Parag N. Patel
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 
410-737-5000

Alvin Sanico
GBMC, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 200, Towson, 
410-583-8393

Glenn Silber†
10025 Governor 
Warfield Pkwy., Ste. 410, 
Columbia, 410-730-6000, (Pediatric patients)

Robert Wood
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 
443-997-5437

Cardiology

Robert Michael Benitez
110 S. Paca St., 4th Fl., 
410-328-5396

Roger Blumenthal†
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 524C, 443-997-0270

Hugh Calkins
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 443-997-0270

Catherine Campbell
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 
410-737-5000

Charles Cummings
1838 Greene Tree Rd., 
Ste. 535, Pikesville, 
410-469-4000

Benjamin DuBois
1838 Greene Tree Rd., 
Ste. 535, Pikesville, 
410-469-4000

Stacy Fisher
University of Maryland Medical Center, 5 Park Center Ct., Ste. 200, 
Owings Mills, 410-654-0400

Paul A. Gurbel
5051 Greenspring Ave., 
Ste. 304, 410-601-9600

Steven Mason†
Chesapeake Cardiovascular Associates, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 209, 
Rosedale, 410-574-1330

Stephen Pollock
St. Joseph Physician Enter-prise, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 103, Towson, 410-427-2580

James Porterfield
Johns Hopkins Cardiology 
at GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 5104, Towson, 
443-849-8989

Wendy Post†
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., 443-997-0270

Reed Riley
Johns Hopkins Cardiology 
at GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 5104, Towson, 
443-849-8989

Ali Tabrizchi
602 S. Atwood Rd., Ste. 100, Bel Air, 410-877-7777

Emil Thattassery
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5260

Gordon Tomaselli
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 7th Fl., (electrophysiology only), 443-997-0270

Dou (Alvin) Zhang
6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 615, Towson, 410-583-5001

Clinical Genetics

Clair Francomano
GMBC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 2326, Towson, 
443-849-3131

Carol Greene†
University of Maryland Medical System, 
22 S. Greene St., 5th Fl., 
410-328-3335

Ada Hamosh
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 1008, 410-955-0317

Julie Hoover-Fong
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 1008, 410-955-0317

Antonie Kline
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 2326, Towson, 
443-849-3131

Dermatology (Medical)

Grant Anhalt†
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 6th Fl., 410-955-5933

Bernard Cohen†
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Green Spring Station, Pavilion I, 10755 Falls Rd., Lutherville, 410-847-3767

Bonnie Epstein
2360 W. Joppa Rd., 
Lutherville, 410-823-0350

Mark Lowitt
6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 315, Towson, 410-321-1195

Joel Max
101 W. Ridgely Rd., Ste. 4B, Lutherville, 410-561-1960

Howard Robinson
101 W. Ridgely Rd., Ste. 4B, Lutherville, 410-561-1960

Dakara Wright
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltmore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5250

Emergency Medicine

Brian Browne†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 
110 S. Paca St., 6th Fl., 
Ste. 200, 866-408-6885

Dov Frankel
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5737

Jonathan Hansen
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7046

Jeffrey Sternlicht
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2527

Benjamin 
Vanlandingham
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-1226

Michael Winters†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. 
Paca St., 6th Fl., Ste. 200, 866-408-6885

John Wogan
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-3571

Endocrinology/
Diabetes Care

Marie Bellantoni
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 214, 
Rosedale, 443-777-6351

Issam Cheikh
Union Memorial Hospital, 201 E. 33rd St., Ste. 501, 410-554-6449

Thomas Donner
The Johns Hopkins 
Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., Ste. 2008, 410-955-2908

David Madoff
Clinical Associates Endocrinology, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 535, Pikesville, 410-486-0497

James Mersey*
Bay West Endocrinology Associates, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 400, Towson, 
410-828-7417

Sally Pinkstaff
Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 21, 410-601-5961

Paul Sack
201 E. University Pkwy., 
Ste. 551, 410-554-4511

Elizabeth Streeten†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 
419 W. Redwood St., 
Ste. 600, 410-328-6219

William Valente†
Mercy Medical Center, 
350 N. Calvert St., lower level, 410-332-9663

Mark Walker
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5000

Family Medicine

Michael Dwyer
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-2000

Maryellen Goodell
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-2000

Tracy Gutierrez
7070 Samuel Morse Dr., Columbia, 410-309-4600

Joyce King
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-2000

Ruth Robinson
Kaiser Permanente 
Annapolis Medical Center, 
888 Bestgate Rd., 
Annapolis, 410-571-7300

Yvette Rooks
University of Maryland Medical Center, 29 S. Paca St., 410-328-8792

Jacqueline 
Shepard-Lewis
7070 Samuel Morse Dr., Columbia, 410-309-4600

Kenneth Sibila*
Towson Medical Associates, 7801 York Rd., Ste. 102, Towson, 410-769-4920

Sarah Whiteford
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 411, 443-849-2707

Gastroenterology

Lester Bowser
1447 York Rd., Ste.100, Lutherville, 410-339-5408

Peter Darwin†
22 S. Greene St., Ste. N3W62, 410-328-8729

Mark Diamond
9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 308, Rosedale, 
410-574-5877

A. Steven Fleisher
9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 301, Rosedale, 
443-777-2475

Joshua Forman
7505 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-296-4210

Bruce Greenwald
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N3W62, 866-408-6885

Niraj Jani
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 512, Towson, 
443-849-3400

Alan Rosen
Clinical Associates, 
2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 
Ste. 306, 410-601-8255

Dana Sloane
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5230

Harold Tucker
10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 303, Lutherville, 410-583-2630

Edward J. Wolf
Woodholme Gastroenterology Associates, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 400, Pikesville, 410-602-7782

Jordan Wolff
Kaiser Permanente, 
1447 York Rd., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-339-5500

Geriatrics

Jason Black*
6701 N. Charles St., 
Ste 4105, Towson, 
443-849-3184

Mel Daly*
6701 N. Charles St., 
Ste. 4105, Towson, 
443-849-3184

Thomas Finucane*
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Cir., 
410-550-0925

Andrew Goldberg
University of Maryland Medical Center, 10 N. Greene St., VA Med. Ctr., BT/18/GR, 410-605-7185

George Hennawi
Good Samaritan Hospital, 5601 Loch Raven Blvd., 
Russell Morgan Bldg., 
Ste. 412, 443-444-4860

Christopher Kearney†
33rd St. Building, 201 E. University Pkwy., 
Ste. 425, 410-554-2923

James Parshall*
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7116

Hematology

Michael Auerbach
Auerbach Hematology-
Oncology, 9110 Philadelphia Rd., Rosedale, 
410-780-4050

Sein Aung
9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2200, Rosedale, 
443-777-7147

Robert Donegan
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 201, Towson, 
443-849-3051

Mian Khalid
Kaiser Permanente Woodlawn Medical Center, 7141 Security Blvd., Windsor Mill,
443-663-6420

Kenneth D. Miller
Sinai Hospital, 
2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 
410-601-4600

John Nesbitt*
200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 351, 410-235-4777

Michael Streiff
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1830 E. Monument St., 
Ste. 7300, 410-614-0043

Ann Zimrin
University Maryland Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 
Fl. 1, 410-328-7450

Infectious Disease

Michelle Bahrain*
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7138

Richard A. Berg*
MDVIP, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 260, Pikesville, 
866-696-3847

Wayne Campbell
Union Memorial Hospital, 201 E. University Pkwy., 
Ste. 512, 410-554-4501

Jeremy Gradon*
Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 17, 410-601-6207

Charles Haile
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 411, Towson, 410-337-7097

Morris Schocket
300 Hospital Dr., Ste. 227, Glen Burnie, 410-553-8085

Marcos Wolff*
9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 443-777-7138

Intensivists/
Critical Care

Linda Barr
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651

Joseph Costa
Mercy Medical Center, 
345 St. Paul Place, 
410-332-9610

Jason Marx*
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651

Mitchell Schwartz
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson, 410-494-1662

Stephen Selinger
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 300, 
Rosedale, 410-682-5282

Peter Sloane
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 
3333 N. Calvert St., 
Ste. 650, 410-467-4470

Internal Medicine: General

Jeffrey Alexander*
120 Sister Pierre Dr., 
Ste. 101, Towson, 
443-901-0301

Karin Dodge*
Kaiser Permanente, 8028 Ritchie Hwy, Ste. 134, 
Pasadena, 410-553-2400

Stephen H. Glasser
2700 Quarry Lake Dr., 
Ste. 220, Pikesville, 
410-415-5800

Howard Goldman
9106 Philadelphia Rd, 
Ste. 304, Rosedale, 
410-238-3262

Harry Kaplan*
2700 Quarry Lake Dr., 
Ste. 350, Pikesville, 
410-653-0073

Jeffrey Magaziner
Park Medical Associates, 10755 Falls Rd., Lutherville, 410-583-7137

Stanford Malinow
2700 Quarry Lake Dr., 
Ste. 290, Pikesville, 
410-484-6248

Mark Saba*
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 406, Towson, 410-560-6199

Kevin Schendel
Beltway Internal Medicine, 9114 Philadelphia Rd., 
Ste. 300, Rosedale, 
410-918-0020

Internal Medicine: Hospitalist

Fred Chan
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3808, Towson, 
443-849-8046

J. Christopher 
Greenawalt
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3808, Towson, 
443-849-8046

Chaitanya Ravi
5400 Old Court Rd., 
Ste. 204, Randallstown, 
410-521-4211

Interventional 
Radiology

Blair Andrew
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd., Windsor Mill, 443-436-1100

Troy Brijbasi
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd., Windsor Mill, 443-436-1100

Zina Novak
Advanced Radiology, 
124 Sister Pierre Dr., 
Towson, 443-436-1100

Andrew Rodgers†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 866-408-6885

David Widlus†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N2W78, 866-408-6885

Charles D. Yim
Advanced Radiology, 4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 101, Ellicott City, 443-436-1600

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Pedro Arrabal
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6373

Ahmet A. Baschat†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N6E12, 410-328-3865

Stephen A. Contag
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-8373

S. Patrick Donegan
Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 203 Hospital Dr., Ste. 308, Glen Burnie, 410-553-8260

Christina Enzmann
Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 203 Hospital Dr., Ste. 308, Glen Burnie, 410-553-8260

Christopher Harman†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N6E13, 410-328-3865

Judith Rossiter†
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-4480

Anadir Silva
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7509

Claire Weitz
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, Towson, 
443-849-2568

Nephrology

Khalid Al-Talib
Maryland Kidney Group, 6830 Hospital Dr., Ste. 204, Rosedale, 443-559-5063

Luis Gimenez†
Nephrology Center of Maryland, 5601 Loch 
Raven Blvd., Ste. 3N, 
443-444-3775

Tanuja Mishra†
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5580

Jeffrey Posner†
Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, 25 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 205, Owings Mills, 410-602-7792

Kevin Rossiter†
Maryland Kidney Group, 6830 Hospital Dr., Ste. 204, Rosedale, 443-559-5063

Matthew R. Weir
University of Maryland School of Med., 22 S. Greene St., N3W143, 866-328-5720

Neurology: General

Jerold Fleischman
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 2nd Fl., Neurology, Rosedale, 443-777-7320

A. Allan Genut
7600 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-821-1377

Francis Mwaisela
Towson Neurology Assoc-iates, 7401 Osler Dr., Ste. 213, Towson, 410-321-6055

Neil Porter
University of Maryland Medical Center, 16 S. Eutaw St., 410-328-3100

Bruce Rabin
10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 370, Lutherville, 410-616-7188

Syed Salahuddin
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 800-737-5370

Howard Weiss
2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 202, 410-367-7600, (Parkinson’s disease patients only)

Neurology: Headache

David Buchholz
Johns Hopkins Health 
Care & Surgery Center, 
10753 Falls Rd., 
Lutherville, 410-583-2830

Jack Gladstein†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N5W68 or N5W40, 
410-706-6091

Janine Good†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. Paca St., 3rd Fl., 410-328-7942

B. Lee Peterlin*
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 
Eastern Ave., 301 Bldg., 
Ste. 2100, 410-550-2243

Jason Rosenberg
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 
Eastern Ave., 301 Bldg., 
Ste. 2100, 410-550-2243

Neurology: Seizure and Movement Disorder

Gregory Bergey*
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer Bldg., 
Rm. 2-147, 410-955-7338

Perry Jay Foreman
5051 Greenspring Ave., 
Ste. 300, 410-601-9515

Braeme Glaun
5051 Greenspring Ave., 
Ste. 300, 410-601-9515

Stephen Reich
UMMC, 16 S. Eutaw St., 
410-328-4323

Howard Weiss
2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 
Ste. 202, 410-367-7600

Nuclear Medicine

Ethan J. Spiegler
900 S. Caton Ave., 
410-368-2820

Richard Wahl
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., Rm. 3223, 410-614-3764

Fred Yeganeh†
Advanced Radiology, 1700 Reisterstown Rd., Pikesville, Ste. 112, 410-580-2100

Oncology: Breast

Madhu Chaudhry
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 201, Towson, 
443-849-3051

Robert Donegan
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 201, 443-849-3051

John Fetting III
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Green Spring Station, 10753 Falls Rd., Pavilion II, Rm. 415, 
Lutherville, 410-955-8964

Diana Griffiths
Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, 900 S. Caton Ave., 
410-368-2918

Oncology: General

Paul Celano
GBMC Medical Oncology, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 201, Towson, 443-849-3051

Gary Cohen
GBMC Medical Oncology, 6569 N. Charles St., 
Ste. 205, 443-849-3051

Russell DeLuca†
305 Hospital Dr., Ste. 2A, Glen Burnie, 410-761-9896

Robert Donegan
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 201, Towson, 
443-849-3051

Marvin (Jack) Feldman†
Saint Paul Place Specialists, 227 St. Paul Pl., 
410-783-5858

Mian Khalid
Kaiser Permanente Woodlawn Medical Center, 7141 Security Blvd., Windsor Mill, 800-777-7904

Yvonne Ottaviano†
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2200, Rosedale, 443-777-7147

Aaron Rapoport
22 S. Greene St., 
410-328-7904

Oncology: Lymphoma and Bone Marrow Transplant

Richard Ambinder
The Johns Hopkins 
Hospital, 1650 Orleans St., 410-955-8964

Carole Miller
Saint Agnes Cancer Institute, 900 S. Caton Ave., Oncology MS 235, 410-368-3414

Aaron Rapoport
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N9E12, 
410-328-7904

Orthopedics: General

Gurminder Ahuja
Kaiser Permanente, 
1447 York Rd., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-339-5588

David Buchalter†
OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, Pikesville, 410-377-8900

Lysa Charles
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5600

Stewart Koehler
Orthopaedic Specialists of Maryland, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606, Towson, 
410-583-0160

Leslie Matthews
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 
Ste. 400, 410-554-2865

Lee Schmidt
Orthopaedic Specialists of Maryland, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606, Towson, 
410-583-0160

Pain Management

Ibrahim Elsamanoudi
Union Memorial Hospital, 200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 426, 410-554-6497

David Maine†
Mercy Medical Center, 
345 St. Paul Pl., 4th Fl., 
410-332-9036

James McGowan†
Mercy Medical Center, 
345 St. Paul Pl., 4th Fl., 
410-332-9036

Louis Panlilio
8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 330, Towson, 410-825-6945

Edward Soriano
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 
410-601-5597

Pathology

Jennifer Broussard
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7000

James Eagan
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-1717

Jerry Marty
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7000

Robert Palermo
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2257

Howard Siegel
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2247

Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation

Jason Brokaw†
OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste 300, Pikesville, 410-377-8900

Scott Brown
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5597

Peter Gorman†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 2200 
Kernan Dr., 410-448-6265

Gayle Schwartz†
1920 Greenspring Dr., 
Ste. 125, Timonium, 
410-308-4900

Kenneth Silver
Good Samaritan Hospital, 5601 Loch Raven Blvd., 
443-444-4714

Psychiatry: 
Addiction Specialist

Victor Ferrans*
2324 W. Joppa Rd., Ste. 220, Lutherville, 410-583-2623

Jack L. Wapner
9633 Liberty Rd., Ste.
P-Front, Randallstown, 
410-655-2740

Psychiatry: General

Samuel Adler†
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5461

Anis Merson†
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7178

Shawn Cassady
Key Point Health Services, 135 N. Parke St., Aberdeen, 443-625-1600

Stacey Neal
Kaiser Permanente Woodlawn Medical Center, 7141 Security Blvd., Windsor Mill, 443-663-6329

Stanley Platman†
Union Memorial Hospital, 333 N. Calvert St., 
410-933-9000

Elias Shaya
Good Samaritan Hospital, 5601 Loch Raven Blvd., 
Ste. 406, 443-444-4540

Pulmonary

Linda Barr
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651

Howard Jacobs†
Mishkin, Lansing, and 
Jacobs, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 350, Pikesville, 410-484-5686

Landon S. King*
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 
410-550-5864

Fiona Meller-Azrieli†
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5520

Mitchell L. Schwartz
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson, 
410-494-1662

Stephen Selinger
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 300, 
Rosedale, 410-682-5282

Peter Sloane
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 650, 410-467-4470

Robert Wise
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 
5501 Hopkins Bayview Cir., Ste. 4B75, 
410-550-5864

Radiation Oncology

Cengiz Aygun
Radiation Oncology 
Affiliates of Maryland, 
9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 100, Rosedale, 
410-682-6800

Albert L. Blumberg
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2540

Robert Brookland†
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 
Towson, 443-849-2540

Theodore DeWeese
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 401 N. Broadway, 
410-502-8000

Paul Fowler†
Union Memorial Hospital, 3400 N. Calvert St., 
410-554-4400

Maria Jacobs
Mercy Medical Center, 227 St. Paul Pl., Weinberg Center, Lower Level, 410-332-9055

Jeanette Linder
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5689

William Regine
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., GGK-19, 410-328-6080

Mohan Suntharalingam
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6080

Radiology

Blair Andrew†
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-436-1100

Troy Brijbasi
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd., Windsor Mill, 443-436-1100

Margaret Alma 
Lynch-Nyhan
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd., Windsor Mill, 443-436-1100

Loralie Ma†
St. Joseph Medical Center, 120 Sister Pierre Dr.,
Towson, 443-436-1100

Robert Morales*†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 
22 S. Greene St., N2W78, 410-328-5112

H. Alex Munitz†
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3103, Towson, 
410-580-2300

Carlton Sexton†
Union Memorial Hospital, 333 N. Calvert St., 
410-554-2585

Reproductive 
Endocrinology/IVF

Jairo Garcia
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 335, Lutherville, 410-583-2753

Endrika Hinton
10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 302, Lutherville, 410-616-7777

Eugene Katz†
Shady Grove Fertility Center, 901 Dulaney Valley Rd., 
Ste. 616, Towson, 
410-512-8300

Katherine Miller-Bass†
Fertility Center of Maryland, 110 West Rd., Ste. 102, Towson, 410-296-6400

Santiago Padilla†
Fertility Center of Maryland, 110 West Rd., Ste. 102, Towson, 410-296-6400

Samuel Smith
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 316, 
Rosedale, 443-777-7831

Rheumatology

Ira T. Fine
Falls Medical Specialists, 10753 Falls Rd., Lutherville, 410-583-2828

Raymond H. Flores
2200 Kernan Dr., 
410-448-6398

Howard Hauptman
Rheumatology Associates 
of Baltimore, 1220B E. Joppa Rd., Ste. 310, 
Towson, 410-494-1888

Lynn Ludmer
GBMC, 1220B E. Joppa Rd., Ste. 310, Towson, 
410-494-1888

Andrea Marx
Baltimore Arthritis and Rheumatology, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., Towson, 
410-337-7780

Harry Walen
The Health Associates, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 200, Pikesville, 410-415-5806

Sleep Medicine

Brian J. Bohner
Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson, 410-494-1662

Jacques Conaway†
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9100 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-8417

Jason Marx
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651

Ana Sanchez†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., S12C09, 410-706-4771

Steven Scharf†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 685 W. Baltimore St., MSTF 800, 410-706-4771

Sports Medicine

David Buchalter†
OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, Pikesville, 410-377-8900

David Cohen†
Orthopedic & Hand Surgery Associates, 1050 S. North Point Rd., Ste. 101, 410-282-7600

Michael Dvorkin†
Orthopedic & Hand Surgery Associates, 1050 S. North Point Rd., Ste. 101, 410-282-7600

Teri McCambridge
Towson Orthopaedic 
Associates, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, Towson, 
410-337-7900

Andrew Tucker
Union Memorial Hospital, 1407 York Rd., Ste. 100A, Lutherville, 410-821-8062

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Anesthesiology

Clifford Boehm
Northwest Hospital, 5401 Old Court Rd., Randallstown, 410-701-4547

Glen Hessinger†
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-3904

James Pepple
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5209

Charles Rizzuto†
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-3904

Richard Shapiro
Parkway Anesthesia 
Associates, 201 E. University Pkwy., Ste. 226, 410-554-6559

David Tarantino
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7179

Aaron Zuckerberg
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5209

Bariatrics

Mark Kligman
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N4E27, 410-328-8940

Christina Li
Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 15, 410-601-4486

Peter Liao
GBMC, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 125, Towson, 
443-849-3779

Kuldeep Singh†
Saint Agnes Hospital, 3407 Wilkens Ave., Ste. 220, 
301-490-2193

Christopher You
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 321, 
Rosedale, 443-777-1158

Breast Surgery

Cynthia Drogula
203 Hospital Dr., Ste. 100B, Glen Burnie, 410-553-8351

Maen Farha
3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 655B, 410-321-8720

Kristen Fernandez
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 110, 
Rosedale, 443-777-6500

Neil Friedman
Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Weinberg Center, 5th Fl., 410-332-9330

Dawn Leonard
LifeBridge Health, 5401 Old Court Rd., Randallstown, 410-701-4488

Lauren Schnaper
GBMC Comprehensive Breast Care Center, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3105, Towson, 443-849-2600

Michael Schultz
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Bldg. A, 
Ste. 205, Towson, 
410-427-5510

Cardiac Surgery: Mitral Valve/ Aortic Valve/ Coronary Artery Bypass

Duke Cameron†
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Tower, Rm. 7107, 1800 Orleans St., 410-955-2698

Luis Dibos
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. LL08, 410-554-6550

RC Stewart Finney
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 302, Towson, 410-337-1783

Michael Fiocco
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. LL08, 410-554-6550

James Gammie
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. Paca St., 7th Fl., 410-328-5842

Colo-Rectal Surgery

Howard Berg†
St. Joseph Medical Center, 25 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 400, Owings Mills, 410-356-6664

Vincent Cifello†
Colon Rectal Surgical 
Associates, Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Professional Office Bldg., 7th Fl., 410-783-5800

Jonathan Efron
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 
Blalock Bldg., Ste. 618, 
410-550-0100

Philip J. Ferris
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 307, 
Rosedale, 443-777-6225

Lisa Savoie
GBMC, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 303, Rosedale, 
443-777-6868

Debra Vachon†
Colon Rectal Surgical 
Associates, Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Professional Office Bldg., 7th Fl., 410-783-5800

General Obstetrics

Susie Chung
The Professional Centre, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., Ste. 303, Towson, 410-337-9003

Victoria Dowling
GBMC, 1447 York Rd., 
Lutherville, 410-339-5615

Deborah Hebb
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 500, Towson, 
443-849-6090

Nicola London
Franklin Square Medical Center, 1576 Merritt Blvd., Ste. 16, 410-650-2191

Robert Ottenritter
Charles Street OB/GYN 
Associates, PA, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 212, 
Towson, 410-823-1120

James Thompson
Franklin Square Medical Center, 8114 Sandpiper 
Cir., Ste. 202, Rosedale,
410-931-4333

General Surgery

Marc Gertner
LifeBridge Health, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 410, Owings Mills, 410-581-0700

Atena Rosak
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 308, Towson, 410-427-5430

Laurence Ross
GBMC, Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson, 410-821-6260

Frank Rotolo
GBMC, Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson, 410-821-6260

Joel Turner
GBMC, Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson, 410-821-6260

Jennifer Wormuth
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 321, 
Rosedale, 443-777-1158

Gynecologic Oncology

Fouad Abbas
Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere, Ste. 206, 
410-601-9030,

Charles Boice
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2100, 
Rosedale, 443-777-7990

Francis Grumbine
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 306, Towson, 
443-849-2765

Dwight Im
227 St. Paul Pl., Fl 6, 
410-332-9200

Neil Rosenshein
Mercy Medical Center, 
227 St. Paul Pl., 6th Fl., 
410-332-9200

Sara Madhu Temkin
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-2076

Gynecology/
Women’s Health

Steven Adashek
1205 York Rd., Ste. 2, 
Lutherville, 410-296-8001

Victoria Dowling
GBMC, 1447 York Rd., 
Lutherville, 410-339-5615

Harry Johnson†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 
22 S. Greene St., Rm. S7A07, 410-328-2639

Murray Pearlman
OMobgynMD, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 220, Owings Mills, 410-581-9200

Lisa Rubin
Franklin Square Medical Center, 5009 Honeygo Center Dr., Ste. 210, Perry Hall, 443-725-2140

Hand Surgery

Mark Deitch†
OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, Pikesville, 410-377-8900

James Higgins†
Greater Chesapeake Hand Specialists, 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 
410-296-6232

Peter Innis
Greater Chesapeake Hand Specialists, 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 
410-296-6232

Ryan Katz
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 2nd Fl., 410-235-5405

Michael Marion†
Towson Orthopaedic Associates, 8322 Bellona Ave., Towson, 410-337-7900

Keith Segalman†
Greater Chesapeake Hand Specialists, 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 
410-296-6232

Raymond Wittstadt†
Greater Chesapeake Hand Specialists, 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 
410-296-6232

Bruce Wolock
Towson Orthopaedic Associates, 8322 Bellona Ave., Towson, 410-337-7900

Laparoscopic/Minimally Invasive Surgery

E. Cristian Campian
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 305, 
Rosedale, 443-777-7608

Conrad Duncan
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 305, 
Rosedale, 443-777-7608

John Flowers
GBMC, Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson, 410-821-6260

Stephen Kavic†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., S3AX, 410-328-6187

Thomas J. (T.J.) Swope†
Mercy Medical Center, 
301 St. Paul Pl., 912, 
410-332-9653

Joel Turner
GBMC, Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson, 410-821-6260

Neurosurgery

Hatem Abdo
Central Maryland Neurosurgical, 19 Fontana Ln., Rosedale, 410-391-6904

Amiel Bethel
Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 301 Hospital Dr., Ste. 803, Glen Burnie, 410-553-8160

James Conway
Baltimore Neurosurgery and Spine Center, 5051 Greenspring Ave., Ste. 101, 410-664-3680

Reginald Davis
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 600, Towson, 
443-849-4270

Zeena Dorai†
2700 Quarry Lake Dr., 
Ste. 360, Pikesville, 
410-486-0090

Ira Garonzik
Baltimore Neurosurgery and Spine Center, 5051 Greenspring Ave., Ste. 101, 410-664-3680

Neal Naff†
2700 Quarry Lake Dr., 
Ste. 360, Pikesville, 
410-486-0090

Clifford Solomon
Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 301 Hospital Dr., Ste. 803, Glen Burnie, 410-553-8160

Ophthalmology

Donald Abrams
LifeBridge Health, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 6th Fl., 410-601-6480

Neelam Gor
Kaiser Permanente Woodlawn Medical Center, 
7141 Security Blvd., Windsor Mill, 443-663-6340

Allan D. Jensen†
Union Memorial Hospital, 200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 426, 410-235-1133

Oliver D. Schein
Wilmer Eye Institute, 
10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 455, Lutherville-Timonium, 
410-583-2802

Lazaros T. Volikas
Kaiser Permanente Woodlawn Medical Center, 7141 Security Blvd., Windsor Mill, 443-663-6340

Amy A. Zimmerman†
Katzen Eye Group, 8201 Philadelphia Rd., 
Rosedale, 410-866-2022

Oral Maxillofacial

John Caccamese
University of Maryland Medical Center, 650 W. Baltimore St., Ste. 1401, 410-706-6195

Joshua Lubek
University of Maryland Medical Center, 650 W. Baltimore St., Ste. 1401, 410-706-6195

Robert Ord
University of Maryland Medical Center, 650 W. Baltimore St., Ste. 1401, 410-706-6195

Leonard Spector
The Maryland Center for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, 615 W. McPhail Rd., Ste. 205, 
Bel Air, 410-838-7301

Orthopedic 
Surgery: Joint

David Dalury
Towson Orthopaedic 
Associates, Ruxton 
Professional Center, Ste. 100, 8322 Bellona Ave., 
Towson, 410-337-7900

Michael Dvorkin
Orthopedic & Hand Surgery Associates, 1050 S. North Point Rd., Ste. 101, 
410-282-7600

Frank Ebert
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2850

David Gold†
Orthopedic & Hand Surgery Associates, 1050 S. North Point Rd., Ste. 101, 
410-282-7600

Lee M. Schmidt
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606, Towson, 
410-583-0160

Orthopedic 
Surgery: Spine

Paul Asdourian
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 
Ste. 400, 410-554-2867

Ira Fedder†
Towson Orthopaedic Associates, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-337-8888

Steven Ludwig
University of Maryland Medical Center, 1 Texas Station Ct., 300, Timonium, 410-448-6400

Paul McAfee
Towson Orthopaedic Associates, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-337-8888

Paul Justin Tortolani
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 
Ste. 400, 410-554-2175

Orthopedic Surgery: Foot and Ankle

Jeffrey Brodie†
Towson Orthopaedic 
Associates, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, Towson, 
410-337-7900

John Campbell
The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy, 301 St. Paul Pl., 
410-659-2800

Clifford Jeng
The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy, 301 St. Paul Pl., 
410-659-2800

Mark Myerson
The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy, 301 St. Paul Pl., 
410-659-2800

Lew Schon†
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 
Ste. 400, 410-554-2891

Ian Weiner†
OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, Pikesville, 410-377-8900

Otolaryngology: 
Adult General

Michael Dias†
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5320

Brian Kaplan†
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, Towson, 
443-849-2152

James Kevin Markwell†
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5320

Alpen Patel
Kaiser Permanente, 
1447 York Rd., Lutherville, 410-339-5507

Alan Shikani
200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 631, 410-554-4455

Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Malignancies

Joseph Califano
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 401, Towson, 
443-849-8940

David Eisele
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 443-997-6467

Patrick Ha
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 401, Towson, 
443-849-8940

Scott Strome†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 16 S. Eutaw St., 410-328-6866

Jeffrey Wolf†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 16 S. Eutaw St., 410-328-6866

Plastic Surgery: 
Reconstructive

Paul Manson
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 443-997-9466

Richard Redett
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 443-997-9466

Paul Ringelman
7401 Osler Dr., Ste. 208, Towson, 410-823-3885

Podiatry

Carron Grant
GBMC, 1447 York Rd., 
Ste. 100, Lutherville, 
410-339-5576

Bradley Lamm
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-8700

Vincent Martorana
GBMC, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 206, Rosedale, 
410-574-3900

Michael Smith
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5390

Mark Spier
11701 Reisterstown Rd., Reisterstown, 410-833-0040

Surgical Oncology

Mukund Didolkar
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-8317

Nader Hanna†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., S3AX19, 866-408-6885

Edward McCarron
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2300, 
Rosedale, 443-777-7911

Armando Sardi
The Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Pl., 4th Fl., 410-332-9294

John Zapas†
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2300, 
Rosedale, 443-777-7911

Thoracic Surgery

Richard Battafarano†
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 240, 443-997-1803

Neri Cohen
6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 701, Towson, 443-849-3470

Ziv Gamliel
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 203, Towson, 410-427-2220

Daniel Harley
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 309, 
Rosedale, 410-686-5887

Richard Heitmiller
Union Memorial Hospital Center, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 610, 410-554-2063

Transplant: Kidney/Pancreas/Liver

Rolf Barth
University of Maryland Medical Center, 29 S. Greene St., 2nd Fl., 410-328-5408

Stephen Bartlett†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N4E40, 410-328-5408

John LaMattina†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 29 S. Greene St., 2nd Fl., 410-328-5408

Robert Montgomery
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-6685

Benjamin Philosophe†
The Johns Hopkins 
Hospital, 720 Rutland Ave., Ross 771B, 443-287-7178

Trauma

David Efron
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Tower, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-2244

David Gens
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., P1GO3D, 410-328-9878

Thomas Genuit
Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 42, 410-601-0600

Sharon Henry
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., T1R59, 866-408-6885

Thomas Scalea
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-3179

Deborah Stein
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., T1R62, 866-408-6885

Urology

H. Ballentine Carter
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-6100

William Dowling
Chesapeake Urology, Franklin Square/White Marsh, 6820 Hospital Dr., Ste. 210, Rosedale, 410-391-6131

Andrew C. Kramer
University of Maryland Medical Center, 29 S. Greene St., Ste. 500, 410-328-6087

Brad Lerner
Chesapeake Urology, 
Union Memorial Hospital, 
3333 N. Calvert St., 
Ste. 600, 410-467-7665

Benjamin Lowentritt
Chesapeake Urology, 
Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 625, Towson, 410-825-5454

Alan Partin
The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-6100

Stanley Mark Redwood
5051 Greenspring Ave., 
Ste. 302, 410-601-1441

Marc Siegelbaum
Chesapeake Urology, 
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 506, Towson, 410-296-0967

Geoffrey Sklar
Chesapeake Urology, 806 Landmark Dr., Ste. 118, Glen Burnie, 410-760-9400

Ronald Tutrone
Chesapeake Urology, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 625, Towson, 410-825-5454

Vascular Surgery

Marshall Benjamin
Baltimore Washington Med. Ctr., 301 Hospital Dr., 1st Fl., 
Glen Burnie, 410-553-8300

David Coll†
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 701, 410-512-8686

Mark Gonze†
Klein Ambulatory Care 
Center, 520 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Ste. 306, 
Bel Air, 410-879-20006

George Jabaji
Whitesquare Vascular Surgery, 9114 Philadelphia Rd, Ste. 308, Rosedale, 
410-682-4433

Peter Mackrell†
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 708, Towson, 
410-825-4928

Rajabrata Sarkar†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., S10B00, 410-328-5840

Hepato-Biliary Surgery

John Cameron
The Johns Hopkins 
Hospital, 1800 Orleans St., 410-955-5166

Mark Fraiman
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 303, Towson, 410-427-2024

Steven I. Hanish
University of Maryland Medical Center, 29 S. Greene St., Ste. 200, 410-328-5408

Richard Mackey
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 303, Towson, 410-427-2024

John Zapas
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2300, 
Rosedale, 443-777-7911

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Adolescent Medicine

Hoover Adger
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 200 N. Wolfe St., 
Rm. 2065, 410-955-5711

Oscar Taube
Sinai Hospital, 5101 Lanier Ave., 410-601-9300

Maria Trent
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 200 N. Wolfe St., 
Rm. 2064, 410-955-5711

Allergy

John Bacon
The Professional Centre, 
120 Sister Pierre Dr., 
Ste. 201, Towson,
410-321-0284

Mary Beth Bollinger†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 737 W. Lombard St, MSTF 319, 
866-408-6885

Anu Kewalramani†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 737 W. Lombard St., 410-328-6749

Parag N. Patel
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5490

Kenneth Schuberth
10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393

Glenn Silber†
10025 Governor 
Warfield Pkwy., Ste. 410, 
Columbia, 410-730-6000, (Pediatric patients)

Robert Wood
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, CMSC-1102, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-5883

Behavior and 
Development

Barbara Howard
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7000

Mary Leppert
Kennedy Krieger Institute, 707 N. Broadway, 
443-923-9200

Sharon Richter
Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407, 
410-601-5317

Cardiac Surgery

Duke Cameron†
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Tower, 
1800 Orleans St., Rm. 7107, 410-955-2698

Sunjay Kaushal†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. Paca St., 7th Fl., 410-328-5842

Luca Vricella
Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, 1800 Orleans St., Rm. 7107G-B3, 443-997-KIDS

Cardiology

Joel Brenner
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 1800 Orleans St., Rm. 2315, 443-997-KIDS

Peter Gaskin
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. Paca St., 7th Fl, 410-328-4348

Geoffrey Rosenthal†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. Paca St., 7th Fl., 410-328-4348

Mubadda Salim
Johns Hopkins, Maryland Pediatric Cardiology Center, 3700 Koppers St., Ste. 155, Halethorpe, 410-644-0550

Child Abuse Pediatrics

Mitchell Goldstein
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 1800 Orleans St., 
Ste. 1509, 410-955-6143

Wendy Lane†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 
660 W. Redwood St., 
866-408-6885

Critical Care Medicine

Jason Custer†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. Paca St., Ste. 820, 410-328-5957

Nan Garber†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 110 S. Paca St., Ste. 820, 410-328-5957

Susanna Scafidi
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Tower, 1800 Orleans St., 410-955-6412

Aaron Zuckerberg
Sinai Hospital, 
2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9193

Emergency Medicine

M. Douglas Baker
Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, 1800 Orleans St, 
Ste. G1509, 410-955-6143

Richard Lichenstein
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., PMH 10, 866-408-6885

Marla (Annie) Soriano*
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5737

Melissa Sparrow*
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2000

Endocrinology

David Cooke
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 200 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-6463

Debra Counts
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N6W84, 866-408-6885

Judy McLaughlin*
LifeBridge Health, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 205, 410-601-8331

Leslie Plotnick*
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 200 N. Wolfe St., 410-614-2359

Barry Reiner
1001 Pine Heights Ave., 
Ste. 202, 410-646-4009

Gastroenterology

Samra Blanchard†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N5W70, 866-408-6885

Anjali Malkani†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N5W70, 866-408-6885

Kalpana Murthy
Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407, 410-601-8663

Maria Oliva-Hemker
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., Brady 320, 443-997-5437

David Tuchman†
2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 
Ste. 407, 410-601-8663

General Pediatric Surgery

James Buck†
Johns Hopkins Childrens Center at GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 313, 
Towson, 410-324-5100

Jeffrey Lukish†
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 313, Towson, 
410-324-5100

Eric Strauch†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-5730

Roger Voigt
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-5730

Holly Williams
Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 43, 410-601-7900

General Pediatrics

Martina Angelini-Schwartz
GBMC, 10 Hopkins Plaza, 443-263-7339

Travis Ganunis
Pavilion Pediatrics, 
10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 260, Lutherville, 410-583-2955

Jason Goldstein
Pavilion Pediatrics, 
10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 260, Lutherville, 410-583-2955

Alan Lake
Maryland Pediatric Group, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393

Amy Winkelstein
Maryland Pediatric Group, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393

Hematology/Oncology

Kenneth Cohen
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans St., Rm. 11379, 410-955-8751

Yoram Unguru
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5864

Joseph Wiley
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5864

Teresa York
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N5E16, 866-408-6885

Infectious Diseases

Robert Ancona†
Cross Keys Pediatrics, 
2 Hamill Rd., Ste. 405, 
410-323-1144

Karen Kotloff†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 685 W. Baltimore St., Rm. 480, HSF480, 410-706-8695

Susan Lipton
Green Spring Pediatric 
Associates, 5101 Lanier Ave., Ste. 2, 410-601-9300

Aaron Milstone
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 200 N. Wolfe St., 
Rm. 3141, 410-614-3917

Pranita Tamma
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 200 N. Wolfe St., 
Ste. 3150, 443-287-4099

Neonatology

Howard Birenbaum*
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2792

Karen Broderick
Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-2501

Melinda Elliott
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5217

Fernando Mena
Franklin Square Medical Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale, 
443-777-7748

Frances Northington
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 
410-955-5259

Thomas O’Brien
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5217

Arturo Santos
Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-2501

Nephrology

Barbara Fivush
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 200 N. Wolfe St., Rm. 3055, 410-955-1247

Laide Jinadu
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N5W67, 410-328-5303

Susan Mendley
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., N5W67, 410-328-5303

Alicia Neu
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 200 N. Wolfe St., Rm. 3055, 410-955-1247

Saul Roskes
Maryland Pediatric Group, 10807 Falls Rd, Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393

Neurology

Thomas Crawford
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St, 410-955-4259

Jack Gladstein
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-706-6091

Edward Gratz
Sinai Hospital, 5051 Green Spring Ave., Ste. 202, 
410-601-8300

Harvey Singer
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St, 410-955-4259

Neurosurgery

Edward Ahn
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St, Rm. 560, 
410-502-7700

George Jallo
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St, Rm. 556, 
410-955-7337

Ophthalmology

Michael Altman
Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 
6th Fl., 410-601-9084

Mary Louise Collins
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 505, Towson, 
443-849-8082

Dean Fiergang
Village at Cross Keys, West Quadrangle, 2 Hamill Rd., Ste. 345, 410-433-8488

Allison Jensen
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 505, Towson, 
443-849-8082

Joanne Waeltermann
Children’s Eye Care and Family Eye Care, 1011 Frederick Rd., Catonsville, 410-744-0400

Orthopedics

Joshua Abzug†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 1 Texas Station Ct., 300, Timonium, 866-408-6885

Michael Dvorkin
Orthopedic & Hand 
Surgery Associates, 1050 S. North Point Rd., Ste. 101, 
410-282-7600

John Herzenberg
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-8700

Paul Sponseller
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans St., 7359A, 
443-997-2663

Shawn Standard
Sinai Hospital, 
2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-8700

Pain Management

Sabine Kost-Byerly†
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1800 Orleans St., Ste. 6321, 410-955-7610

Myron Yaster
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Tower, 1800 Orleans St., 410-955-2393

Psychiatry

Robert Schreter
2360 W. Joppa Rd., 
Lutherville, 410-494-9222

Stuart Varon
2324 W. Joppa Rd., 
Ste. 420, Lutherville, 
410-583-1859

Pulmonology

Mary Beth Bollinger†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 737 W. Lombard St., MSTF 319, 
866-408-6885

Anayansi Lasso-Pirot†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6749

Sharon McGrath-Morrow
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 200 N. Wolfe St., 
410-955-2035

Peter Mogayzel
The Johns Hopkins 
Hospital, 200 N. Wolfe St., 
410-955-2035

Laura Sterni
The Johns Hopkins 
Hospital, 200 N. Wolfe St., 
410-955-2035

Rheumatology

Stephen George
Arthritis Care Specialists 
of Maryland, 4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 226, Ellicott City, 410-992-7440

Melissa Hawkins-Holt
Arthritis Care Specialists 
of Maryland, 4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 226, Ellicott City, 410-992-7440

Edward Sills
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic, 200 N. Wolfe St., 443-997-5437

Sangeeta Sule
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic, 200 N. Wolfe St., 443-997-5437

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Dermatology (Aesthetic)

Rebecca Kazin
Johns Hopkins Dermatology, Green Spring Station, 
10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 350, Lutherville, 410-847-3767

Mark Lowitt
GBMC Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 315, Towson, 
410-321-1195

Diane Orlinsky
8320 Bellona Ave., Ste. 20, Towson, 410-821-7546

Irving Wolfe
21 Crossroads Dr., 
Ste. 255, Owings Mills, 
410-363-2320

Dakara Wright
Kaiser Permanente 
South Baltimore County Medical Center, 1701 Twin Springs Rd., Halethorpe, 410-737-5250

Hair Restoration

James Vogel
4 Park Center Ct., Ste. 100, Owings Mills, 410-484-8860

Frank Weinstein
Weinstein Medical Center for Hair Restoration, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 370, Pikesville, 410-486-3400

Integrative/Complementary Medicine

Brian Berman*
University of Maryland Medical Center, 2200 Kernan Dr., 2nd Floor, 
410-448-6361

Mary Jo Fishburn
7801 York Rd., Ste. 200, Towson, 410-821-1785

Wen Shen
Johns Hopkins Integrative Medicine and Digestive Center, Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Pavilion 1, Lutherville, 410-883-2749

Plastic Surgery: 
Body Contouring

Michael Cohen
Cosmetic Surgery Center of Maryland, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 300, Towson, 
410-296-0414

Luther (Tripp) Holton III
University of Maryland Medical Center, 
22 S. Greene St., 
410-328-2360

Larry Lickstein
Cosmetic Surgery Center of Maryland, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 300, Towson,
410-296-0414

Jeffrey Schreiber
Baltimore Plastic and 
Cosmetic Surgery, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 101, 
Lutherville, 410-902-9800

Nassif Soueid†
Advanced Plastic Surgery, 1927 York Rd., Lutherville, 410-321-0808

Plastic Surgery: Breast

Bernard Chang
Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Pl., 410-332-9700

Michael Cohen
Cosmetic Surgery Center of Maryland, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 300, Towson, 
410-296-0414

Sheri Slezak†
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., Bx 249, 410-328-2360

Nassif Soueid†
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 403, Towson, 410-321-0808

James Vogel
4 Park Center Ct., Ste. 100, Owings Mills, 410-484-8860

Plastic Surgery: Facial

Patrick Byrne†
The Johns Hopkins Center for Facial Plastic Surgery at Green Spring Station, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 406, Falls Concourse, Lutherville, 410-955-4985

Randolph Capone
The Baltimore Center for Facial Plastic Surgery, 
GBMC Pavilion North, 
6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 220, Towson, 410-828-4123

Theda Kontis
Facial Plastic Surgicenter, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., 
Ste. 370, Pikesville, 
410-486-3400

Larry Lickstein
Cosmetic Surgery Center of Maryland, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 300, Towson, 
410-296-0414

Ira Papel
Facial Plastic Surgicenter, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., 
Ste. 370, Pikesville, 
410-486-3400

James Vogel
4 Park Center Ct., Ste. 100, Owings Mills, 410-484-8860

Varicose Vein 
Surgery/Venous 
Litigation Procedures

Jonathan Calure†
Maryland Vein Professionals, 8860 Columbia 100 Pkwy., Ste. 216, Columbia, 443-393-6100

Luis Dibos
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. LL08, 410-554-6550

Mark Gonze
GBMC, 520 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Ste. 306, Bel Air, 410-879-2006

Jennifer (Julie) Heller
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Ave., Rm. A140, 410-550-8346

Paul Lucas
Mercy Medical Center, McAuley Plaza, Level 5, 301 St. Paul Pl., 410-332-9404

Robert Weiss
The Maryland Skin, Laser, and Vein Institute, 54 Scott Adam Rd., Ste. 301, Hunt Valley, 410-666-3960

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Welcome to the results of our 2012 Top Doctors peer survey, the most-selective such list in the region and a resource our readers have trusted for 26 years. (
Read more about our methodology)

But there’s more to the feature than just a string of names of great physicians: We’ve put the spotlight on some of their work, too. One we spent time with is Dr. Michael Ain, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital who also specializes in the treatment of skeletal dysplasia, commonly known as dwarfism—a line of work made more meaningful by the fact that Dr. Ain is a dwarf himself. And we looked at the forward-thinking research that comes from a unique brain bank at the University of Maryland. We’ve also asked some of our docs to recount exactly how they ended up in medicine, and their tales ranged from poignant to amusing.

As you read through this feature, we think you’ll agree: It’s not just a list, but a primer on why Baltimore is one of the medical capitals of the world.

*Those physicians not currently accepting new patients are denoted with an asterisk.

**In the November issue’s results of the Top Doctors survey, winners in certain medical specialties are appearing our website, but not in the print edition.

Those additional specialties, which follow, include anesthesiology, radiology, pathology, pediatric specialties other than general pediatrics, and orthopedic specialties other than general orthopedics. Doctors named in these specialties won their peer-recommended places on the list by the same standard as those in the print edition.


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Medical Specialties

  • Allergy and Immunology
  • Cardiology
  • Dermatology
  • Eating Disorders
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Endocrinology/Diabetes Care
  • Family Medicine
  • Gastroenterology
  • Genetics
  • Geriatrics
  • Hematology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Intensivists/Critical Care
  • Internal Medicine, General
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Neurology, General/Seizure and Movement Disorder/Headache
  • Oncology, General/Breast/Lymphoma and Bone Marrow Transplant
  • Pain Management
  • Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation
  • Psychiatry, General/Sexual Therapy/Addiction Specialist
  • Pulmonary
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Reproductive Endocrinology/IVF
  • Rheumatology
  • Sleep Specialist
  • Sports Medicine

Surgical Specialties

  • Audiology
  • Bariatrics
  • Breast Surgery
  • Cardiac Surgery, Mitral Valve/Aortic Valve/Coronary Artery Bypass
  • Colo-Rectal Surgery
  • General Obstetrics
  • General Surgery
  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Gynecology and Women’s Health
  • Hand Surgery
  • Hepato-Biliary Surgery
  • Laparoscopic/Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Ophthalmology
  • Oral Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Orthopedic Surgery, Joint
  • Orthopedic Surgery, Spine
  • Otolaryngology, Adult General
  • Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Malignancies
  • Podiatry
  • Surgical Oncology
  • Thoracic Surgery
  • Transplant, Kidney/Pancreas
  • Transplant, Liver
  • Trauma
  • Urology
  • Vascular Surgery

Pediatric Specialties

  • General Pediatrics

Elective/Cosmetic Surgery

  • Dermatology, cosmetic
  • Vaginal Rejuvenation, cosmetic
  • Hair Restoration, cosmetic
  • Plastic Surgery, Body Contouring
  • Plastic Surgery (Breast)
  • Varicose Vein Surgery/Venous Litigation Procedures

Medical Specialties

Anesthesiology

Monique Bellefleur
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

UMH, S11C

410-328-6120

Mark DiMino
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

UMH, S11C

410-328-6120

Jose E. Dominguez
GBMC

6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 4226

Towson

443-849-2202

Stephanie B. Esposita
University of Maryland School of Medicine

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-6120

Mark Hamill
700 Melvin Ave., Ste. 7A

Annapolis

410-280-2260

Glen Hessinger
First Colonies Anesthesia Assoc.

St. Joseph Medical Center

7601 Osler Dr.

Towson

410-337-1612

Andrew Malinow
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

UMMC, S11C04

410-328-6120

Douglas Martz, Jr.
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

UMH, S11C

410-328-6120

Charles Rizzuto
First Colonies Anesthesia Association

7601 Osler Dr.

Towson

410-337-1612

Peter Rock
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

UMH, S11C

410-328-6120

Richard Shapiro
Union Memorial Hospital

201 East University Pkwy., Ste. 226

410-554-6559

Edwin Villamater
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

UMH, S11C

410-328-6120

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Pathology

James Eagan Jr.
St. Joseph Medical Center Department of Pathology 7601 Osler Dr.

Towson

410-337-1717

Olga B. Ioffe
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St., Rm. NBW43

410-328-5525

Jerry J. Marty
Franklin Square Medical Center

Pathology Department

9000 Franklin Square Dr.

Rosedale

443-777-7198

Howard L. Siegel
GBMC

6701 N. Charles St., #4004

Towson

443-849-2233

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Radiology

Blair Andrew
Franklin Square Hospital

9000 Franklin Square Dr.

Rosedale

443-777-7150

Loralie Ma
BWMC

7253 Ambassaador Rd.

Windsor Mill

443-436-1114

Carlton Sexton
Union Memorial Hospital

Johnston Professional Bldg.

3333 N. Calvert St., Ground Fl.

410-554-2585

Charles Weiner
Advanced Radiology

BWMC

7253 Ambassaador Rd.

Windsor Mill

443-436-1114

Charles White
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-0152

Jade Wong-You-Cheong
University of Maryland Medical System

22 S. Greene St., Rm. W1L060

410-328-1298

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Pediatric Specialties

Allergy, pediatric

Mary Beth Bollinger
University of Maryland Medical Center

UM Hospital for Children

22 S. Greene St.

And other locations

410-328-6749

Anupama Kewalramani
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St., Ste. 314

410-328-6749

Kenneth C. Schuberth
Maryland Pediatric Group

10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200

Lutherville

410-321-9393

Glenn M. Silber
Allergy & Asthma Center of Central Md.

10025 Governor Warfield Pkwy., Ste. 410

Columbia

410-730-6000

Robert Wood
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-5883

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Cardiac Surgery, pediatric

Duke Cameron
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St., Zayed 7107

410-955-2698

Sunjay Kaushal
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-5842

Luca A. Vricella
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St., Rm. 7107G-B3

410-502-3900

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Cardiology, pediatric

Joel Brenner
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

1800 Orleans St.

410-955-6666

Jane Crosson
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Children’s Center

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St.

410-955-5910

Peter Gaskin
University of Maryland Medical Center

110 S. Paca St.

410-328-4348

Richard Ringel
The Johns Hopkins Medicine Outpatient Center

1800 Orleans St.

410-955-6666

Geoffrey Rosenthal
University of Maryland Medical Center

UM Children’s Hospital

110 S. Paca St., 7th flr.

410-328-0048

Janet Scheel
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St.

410-955-5987

W. Reid Thompson
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

1800 Orleans St., Rm. 2327

410-955-6666

Sudhir Vashist
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-4348

Luca A. Vricella
Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St.

410-502-3900

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Endocrinology, pediatric

David Cooke
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg.

200 N. Wolfe St., Rm. 3120

410-614-2359

Debra Counts
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St., N6W84

410-328-3410

Judith V. McLaughlin
LifeBridge Health

Morton Mower, MD Medical Office Bldg.

2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 205

410-601-7350

*Leslie Plotnick
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg.

200 N. Wolfe St., Rm. 3120

410-614-2359

Barry J. Reiner
1001 Pine Heights Ave., #202

And other locations

410-646-4009

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Gastroenterology, pediatric

Samra Blanchard
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-0812

Steven Czinn
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-0812

Anjali Malkani
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-0812

Kalpana Murthy
LifeBridge Health

2700 Quarry Lake Dr.

410-601-8663

Maria Oliva-Hemker
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

600 N. Wolfe St., Brady 320

410-955-8769

Kathleen B. Schwarz
Pediatric Liver Transplant Program

Johns Hopkins David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg.

200 N. Wolfe St.

And other locations

410-955-8769

David Tuchman
LifeBridge Health

Morton Mower, MD Medical Office Bldg.

2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407

410-601-8663

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General Surgery, pediatric

James R. Buck
Childrens Surgical Associates

6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 313

Towson

410-324-5100

Jeffrey R. Lukish
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Division of Pediatric Surgery

600 N. Wolfe St., Harvey 319

410-955-5628

Eric D. Strauch
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St, Rm. N4E35

410-328-5730

Roger W. Voight
University of Maryland Medical Center

UMMC North, Rm. N4E35

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-5730

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Hematology/Oncology, pediatric

James Casella
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

720 Rutland Ave., Ross 1125

410-955 6132

Kenneth J. Cohen
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Bloomberg Children’s Center, Lvl. 11

1800 Orleans St.

410-955-8751

Teresa York
University of Maryland Medical Center

Greenbaum Cancer Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-2808

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Psychiatry, pediatric

*David Pruitt
701 W. Pratt St., 4th Fl.

410-328-3522

Stuart R. Varon
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

2324 W. Joppa Rd., Ste. 420

Lutherville

410-583-1859

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Neurology, pediatric

Thomas O. Crawford
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-4259

Kathleen Currey
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-6749

Jack Gladstein
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-6749

Edward S. Gratz
2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 32

410-601-8300

Eric H. Kossoff
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center

601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-4259

Harvey Singer
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-4259

Alpa Vashist
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

410-328-6749

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Neurosurgery, pediatric

Edward Ahn
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

600 N. Wolfe St.

Harvey Bldg., Rm. 811

410-502-7700

Benjamin Carson
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-7888

George Jallo
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-7337

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Ophthalmology, pediatric

Mary Louise Z. Collins
GBMC

6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 505

Towson

443-849-8082

Dean Fiergang
Village at Cross Keys

West Quadrangle

2 Hamill Rd., Ste. 345

410-433-8488

Allison Jensen
GBMC

6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 505

Towson

443-849-8082

Michael Repka
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St.

410-955-8314

Joanne Waeltermann
Children’s Eye Care and Family Eye Care

1011 Frederick Rd.

Catonsville

410-744-0400

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Urology, pediatric

John P. Gearhart
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg.

200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-6100

Ming-Hsien Wang
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center

David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg.

200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-6100

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Orthopedics

Joshua Abzug
University of Maryland Medical Center

22 S. Greene St.

And other locations

410-448-6400

Michael Dvorkin
Orthopedic and Hand Surgery Associates

Eastern Professional Bldg.

1050 S. North Point Rd., Ste. 101

410-282-7600

John Herzenberg
Sinai Hospital

Schoeneman Bldg., 2nd Fl.

2401 W. Belvedere Ave.

410-601-8700

Paul D. Sponseller
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

601 N. Caroline St., 5th Fl.

410-955-3870

Shawn Standard
Sinai Hospital

Schoeneman Bldg., 2nd Fl.

2401 W. Belvedere Ave.

410-601-8700

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Psychiatry

Marco A. Grados
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Children’s Center

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St.

443-287-2291

Patrick Kelly
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Children’s Center

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St.

410-955-7874

Drew A. Pate
Sheppard Pratt Health System

6501 N. Charles St.

Towson

410-938-3000

Julie Ritter-Welzant
200 E. Joppa Rd.

Towson

410-337-0814

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Rheumatology, pediatric

Stephen W. George
Arthritis Care Specialists of Maryland

4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 226

Ellicott City

And other locations

410-992-7440

Melissa Hawkins-Holt
Arthritis Care Specialists of Maryland

4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 226

Ellicott City

And other locations

410-992-7440

Edward Sills
The Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic

David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg.

200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-3797

Sangeeta Sule
The Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic

David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg.

200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-3797

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The rest our 2012 list of Baltimore’s Top Doctors can be found in the November issue, on newsstands now. (
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Methodology

To arrive at our results, we surveyed nearly 10,000 physicians in the region to find out where they would send a member of their own family in dozens of specialties. This year, we also launched an online poll of physicians to augment the responses we got from several thousand mailed surveys, and attracted more participation than ever. (See the complete list of Top Doctors at baltimoremagazine.net.) And it seems most doctors agree on who is the best: The survey revealed clear winners early in the process.

Assisting us with the survey were our five physician advisers, who were not eligible to be included on the list themselves.

Dr. Niraj Jani is chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Dr. Jani has
a special interest in gastrointestinal cancer, pancreaticobiliary diseases, and expertise in endoscopic ultrasound. He received his medical degree from the University of Rochester, completed fellowships in gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition, as well as in interventional endoscopy

at the University of Pittsburgh and completed his internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital.

A Baltimore native,
Dr. Andrew Kramer went to medical school at the University of Maryland. He completed his surgery and urology training at Boston Medical Center and returned to Baltimore seven years ago to join the University Of Maryland School of Medicine full-time academic faculty. He performs a high surgical volume in the fields of male sexual medicine and urologic oncology and has one of the five largest penile implant practices in the world. He has also obtained an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Finance and is currently the associate chairman for finance and business operations for the Department of Surgery.

Dr. Larry H. Lickstein is a plastic surgeon specializing in facial surgery at the Cosmetic Surgery Center of Maryland and is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. A member of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and American College of Surgeons, Dr. Lickstein’s experience includes reconstructive surgery on women fighting breast cancer, as well as using the latest advances in aesthetic surgery for the face and body.

An honors graduate of Princeton University and New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Lickstein served as chief resident in the department of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Redonda Gail Miller is an associate professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as vice president for medical affairs at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

She received her bachelor of science degree from The Ohio State University, her M.D. from Johns Hopkins, and served her internship in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, later becoming a chief resident in internal medicine. She also holds a master’s degree in business.

She lectures and publishes on women’s health issues and has served as an editor and board member on several medical journals.

Dr. Joseph M. Wiley is the chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai. He has been active in clinical research in pediatric hematology-oncology, and has made more than 100 presentations on the topic nationally and internationally. He is best known for his work in supportive care and fungal infections in cancer patients, as well as his work in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Wiley is a graduate of Loyola College in Maryland with a B.A. in mathematics and earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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Welcome to the results of our 2011 Top Doctors peer survey, the most selective such list in the region and, for that reason, a resource on which our readers have relied for 25 years.


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Glenn J. Treisman
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer 119

410-955-6328

Jack Wapner
11100 Liberty Rd., #F, Randallstown

410-655-2740

Christopher J. Welsh
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., P-1-H-10

410-328-3716

Allergy and Immunology

John Bacon
St. Joseph Medical Center, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., #201, Towson

410-321-0284

Shoban A. Dave
Kaiser Permanente, 7141 Security Blvd.

443-663-6000

Jonathan Matz
Golden & Matz, 20 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 16, Owings Mills

410-363-6144

Glenn Silber
Allergy & Asthma Center of Central MD, 10025 Gov. Warfield Hwy., Ste. 410, Columbia

410-730-6000

Robert Wood
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-5883

Anesthesiology, Adult

Samuel Galvagno
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., S11C

410-328-6120

Harold M. Goll
6701 N. Charles St., #4226, Towson

443-849-2202

Lewis H. Hogge Jr.
6701 N. Charles St., #4226, Towson

443-849-2202

Richard Shapiro
Union Memorial Hospital, 201 East University Pkwy., Ste. 226

410-554-6559

John Vincent
Franklin Square Hospital, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale

443-777-7179

Anesthesiology, Obstetrics

Andrew Malinow
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., #S11C

410-328-6120

Jamie Murphy
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-5608

Thomas R. Pesar
Physicians Anesthesia Associates, 6701 N. Charles St., #4226, Towson

443-849-2202

Anesthesiology, Regional

Edward M. Krempasanka
Physicians Anesthesia Associates, 6701 N. Charles St., #4226, Towson

443-849-2202

Jeffrey Richman
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., #265, Towson

410-337-3904

David Tarantino
9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale

410-777-7179

Christopher Wu
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Carnegie 280

410-955-5608

Cardiology

Steven Mason
Franklin Square Hospital Center/Chesapeake Cardiovascular, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 209, Rosedale

410-574-1330

James Porterfield
Johns Hopkins Cardiology at GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 5104, Towson

443-849-8989

Thomas Traill
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., JHOC 7th Fl.

410-614-3140

Cardiology, Electrophysiology

Ronald D. Berger
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., JHOC 7th Fl.

410-502-0550

Hugh Calkins
Johns Hopkins Out-patient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., JHOC 7th Fl.

410-502-0550

Dermatology

Lawrence Feldman
902 Washington Rd., Ste. E, Westminster

410-876-0286

Mark Lowitt
GBMC Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 315

410-321-1195

Howard Robinson
101 W. Ridgely Rd., Ste. 13, Lutherville

410-561-1960

Eating Disorders

Harry Brandt
6535 N. Charles St., #300, Towson

410-938-5252

Steven Crawford
6535 N. Charles St., #300, Towson

410-938-5252

Angela Guarda
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer 101

410-955-3863

Emergency Medicine

Gail Cunningham
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson

410-337-1620

Michael Pipkin
Franklin Square Hospital, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Department of Emergency Medicine, Rosedale

443-777-7046

Jeff Sternlicht
GBMC Emergency Department, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2226

John Wogan
GBMC Emergency Department, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2226

Endocrinology, Diabetes/Thyroid

Marie Bellantoni
Franklin Square Hospital, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 214, Rosedale

443-777-6351

James Mersey
Bay Endocrinology Associates, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 400

410-828-7417

Endocrinology, Reproductive

Samuel Smith
Franklin Square Hospital, OB/GYN Department, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 316, Rosedale

443-777-7831

Howard Zacur
Johns Hopkins Medicine at Green Spring Station, 10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 335, Lutherville

410-616-7140

Family Practice

Yvette Rooks
University of Maryland, 22 S. Paca St.

410-328-8792

Sarah F. Whiteford
GBMC Family Care Associates, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 441, Physicians Pavilion East, Towson

443-849-2707

Gastroenterology/Hepatology

Mark Diamond
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 308, Rosedale

410-574-5877

Harold Tucker
Razzak, Tucker, Kafonek & Hansen, 10751 Falls Rd, Ste. 303, Lutherville

410-583-2630

Edward J. Wolf
Woodholme Gastroenterology Associates, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 400

410-602-7782

Genetics

Clair Francomano
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 2326, Towson

443-849-3131

Carol L. Green
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., N5W40

410-328-6749

Ada Hamosh
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Institute of Genetic Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock Bldg., Rm. 1007

410-955-3071

Geriatrics

John Burton
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Cir., Mason F. Lord Bldg., Rm. 727

410-550-0925

Thomas E. Finucane
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Cir., John R. Burton Pavilion, Terrace 01

410-550-2503

Gynecology/General Women’s Health

Teresa Hoffman
6610 Tributary St., Ste. 206, Catonsville

410-633-6300

Margery Kates
Gabbay, Feldman, and Pearlman, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 220, Owings Mills

410-581-9200

Murray Pearlman
Gabbay, Feldman, and Pearlman, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste., 220, Owings Mills

410-581-9200

Gynecologic Oncology

Fouad Abbas
Sinai Medical Office Bldg., 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 2nd Fl., Ste. 206

410-601-9030

Francis Grumbine
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 306, Towson

443-849-2765

Neil Rosenshein
The Weinberg Center for Women’s Health & Medicine at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Pl., 6th Fl.

410-332-9200

Hematology

Michael Auerbach
9110 Philadelphia Rd., Ste. 314, Rosedale

410-780-4050

Mian K. Khalid
Kaiser Permanente, 7141 Security Blvd., Windsor Mill

443-663-6420

Nick Koutrelakos
10710 Charter Dr., Ste. G020, Columbia

410-964-2212

Flavio Kruter
Carroll Regional Cancer Center, 555 S. Center St., Westminster

410-871-6400

Myo Min
9114 Philadelphia Rd., Ste. 208, Rosedale

410-687-5300

Michael Streiff
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 7th Fl.

410-955-3142

Hospitalist

Kamlun AuYeung
Franklin Square Hospital, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Hospitalist Office, Rosedale

443-777-8186

Daniel Brotman
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1830 E. Monument St., Rm. 8038

443-287-3631

Fred Chan
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Rm. 3808, Towson

443-849-8046

Infectious Diseases

Paul Auwearter
Johns Hopkins Medicine at Green Spring Station, 10751 Falls Rd., Falls Concourse, Lutherville

410-583-2651

Charles Haile
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 404, Towson

410-337-7097

Intensivists, Critical Care

Anthony Martinez
Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., 2nd Fl.

410-368-3212

Mitchell L. Schwartz
GBMC Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 North Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson

410-494-1662

Stephen Selinger
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore/Franklin Square Hospital, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 300

410-682-5282

Internal Medicine

Jeffrey Magaziner
Park Medical Associates, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville

410-583-7137

Lisa Simonson
Park Medical Associates, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville

410-583-7111

Francis X. Strain
Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., McAuley Professional Office Building 907

410-951-7977

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Karin Blakemore
Obstetrical Practice at Green Spring, Johns Hopkins Medicine at Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 420, Lutherville

410-583-2749

Jude Crino
Obstetrical Practice at Green Spring, Johns Hopkins Medicine at Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 420, Lutherville

410-583-2749

Judith Rossiter
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., 1st Fl., Towson

410-337-4480

Claire Weitz
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, Towson

443-849-2568

Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine

Howard J. Birenbaum
GBMC Neonatal

Intensive Care Unit, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2792

Michael Langbaum
Physician Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson

410-337-3952

Lawrence Nogee
Johns Hopkins, Children’s Center at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., CMSC 6-104

410-955-5259

Fernando Mena
Franklin Square Hospital Center, Neonatology Section, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale

443-777-7748

Nephrology

Khalid Al-Talib
Maryland Kidney Group, Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 301, Rosedale

443-777-6540

Jeffrey Posner
25 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 205, Owings Mills

410-602-7792

Kevin Rossiter
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale

443-777-6540

Paul Scheel
Johns Hopkins Bayview, 4940 Eastern Ave., 301 Bldg., 2nd Fl.

410-550-0280

Neurology

Kevin E. Crutchfield
Sinai Neurology Associates, 5051 Greenspring Avenue, Suite 300

410-601-9717

Jerold Fleishman
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 2nd Fl., Neurology, Rosedale

443-777-7320

Abraham Allan Genut
7600 Osler Dr., Ste. 105, Towson

410-821-1377

Justin McArthur
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Neurology, Meyer 6-113, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-3730

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Johns Hopkins Bayview, 4940 Eastern Ave., 301 Mason Lord Dr., Ste. 2100

410-550-3367

Stephen Reich
UMMC, 16 S. Eutaw St., Ste. 300

410-328-4323

Howard D. Weiss
Morton Mower, M.D., Medical Office Bldg. at Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 202

410-367-7600

Michael A. Williams
Sinai Hospital, 5051 Greenspring Ave., Ste. 300

410-601-1900

Neurology, Headache

Jack Gladstein
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 5th Fl., Rm. 40

410-328-6749

Marcia Ribeiro
Mid-Atlantic Headache Institute, Commerce Center West, 1777 Reisterstown Rd., Ste. 104, Pikesville

410-602-1999

Jason Rosenberg
The Johns Hopkins Headache Center, Bayview Medical Center, Bldg. 301, Rm. 1201, 4940 Eastern Ave.

410-550-2243

Neurology, Seizure and Movement

Stephen Reich
UMMC, 16 S. Eutaw St., Ste. 300

410-328-4323

Nuclear Medicine

Gabriel Soudry
Franklin Square Hospital Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale

443-777-7492

Ethan Spiegler
Saint Agnes Hospital, Nuclear Medicine Dept., 900 S. Caton Ave.

443-436-1114

Richard Wahl
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, JHOC 3223, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, 601 N. Caroline St.

410-614-3764

Obstetrics

Andrea Collerius
St. Joseph Professional Building 7401 Osler Dr., Ste. 205, Towson

410-828-8077

Victor Khouzami
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, Towson

443-849-2568

Ruthann Zern
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 402, Towson

410-339-6557

Occupational Medicine

John Parkerson
4717 Falls Rd.

410-366-3627

Oncology, Breast

Rima Couzi
The Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Bldg. A, Ste. 205, 7501 Osler Dr., Towson

410-427-5585

John Fetting
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 415, Lutherville

410-955-8842

Oncology, General

Paul Celano
GBMC 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 201, Towson

443-849-3051

Gary Cohen
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 201, Towson

443-849-3051

Enser Cole
Saint Agnes Hospital, Cancer Institute, 900 Caton Ave., Box 235

410-368-3416

Marvin Jack Feldman
Saint Paul Place Specialists, 227 St., Paul St., 4th Fl.

410-783-5858

Carole Miller
Saint Agnes Hospital, Cancer Institute, 900 Caton Ave., Box 235

410-368-3414

Oncology, Leukemia/Lymphoma/Bone Marrow Transplant

Carole Miller
Saint Agnes Hospital Cancer Institute, 900 Caton Ave., Box 235

410-368-3414

Stephen Noga
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2200, Rosedale

443-777-7147

Eric Seifter
Park Medical Associates, Green Spring Station, Pavilion 1, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville

410-583-71221

Oncology, Prostate

Michael Carducci
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, 1650 Orleans St.

410-955-8964

Michael Naslund
UMMC Maryland Prostate Center, 419 W. Redwood St., Ste. 320

410-328-0801

Patrick Walsh
James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Park 224

410-614-3377

Ophthalmology

Gary Cassel
Ruxton Towers Eye Associates, 8415 Bellona Ln., Towson

410-828-9270

Neelam Gor
Kaiser Permanente, 7141 Security Blvd.

443-663-6340

Sudeep Pramanik
GBMC Cancer Center, 6569 N. Charles St., Pavilion West, Ste. 505, Towson

410-616-9952

Oliver Schein
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Wilmer Eye Institute, 3rd Flr., 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-7677

Orthopedics, Foot and Ankle

Stuart Miller
Union Memorial Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 3333 N. Calvert St., Johnston Professional Bldg., Ste. 400

410-554-6530

Mark Myerson
Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction, Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl.

410-659-2800

Lew Schon
Union Memorial, 3333 N. Calvert St., Johnston Professional Bldg., Ste. 400

410-554-2891

Ian Weiner
OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300

410-377-8900

Orthopedics, General

Joseph Ciotola
Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul St.

410-539-2227

Michael A. Ellis
Saint Agnes Hospital, 3449 Wilkens Ave., Seton Professional Bldg., Ste. 107

410-368-2870

Samel Matz
Advanced Centers for Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Owings Mills Office, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste., 210, Owings Mills

410-484-8088

Sam Sydney
Orthopaedic Associates of Central Maryland, 10710 Charter Dr., Ste. 300, Columbia

410-644-1880

Orthopedics, Hand

Stacey Berner
Advanced Centers for Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Owings Mills Office, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 210, Owings Mills

410-484-8088

James P. Higgins
Union Memorial, 3333 N. Calvert St., Mezzanine level, Johnston Prof. Bldg.

410-296-6232

Michael Marion
Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Ruxton Professional Center, Ste. 100, 8322 Bellona Ave., Towson,

410-337-7900

Orthopedics, Joint Replacement

Frank Ebert
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Johnston Professional Bldg., Ste. 400

410-554-2850

Carl A. Johnson
Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics at White Marsh, 4924 Campbell Blvd., Ste. 130, Nottingham

443-442-2084

Harpal Khanuja
Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave.

410-601-5645

Simon Mears
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Ave., Bldg. A, Ste. 669

410-550-0453

Vincent Pellegrini
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., S11B

410-328-6040

Lee Schmidt
GBMC Joint and Spine Center, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606., Towson

410-583-0160

David Silber
Advanced Centers for Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Owings Mills Office, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 210, Owings Mills

410-484-8088

Barry Waldman
OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300

410-377-8900

Orthopedics, Spine

Randy Davis
Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 305 Hospital Dr., Ste. 303, Glen Burnie

410-553-8290

Lee Riley
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., Ste. 5231,

410-955-6930

Justin Tortolani
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Johnston Professional Bldg., Ste. 400

410-554-2175

Otolaryngology

Karl Diehn
Ear, Nose, and Throat Associates at GBMC Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, Towson

410-821-5151

Andrew Goldstone
Ear, Nose, and Throat Associates at GBMC Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, Towson

410-821-5151

Howard Hessan
Saint Agnes Hospital, 3449 Wilkens Ave.

410-525-3818

Brian Kaplan
Ear, Nose, & Throat Associates, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, Towson

443-849-8400

Pain Management/Chronic Pain

Steven Cohen
Blaustein Pain Treatment Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., Ste. 3062

410-955-7246

David N. Maine
Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Ste. 321,

410-332-9036

Srinivasa Raja
Blaustein Pain Treatment Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., Ste. 3062

410-955-7246

Ross Sugar
Baltimore Neuro-surgery and Spine Center, 5051 Greenspring Ave., Ste. 101

410-664-3680

Palliative Medicine

Rebecca Aslakson
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-9080

Danielle Doberman
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 4105, Towson

443-849-6255

Pathology

Jonathan Epstein
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Anatomic Pathology Consultation Service, 401 N. Broadway, Rm. 224

410-614-6330

Orly Korat
Quest Diagnostics, 1901 Sulphur Spring Rd., Halethorpe,

410-536-1528

Howard L. Siegel
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Rm. 4004, Towson

443-849-2247

Pediatrics, Allergy

Robert Wood
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-5883

Kenneth C. Schuberth
Pediatric Consultants, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville

410-321-9393

Glenn M. Silber
Allergy and Asthma Center of Central MD, 10025 Gov. Warfield Pkwy., Ste. 410, Columbia

410-730-6000

Pediatrics, Anesthesiology

Jose Dominguez
Physicians Anesthesia Associates, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2202

Myron Yaster
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 935

410-955-7610

Aaron Zuckerberg
Sinai Hospital, PICU, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave.

410-601-9193

Pediatrics, Cardiology

Joel Brenner
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-6666, also at GBMC, and five other locations including western MD

Richard Ringel
Johns Hopkins Medicine Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 7th Fl.

410-955-5987

Janet Scheel
Johns Hopkins Medicine Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-6666

Pediatrics, Dermatology

Bernard Cohen
Johns Hopkins Dermatology and Cosmetic Center at Green Spring Station, Pavilion I, Ste. 350, 10755 Falls Rd., Lutherville

410-955-2049

Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine

Donald Jenkins
Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave.

410-368-2011

Richard Lichenstein
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-9440

Melissa Sparrow
GBMC Pediatric Emergency Room, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-3910

Allen Walker
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-6143

Pediatrics, Endocrine

David Cooke
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Clinic, Rubenstein Children’s Health Bldg., Rm. 3120, 200 N. Wolfe St.

410-614-2359

Judith McLaughlin
LifeBridge Health, Morton Mower M.D. Office Bldg., 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 205

410-601-7350

Leslie Plotnick
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Clinic, Rubenstein Child Health, Bldg., Rm. 3114, 200 N. Wolfe St.,

410-614-2359

Pediatrics, General

Alan M. Lake
Maryland Pediatric Group, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville

410-321-9393

Martina Schwartz
Kaiser Permanente, 10 Hopkins Plaza

1-800-777-7904

Pediatrics, GI

Kalpana Murthy
GBMC, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407

410-601-8663, also in Eldersburg

Maria Oliva-Hemker
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Brady 320, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-8769 

David Tuchman
GBMC, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407,

410-601-8663 and Franklin Square Hospital Center, Rosedale

Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology

Robert Arceci
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, CRB1 207, 401 N. Broadway

410-502-7519

James F. Casella
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave., Ross 1125

410-955-6132

Clifford Takemoto
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave., Ross 1125

410-955-6132

Joseph Wiley
The Herman and Walter Samuels Children’s Hospital at Sinai, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave.

410-601-5864

Pediatrics, Hospitalist

Eric Balighian
Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave.

410-368-2500

Michael Burke
Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., Pediatrics Dept. MS 059

410-368-2506

Michael Clemmens
Anne Arundel Medical Center, 2001 Medical Pkwy., Pediatric Emergency Room, Annapolis

443-481-6200

Cynthia Roldan
Carroll Hospital Center, 200 Memorial Ave., Department of Pediatrics Westminster

410-871-7773

Melissa Sparrow
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Pediatric Emergency Room, Towson

443-849-3919

Pediatrics, Neurology

Thomas Crawford
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Clinic, Rubenstein Child Health Bldg., Room 2158, 200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-4259, also at Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St.

Edward Gratz
2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 32

410-601-8300

Eric Kossoff
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Clinic Rubenstein Child Health Bldg., Ste. 2158, 200 N. Wolfe St.,

410-955-4259, also at Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St.

Pediatrics, Neurosurgery

Edward Ahn
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Harvey Bldg., Rm. 811, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-502-7700

Benjamin Carson
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-7888

George Jallo
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Harvey Bldg., Rm. 811, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-7337

Pediatrics, Orthopedics

Andrew Abramowitz
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, 1708 W. Rogers Ave.

301-829-2552

Paul Sponseller
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., Ste. 5212,

410-955-3136

Pediatrics, Psychiatry

Kevin Harrison
Maryland Centers for Psychiatry, 3454 Ellicott Center Dr., Ste. 106, Ellicott City

410-461-3760

and in Annapolis 410-841-5063

Laurence Pezor
10005 Old Columbia Rd., Ste. L-260, Columbia

443-259-0400

Pediatrics, Pulmonary

Anayansi Lasso-Pirot
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-6749

Laura Sterni
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic, Rubenstein Child Health Bldg., 200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-2035, also at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital

Pamela Zeitlin
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic, Rubenstein Child Health Bldg., 200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-2035

Pediatrics, Rheumatology

Stephen George
4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ellicott City

410-992-7440

Edward Sills
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic Rubenstein Child Health Bldg., 200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-6145

Sangeeta Sule
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Specialty Health Clinic, Rubenstein Child Health Bldg., 200 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-6145

Pediatrics, Surgery

James R. Buck
GBMC, Children’s Surgical Associates, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 305, Towson

443-849-6201

Paul Colombani
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Surgery, 600 N. Wolfe St., CMSC 7113

410-955-2717

Eric Strauch
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-5730

Physical Medicine Rehabilitation

Clark Brill
MD Spine and Sports Medicine, River Hill Station, 5005 Signal Bell Ln., Ste. 208, Clarksville

443-535-9900

Dorianne Feldman
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.,

410-502-2252

Gayle Schwartz
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 350

410-554-4350, also in Timonium

410-308-4900

Michael Shear
Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 350

410-554-4350, also in Timonium

410-308-4900

Plastic Surgery, General

Adam Basner
The Plastic Surgery Center of Maryland, 1304 Bellona Ave., Lutherville

410-616-3000

Michael Cohen
Cosmetic Surgery Center of Maryland, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 300, Towson

410-296-0414

George Thomas Grace
300 Frederick Rd., Ste. 200,

410-744-0900

Ira D. Papel
Facial Plastic SurgiCenter, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 370

410-486-3400

Paul Ringelman
7401 Osler Dr., Ste., 208, Towson

410-823-3885

James E. Vogel
4 Park Center Ct., #100, Owings Mills

410-484-8860

Plastic Surgery, Bariatric Body Contouring

George Thomas Grace
300 Frederick Rd., Ste. 200

410-744-0900

Plastic Surgery, Breast

Bernard Chang
Mercy Medical Center, 227 St. Paul Pl., Weinberg Center, 6th Fl.

410-332-9700

Sheri Slezak
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-2360

Janet Woodyard
20 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 12, Owings Mills

410-363-9000

Plastic Surgery, Burn Reconstruction

Robert Spence
Good Samaritan Hospital, National Burn Reconstruction Center, 5601 Loch Raven Blvd., Good Health Center

443-444-2876

Plastic Surgery, Pediatric, Cleft Lip and Palate

John Caccamese
UMMC, 650 W. Baltimore St., #1401

410-706-6195

Randolph Capone
Baltimore Center for Facial Plastic Surgery, GBMC Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 250, Towson

410-828-4123

Craig Vander Kolk
Mercy Medical Center, 227 St. Paul Pl., Weinberg Center, 6th Fl., also in Ellicott City and Lutherville

410-332-9700

Richard Redett
Johns Hopkins Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic, 601 N. Caroline St., 8th Fl.

410-955-9475

Plastic Surgery, Urology, Female

Karen Elizabeth Boyle
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 625, Towson

410-825-5454

Podiatry

Vincent Martorana
Podiatry Associates, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 206, Rosedale

410-574-3900

Scott Woodburn
Podiatry Associates, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 702, Towson

410-828-5420

Psychiatry

Paul McClelland
Saint Agnes Hospital Center, 900 Caton Ave., Department of Psychiatry, MB 198 SAH

410-368-2737

Glenn J. Treisman
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer 119

410-955-2343

Pulmonary

Howard Jacobs
Jacobs, Lansing, and Mishkin, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 350, Pikesville

410-484-5686

Mitchell L. Schwartz
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates, GBMC, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson

410-494-1662

Stephen Selinger
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Cancer Institute, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 300, Rosedale

410-682-5282

Dennis Smith
Maryland Lung Associates, 3449 Wilkens Ave., #207

410-644-5112

Radiology, Breast

Cecilia Brennecke
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring, Pavilion I, Ste. 440, 10755 Falls Rd., Lutherville

410-583-2703

Judy M. Destouet
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd.

443-436-1114

Hardeep Rosy Singh
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd.

443-436-1114

Radiology, General Diagnostic

Blair Andrew
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd.

443-436-1114

Elliot K. Fishman
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Radiology, JHOC 3251, 601 N. Caroline St.

410-955-5173

Lee Goodman
Advanced Radiology, 1700 Reisterstown Rd., #112, Pikesville

410-580-2100

Alexander Munitz
GBMC, Department of Radiology, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2343

Radiology, Interventional

Blair Andrew
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd.

443-436-1114

Jonathan Marx
Johns Hopkins Bayview, Department of Imaging, 4940 Eastern Ave.

410-550-5731

Henry Wang
Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd.

443-436-1114

Charles Yim
GBMC, Uterine Fibroid Center, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2311

Radiology, Interventional/Neuro

Dheeraj Gandhi
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., G2K14

410-328-7407

Radiation Oncology

Cengiz Aygun
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Rosedale

410-682-6800

Albert Blumberg
GBMC Radiation Oncology, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2540

Richard Hudes
Chesapeake Urology Associates, Saint Agnes Hospital Cancer Center, 900 Caton Ave.

410-368-2965, also in Owings Mills

443-738-9393

Eva Zinreich
GBMC Radiation Oncology, Chesapeake Urology Associates, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson

443-849-2540

Rheumatology, Adult

Howard W. Hauptman
Rheumatology Associates of Baltimore, 1220B E. Joppa Rd., Ste. 310

410-494-1888

Peter Holt
Russell Morgan Bldg., Ste. 509, 5601 Loch Raven Blvd.

443-444-4840

Sleep Specialist

Brian Bohner
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson

410-494-1662

Jacques Conaway
Sleep Medicine Associates of Maryland, Franklin Square Hospital Center, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Bldg., 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 300, Rosedale

443-777-8382

Philip L. Smith
Johns Hopkins Bayview, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Cir.

410-550-0571

Sports Medicine

Samuel O. Matz
Advanced Center for Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, 1 Village Sq., Westminster

410-876-8077

Teri Metcalf McCambridge
Towson Orthopaedic Associates, Ruxton Professional Center, Ste. 100, Towson

410-337-7900

Andrew Tucker
Union Memorial Specialty Physicians, 1407 York Rd., Ste. 100-A, Lutherville

410-821-8062

Surgery, Bariatric

Mark Kligman
UM Center for Weight Management and Wellness, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-8940

Peter Liao
GMBC, Physicians Pavilion North, 16535 N. Charles St., Ste. 125, Towson

443-849-3779

Kuldeep Singh
7625 Maple Lawn Blvd., Ste. 143, Fulton

301-490-2193

Surgery, Breast

Kristen Fernandez
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 110, Rosedale

443-777-6500

Neil Friedman
The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Place, Weinberg Center, 5th Fl.

410-332-9330, also in Overlea

Lauren Schnaper
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3105, Towson

443-849-2600

Michael Schultz
St. Joseph Medical Center, The Breast Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 205, Towson

410-427-5510

Surgery, Cardiac

Jamie Brown
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-5842

Duke Cameron
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 618

410-955-2698

John Conte
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 618

410-955-1753

Stewart Finney
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Ste. W-255, Towson

410-339-1783

Michael Fiocco
The Heart Institute at Union Memorial, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. LL08

410-554-6550

James S. Gammie
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-5842

Surgery, Colon-Rectal

George Apostolides
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 445, Towson

410-494-1191

P. Jeffrey Ferris
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 307, Rosedale

443-777-6225

Debra Vachon
Colon-Rectal Surgical Associates, Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Professional Bldg., Ste. 718

410-332-9356

Surgery, Hand

Emery Kim
Kaiser Permanente, 1447 York Rd., Ste. 100, Lutherville

410-339-5586

Scott Lifchez
Johns Hopkins Bayview, 4940 Eastern Ave., A Bldg., Ste. 513

410-550-6991

Keith Segalman
Greater Chesapeake Hand Specialists, 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville

410-296-6232

Surgery, Hepato-Biliary

Michael Choti
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 665

410-955-7113

Mark Fraiman
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., O’Dea Bldg., Ste. 303, Towson

410-337-1337

Richard Mackey
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., O’Dea Bldg., Ste. 303, Towson

410-427-2024

Richard Schulick
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 685

410-614-9879

Surgery, General

W. P. Geis
Central Maryland Surgical Specialists, 21 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 360, Owings Mills

410-356-0410

Marc Gertner
LifeBridge Health, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 410, Owings Mills

410-581-0700

Laurence Ross
Finney Trimble Surgical Associates GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson

410-821-6260

Francis Rotolo
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson

410-821-6260

Viney Setya
Saint Agnes Hospital Comprehensive Wound Healing Center, 3421 Benson Ave., #210

410-368-2700

Surgery, Laparoscopic

M. Naji Fakouri
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 7638 Belair Rd. Rosedale

410-668-8300

John Flowers
GBMC, Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson

410-821-6260

Stephen M. Kavic
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., S4B10

410-328-6187

Gina Massoglia
Chesapeake Surgical Associates, 2009 Tidewater Colony Dr., Annapolis

410-571-9499

Francis Rotolo
Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson

410-821-6260

Kuldeep Singh
7625 Maple Lawn Blvd., Ste. 145, Fulton

301-490-2193

Thomas J. Swope
Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., McAuley Professional Office Bldg., #912

410-332-9653

Joel Turner
Finney Trimble Surgical Associates, GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 510, Towson

410-821-6260

Surgery, Neurosurgery

Allan Joel Belzberg
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-614-9923

Reginald Davis
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 600, Towson

443-849-4270

Neal Naff
Chesapeake Neuro-surgery Inc., 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 360

410-486-0090

Clifford Solomon
Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 301 Hospital Dr., Glen Burnie

410-787-4000

Rafael Tamargo
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery Meyer Bldg., 8-181, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-614-1533

Surgical Oncology/General

Mukund S. Didolkar
Sinai Hospital, Alvin and Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave.

410-601-8317

Mark Duncan
Johns Hopkins Bayview, 4940 Eastern Ave.

410-550-1226

Edward McCarron
Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2300, Rosedale

443-777-7911

Armando Sardi
Mercy Medical Center, The Institute for Cancer Care, 227 St. Paul Pl., Weinberg Bldg., 4th Fl.

410-332-9294

Surgical Oncology/Head and Neck

Joseph Califano
Johns Hopkins Head and Neck Center at GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 401

443-849-8940

Robert Ord
University of Maryland Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates, 650 W. Baltimore St., Ste. 1401,

410-706-6195

John R. Saunders Jr.
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 401, Towson

443-849-8940

Surgery, Oral Maxillofacial

David Bastacky
Johns Hopkins Department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 266

410-955-6663

Robert Ord
University of Maryland Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates, 650 W. Baltimore St., Ste. 1401

410-706-6195

Michael Schwartz
The Maryland Center for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 10 Warren Rd., Ste. 330, Cockeysville

410-666-5225, also in Owings Mills

410-363-7780 and Bel Air

410-838-7301

Leonard Spector
The Maryland Center for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 10 Warren Rd., Ste. 330, Cockeysville

410-666-5225, also in Owings Mills

410-363-7780 and Bel Air

410-838-7301

Surgery, Orthopedic Oncology

Albert Aboulafia
Sinai Hospital, Alvin and Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute , 2401 W. Belvedere Ave.

410-601-4606

Frank Frassica
Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery, 601 N. Caroline St., 5215

410-502-2698

Kristy Weber
Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery, 601 N. Caroline St., 5215

410-955-2888

Surgery, Thoracic

Richard Battafarano
UMMC, Division of Thoracic Surgery, 29 S. Greene St., Ste. 504

410-328-6366

Neri Cohen
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 701, Towson

443-849-3470

Ziv Gamliel
The Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 203, Towson

410-427-2220

Daniel Harley
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 309, Rosedale

410-686-5887

Gavin Henry
Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 Caton Ave.

410-368-2730

Richard Heitmiller
Union Memorial Hospital, Johnston Professional Building, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 610

410-554-2063

Stephen Yang
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 240

410-614-3891

Transplant, Kidney/Pancreas

Stephen Bartlett
UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., Ste. N4E40

410-328-5408

Matthew Cooper
UMMC, 29 S. Greene St., Ste. 200

410-328-5408

Nabil Dagher
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 720 Rutland Ave., Ross 771

410-955-5662

Robert A. Montgomery
Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program Office, 720 Rutland Ave., Turner 36

410-614-8297

Transplant, Liver

Andrew M. Cameron
Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Transplant Center, 720 Rutland Ave., Ross 771

410-614-5700

Robert A. Montgomery
Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, Liver Transplant Program Office, 720 Rutland Ave., Ross 765

410-614-8297

Trauma Specialists

David Efron
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-2244

Thomas Scalea
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-8976

Deborah Stein
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland, 22 S. Greene St.

410-328-3495

Urology

William Dowling
Chesapeake Urology Associates, Franklin Square Hospital Center, White Marsh, 6830 Hospital Dr., Ste. 204, Rosedale

410-391-6131

Ronald Tutrone
Chesapeake Urology Associates GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 625, Towson

410-825-5454

Vascular Surgery

Marshall Benjamin
UMMC at Baltimore Washington Medical Center, The Maryland Vascular Center, 301 Hospital Dr., Glen Burnie

410-553-8300

James Black
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.

410-955-1708

Peter J. Mackrell
Vascular Surgery at Sinai Hospital, Morton Mower M.D. Office Bldg., 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 301

410-601-0500

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Tiny Molly gets a second chance at life

For obstetrician/gynecologist Andrea Collerius and her patient, Jill Wipfield, there seemed nothing unusual about the pregnancy, Wipfield’s first.

Wipfield, 29, went into labor on Sunday, Dec. 19, and the next day, doctor and patient were at St. Joseph Medical Center, ready for the birth of a baby girl, following an epidural injection. She was to be named Molly.

“I came into the room and checked her and told her it was time to start pushing,” recalls Collerius, 43, a mother of two herself and in private practice for 12 years.

“When she started pushing, though, the baby’s heart rate went down,” says Collerius. “That can happen even from little things, like changing position. But no matter what I tried, it wouldn’t come back up.” And then Collerius couldn’t get a reading at all.

Suddenly, an emergency C-section was the only answer. As soon as Collerius wheeled Wipfield into the OR and opened the uterus, she saw the problem: An abruption of the placenta, meaning it had separated from the uterus, causing the mother to bleed heavily, denying Molly oxygen, and causing the baby to bleed through the umbilical cord.

“The baby wasn’t breathing, and it wasn’t moving,” says Collerius. “Typically, you warm a baby when it’s born, because it has just come out of the uterus.” In this case, though—with the help of St. Joseph’s pediatric and neo-natal intensive care (NICU) staff headed by NICU director Dr. Michael Langbaum—the baby was put through a hypothermia protocol, actually cooling her to prevent organs—at least for a short period—from metabolizing, in the hope they could get Molly breathing normally again with CPR, respirators, and transfusions.

When mother Jill awoke groggily from the anesthesia, she sensed right away something was wrong.

“She could see it in my eyes,” recalls Collerius.

Collerius and Langbaum knew that The Johns Hopkins Hospital was running trials on a new hypothermia protocol, so the decision was made to transport Molly downtown. “First and foremost, I wanted to see her before she left,” recalls Wipfield. In recovery from the C-section, her vision blurred by anesthesia and pain killers, Wipfield was nevertheless wheeled to the NICU so she could squeeze Molly’s hand to say goodbye.

“The first 72 hours were touch and go,” says Collerius. “You just have to hold your breath and see how things go.”

Molly was gradually warmed to normal body temperature and eventually could be taken off the breathing tube. “It wasn’t for another week that we knew she’d be okay.

“It’s hard to say when the abruption happened,” reflects Collerius. “But I’ve never seen an abruption that looked normal in all the tests. Molly is a miracle.”

“With all that was going on, I was on autopilot for a while,” says Wipfield, who soon followed Molly to Hopkins to be by her side. “It was much later that the gravity of what could have happened really hit me.”

And Molly today? She’s a happy, healthy, 10-month-old. She’s ahead on all her developmental milestones, teetering around rooms grasping onto furniture, forming her first words, putting dirty things in her mouth, and doing everything else babies are supposed to do.

“The only reminder for awhile was the funny haircut the doctors gave her in the NICU. It took four months to go away,” says Wipfield. “So we bought her a lot of hats.

“We were very, very lucky.”

Miracle In the Snow

Record blizzards can’t keep a good neurosurgeon down

The Baltimore-Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie was running with a skeleton crew on the night of Feb. 10—high-level adminstrators were manning the front desk—as the region bowed under the weight of the record-breaking “Snowmageddon” storm of 2010, which was piling it on after another big blizzard had hit just three days before. As the fresh white stuff added two feet in some spots, things were pretty quiet at the hospital. That is, until the arrival of patient Justin Windsor.

The 20-year-old restaurant worker was suffering from a large blood clot on the brain, which, unless treated quickly by a skilled neurosurgeon, was going to win him a toe tag for President’s Day.

Problem was, helicopters that might have flown him to Shock Trauma were grounded by the storm, and the big guns of brain surgery weren’t there—they were snowed in.

Ten miles away, neurosurgeon Dr. Clifford Solomon, 50, the hospital’s director of neurosciences, was trying to make the best of the storm in the warmth of his Severna Park home when the call came. It was 7 p.m. The message: They needed him on the case, pronto.

Easier said than done: Snow drifts that were chest-high were blocking his driveway, an obstacle even his big GMC Yukon Denali couldn’t see past. But coming to the rescue were his neighbors, Bill Gassaway and Buzz Kalafos, who, unbeknownst to him, were busy digging him out just in case he got such a call. It took them two hours to clear a narrow path for the SUV, so Solomon’s four-wheel drive beast was able to crawl onto the street, its big headlights peering warily through the blinding snow and 40 mph winds. “I was slithering around, but, amazingly, I got to Ritchie Highway,” recalls Solomon. “There wasn’t a soul on the road.” Thirty minutes later, he was at the ER.

“Despite the short staff, we got things together and rushed the patient into the OR,” says Solomon. “I turned a large flap on his head, cut out a large piece of skull, took the clot out, and closed the covering. And then he woke up.”

Solomon had treated life-threatening clots many times.

Twenty-two years ago, he was working at The Johns Hopkins Hospital where a construction foreman was transported after falling eight stories off a scaffold—with no helmet. ER staff counted him as a goner, but Solomon decided to operate on a clot in his brain right on the gurney. He was saved, and, 10 years later, showed up unannounced in Solomon’s office.

“He told me he had grandkids now. He’d tracked me down after all those years just to say thanks.”

And the cause of Justin Windsor’s head trauma? Having a bouncer slam his head into the ground after he tried to extricate a friend from a scuffle in a bar.

“They showed me [a picture of] how big the clot was, and it was ridiculous,” recalls Windsor. “If it wasn’t for Dr. Solomon and his team, I don’t know what would have happened.”

A Laying On Of Hands

Higgins is his name, extremities are his game

As an electrician, Keith Brown put strenuous demands on his hands and wrists. And that eventually resulted in ligament tears and separation of the tiny carpal bones in his left wrist joint. Then, he suffered the same injury to his suddenly overtaxed right wrist.

Brown was staring disability in the face when he met with Dr. James Higgins, chief of Union Memorial Hospital’s Curtis National Hand Center.

The novel solution Higgins and his team came up with on the right wrist—a technique pioneered by Higgins in collaboration with colleagues in Austria—was to dissect a wafer-thin piece of cartilage-bearing bone from the patient’s own knee and shape it to fit exactly into the gap created in the wrist bones by the damaged ligaments. Higgins then transferred the bone with its own small blood vessels and its own cartilage into Brown’s joint to solidly fuse the unstable wrist segment.

“Transferring not only the bone, but the bone and cartilage on the same blood vessel, may be the most exciting new development in our field,” says Higgins, 42, a Homeland resident and father of two. “Keith is the first person in the U.S. to have this procedure.”

Now, however, Higgins has been recruited into a team of top specialists—from his Curtis National Hand Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center—for a much more ambitious mission: transplanting new arms onto a young soldier hit by a roadside bomb, a blast that resulted in amputations above the elbow on one arm, and below on the other. Led by Hopkins’s Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, the group hopes to achieve the first such transplant in Maryland, but there are plenty more candidates waiting in the wings: The soldier is one of many who have lost multiple limbs, yet survived because their torsos were protected by body armor.

The team has conducted several rehearsals of the surgery on cadavers. Now, they plan to operate on the soldier as soon as a donor search is successful.

“The rehearsals are tailored to this one specific patient to make sure that when the day arrives, everything goes smoothly,” says Higgins, whose hand center has long been the training ground for U.S. Army hand surgeons.

But if you think matching a liver, heart, or kidney is tough, consider this: Matching a limb is not just about blood types, but about the race, body build, and sex of the donor.

“Lower-extremity prosthetics are pretty advanced now, but it’s the upper extremity solutions that we’re focused on,”says Higgins.

“For multiple-extremity amputees, this procedure offers a huge beacon of hope.”

A Shoulder To Cry On

Two docs solve a migraine mystery

The car accident 11 years ago didn’t seem a big deal at the time for young Cara Frye, who was fresh out of law school. She recalls that just before her car was rear-ended, she was reaching into the back seat to find her briefcase. “It was a tiny accident,” she recalls. And then it was forgotten.

Soon thereafter, though, as a freshly minted associate in a law practice, the migraines began. They started with an aura, then two hours of searing pain, and pills, of course, then a migraine hangover for two days. At first, it was once a month.

“I hadn’t had symptoms in law school,” says Frye, now 36 and living in Butchers Hill. “I figured maybe it was stress or the long hours as a first-year law associate.” Then the migraines increased to three a week.

Her search for relief included five neurologists, acupuncture, yoga, diet changes, biofeedback, and all sorts of drugs.

“The funny thing was that I sometimes had this pain in my shoulder in the morning when I woke up. And I soon became aware that if my shoulder hurt, I’d get a migraine. But when I mentioned that to doctors, they all said it was a coincidence.”

It was her internist, Dr. Francis Strain at Mercy Medical Center, who first guessed the cause. “I was in his office talking about the migraines and I said, ‘You know what, my shoulder is killing me.’ He closed the office door to reveal a chart of the body’s muscles. I pointed and said, ‘It’s that one, the blue one.'”

In June of last year, Strain referred her to Mercy orthopedist Dr. Joseph Ciotola, whose exam suggested a nerve impingement in the shoulder blade that was the apparent cause of the migraines. It very likely dated back to the car accident 11 years before and the petite lawyer’s reach into the back seat with her right arm at the moment of impact. Since then, the muscles in her shoulder had tried to compensate, tightening and forcing her shoulder forward. But Ciotola wanted a second opinion: And so off Frye went to Mercy’s Dr. David Maine, an interventional pain specialist. Maine, 35, injected the suspect nerve with a temporary painkiller, and presto: The pain went away.

Ciotola’s surgery to free the trapped nerve was three months later. “After the operation on my shoulder, there was immediate relief,” says Frye. “But I had so many muscular issues from holding my shoulder in the wrong position for so long that Dr. Ciotola referred me to a massage therapist, Salifou Ngouyamsa at Medi-Spa at Mercy.”

“I still have to remind my muscles every day where they should be,” says Frye. But before I went to Mercy, not a single person said it could be a structural issue. Why didn’t someone ask, ‘Does your neck hurt?’

“I love them both, Maine and Ciotola. It’s changed my life.”

The Eyes Have It

After 41 years, both Susan’s eyes can see again

Dateline: Inner-city Philadelphia, 1969. Nixon is president, Vietnam is going badly, racial tension is in the air, and a bunch of giggly white kids in a VW are headed home after seeing Midnight Cowboy. Among them is budding artist and college sophmore Susan Sigel (nee Shay), 19. They decide to take a shortcut through a rough part of town. “We’d just come back from Woodstock,” she recalls, “and I guess we thought everyone was full of peace and love.”

Not so much in West Philly. A passerby throws a glass bottle through the windows of the car, showering glass everywhere. Blood is pouring from Sigel’s right eye, its cornea lacerated by a shard.

Fast forward to 2010: It’s been a 41-year odyssey of pain, frustration, and false hope for Sigel. First, there was a cornea transplant. It didn’t work. Since then, there have been 13 unsuccessful surgeries. For years at a time, she gave up, waiting for technology to advance. But inspired by her brother, a successful lawyer, who, ironically, had lost an eye as a child, she, too, succeeded, as a monocular graphic artist.

But that was before she’d met GBMC ophthalmologist Dr. Sudeep Pramanik. Though trained in the U.S., he had studied difficult eye cases in India, where surgeries considered unusual here abound because of the huge population. And with the advance of stem-cell and transplant technology, those surgeries had become old hat for top eye surgeons at the two Indian hospitals where Pramanik teaches for a month each year. (“They save the most complicated cases for me,” he says with a laugh.)

Sigel, now married and living on the Eastern Shore, learned of Pramanik a year ago from a local ophthalmologist. Now 61, she hesitantly made an appointment with—yes—another eye doctor.

“I told him right away that I had lost all faith in eye doctors,” she recalls. But Pramanik, 36, eased her apprehensions. After an exam, he saw the original cornea transplant had been rejected, but that all the nerves were there for vision to be restored.

A combination of a partial cornea transplant (from a donor), stem cell therapy, and advanced contacts has given her back the nearly perfect vision that a beer bottle stole in West Philly 41 years ago.

The healing has been emotional, too, especially regarding her faith in medicine. “I believe anything Pramanik says is true,” says Sigel, almost surprising herself. “And he never patted himself on the back.

“I remember when his associate at GBMC, Dr. Brett Levinson, a lens specialist, made a final fitting for hybrid contacts for my new cornea, I wandered through the halls and into the glass lobby like I was watching a 3-D movie. I felt like I was in a fun house. There was an extra dimension to everything I hadn’t had since I was 19.”

And what’s she going to dress up as for Halloween? “I’m thinking of going as an eye chart,” she says with a laugh. 

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There are lots of reasons to love living in Baltimore, but perhaps the most reassuring is the quality of our health care, unrivaled by any city in the world. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, often considered the world’s best, finished number one in five categories of U.S. News and World Report’s 2010 rankings, and among the top five in 16 categories. The University of Maryland Medical Center had nine of its departments finish among the country’s top-50. And departments at Union Memorial, Good Samaritan, Franklin Memorial, and Mercy were also ranked among the best. The accolades are largely a result of the expert physicians in our region. In this year’s “Top Docs” package, we recognize more of them than ever­—398 in all—and in more specialties. (For the first time, we included hospitalists and nuclear medicine, among other additions.) We ask some of our “Top Docs” to describe their most noteworthy cases—the answers, as you’ll read, are fascinating. We also profile Johns Hopkins Medicine International, which caters to the 3,000 patients who come to Baltimore from abroad every year for care, and UMMC’s world-class trauma center, where life-and-death situations come at an unrelenting pace.

Addiction

Jack Wapner Wards Chapel Village, 11100 Liberty Rd., Unit F, Randallstown, 410-655-2740

Christopher Welsh UMMC, 22 S. Greene St. 410-328-3716

Allergy and Immunology

John Bacon The Professional Centre, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., Ste. 201, Towson, 410-321-0284

Jonathan Matz Chesapeake Clinical Research, 7939 Honeygo Blvd., Ste. 219, 410-931-1966

Alvin Sanico GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 200, Physicians Pavilion North, Towson, 410-583-8393

Robert A. Wood Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, CMSC-1102, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-5883

Alternative/Complementary (Physicians Only)

Brian Berman UMMC, Integrative Medicine, Kernan Hospital, 2200 Kernan Dr., 2nd Floor, 410-448-6361

Tammi Davis 9199 Reisterstown Rd., Ste. 203B, Owings Mills, 410-591-3406

Lixing Lao UMMC, Integrative Medicine, Kernan Hospital, 2200 Kernan Dr., 2nd Floor, 410-448-6361

Warren Ross Crossroads Medical Assoc., 4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 212, Ellicott City, 410-997-5191

Anesthesiology (Adult)

Peter Rock UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6933

Farid B. Amin GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2202

Harold Goll GBMC, 6701 N. Charles  St., Ste. 4226, Towson, 443-849-2002

Douglas Martz UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6120

Obi Udekwu UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6120

Mark Hamill 700 Melvin Ave., Ste. 7A, Annapolis, 410-280-2260

Lewis H. Hogge Physicians Anesthesia Associates, GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2202

John Vincent Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 443-777-7179

R. Mark Ottley Physicians Anesthesia Associates, Towson Surgical Center, 1122 Kenilworth Dr., Ste. 17, Towson, 410-337-0022

Rodger F. Oursler Northern Chesapeake Anesthesiology Associates, 500 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Bel Air, 443-643-1635

Mary Njoku UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6120

Anesthesiology (Pediatric)

Jose Dominguez GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 4226, Towson, 443-849-2202

Monique Bellefleur UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Aaron Zuckerberg Sinai Hospital, Dept. of Pediatrics, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9193

Audiology

W. Stephen Seipp The Hearing Assessment Center, Inc., 1447 York Rd. Suite 312, Lutherville, 443-275-9813

Leslie Papel 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 370, 410-486-3400

Cardiology (Adult)

James Porterfield MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates at GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Towson, 410-825-5150

Mandeep R. Mehra UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Roger Blumenthal Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Preventive Cardiology Center, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 360, Lutherville, 410-955-7376

Stephen Plantholt St. Agnes Hospital, 900 Caton Ave., 410-644-5111

Cardiology (Women)

Stacy Fisher Sinai Hospital, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., 410-653-3923

Shellee E. Nolan MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates at St. Joseph Medical Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Third Floor, 410-583-1170

Shannon J. Winakur GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Towson, 410-825-5150

The Tale of My Most Spectacular Save
Dr. Robert Montgomery, Professor of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

The problem: Where to put a kidney when there are no blood vessels to support it. Answer: Next to the liver, of course.

That was the novel solution chosen by Dr. Robert Montgomery to save the life of 43-year-old Angela Hightower, who was in renal failure after suffering blockages in nearly all her major arteries.

Sent to The Johns Hopkins Hospital from Buffalo, NY, the single mother of seven briefly lost consciousness at the Buffalo airport, recovered enough for the flight, then jumped in a cab to take her from BWI to Hopkins.

Montgomery, 50, is a professor of surgery and director of Hopkins’s Comprehensive Transplant Center. But he’s better known for his earlier five-way, simultaneous kidney swap that won him a spot in the Guinness World Records book. “My kids think that’s pretty cool,” says Montgomery, who splits his time between a loft in Fells Point and his home in Bethesda, where he lives with his four kids and wife Denyce Graves, an opera singer.

“Because of Angela’s blockages in the veins in her chest and abdomen, her blood was trying to take the back roads to get back to her heart,” explains Montgomery. And that was stressing and enlarging the smaller blood vessels.

“We put a catheter in her only remaining functional vessel, in her liver, to dialyze her [to clean her blood of toxins, usually the job of the kidneys],” says Montgomery. But there were two obstacles to the kidney transplant: “After seven pregnancies, her body had built up so many antibodies, it would have rejected a new kidney.” And there were no functioning veins in her abdomen to support a new kidney.

So Montgomery first used a number of new drugs to get her antibodies down. The kidney came from St. Louis, the last one left after a recent eight-way swap.

“Then we had to find a place to put the kidney where it would survive, so I sewed it to the portal vein in the liver, the only one that was still unclogged, which I’m not sure has been done before.” To make that work, blood vessels had to be extended, using transplanted vessels from a cadaver.

It was “touch and go” for a while, he recalls, and closing the abdomen was tough because the kidney was not in the usual place. Then there were five days on a ventilator. “But much to everyone’s amazement, it worked,” he says. And this year, in fact, it appeared on the cover of the American Journal of Transplantation.

“Angela is back in Buffalo, doing well, and raising her children,” says Montgomery. “I remember at Christmastime, all of her kids called me to say thanks.”

“I get sent crazy, difficult cases from all over the country,” he says, “but even among that group, this stood out as the most spectacular save I have done.” —Ken Iglehart

Dermatology

Mark H. Lowitt GBMC Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 315, 410-321-1195

Bernard Cohen Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Pavilion 1, Room 350, Lutherville, 410-847-3767

Irving Wolfe 21 Crossroads Dr., Owings Mills, 410-363-2320

Eating Disorders

Harry Brandt Sheppard Pratt Center Physicians Pavilion North, Ste. 300, 6535 N. Charles St., 410-938-5252

Steven Crawford Sheppard Pratt Center Physicians Pavilion North, Ste. 300, 6535 N. Charles St., 410-938-5252

Emergency Medicine

Michael Pipkin Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Sq. Dr., 443-777-7046

John Wogan GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2226

Brian Browne UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-8025

Steven Bentman Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, 500 Upper Chesapeake Dr.,       Bel Air, 443-643-1000

Fermin Barrueto Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, 500 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Bel Air, 443-643-1000

Endocrinology (Diabetes, Thyroid)

Thomas Donner Johns Hopkins, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-502-0089

James Mersey Bay West Endocrinology Assoc., 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 400, 410-828-7417

Marie Bellantoni Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9101 Franklin Sq. Dr., Ste. 214, 443-777-6351

Reproductive Endocrinology

Eugene Katz GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, 410-512-8300

Samuel Smith Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9105 Franklin Sq. Dr., Ste. 316, 443-777-7831

Family Practice

Sarah F. Whiteford GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2707

Richard Colgan UMMC, 29 S. Paca St., 410-328-8792

Kevin S. Ferentz UMMC, 29 S. Paca St., 410-328-8792

Yvette Rooks UMMC, 29 S. Paca St., 410-328-8792

Joseph Zebley (concierge physician) 2 Hamill Rd., Ste. 222, 443-524-4481

Dr. Victor Madrid Seton Medical Group, 700 Geipe Rd., 410-368-8750

The Tale Of My Most Surprising Diagnosis
Dr. Neal Naff, St. Joseph and Sinai Hospitals 

So what do you tell the anxious family in the waiting room when their loved one has worms in her brain? If you’re Dr. Neal Naff, you more tactfully use the Latin. But in this case, it was good news.

The 69-year-old woman had arrived at the emergency room at St. Joseph Medical Center in 2008 after suffering a seizure.

The fact that it was her first one prompted doctors to order a CT scan of her head, which came back abnormal, as did an MRI.

“The concern,” says Naff, 45, who holds the distinction of being chief of neurosurgery at both St. Joseph and Sinai Hospitals, “was that she had a malignant brain tumor, most likely because of her age, which would be a devastating diagnosis.”

“We had to operate to confirm a diagnosis, which we did four days later. We were using a sophisticated navigation system to get to the tumor, and the surgery was going well, and I was very much expecting to find a brain tumor. But as soon as I located the ‘tumor,’ I knew right away it was unusual.

“The growth was cystic in nature, with gelatin inside, and when I opened it, you could see little objects in there. I knew this was something I’d only read about in textbooks, a parasitic disease.”

A quick test by pathology confirmed his suspicion: “Yes, this is a worm,” the lab said, known as echinococcosis, or sheepherder’s disease.

“Although gross, maybe, the good news was that it’s very treatable,” says Naff.

After the operation, Naff asked the patient, “Were you ever on a sheep farm?” She said yes: She grew up on a sheep farm in Greece as a child. Naff suspects she contracted it from eating contaminated meat or handling sheep. “Even in Greece, it’s rare,” he says.

“But it was such good news to go out and tell the family. Of course, you don’t want to say  ‘worms,’ but ‘a parasitic disease called echinococcosis.’ But the important thing is we can treat it completely. And they were delighted.”

“I trained seven years in neurosurgery at Hopkins and had never seen it there,” says Naff, who lives in Cedarcroft. “Just based on the rarity of problem, it’s got to be my most unusual case.” —Ken Iglehart

Gastroenterology/Hepatology

Harold Tucker Falls Concourse, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 303, Lutherville, 410-583-2630

Bruce Greenwald UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., Ste. N3-W62, 800-492-5538

Frederick Christian Hansen III Falls Concourse, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 303, Lutherville, 410-583-2630

David M. Cromwell Falls Concourse, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 401, Lutherville, 410-583-2920

Mark Diamond Franklin Square Hospital, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 308, 410-574-5877

Genetics

Clair Francomano GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 2326, 443-849-3131

Carol L. Greene UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., Ste. N5W40, 410-328-3335

Geriatrics

W. Anthony Riley GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 4105, 443-849-3184

F. Michael Gloth III Johns Hopkins Bayview, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Cir., 410-550-0925

Gynecology

Harry W. Johnson, Jr. UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6640

Andrew London 1300 York Rd., Bldg. A, Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-296-5863

Ginny Merryman GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 501, 410-938-8960

Emma Zargarian GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 501, 410-828-8367

Adelmo Marana St. Joseph Medical Center, 7600 Osler Dr., Ste. 202, Towson, 410-821-7188

Carol E. Ritter GBMC West Pavilion Bldg., 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 611, Towson, 410-296-2557

Neil B. Rosenshein Mercy Medical Center, 227 St. Paul Place, 6th Floor, 410-332-9200

Gyn. Oncology

Francis Grumbine GBMC, 6569 N.Charles St., Physicians Pavilion West, Ste. 306, 443-849-2765

Neil Rosenshein Mercy Medical Center The Gynecology Center at The Weinberg Center, 227 St. Paul Place, 6th Floor, 410-332-9200

Fouad Abbas Harbor Hospital, 3001 S. Hanover St., 410-350-3686

Hematology/Oncology

Gary Cohen GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 205, 443-849-3051

Kevin Cullen UMMC, 22. S. Greene St., 410-328-7904

John Nesbitt 200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 351, 410-235-4777

Paul Celano GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 205, 443-849-3051

Robert Donegan GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 205, 443-849-3051

Aaron Rapoport UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-1230

Hospitalist

Fred Chan GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 308, 443-849-8046

Chaitanya Ravi LifeBridge Health, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9355

Infectious Diseases

Charles Haile St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 404, Towson, 410-337-7097

Richard Berg 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 450, Lutherville, 410-583-2711

Intensivists/Critical Care

Mitchell L. Schwartz GBMC Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, 410-494-1662

Stephen R. Selinger Franklin Square Hospital Center, Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Cancer Center, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 300, 410-682-5282

Linda Barr St. Joseph Medical Center, O’Dea Professional Building, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 410, 410-321-5651

Jason M. Birnbaum Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates, 602 S. Atwood Rd., Bel Air, 410-638-7544

Internal Medicine

Louis Domenici UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Thomas F. Lansdale III (concierge physician) 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 500, 410-296-4181

Harry W. Kaplan (concierge physician) 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 290, 410-653-0073

Charles R. Graham, Jr. 1001 Pine Heights Ave., Ste. 300, 410-646-5470

Louis Malinow 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 290, 410-484-6248

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Anadir Silva Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Sq. Dr., 443-777-7509

Pedro Arrabal Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6370

Michael Lantz St. Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., 410-368-2523

Claire Weitz GBMC, Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, 443-849-2568

The Tale Of My Most Mysterious Case
Dr. Melissa Sparrow, Greater Baltimore Medical Center 

It was a subtle change in the newborn’s cry that led to a new diagnosis—and saved the life of a baby girl. 

Two-month-old Piper was brought to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center ER in March and admitted after her mother noticed she wasn’t feeding well. Yet there was no hint of trouble in the baby’s vital signs. Perhaps it was her reaction to a vaccination the day before. Or maybe, an ER physician thought, it was sepsis, a severe illness in which bacteria overwhelms the bloodstream.

Dr. Melissa Sparrow, GBMC’s director of pediatrics, came on duty at dawn the next morning.She firmly believes that “a good nurse is like the eyes and ears of a doctor.” And it was, indeed, a sharp nurse, Maryellen Helton, who alerted Sparrow that Piper seemed worse—it was the tone of her cry: “You’d better come in here and hear this,” Helton told her. “And she was right,” Sparrow says. “The baby’s cry had turned to a puny little sound.”

A quick exam by Sparrow revealed that Piper’s pupils were dilated and she had become hypotonic—her tiny muscles and joints felt limp. “With the vital signs being okay, this was completely bizarre,” says Sparrow. But after a CT scan came back normal, Sparrow started to rethink the case: “What could change this kid neurologically and have other vital signs be normal?” she asked herself.

The clue was in the cry; It was caused by weakness in the larynx and respiratory muscles that control the vocal chords, just one of the signs Piper’s muscles were being weakened. Sparrow’s conclusion: infant botulism, a rare condition that attacks the neuron synapses that direct the muscles in the body, including those needed to eat or breathe.

Fearful that her tiny charge might get too weak to breathe before an antidote could be made in a California lab, Sparrow had Piper rushed to the pediatric intensive care unit at

Sinai Hospital, with which GBMC works closely. Piper was successfully stabilized until the antidote arrived. That took until the next day, but seemed like an eternity to Piper’s mother, Sarah Bregel. “I was so happy when it got there and they started giving it to her through her IV,” she says. “I texted everyone in my phone, ‘It’s here!’”

Says the 45-year-old physician, herself a mother of two, “I’ve personally only seen one other case in my life.” —Ken Iglehart

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Howard Birenbaum GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-489-2792

Fernando Mena Franklin Square Hospital, 9000 Franklin Sq. Dr., 443-777-7748

Thomas P. O’Brien Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5217

Rose Viscardi UM Hospital for Children 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6003

Nephrology

Jeffrey Posner Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 245, 410-602-7792

Khalid al-Talib Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9103 Franklin Sq. Dr., Ste. 301, 443-777-6540

Stephen Zemel Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, 808 Landmark Dr., Ste. 116, Glen Burnie, 410-760-3588

Mary T. “Tessie” Behrens Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, 516 N. Rolling Rd., Ste. 107, Catonsville, 410-744-0890

Hyung “Dave” Lim Nephrology Center of Maryland, 520 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Ste. 312, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air 443 643-4680

Neurology

Howard Moses GBMC, 1205 York Rd., Lutherville-Timonium, 410-494-0191

Jerold Fleishman Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 2nd Floor, Neurology, 443-777-7320

Howard Weiss LifeBridge Health, Morton Mower, MD Medical Office Bldg., 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 202, 410-367-7600

Bruce Rabin Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-616-7188 and Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 370, Lutherville, 410-616-7188

Nuclear Medicine

Gabriel Soudry Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Sq. Dr., 443-777-7492

Ethan Spiegle Advanced Radiology, St. Agnes Healthcare, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-2819

Obstetrics

Deborah Hebb GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 500, 443-849-6090

Nicola London 1576 Merritt Blvd., Ste. 16, 410-650-2191 Victor Khouzami GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2568

Ginny Merryman GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 501, 410-938-8960

Clair Weitz GBMC, Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St. 443-849-2568

Occupational Medicine

Scott Brown Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6585

Ophthalmology

Allan D. Jensen 200 East 33rd St., Ste. 426, 410-235-1133

Marc A. Honig 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 310, Owings Mills, 410-581-1500

John Minkowski GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 706, 410-583-8828

Mary Louise Collins GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, Ste. 505, 6569 N. Charles St., 443-849-8082

Marcos T. Doxanas 6231 N. Charles St., 410-377-2044

George W. Duncan MD Eyecare, 1220A East Joppa Rd., Ste. 110, Towson, 410-828-5558

Dean Glaros Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, 10700 Charter Dr., Columbia, 410-910-2330

Edward J. Goldman 25 Crossroads Dr., Owings Mills, 443-394-6400

Robert Loeb 1105 N. Point Blvd., #323 410-282-5544

Alan Robin Mid-Atlantic Glaucoma Specialists, Lake Falls Professional Bldg., 6115 Falls Rd., 410-377-2422

Charles Wilkinson GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, Ste. 505, 6569 N. Charles St., 443-849-2196

Orthopedics, Foot and Ankle

Lew Schon Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2891

Jeffrey T. Brodie Towson Orthopaedic Associates, 8322 Bellona Ave., Towson, 410-337-7900

Mark S. Myerson Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., 410-659-2800

Stuart D. Miller Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-67530

Orthopedics, General

Stewart Koehler Orthopaedic Specialists of Maryland, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606, 410-583-0160

Frank J. Frassica Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-502-2698

Leslie Matthews Greater Chesapeake Orthopaedic Associates, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2865

Orthopedics, Hand

Stacey Berner Advanced Centers for Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Med., 10 Crossroads Dr., Owings Mills, 410-484-8088

Keith Segalman National Hand Specialists at Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 2nd Floor, 410-235-5405

W. Andrew Eglseder UMMC, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Michael McClinton National Hand Specialists at Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 2nd Floor, 410-235-5405

Thoms Brushart The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-9663

James Higgins 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-296-6232

Neal B. Zimmerman 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-296-6232

Orthopedics, Joint Replacement

Leroy M. Schmidt GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606, 410-583-0160

Frank Ebert Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 410-554-2850

Orthopedics, Spine

Steven C. Ludwig UM Spine Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-448-6400

Daniel Gelb UM Spine Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-448-6400

Paul Asdourian Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2867

Myles D. Brager Advanced Centers for Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 210, Owings Mills 410-484-8088

Charles A. Hartjen Greater Baltimore Spine Care, 1 Texas Station Ct., Ste. 300, Timonium, 410-683-7260

The Tale Of My Most Ironic Cure
Dr. Scott E. Strome, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Who does Jazzy the boxer puppy have to thank for his next birthday? In large part, Dr. Scott E. Strome, a cancer surgeon more accustomed to healing humans. And thanks to Strome, his owner is a lucky dog, too.

It was at a Bar Mitzvah that Strome ran into a friend, veterinarian Jonathan Kaufman. Kaufman had a rare case: A cancerous tumor in the left cheek of a puppy. He planned to operate to remove the tumor, but asked Strome, who is chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, for his help in the operation.

“I thought about it, and said ‘Sure,’” Strome says. “I have two dogs of my own at home, and the night before the operation, I’m looking them over trying to figure out how to do a maxillectomy [removal of cheek bone] on a dog.”

The next day at Eastern Animal Hospital, Kaufman had the anesthesia going, and Strome took the lead in the tumor removal. (Both had volunteered their time.) “I remember I was kind of amused because I’m waiting to be passed instruments when I ask for them, and Dr. Kaufman says, ‘Sorry, this is a vet’s office. Nobody’s going to hand you anything. You have to get your own scalpel.’

“Anyway, the operation went smoothly, but I was struck by the differences between animal and people hospitals. For a person after such an operation, they’d be on a feeding tube and their vital signs monitored for three to five days in the hospital. So I call up the vet the next day and ask, ‘How’s Jazzy?’

“‘Oh, I sent her home with instructions for a soft diet and no chewy toys,’ Dr. Kaufman replied. I thought that was hilarious,” says Strome.

But it was immediately after the operation that the plot thickened: “Jonathan introduced me to the owners, the Budreskis, and I noticed that on Charles Budreski’s face was what looked like skin cancer. I said, ‘You should really come into the clinic to get it checked out.’”

Budreski, 63, of Southeast Baltimore, came into Strome’s office two weeks later. Strome took his history, realized he was a longtime smoker, then noticed something else: An early lesion in his tonsil.

“I told him I was less concerned about the skin cancer and more worried about the tonsil cancer.

A biopsy confirmed it was cancer, but because it had been caught so early, it was treatable. After 33 radiation treatments over several weeks at UMMC, Budreski was on the mend. “Basically, his dog saved his life,” says Strome.

And Jazzy? “She would have died, but she’s doing great now,” he says. “Her face is a little asymmetrical [because of the tissue and bone removed on the left side], but she’s growing fine. So the patient’s doing well and the dog is doing well.” —Ken Iglehart

Pictured: Veterinarian Dr. Kaufman, left, patient Budreski, and Dr. Strome with the healthy boxer.

Otolaryngology

Andrew Goldstone Ear, Nose, & Throat Assoc. at GBMC, Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, 410-821-5151

Karl Diehn Ear, Nose, & Throat Associates at GBMC, Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, 410-821-5151

Jeffrey Wolf UMMC, 16 S. Eutaw St. 410-328-6866

Pain Management/Chronic Pain

Ibrahim Elsamanoudi Union Memorial Hospital, 200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 425, 410-554-6497

Gabriel A. Martinez-Geigel 9106 Old Philadelphia Rd., Ste. 306, also Mercy Hospital, 301 St. Paul Pl., POB 311 410-687-2656

Ross Sugar Baltimore Neurosurgery and Spine Center, 5051 Greenspring Ave., 410-664-3680

Palliative Medicine

Timothy J. Keay UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Danielle Doberman GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste 4105., 443-849-6255

W. Anthony Riley GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 4105, 443-849-3184 Also medical director of Gilchrist Hospice Care.

Pathology

James Eagan St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-1720

Edward F. McCarthy Johns Hopkins, Weinberg 2261, 401 N. Broadway, 410-614-3653

Howard L. Siegel GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2247

Jerry J. Marty Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9000 Franklin Sq. Dr., 443-777-7198

Kris M. Shekitka HCT Pathology, 900 S. Caton Ave., 888-413-8860

Pediatric Allergy

Kenneth Schuberth Pediatric Consultants, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393

Mary Beth Bollinger UM Hospital for Children, 22 S. Greene St., 410-706-2443

Anupama Kewalramani UM Hospital for Children, 22 S. Greene St., 410-706-2443

Pediatrics, Cardiology

Peter Gaskin UM Hospital for Children 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6749

Janet Scheel Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-6666

Joel Brenner Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-6666

Charlotte Glicksman Children’s Hospital at Sinai, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9193

Geoffrey Rosenthal UM Hospital for Children 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6749

Philip Spevak Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-5987

Pediatrics, Endocrine

Debra Counts UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-3410

Leslie Plotnick David M. Rubenstein Child Health Bldg., Rm. 3120, 200 N. Wolfe St., 410-614-2359

Judith McLaughlin Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 205, 410-601-8331

Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine

Melissa Sparrow GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2780

Donald Jenkins St. Agnes Healthcare, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-2011

Richard Lichenstein UM Hospital for Children 600 W. Lombard St., 410-328-2079

Allen R. Walker Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-6143

Keyvan Rafei UM Hospital for Children 600 W. Lombard St., 410-328-2079

Pediatrics, General

Timothy Doran GBMC, Physicians Pavilion East, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 306, 443-849-6444

James E. Fragetta Maryland Pediatric Group, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393

Ralph Brown 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-578-8301

Travis Ganunis 10755 Falls Rd., Lutherville, 410-583-2955

Virginia Keane UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 443-682-6610

Pediatrics, GI

Kalpana Murthy Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407, 410-601-8663

David Tuchman LifeBridge Health, Morton Mower, M.D. Office Building, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407, 410-601-4842

Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology

Teresa York UMMC Greenbaum Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-2808

Joseph Wiley Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5864

Pediatrics, Hospitalist

Joanne Lanzo Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5866

Elizabeth A. Fronc Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 301 Hospital Dr., Glen Burnie, 410-787-4618

Pediatrics, Neurology

Edward Gratz Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 32, 410-601-8300

Jack Gladstein UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-706-6091

Harvey Singer Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 601 N. Caroline St., 5th floor, 410-955-4259

Pediatrics, Neurosurgery

Benjamin Carson Johns Hopkins Hospital, Harvey Bldg., Room 811, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-7888

George Jallo Johns Hopkins Hospital, Harvey Bldg., Room 811 600 N. Wolfe St. 410-955-7851

Edward Ahn Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 5th floor, 410-502-7700

Pediatrics, Orthopedics

Paul Sponseller Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., 5th floor, 410-955-3136, ext. 3

John Herzenberg Sinai Hospital Schoeneman Building, 2nd Floor, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9555

Andrew Abramowitz, Kernan Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Kernan Hospital, 2200 Kernan Dr., 410-448-6450, Also practices in Mt. Airy

Pediatrics, Psychiatry

Stuart Varon Johns Hopkins, 2324 W. Joppa Rd., Ste. 420, Lutherville, 410-583-1859

Peter Kahn Private practice at Sheppard Pratt, 6501 N. Charles St., Towson, 410-938-4627

William C. Wimmer 120 Sister Pierre Dr., Ste. 307, Towson, Also affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital and UMMC, 410-821-7155

Pediatrics, Pulmonary

Anayansi Lasso-Pirot UM Hospital for Children, 22 S. Greene St., 800-706-2443

Laura Sterni Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, Director, Sleep/ Breathing Disorders Clinic, 1708 W. Rogers Ave., 410-955-2035

Pediatrics, Surgery

James Buck GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 305, 443-849-6201

Eric Strauch UMMC, various locations, 410-328-2594

Roger Voight UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation

Gayle Schwartz Union Memorial Hospital 1920 Greenspring Dr., Ste. 125, Timonium, 410-308-4900

Scott Brown Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6585

Martin Z. Kanner 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 325, Pikesville, 410-486-0927

Peter H. Gorman Kernan Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, 2200 Kernan Dr., 410-448-2500

Gabriel A. Martinez-Geigel 9106 Philadelphia Rd., #306, 410-687-2656

Michael Shear Union Memorial Hospital 1920 Greenspring Dr., Ste. 125, Timonium, 410-308-4900

Francisco Ward St. Agnes Hospital, 3350 Wilkens Ave., Ste. 101, 410-644-8500

Mark Young Johns Hopkins Hospital and others, 5430 Campbell Blvd., Ste. 205, 410-933-8800

The Tale Of My Most Gratifying Outcome
Dr. Joe Wiley, Sinai Hospital 

For 14-year-old Matthew Costello, son of WMAR-TV news anchor Jamie Costello, the first sign that something was not right was the double vision. 

A subsequent scan showed a cancerous germinoma tumor lodged in the brain stem near the pituitary gland.

The TV host and his wife Donna, a post-operative care nurse at Union Memorial Hospital, traveled up and down I-95 in search of the right treatment for Matthew—from The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to Cornell University Medical College in New York.

But on the advice of a friend, they finally consulted late last year with Dr. Joseph Wiley, who is chairman of Sinai’s Department of Pediatrics and interim medical director of Sinai’s Cancer Institute.

There were a couple of different strategies in treating the cancer, Wiley says, but curative

surgery was not one of them, because of where the tumor was lodged. “Germinoma is sensitive

to radiation therapy, but you need a pretty intensive dose,” he says. “And that intensity can cause significant long-term side effects to growth hormones, because it’s really close to the pituitary gland. And it can injure the brain, causing cognition and learning problems—all not very nice.”

Instead, Wiley chose a treatment relying mostly on chemotherapy, “which can reduce, shrink, or melt the tumor with fewer side effects,” followed by smaller doses of more focused radiation.

Wiley describes Matthew as a “quiet, bright, sophisticated kid” who is into sports, and they bonded on the topic of baseball, which Wiley had played as a kid. He lost his hair during the treatment, of course, but was a pretty good sport about the ordeal, says Wiley. “Having no hair was kind of a flashy new punk look for him—I think he actually got into it.”

Now back in Loyola Blakefield High School full time and resuming a little baseball and golf in the spring, Matthew is on the mend.

“I treat a lot of people with potentially fatal cancers, and they usually don’t die. But I got tremendous gratification from this case,” says Wiley, who lives with his wife, a medical technologist, and college-aged daughter in Phoenix. He was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from the Hyundai car company for a study on the effects of cancer on families. “His parents were phenomenal advocates.”

 “I gave them a lot, but often these kids and their families give us even more than we give them.” —Ken Iglehart

Podiatry

Vincent Martorana Podiatry Associates, Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9105 Franklin Sq. Dr., Suite 206, 410-574-3900

John Senatore Union Podiatry Group 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 550, 410-243-1313

Zachary Chattler Johns Hopkins, Good Samaritan, 10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 265, Lutherville, 410-583-2877

Bradley Lamm Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9555

Victor Tritto Podiatry Associates GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Physicians Pavillion West, Ste. 702, 410-828-5420

Psychiatry

Paul McClelland St. Agnes Hospital Center, 900 Caton Ave., MB 198 SAH, 410-368-2737

Kim Solberg Bay Counseling Center, 2107 Laurel Bush Rd., Ste. 209, 410-569-5000

Mark Komrad Sheppard Prattt, UMMC, Johns Hopkins, 222 Bosley Ave., Ste. A-3 Towson, 410-494-4411

Abdul Malik Psychiatry Associates of Maryland, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., Ste. 403, 410-823-6408, ext. 11

Pulmonary

Mitchell Schwartz Pulmonary & Critical Care Assoc. of Baltimore GBMC Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, 410-494-1662

Steven Schonfeld Pulmonary & Critical Care Assoc. of Baltimore, Ste. 420 1838 Greene Tree Rd. 410-484-9595

Dennis Smith St. Agnes Hospital, 3449 Wilkens Ave., Ste. 207, 410-644-5112

Breast Radiology

Judy Destouet Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassaador Rd., 443-436-1114

Joan Berkowitz American Radiology Services, LifeBridge Health, 21 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 120, Owings Mills, 410-298-0458

Cecilia Brennecke American Radiology Services, Johns Hopkins University, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 440, Pavilion I, Lutherville, 410-583-2700

Hardeep Rosy Singh Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassaador Rd., 443-436-1114

General Diagnostic Radiology

Charles White UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-888-8823

Charles I. Weiner Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassaador Rd., 443-436-1114

Jade J. Wong-You-Cheong UMMC, 22 S. Greene St. , 410-328-5700

Lee Goodman Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassaador Rd. 443-436-1114

Barry Daly UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-328-5700

John Carrino The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Radiology, 601 N. Caroline St., JHOC Room, 5168, 443-287-6032

Radiation Oncology

Albert Blumberg Radiation Oncology Healthcare, GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2540

Richard Hudes St. Agnes Hospital Cancer Center, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-2965

William Regine UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6080

Mohan Suntha UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6080

Eva Zinreich GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2540

Cengiz Aygun RadAmerica, Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9105 Franklin  Sq. Dr., Ste. 100, 410-682-6800

Rheumatology (Adult)

Howard Hauptman Franklin Square Hospital Center, 1220B E. Joppa Rd., Ste. 310, Towson, 410-494-1888

Peter Holt Good Samaritan Hospital, Johns Hopkins, 5601 Loch Raven Blvd., Russell Morgan Building, Ste. 509, 443-444-4840

Rheumatology (Pediatric)

Stephen W. George UMMC, 4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ellicott City, 410-992-7440

Edward Sills Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, 200 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-6145

Sleep Specialist

Brian Bohner The Sleep Center at GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, 410-494-1662

Steven Scharf UMMC Sleep Disorders Center, 16 S. Eutaw St. 410-706-4771

Jason Marx Sleep Disorders Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, O’Dea Professional Building, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651

Sports Medicine

Teri Metcalf McCambridge Towson Orthopaedic Assoc., Ruxton Professional Center, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, Towson 410-337-7900, ext. 1236

Andrew Tucker Union Memorial Hospital 1407 York Rd., Ste. 100-A 410-821-8062

William Howard Union Memorial Hospital 3333 N. Calvert St., 2nd Floor, 410-554-6868

Samuel Matz Advanced Centers for Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 210, Owings Mills, 410-484-8088

Urology

Ronald Tutrone Chesapeake Urology Associates, GBMC, McDonogh Crossroads, 21 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 200, Owings Mills, 410-581-1600

Bruce Berger Chesapeake Urology Associates, 21 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 200, Owings Mills, 410-581-1600

Michael Naslund UMMC, 22 S. Greene St. 410-328-0800

Surgical specialties

Bariatric Surgery

Mark D. Kligman The UM Center for Weight Management and Wellness, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-8940

Kuldeep Singh 7625 Maple Lawn Blvd., Ste. 145, Fulton, 301-490-2193

David von Rueden Center for Metabolic Health & Weight Mgmt. 700 Geipe Rd., Ste. 274, Catonsville, 410-368-3003

Peter Liao GBMC, Physicians Pavilion North I, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 125, 443-849-3779

Andrew Averbach 700 Geipe Rd., Ste. 274, Catonsville 410-368-8725

Breast Surgery

Lauren Schnaper GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3105, 443-849-2600

Neil Friedman Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Place, 5th Floor, 410-332-9330

Michael Schultz St. Joseph Medical Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Building A, Ste. 205, Towson, 410-427-5510

Cardiac Surgery

Bartley P. Griffith UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., Ste. N4W94, 800-492-5538 410-328-5842

Stewart Finney St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Ste. 255, Towson, 410-337-1783

Duke E. Cameron Johns Hopkins Cardiac Surgery, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 618, 410-955-2698

Jamie Brown UMMC, Maryland Heart Center, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Colorectal Surgery

Debra Vachon Colon Rectal Surgical Associates, Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Professional Office Building, 7th Floor 410-332-9356

George Y. Apostolides Baltimore Colorectal, GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 445, 410-494-1191

General Surgery

Frank Steven Rotolo GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Physicians Pavilion North, Ste. 510, 410-821-6260

Viney R. Setya 3421 Benson Ave., Ste. 210, 410-368-2700

J. Lawrence Fitzpatrick Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Ste. C304, 410-332-9265

Laurence H. Ross GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Physicians Pavilion North I, Ste. 510, 410-821-6260

Adrian Park UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6187

Hepato-Biliary Surgery

Mark H. Fraiman St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-427-2024

John Cameron Johns Hopkins Cancer Clinic, 600 N. Wolfe St., Room 679, 410-955-5166

Richard Mackey St. Joseph Medical 7505 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-427-2024

Benjamin Philosophe UMMC Maryland Transplant Center, 29 S. Greene St., Rm. 200, 410-328-5408

Neurosurgery

Reginald J. Davis Greater Baltimore Neurological Associates, GBMC, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 600, 443-849-4270

Neal J. Naff Chesapeake Neurosurgery, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 360, 410-486-0090

E. Francois Aldrich UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., S12D09B, 410-328-0937

Orthopedic Oncology

Albert J. Aboulafia LifeBridge Health Lapidus Cancer Institute, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9266

Frank J. Frassica Johns Hopkins, 601 N. Caroline St., Ste. 5215, 410-502-2698

Surgical Oncology, General

Mukund S. Didolkar Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 1st Floor, 410-601-8317

Nader Hanna UMMC Greenebaum Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-7320

H. Richard Alexander Jr. UMMC Greenebaum Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-7320

Surgical Oncology, Head and Neck

John R. Saunders Johns Hopkins Head and Neck Center at GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 401, 443-849-8940

Patrick Ha Johns Hopkins Head and Neck Center at GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 401, 443-849-8940

Scott Strome UMMC Greenebaum Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6866

Rodney J. Taylor UMMC Greenebaum Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6866

Anthony P. Tufaro Johns Hopkins Plastic Surgery, 601 N. Caroline St., 8th Floor, 410-955-9846

Jeffrey Wolf UMMC Greenebaum Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6866

Oral Maxillofacial Surgery

Robert A. Ord UM Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Assoc., 650 W. Baltimore St., Ste. 1401, 410-706-6195

Daniel I. Fried 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 200, Owings Mills, 410-363-7780

Pediatric General Surgery

James R. Buck GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 305, Towson, 443-849-6201

Eric Strauch UM Hospital for Children, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-5730

Roger Voigt UM Hospital for Children, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-5730

Plastic Reconstructive (Not Cosmetic) Surgery

Paul N. Manson Johns Hopkins Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 601 N. Caroline St., Rm. 8152F, 410-955-9469

Sheri Slezak UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538, 410-328-2360

Bernard Chang Cosmetic Medicine UMMC, 22 S. Greene St. 410-328-2360

Ronald P. Silverman UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-2360

Retina and Vitreous Surgery

Edward J. Goldman 25 Crossroads Dr., Owings Mills, 443-394-6400

Charles P. Wilkinson GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 505, 443-849-2196

Thoracic Surgery

Richard Battafarano UMMC, 22 S. Greene St. 410-328-6366

Neri M. Cohen GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 701, 443-849-3470

Daniel Harley Franklin Square Hospital Center, 9103 Franklin Sq. Dr., Ste. 309, 410-686-5887

Mark Krasna St. Joseph Medical Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-427-2220

Transplant Specialists

Benjamin Philosophe UMMC Maryland Transplant Center, 29 S. Greene St., Rm. 200, 410-328-5408

Stephen Bartlett UMMC Maryland Transplant Center 29 S. Greene St., Rm. N4E40, 410-328-5408

Robert A. Montgomery Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-502-6152

Trauma Specialists

Thomas M. Scalea UMMC R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-8667

Deborah Stein UMMC R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-8667

Urology, Surgery

Ronald Tutrone Chesapeake Urology Associates, GBMC Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., Suite 625, 410-825-5454

Bruce Berger Chesapeake Urology Associates, 21 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 200, Owings Mills, 410-581-1600

Daniel D. Dietrick Chesapeake Urology Associates, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 202, Towson, 410-825-6310

Brad D. Lerner Chesapeake Urology Associates , Union Memorial Hospital 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 600, 410-467-7665

Michael Naslund UMMC, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538

Marc Siegelbaum St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 506, Towson, 410-296-0167

Vascular Surgery

Peter Golueke Vascular Surgery Associates, Physicians Pavilion West, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 708, 410-825-4928

David P. Coll GBMC, Physicians Pavilion West, 6569 N. Charles St.,  Ste. 701, 410-512-8686

Marshall E. Benjamin Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 301 Hospital Dr., Glen Burnie, 410-553-8300

Peter Mackrell Vascular Surgery Associates, GBMC, Sinai Hospital, 2411 Belvedere Ave., Ste. 301, 410-601-0500

Rajabrata Sarkar UMMC, 22 S. Greene St. 800-492-5538

Roger E. Schneider Vascular Surgery Associates, Upper Chesapeake Hospital, 520 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Ste. 306, 410-879-2006

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This year, as we prepared our annual survey of the region’s best doctors, more Americans have been thinking about health care than at any time in recent history. The debate over health-care reform has caused many of us to reflect on our physical and mental well-being, our national values, and the way medicine is practiced and paid for in America. We decided to tackle the issue head-on, inviting important local players in the health-care reform debate—including Sen. Ben Cardin and the CEOs of several hospitals and health systems in the region, along with doctors, nurses, and public policy experts—to discuss the issue in our offices. The result is a wide-ranging roundtable that goes far beyond the talking points you’re likely to hear on the evening news. There are also features on Dr. Anthony Gaspari, the University of Maryland dermatologist who treated the Indonesian “Tree-Man,” and the Penn North Neighborhood Center, which has had tremendous success using acupuncture to treat addicts referred from the city’s drug courts. Those stories, plus interviews with several “Top Docs,” give the survey appropriate context in a year when managing health is on everyone’s mind.

Following are our 2009 Top Doctors as selected by their peers. The physician’s age follows each name if he or she provided it.

ADDICTION

Marc J. Fishman, 49, Mountain Manor Treatment Center, 3800 Frederick Ave., 410-233-1400.

Jack L. Wapner, 59, 11100 Liberty Rd., Wards Chapel Village, Ste. F, Randallstown, 410-655-2740.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

John R. Bacon, 60, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., Ste. 201, Towson, 410-321-0284.

David Golden, 56, 7939 Honeygo Blvd. No. 219, White Marsh. 410-931-0404.

Jonathan Matz, 47, 7939 Honeygo Blvd. No. 219, White Marsh. 410-931-0404.

ALTERNATIVE/COMPLEMENTARY

Brian M. Berman, 58, University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, Kernan Hospital, 2200 Kernan Dr., 410-448-6361.

Mark A. Young, 49, 4000 Old Court Rd., Ste. 105, 410-602-6272; 5430 Campbell Blvd. Ste. 205, White Marsh. 410-933-8800.

ANESTHESIOLOGY, ADULT

Richard Shapiro, 55, Parkway Anesthesiologists, 201 E. University Pkwy., 410-554-6559.

John A. Ulatowski, 55, Johns Hopkins, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 1415, 410-955-8408.

Kelvin M. Yee, 44, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5209.

ANESTHESIOLOGY, PEDIATRIC

Anne Savarese, 52, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., S11C00, 410-328-6033.

Aaron Zuckerberg, 51, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., B-4, 410-601-9193.

CARDIOLOGY, ADULT

Ernest Arnett, 63, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-7670.

R. Michael Benitez, 48, University of Maryland, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538.

Benjamin V. DuBois, 56, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 535, Pikesville, 410-653-3923.

Stacy Fisher, 39, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 535, Pikesville, 410-653-3923.

Warren Israel, 62, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 535, Pikesville, 410-653-3923.

Stephen J. Mason, 63, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 209, Rosedale, 410-484-9520.

Stephen Plantholt, 58, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 3449 Wilkens Ave., Ste. 300, 410-644-5111.

James Porterfield, age n/a, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 600, Towson, 410-825-5150.

Jonathon Safren, 56, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 3449 Wilkens Ave., Ste. 300, 410-644-5111.

CARDIOLOGY/WOMEN

Shellee Nolan, age n/a, 7501 Osler Dr., 3rd Floor, Towson, 410-583-1170.

Dawn Kershner, 39, MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 500, 410-366-5600.

Wendy Post, 44, 110 W. Timonium Rd., Timonium, 410-308-7170.

DERMATOLOGY

Regina Anderson, age n/a, 4100 N. Charles St., Ste. 114, 410-889-7600.

Bernard A. Cohen, 58, Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Pavilion I, Ste. 350, Lutherville, 410-847-3767.

Barbara Honig, 45, 1777 Reisterstown Rd., Ste. 108, Pikesville. 410-580-2880.

Mark H. Lowitt, 47, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 315, 410-321-1195.

ENDOCRINOLOGY

David S. Cooper, 60, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1830 E. Monument St., Ste. 333, 410-955-9270.

Paul W. Ladenso, 61, Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-9270.

William Valente, 61, Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-2883.

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Eugene Katz, 54, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, Pavilion West, Towson, 410-512-8300.

Samuel Smith, 54, Franklin Square Hospital, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 316, 443-777-7831.

EATING DISORDERS

Harry Brandt, 51, Center for Eating Disorders, Physicians Pavilion North, Ste. 300, 6535 N. Charles St., Towson, 410-938-5252.

Angela Guarda, 46, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer Building, Rm. 101, 410-955-3863.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Michael Pipkin, 48, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Department of Emergency Medicine, Franklin Square Hospital Center, 443-777-7046.

William Jaquis, age n/a, Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sinai Hospital, 410-601-5737.

Jeffrey Sternlicht, 40, GBMC, 6701 North Charles St., 443-849-2528.

GASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY

Marshall Bedine, 68, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 301, Lutherville, 410-583-2633.

David Cromwell, 48, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 401, Lutherville, 410-583-2920.

Sudhir Dutta, 61, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave. Ste. 305, 410-601-5392.

Bruce Greenwald, 48, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-8731.

Chris Hansen, 54, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 303, Lutherville, 410-583-2630.

William Ravich, 61, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 401, Lutherville, 410-616-2840.

Andrew Rosenstein, 43, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 502, Towson, 410-296-4210.

Louis Salas, 47, 4660 Wilkens Ave., Ste. 206, 410-247-7500.

Edward Wolfe, 55, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 400, 410-602-7782.

FAMILY PRACTICE

Karen Perkins, 32, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 205, 443-777-2000.

David L. Stewart, 53, University of Maryland, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 29 S. Paca St., 410-328-8792.

Sarah Whiteford, 40, Family Care Associates at GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 411, Physician Pavilion East, 443-849-2707.

GENETICS

Clair Francomano, “early 50s,” GBMC, Harvey Institute for Human Genetics, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 2326, Towson, 443-849-3131.

Ada Hamosh, 49, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, McKusick Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock Bldg. Rm. 1012D, 410-955-3071.

Antonie D. Kline, 49, Harvey Institute for Human Genetics, GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 2326, 443-849-3192.

GERIATRICS

Michael Gloth, 53, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Cir., 410-550-0925.

James P. Richardson, 55, 3421 Benson Ave., Ste. 210, 410-368-8979.

GYNECOLOGY

Harry W. Johnson Jr., 52, University of Maryland OB/GYN, 419 W. Redwood St., Ste. 500, 410-328-6640.

Andrew London, 62, 1300 York Rd., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-296-5863.

Michael Magan, 70, 120 Sister Pierre Dr., 410-337-9003.

OBSTETRICS

Missy Garavente, 41, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 443-777-8005.

Deborah L. Hebb, 55, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 500, Towson, 410-296-6090.

ONCOLOGY, GYNECOLOGICAL

Fouad Abbas, 48, Morton Mower Office Building, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., No. 206, 410-601-9030.

Francis C. Grumbine, 62, GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 306, 443-849-2765.

Dwight Im, 49, Weinberg Center at Mercy Hospital, 227 St. Paul Place, Floor 6, 410-332-9200.

Neil B. Rosenshein, 65, 227 St. Paul Pl., 6th Fl., 410-332-9200.

ONCOLOGY, HEMATOLOGY

Michael Auerbach, 60, 9110 Philadelphia Rd., Ste. 314, 410-780-4050.

Gary Cohen, n/a, Director, GBMC Cancer Center, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 205, Towson, 443-849-3051.

Carole Miller, 51, Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., 410-368-2909.

Stephen Noga, 55, Director of Medical Oncology and Hematology and the Cellular Therapeutics Program at the Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-4710.

William C. Waterfield, 63, Franklin Square Hospital, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2200, 443-777-7147.

INTERNAL MEDICINE

Richard Berg, 59, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 450, Lutherville, 410-583-2711.

Harry Kaplan, 45, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 290, 410-653-0073.

Jeffrey Magaziner, 41, Park Medical Associates, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-583-7137.

Mary Newman, 57, Park Medical Associates, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-583-7120.

Kenneth Williams, 53, Seton Medical Group, 2801 Foster Ave., and 1120 Rolling Rd., 410-342-0333.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Paul G. Auwaerter, 47, Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10751 Falls Rd., Lutherville, 410-583-2651.

John Bartlett, 68, 1830 E. Monument St., Rm. 447, 410-955-7634.

Richard A. Berg, 59, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 450, Lutherville, 410-583-2711.

Wayne Campbell, 56, 201 E. University Pl., Department of Medicine, Ste. 512, 410-554-2284.

Charles Haile, 61, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 404, Towson, 410-337-7097.

Andrew Mayrer, 61, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 17, 410-601-5941.

Donal K. Walshe, 45, Chief of Infectious Diseases, Saint Agnes Hospital, 827 Linden Ave., Ste. 3F, Armory Bldg., 410-225-8404.

Marcos Wolff, 47, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 443-777-7138.

NEPHROLOGY

Mary T. Behrens, 50, 516 N. Rolling Rd., Ste. 107, Catonsville, 410-744-0890.

Kevin Rossiter, 52, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 301, 443-777-6540.

Paul Scheel Jr., 48, 1830 E. Monument St., 410-955-5268.

Khalid Al-Talib, 52, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 301, 443-777-6540.

Stephen Zemel, 57, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 245, Pikesville, 410-602-7792.

NEUROLOGY

Jerold Fleishman, 53, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 2nd floor, 443-777-7320.

Justin McArthur, 53, The Johns Hopkins Hospital Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-3730.

Howard Moses, 79, 1205 York Rd., Ste. 39B, Lutherville, 410-494-0191.

Bruce Rabin, 51, Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 370, Lutherville, 410-616-7188.

Howard D. Weiss, 62, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 202, 410-367-7600.

OCCUPATIONAL/ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE

John Parkerson, 51, 4717 Falls Rd., 410-366-3627.

OPHTHALMOLOGY

Donald Abrams, 49, Krieger Eye Institute, Chief, Department of Ophthalmology, Morton Mower, M.D. Office Building, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 6th Floor, 410-601-6480.

Marc A. Honig, 45, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 310 Owings Mills, 410-581-1500.

Allan D. Jensen, 65, 200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 426, 410-235-1133.

Gerami Seitzman, 36, Krieger Eye Institute at Sinai Hospital, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., 6th Floor, 410-601-5991.

Amy Zimmerman, 44, 1105 North Point Blvd., Ste. 323, 410-282-5544.

ORTHOPEDICS, GENERAL

David Buchalter, 39, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

Frank Frassica, 56, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-502-2698.

Stewart L. Koehler, 57, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606, 410-583-0160.

Jerome Reichmister, 69, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

Sam Sydney, 52, Orthopedic Associates of Central Maryland, 3421 Benson Ave., Ste. 100, 410-644-1880.

ORTHOPEDICS, HAND

Mark A. Deitch, 44, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

Stacey H. Berner, 46, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 210 Owings Mills. 410-484-8088.

Thomas Brushart, 60, The Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-9663.

Steven L. Friedman, 49, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

Thomas Graham, 47, Chief, Division of Hand Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, Johnston Professional Building, 2nd Floor, 3333 N. Calvert St., 410-235-5405.

Peter C. Innis, 50, 1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-296-6232.

Keith A. Segalman, 47, 1400 Front Ave., Lutherville, 410-296-6232; Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 410-235-5405.

ORTHOPEDICS, FOOT/ANKLE

John Campbell, 44, The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy, 301 St. Paul Pl., Lobby Level, 410-659-2800.

Mark Myerson, 58, Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., 410-659-2800.

Lew Schon, 48, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2891.

Ian Weiner, 48, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

ORTHOPEDICS, SPINE

Paul Asdourian, 53, Union Memorial, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2867.

Myles D. Brager, 57, 1 Village Sq., Westminster, 410-876-8077.

Stephen Ludwig, 42, 1 Texas Station Ct., 3rd Floor, Timonium, 410-448-6400.

Lee Riley III, 49, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-6930.

Mark Rosenthal, 56, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

P. Justin Tortolani, 39, O’Dea Medical Arts Bldg., 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-337-8888.

ORTHOPEDICS, JOINT REPLACEMENT

David F. Dalury, 51, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, 410-337-7900.

Ronald Delanois, 44, Center for Joint Preservation and Replacement, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5645.

Frank Ebert, 57, 3333 N. Calvert St., 4th Floor, 410-554-2850.

Mark Hungerford, age n/a, 301 St. Paul Pl., lobby level, 410-539-2227.

Dave A. Silber, age 51, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 210, Owings Mills, 410-876-8077.

Michael Mont, 50, Center for Joint Preservation and Replacement, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5645.

Barry J. Waldman, age n/a, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

Charles W. Cummings, 74, Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., Ste. 1080, 410-955-7400.

Karl W. Diehn, 60, 6565 N. Charles St., Physicians Pavilion East, Ste. 601, 410-821-5151.

Andrew C. Goldstone, 50, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, 410-821-5151.

Howard Hessan, 52, 3449 Wilkens Ave., Ste. 200, 410-525-3818.

Theda C. Kontis, 49, Facial Plastic Surgicenter, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 370, 410-486-3400.

Scott D. London, 39, Chesapeake Ear Nose and Throat, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 400, Owings Mills, 410-356-2626.

Douglas C. McCorkle, 56, 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 100, Owings Mills, 410-363-7172.

MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE

Lindsay Alger, 59, 419 W. Redwood St., Ste. 500, 410-328-6640.

Jessica Bienstock, 47, 600 N. Wolfe St., Nelson 2170, 410-502-3200.

Hugh E. Mighty, 53, 419 W. Redwood St., Ste. 500, 410-328-6640.

NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE

Karen A. Broderick, 53, Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., 410-368-2500.

Melinda Elliott, 50, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., Division of Neonatalogy, Sinai Hospital, 410-601-5217.

Sabah Helou, 54, Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2792.

Sita Kottapalli, age n/a, Franklin Square Hospital, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., 443-777-7050.

Laurel Yap, 56, Harbor Hospital, 3001 S. Hanover St., 410-350-7186.

PAIN MANAGEMENT/CHRONIC PAIN

Brian Block, 41, Pain Medicine Specialists, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 330, Towson, 410-825-6945.

Jason Brokaw, 37, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

Ibrahim Elsamanoudi, 62, Union Memorial Hospital, 201 E. University Pkwy., 410-554-6497.

Ross Sugar, 49, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6587.

PATHOLOGY

Jerry J. Marty, 60, 9000 Franklin Square Dr., Pathology Department, 443-777-8248.

Edward McCarthy, 65, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-2660.

Arthur H. McTighe, 64, 201 E. University Pkwy., 410-554-2974.

PEDIATRICS, GENERAL

Harsha Bhagtani, 37, 5009 Honeygo Village Dr., Ste. 225, 443-725-2100.

Lauren Bogue, age n/a, Pavilion Pediatrics at Green Spring Station, Pavilion 1, Ste. 260, 10755 Falls Rd., Lutherville, 410-583-2955.

Michael G. Burke, 52, Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., 410-368-2506.

Karen A. Broderick, 53, Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., 410-368-2500.

Steven Caplan, 60, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 508, 410-578-8383.

Timothy F. Doran, 57, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 306, Towson, 443-849-6444.

Jason Goldstein, age n/a, Pavilion Pediatrics, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 260, Lutherville, 410-583-2955.

Alan M. Lake, 61, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393.

PEDIATRIC, ALLERGY

Kenneth C. Schuberth, 61, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393.

Robert Wood, 52, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-5883.

PEDIATRIC, GENERAL SURGERY

James R. Buck, 61, GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 305, Towson, 443-849-6201.

Roger Voigt, 53, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538.

PEDIATRICS, GASTROINTESTINAL

Alan M. Lake, 61, 10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393.

Kalpana Murthy, 46, Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai, Morton Mower Medical Office Building, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407, 410-601-8663.

David Tuchman, 58, Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai, Morton Mower Medical Office Building, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407, 410-601-8663.

PEDIATRICS,CARDIOLOGY

Peter Gaskin, 44, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6666.

Janet Scheel, 50, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., 7th floor, 410-955-9714.

PEDIATRICS, HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY

Joseph M. Wiley, 52, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5864.

PEDIATRICS, NEUROLOGY

Edward Gratz, age n/a, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 32, 410-601-8300.

Eileen Vining, 63, Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 ZN. Caroline St., 410-955-9100.

PEDIATRICS, ENDOCRINE

Barry Reiner, 52, 1001 Pine Heights Ave., Ste. 202, 410-646-4009.

PEDIATRICS, ORTHOPEDICS

John Herzenberg, 54, Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-9562.

Paul D. Sponseller, 52, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St, 5th Fl., 410-955-3136.

PEDIATRICS, PSYCHIATRY

Stuart Varon, 50, 2324 W. Joppa Rd., Ste. 420, Lutherville, 410-583-1859.

Elizabeth Kastelic, 42, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St.,

410-614-4948.

PEDIATRICS/PULMONARY

Anayansi Lasso-Pirot, 41, 22 S. Greene St., Ste. N5W40, 410-706-2443.

Laura Sterni, 46, Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, 1708 W. Rogers Ave.; Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-2035.

PHYSICAL MEDICINE, REHAB

Scott E. Brown, 48, Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6585.

Lisa Enders-Grant, 41, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

Gayle Schwartz, 51, 1920 Greenspring Dr., Ste. 125, Timonium, 410-308-4900.

Michael Shear, 55, 1920 Greenspring Dr., Ste. 125, Timonium, 410-308-4900.

PSYCHIATRY

Paul McClelland, 61, Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 S. Caton Ave., 410-368-2737.

PULMONARY

Philip Buescher, 54, Union Memorial Hospital, 201 E. University Pkwy., 410-467-4470.

Michael Lansing, 54, Jacobs, Lansing, and Mishkin, PA, Woodholme Medical Building, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 350, Pikesville, 410-484-5686.

Jason Marx, 43, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651.

Stephen R. Selinger, 56, Director of Critical Care, Franklin Square Hospital, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 300, 410-682-5282.

Dennis Smith, 58, 3449 Wilkens Ave., 410-644-5112.

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Cengiz Aygun, 57, Radiation Oncology Affiliates of Maryland, 9105 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 100, 410-6820-6800.

Albert L. Blumberg, 57, GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2540.

Mark J. Brenner, 59, Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., Dept. of Radiation Oncology, 410-601-5689.

Richard S. Hudes, age n/a, Section Chief, Saint Agnes Hospital Cancer Center, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-2965.

RADIOLOGY, GENERAL DIAGNOSTIC

Blair Andrew, 56, Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd., 443-436-1100.

Noah Lightman, 65, Chief, Department of Radiology, Sinai Hospital/Lifebridge Health, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6530.

Loralie Ma, 45, Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd., 443-436-1100.

RADIOLOGY, BREAST

Judy M. Destouet, 61, Advanced Radiology, Pamona Sq., Ste. 112, 1700 Reisterstown Rd., 410-580-2100.

Nagi Khouri, age n/a, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-4100.

H. Rosy Singh, 46, Advanced Radiology, 7253 Ambassador Rd., 443-436-1110.

REHABILITATIVE/PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

Scott E. Brown, 48, Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sinai Hospital,

2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6585.

Howard Hoffberg, 52, 10085 Red Run Blvd., Suite 404, Owings Mills, 410-363-7246.

RHEUMATOLOGY

Ira T. Fine, 60, 10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 225, Lutherville, 410-583-2828.

David Hellmann, 58, 4940 Eastern Ave., 410-550-6825.

Howard W. Hauptman, 54, 1220B E. Joppa Rd., Ste. 310, 410-494-1888.

John Meyerhoff, age n/a, Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 21, 410-601-8389.

RHEUMATOLOGY, PEDIATRIC

Stephen George, 51, 4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 226, Ellicott City, 410-992-7440.

SLEEP SPECIALIST

Brian Bohner, 51, Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson, 410-494-1662.

Robert Meny, 64, Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651.

SPORTS MEDICINE

Jon Koman, 41, OrthoMaryland, 2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900.

Leslie S. Matthews, 58, Chief of Orthopedic Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2865.

Teri McCambridge, 40, 8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, Towson, 410-337-7900.

Andrew M. Tucker, 48, 1407 York Rd., Ste. 100-A, Lutherville, 410-821-8062.

SURGERY, BARIATRIC

Alex Gandsas, 46, Head of division, bariatric surgery, Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 15, 410-601-4486.

Christina Li, 39, Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 15, 410-601-4486.

Thomas Magnuson, 50, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Ave., 410-550-0409.

David von Rueden, 60, 700 Geipe Rd., Ste. 274, Catonsville, 410-368-3003.

Kuldeep Singh, 44, 7625 Maple Lawn Blvd., Ste. 145, Fulton, 301-490-2193.

SURGERY, BREAST

Kristen Fernandez, 42, Franklin Square Hospital, 9101 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 110, 443-777-6500.

Neil B. Friedman, 51, The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Pl., 410-332-9330.

Scott E. Maizel, 58, Director, Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Program, GBMC, Sandra and Malcolm Berman Comprehensive Breast Care Center, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3105, Towson, 443-849-2600.

Lauren A. Schnaper, 61, GBMC, Sandra and Malcolm Berman Comprehensive Breast Care Center, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3105, Towson, 443-849-2600.

Michael J. Schultz, 62, Director, Breast Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, 7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 205, Towson, 410-427-5510.

SURGERY, CARDIAC

Duke Cameron, 57, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-2698.

R.C. Stewart Finney Jr., 50, St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Ste. W255, Towson, 410-337-1783.

Michael Fiocco, 49, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. LL08, 410-554-6550.

Alejandro Sequeira, 66, Head, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 35, 410-601-0900.

SURGERY, COLON RECTAL

P. Jeffrey Ferris, 51, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 307, 443-777-6225.

Debra A. Vachon, 49, 301 St. Paul Pl., 410-783-5800.

SURGERY, GENERAL

J. Lawrence Fitzpatrick, 52, Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Ste. C304, 410-332-9265.

Marc Gertner, 62, General Surgery Specialists, 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 410, Owings Mills, 410-581-0700.

Frank S. Rotolo, 54, 1205 York Rd., Lutherville, 410-821-6260.

Viney Setya, 54, Associate Chairman and Section Chief, general surgery, Saint Agnes Hospital, 3421 Benson Ave., Ste. 210, 410-368-2700.

SURGERY, HEPATO-BILIARY

John Cameron, 71, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-5464.

Mark H. Fraiman, 46, 7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 204, Towson, 410-427-2024.

NEUROSURGERY

Henry Brem, 57, Chair of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 410-955-2248.

Ira M. Garonzik, 37, Baltimore Neurosurgery and Spine Center, Mirowski Medical Office Bldg., 5051 Greenspring Ave., Ste. 101, 410-664-3680.

Rafael Tamargo, 51, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Meyer Building, Room 8-181, 410-614-1533.

Neal J. Naff, 43, Chesapeake Neurosurgery, 10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 301, Lutherville, 410-616-7600.

PEDIATRICS, NEUROSURGERY

Benjamin S. Carson, 58, The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Department of Neurosurgery, 600 N. Wolfe St., Harvey 811, 410-955-7888.

George I. Jallo, 43, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., Harvey Building, Room 811, 410-955-7851.

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, GENERAL

Mukund S. Didolkar, 66, Surgical Oncology Associates, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 1st Floor, 410-601-8317.

Edward C. McCarron, 38, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2300, 443-777-7911.

Armando Sardi, 54, Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Place, 4th Fl., 410-332-9294.

John Zapas, 42, Chief, Center for Surgical Oncology, Franklin Square Hospital, 9103 Franklin Square Dr., Ste. 2300, 443-777-7911.

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, HEAD AND NECK

Robert Ord, 61, 650 West Baltimore St., Ste. 1401, 410-706-6195.

John R. Saunders Jr., 64, Chief of medical staff, GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Physicians Pavilion West, Ste. 401, Towson, 443-849-8940.

SURGERY, ORAL MAXILLOFACIAL

Anthony Tufaro, 54, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-9846.

SURGERY, PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE (Not cosmetic)

Paul N. Manson, 65, Chief of the Department of Cosmetic and Facial Plastic Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-6897.

Paul Ringelman, 51, 7401 Osler Dr., Ste. 208, 410-823-3885.

SURGERY, RETINA AND VITREOUS

Joseph B. Harlan Jr., 42, 1209 York Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-821-9490.

SURGERY, THORACIC

Richard Battafarano, 47, Stoller Pavilion, University of Maryland, Marlene and Stewart Greenanbaum Cancer Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-6366.

Richard Heitmiller, 55, Chief of Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 610, 410-554-2063.

Gavin Henry, 38, 900 Caton Ave., Box 207, 410-368-2730.

Mark Krasna, 51, St. Joseph Cancer Institute, 7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-427-2220.

Lynne Skaryak, 46, Sinai Hospital, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 41, 410-601-6491.

Stephen Yang, 50, Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N. Caroline St., 8th Floor, 410-614-3891.

SURGERY, TRANSPLANT

Stephen T. Bartlett, 55, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., Room N4E40, 410-328-8407.

Andrew Cameron, 40, 720 Rutland Ave., 410-614-2989.

SURGERY, TRAUMA

Thomas Genuit, 45, 2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 42, 410-601-0600.

Thomas M. Scalea, 58, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-8976.

SURGERY, VASCULAR

James H. Black III, 40, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-1708.

Peter Mackrell, 41, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 301, 410-601-0500.

Samer Saiedy, 43, 7600 Osler Drive, Suite 107, Towson, 410-825-4530.

UROLOGY

William Dowling, 45, Chesapeake Urology Associates, 6830 Hospital Dr., Ste. 204, 410-391-6131.

Brad Lerner, 50, Chief of Urology, Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 600, 410-467-7665.

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Just when you thought it was safe to pick your physician by closing your eyes and pointing at a name in the Yellow Pages, we’re back, with the 17th annual edition of Baltimore’s Top Doctors survey. It’s a gargantuan project for us, but one we’re confident includes the names of the most highly regarded doctors in the greater Baltimore area.

Highly regarded by whom, you ask? By their peers is the answer. Because, after all, who would want journalists picking their docs?

Alert readers will notice a difference this year: While we’ve been doing this for a long time, we have partnered in the past couple years with national polling firms that specialize in doc surveys, and which are used by other city magazines.

This year, we went back to doing it ourselves, because we wanted to be more hands-on and selective. So, instead of seeing 10 or 15 names under a specialty, you’ll see just the top 1, 3, or 5 leaders in peer referrals.

You’ll also read about some of the latest trends in medicine, from boutique practices to the phenomenon of patients trying to diagnose themselves over the Internet.

The process of determining who the region’s top doctors are in dozens of specialties and subspecialties was made a lot smoother by the assistance of our five medical advisors, who were especially helpful in fine-tuning the surveys we sent to physicians in the Baltimore area, as well as reviewing our list of finalists.

Of course, just for the record, the advisors agreed not to be included on the list of finalists, no matter how the peer polling turned out.

If you’re sick, we want you to get well fast. The good news, though, is that Baltimore is one of the luckiest places in the world to be sick. See for yourself. Oh, and break a leg.

ADDICTION
Joseph Adams
Total Health Care, 2401 Liberty Heights Ave., Ste. 111-113, 410-383-8300. AGE: 52. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. YIP: 20. BC: Internal Medicine (General); extra qualifications in Geriatric and by American Society of Addiction Medicine. PRIV: GBMC, Total Health Care Inc.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
John R. Bacon
120 Sister Pierre Dr., Ste. 201, Towson, 410-321-0284. AGE: 60. MS: George Washington University School of Medicine. RES: Children’s Hospital in D.C., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. YIP: 28. BC: Allergy and Immunology; Pediatrics. PRIV: Franklin Square Hospital Center, GBMC, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Saint Agnes Healthcare, University of Maryland Medical System, St. Joseph Medical Center.

Jonathan Matz
7939 Honeygo Blvd., No. 219, 410-931-0404. AGE: 47. MS: George Washington University School of Medicine. RES: George Washington University Medical Center. YIP: 16. BC: Allergy and Immunology; Internal Medicine. PRIV: Franklin Square Hospital Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sinai Hospital.

Kenneth C. Schuberth
10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393. AGE: 61. MS: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 30. BC: Pediatrics; Allergy and Immunology. PRIV: Sinai, Johns Hopkins, GBMC.

ALTERNATIVE/COMPLEMENTARY
Brian M. Berman
University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, Kernan Hospital, 2200 Kernan Dr., 410-448-6361. AGE: 58. MS: Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 20. BC: Pain Medicine. PRIV: Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital.

Peter Hinderberger
Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center, 4801 Yellowwood Ave., 410-367-6263. AGE: 56. MS: University of Bern Medical School, Switzerland. RES: Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA. YIP: 24. BC: none (General Practitioner). PRIV: none.

ANESTHESIOLOGY, ADULT
Lewis Hogge Jr.
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2202. AGE: 49. MS: Eastern Virginia Med School. RES: Duke University Medical Center. YIP: 20. BC: Anesthesiology. PRIV: GBMC.

Charles Rizzuto
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-3904. AGE: 46. MS: New York Medical College. RES: New York University. YIP: 16. BC: Anesthesiology (General). PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Ruxton Surgery Center, Cosmetic Surgery Center of MD.

ANESTHESIOLOGY, PEDIATRIC
Jose E. Dominguez
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles Street, 443-849-2203. AGE: 46. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: George Washington University Hospital. YIP: 15. BC: Anesthesiology. PRIV: GBMC.

Aaron Zuckerberg
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave. B-4, 410-601-9193. AGE: 51. MS: University of Massachusetts Medical School. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 16. BC: Anesthesiology (Pediatrics); Pediatrics (Intensive Care) PRIV: Sinai Hospital.

CARDIOLOGY
R. Michael Benitez
University of Maryland, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538. AGE: 48. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Virginia. YIP: 16. BC: Internal Medicine; Cardiovascular Disease. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore VA Medical Center.

Miriam L. Cohen
Heart Associates, 200 E. 33rd St., Ste. 551, 410-243-4982. AGE: n/a. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Union Memorial Hospital. YIP: 39. BC: Fellow in American College of Cardiology (predates advent of board certification). PRIV: GBMC, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Union Memorial Hospital, University of Maryland Medical System, St. Joseph Medical Center.

Stacy Fisher
Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 535, Pikesville, 410-653-3923. AGE: 39. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Duke University. YIP: 7. BC: Cardiology (General). PRIV: Northwest Hospital Center, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.

Frank Morris
Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates, 7501 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-583-1170. AGE: 59. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 28. BC: Internal Medicine; General Cardiology; Interventional Cardiology. PRIV: Franklin Square Hospital Center, GBMC, Saint Agnes Healthcare, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Union Memorial Hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center.

Shellee Nolan
7501 Osler Dr., 3rd Floor, Towson, 410-583-1170. AGE: n/a. MS: Georgetown University School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 20. BC: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

James Porterfield
6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 600, 410-825-5150 AGE: n/a. MS: West Virginia University School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 17. BC: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases. PRIV: GBMC, Johns Hopkins Hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center.

DERMATOLOGY
Mark H. Lowitt
6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 315, Baltimore, 410-321-1195. AGE: 47. MS: Tulane University School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 15 BC: Dermatology.
PRIV: GBMC.

Howard Robinson
101 W. Ridgely Rd., Lutherville; 1115 S. Main St., Bel Air; 410-561-1960, 410-879-7404. AGE: 52. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 23. BC: Dermatology. PRIV: Johns Hopkins Hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center, GBMC.

Irving Wolfe
21 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 255, Owings Mills, 410-363-2320. AGE: 65. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 33. BC: Dermatology (General). PRIV: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sinai Hospital, University of Maryland Medical System.

ENDOCRINOLOGY
David S. Cooper
Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University, 1830 E. Monument St., Ste. 333, 410-955-3663. AGE: 60. MS: Tufts University School of Medicine. RES: Barnes Hospital (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis), endo. fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. YIP: 28. BC: Internal Medicine; Endocrinology and Metabolism. PRIV: Johns Hopkins Hospital.

William Valente
St. Agnes Hospital, 900 Caton Ave., 410-368-3120 AGE: n/a. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 28. BC: Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism. PRIV: Anne Arundel Medical Center, Baltimore Washington Medical Center (formerly North Arundel Hospital), GBMC, Saint Agnes Healthcare, University of Maryland Medical System.

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
Katherine Bass
Fertility Center of Maryland, 110 West Rd., Ste. 102, Towson; 2014 S. Tollgate Rd., Ste. 107, Bel Air, 410-296-6400. AGE: 51. MS: Duke University School of Medicine. RES: Magee-Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh. YIP: 17. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility subspecialties). PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital.

Jairo Garcia
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 335, Lutherville, 410-583-2753. AGE: n/a. MS: Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, South America. RES: Universidad de Antioquia Medical School, Hospital San Vincente de Paul, Colombia, South America. YIP: 30. BC: None. PRIV: Johns Hopkins Hospital, GBMC.

Eugene Katz
6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, Pavilion West, Towson, 410-512-8300. AGE: 54. MS: University of Chile. RES: Tulane University. YIP: 21. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology; Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. PRIV: GBMC, St. Agnes.

EATING DISORDERS
Harry Brandt
Center for Eating Disorders, Physicians Pavilion North, Ste. 300, 6535 N. Charles St., Towson, 410-938-5252. AGE: 51. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 22. BC: Psychiatry. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Sheppard Pratt.

Steven Crawford
6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 300, Towson, 410-938-5252. AGE: 48. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 19. BC: Psychiatry and Neurology. PRIV: Sheppard Pratt, St. Joseph Medical Center, GBMC.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE
C. Timothy Bessent
7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-1226. AGE: 61. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 32. BC: Emergency Medicine; Internal Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

Gail P. Cunningham
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-1226. AGE: 49. MS: Georgetown School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 18. BC: Emergency Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

John Wogan
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-3571. AGE: 56. MS: Georgetown University School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center, Denver General Hospital. YIP: 23. BC: Emergency Medicine; Internal Medicine. PRIV: GBMC.

GASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY
Peter Darwin
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St.,800-492-5538. AGE: 44. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 13. BC: Gastroenterology; Internal Medicine. PRIV: University of Maryland.

Neil D. Goldberg
7505 Osler Dr., Odea Bldg., Ste. 502, Towson, 410-296-4210. AGE: 56. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Florida, fellowship at Unversity of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 26. BC: Internal Medicine; Gastroenterology. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

F. Chris Hansen
10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 303, Lutherville, 410-583-2630. AGE: 53. MS: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. RES: University Hospitals of Cleveland. YIP: 21. BC: Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology. PRIV: GBMC, Johns Hopkins Hospital.

FAMILY PRACTICE
Daniel H. Collector
Family Medicine Associates, 35 E. Padonia Rd., Timonium, 410-683-3330. AGE: n/a. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 18. BC: Family Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

Sarah Whiteford
Family Care Associates at GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 411, Physician Pavilion East, 443-849-2707. AGE: 39. MS: University of Maryland. RES: Franklin Square Hospital Center. YIP: 7. BC: Family Medicine. PRIV: GBMC.

Joseph Zebley
Village of Cross Keys, 2 Hamill Rd., Quadrangle Building, Ste. 222, 443-524-4481. AGE: 59. MS: University of Strasbourg, France; University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 29. BC: Family Medicine; Geriatrics. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital.

GENETICS
Clair Francomano
GBMC, Harvey Genetics Institute, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 2326, Towson, 443-849-3131. AGE: “early 50’s.” MS: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital, fellowship National Institutes of Health. YIP: 23. BC: Internal Medicine; Medical Genetics; Molecular Genetics. PRIV: GBMC.

GERIATRICS
W. Anthony Riley
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 209, Towson, 443-849-3184. AGE: 57. MS: University of Pennsylvania. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 28. BC: Internal Medicine: Geriatric Medicine; Palliative Medicine; Hospice. PRIV: GBMC.

GYNECOLOGY
Harry W. Johnson Jr.
University of Maryland OB/GYN, 419 W. Redwood St., Ste. 500, 800-492-5538. AGE: 52. MS: Wake Forest University. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 20.
BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology; Urogynecology; Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center.

Ginny Merryman
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., No. 501, Towson, 410-938-8960. AGE: 54. MS: Vanderbilt. RES: GBMC. YIP: 16. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology. PRIV: GBMC.

Ruthann Zern
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 402, Towson, 410-339-7447. AGE: 55. MS: Duke University Medical Center. RES: Duke University Medical Center. YIP: 23. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, GBMC.

OBSTETRICS
Murray Pearlman
23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 220 Owings Mills, 410-581-9200. AGE: 57. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Sinai Hospital. YIP: 28. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology. PRIV: Sinai Hospital.

Claire M. Weitz
6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 406, Towson, 443-849-2568. AGE: n/a. MS: Albany Medical College of Union University, Albany, NY. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 23. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology; Maternal-Fetal Medicine. PRIV: GBMC.

Ruthann Zern
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 402, Towson, 410-339-7447. AGE: 55. MS: Duke University Medical Center. RES: Duke University Medical Center. YIP: 23. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, GBMC.

ONCOLOGY, GYNECOLOGICAL
Fouad Abbas
Morton Mower Office Building, 2411 W. Belvedere Ave., No. 206, 410-601-9030. AGE: 48. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 22. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology; Gynecological Oncology. PRIV: Baltimore Washington Hospital, Carroll Hospital Center, Frederick Memorial Hospital, Harbor Hospital Center, Howard County General Hospital, Sinai/Northwest Hospitals, St. Agnes Healthcare, Shore Health Systems, Southern Maryland Hospital Center, Union Hospital Health System, University of Maryland Medical System, Upper Chesapeake Health System.

Francis C. Grumbine
6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 306, 443-849-2765. AGE: 62. MS: University of Virginia School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 26. BC: Gynecological Oncology. PRIV: GBMC.

Neil B. Rosenshein
227 St. Paul Place, 6th Fl., 410-332-9200. AGE: 64. MS: University of Florida. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 28. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology. PRIV: Mercy Medical Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Washington County Hospital.

ONCOLOGY, HEMATOLOGY
Paul Celano
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 205, 443-849-3051. AGE: 53. MS: Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. RES: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, fellowship Johns Hopkins. YIP: 20. BC: Internal Medicine; Medical Oncology. PRIV: GBMC, Johns Hopkins.

Gary Cohen
6569 N. Carles St., Ste. 205, 443-849-3051.
AGE: 59. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center. YIP: 28. BC: Internal Medicine, Oncology, Hematology. PRIV: GBMC.

Flavio W. Kruter
555 S. Center St., Westminster, 410-876-5747; 23 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 340, Owings Mills, 410-581-2100; 40 V Twin Dr., Ste.102, Gettysburg, PA, 717-338-9009. AGE: 55. MS: Faculdade de Medicina, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. RES: Hospital de clinicas, Porto Alegre, Brazil, George Washington University and University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 23. BC: Internal Medicine; Medical Oncology. PRIV: Northwest Hospital Center, Carroll Hospital Center, Gettysburg Hospital.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Charles Haile
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 404, Towson, 410-337-7097. AGE: 60. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Mercy Medical Center. YIP: 34. BC: Internal Medicine: Infectious Disease. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center. (hospital consultations only)

Richard A. Berg
10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 450, Lutherville, 410-583-2711. AGE: 58. MS: Cornell University Medical College. RES: Washington University of St. Louis-Barnes Hospital. YIP: 28. BC: Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease. PRIV: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Northwest Hospital.

NEPHROLOGY
Jeffrey N. Posner
1838 Greene Tree Rd., Ste. 245, Baltimore, 410-602-7792. AGE: 54. MS: State University of New York At Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. RES: University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore Veterans Administration Hospital. YIP: 23. BC: Nephrology & Internal Medicine. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Northwest Hospital Center, Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center, Maryland General Hospital, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital.

NEUROLOGY
A. Allan Genut
7600 Osler Dr., Rm. 105, Towson, 410-821-1377. AGE: 62. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 33. BC: Neurology. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center.

Howard Moses
1205 York Rd., Ste. 39B, Lutherville, 410-494-0191. AGE: 79. MS: University of Illinois. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 43. BC: Neurology; Submarine and Diving Medicine. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Good Samaritan, Sinai Hospital, Union Memorial Hospital, Keswick, St. Agnes Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Manor Care/Ruxton.

OPHTHALMOLOGY
Paul A. Tarantino
1403 Madison Park Dr., Ste. 100, Glen Burnie, 410-590-9260. AGE: 47. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Louisiana State University. YIP: 16. BC: Ophthalmology. PRIV: Baltimore Washington Medical Center.

Marcos Doxanas
Baltimore Eye Physicians, 6231 N. Charles St., 410-377-2044. AGE: 58. MS: University of Virginia School of Medicine. RES: GBMC. YIP: 28. BC: General Ophthalmology; Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery. PRIV: GBMC, Baltimore Eye Physicians.

ORTHOPEDICS, GENERAL
Stewart L. Koehler
GBMC, 6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 606, Baltimore, 410-583-0160. AGE: 57. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Union Memorial Hospital. YIP: 25. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Union Memorial, GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Baltimore Spine Center.

Scott L. Silverstein
3421 Benson Avenue, Ste. 100, 410-644-1880. AGE: 40. MS: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. RES: West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, WV. YIP: 8. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Howard County General Hospital, Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital, Saint Agnes Healthcare.

ORTHOPEDICS, HAND
Mark A. Deitch
2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900. AGE: 43. MS: State University of New York at Stony Brook. RES: Hospital for Special Surgery, NY. YIP: 11. BC: Orthopedic Surgery, special qualification in hand surgery. PRIV: GBMC, Sinai, Northwest.

Steven L. Friedman
2700 Quarry Lake Dr., Ste. 300, 410-377-8900. AGE: 48. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 18. BC: Orthopedic Surgery, special qualifications in hand and upper extremity surgery. PRIV: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Northwest Hospital, GBMC, Union Memorial.

Peter C. Innis
1400 Front Ave., Ste. 100, Lutherville, 410-296-6232. AGE: 50. MS: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins, fellowship Raymond Curtis National Hand Center. YIP: 18. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Union Memorial, Johns Hopkins Hospital/Bayview, Lutherville Surgicenter.

Keith A. Segalman
1400 Front Ave., Lutherville, 410-296-6232; Union Memorial Hospital, 3333 N. Calvert St., 410-235-5405. AGE: 47. MS: New York University School of Medicine. RES: New York University/Bellevue Hospital, NY; fellowship Raymond Curtis National Hand Center. YIP: 15. BC: Orthopedic Surgery, extra qualifications in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery. PRIV: Union Memorial, Johns Hopkins, Good Samaritan, Lutherville Surgicenter, Pasadena Surgicenter.

ORTHOPEDICS, FOOT/ANKLE
Jeffrey Brodie
8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, Towson, 410-337-7900. AGE: 44. MS: Georgetown University School of Medicine. RES: Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ. YIP: 11. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, GBMC, Upper Chesapeake.

Mark Myerson
301 St. Paul Pl., Baltimore, 410-659-2800. AGE: 57. MS: University of Cape Town, South Africa. RES: Sinai Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland Medical Center.
YIP: 23. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Mercy Medical Center.

Lew Schon
3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2891. AGE: 48. MS: Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. RES: Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute. YIP: 18. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Good Samaritan Hospital of MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Union Memorial Hospital.

ORTHOPEDICS, SPINE
Ira Fedder
Orthopedic Associates, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-337-8888. AGE: 54. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 17. BC: Orthopedic surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph, GBMC, Franklin Square, Upper Chesapeake.

Paul C. McAfee
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-337-8888.
AGE: 55. MS: State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY. RES: State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY. YIP: 25. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Johns Hopkins.

P. Justin Tortolani
O’Dea Medical Arts Bldg., 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 104, Towson, 410-337-7900; GBMC North Pavilion, 6535 N. Charles St., Towson; 8322 Bellona Ave. AGE: 38. MS: Weill Cornell Medical College. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital, fellowship Emory University. YIP: 5. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Johns Hopkins, GBMC.

ORTHOPEDICS, JOINT REPLACEMENT
David F. Dalury
8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, 410-337-7900. AGE: 51. MS: Harvard. RES: Harvard. YIP: 18. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

Frank Ebert
3333 N. Calvert St., 4th Floor, 410-554-2850. AGE: 57. MS: Temple University. RES: Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA. YIP: 22. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Union Memorial Hospital.

OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Karl W. Diehn
6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, 410-821-5151. AGE: 59. MS: University of Maryland. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 26. BC: Otolaryngology. PRIV: GBMC, Johns Hopkins.

Andrew C. Goldstone
6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 601, 410-821-5151. AGE: 49. MS: Jefferson Medical College. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 18. BC: Otolaryngology. PRIV: GBMC.

MATERNAL FETAL MEDICINE
Judith Rossiter
7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-4480. AGE: 49. MS: Medical College of Virginia. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 17. BC: Obstetrics and Gynecology; Perinatology; Medical Genetics; Ultrasound. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Johns Hopkins, Sinai Hospital, Upper Chesapeake.

NEONATAL-PERINATAL MEDICINE
Michael Langbaum
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-1150. AGE: 49. MS: University Southern California School of Medicine. RES: Childrens Hospital of L.A. YIP: 17. BC: Pediatrics; Neonatology. PRIV: St. Joseph’s Medical Center.

PAIN MANAGEMENT/CHRONIC PAIN
Louis M. Panlilio
8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 330, Towson, 410-825-6945. AGE: 42. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 7. BC: Anesthesiology; Pain Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Ruxton Surgi-Center, GBMC.

PATHOLOGY
James W. Eagan Jr.
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Towson, 410-337-1717. AGE: 63. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins, Memorial Sloan-Keppering Cancer Center. YIP: 29. BC: Anatomic Pathology; Clinical Pathology. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

Howard L. Siegel
6701 N. Charles St., 443-849-2247. AGE: 52. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Sinai Hospital. YIP: 21. BC: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology. PRIV: GBMC.

PEDIATRICS, GENERAL
Deborah Bittar
515 Fairmount Ave., Ste. 200, Towson, 410-828-8938. AGE: 50. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 22. BC: General Pediatrics. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Johns Hopkins.

Lauren Lauck Bogue
Pavilion Pediatrics, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 260, Lutherville, 410-583-2955. AGE: 61. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Inc. (was then an affiliate program of Hopkins). YIP: 19. BC: Pediatrics. PRIV: Johns Hopkins, GBMC, St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Sinai.

Ralph S. Brown
2435 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-8301.
AGE: 63. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins. YIP: 34. BC: Pediatrics. PRIV: Sinai Hospital, GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center.

Alan M. Lake
10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393. AGE: 61. MS: University of Cincinnati. RES: University of Colorado, Denver; State University of New York, Syracuse, NY. YIP: 29. BC: Pediatrics. PRIV: Johns Hopkins, GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Sinai Hospital.

PEDIATRIC, ALLERGY
Mary Beth Bollinger
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538. AGE: n/a. MS: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: n/a. BC: Pediatrics; Allergy/Immunology. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center.

Kenneth C. Schuberth
10807 Falls Rd., Ste. 200, Lutherville, 410-321-9393. AGE: 61. MS: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 30. BC: Pediatrics; Allergy and Immunology. PRIV: Sinai, Johns Hopkins, GBMC.

Robert Wood
600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-5883. AGE: 52. MS: University of Rochester. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 18. BC: Pediatrics; Allergy and Immunology. PRIV: Johns Hopkins.

PEDIATRIC, GENERAL SURGERY
James R. Buck
6565 N. Charles St., Ste. 305, Towson, 443-849-6201. AGE: 61. MS: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. RES: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. YIP: 27. BC: Pediatric
General Surgery. PRIV: GBMC, Howard County General Hospital, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Northwest Hospital.

Roger Voigt
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538. AGE: 53. MS: Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand. RES: Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. YIP: 19. BC: General Surgery; Pediatric Surgery. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center.

PEDIATRICS, GI
David Tuchman
2411 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 407, 410-601-8663. AGE: 57. MS: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY. RES: Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, Bronx. YIP: 25. BC: Pediatrics; Pediatric Gastroenterology. PRIV: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, GBMC.

PEDIATRICS, CARDIOLOGY
Joel I. Brenner
600 N. Wolfe St., 410-955-9714. AGE: n/a MS: New York Medical College. RES: New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center. YIP: 33. BC: Pediatrics; Pediatric Cardiology. PRIV: Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Howard County General Hospital, St. Joseph’s Medical Center, GBMC.

PEDIATRICS, HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Neil J. Grossman
University of Maryland Hospital for Children, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538. AGE: 57. MS: Boston University School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 28. BC: Pediatrics; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center.

Joseph M. Wiley
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5864. AGE: 52. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 23. BC: Pediatrics; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. PRIV: Sinai Hospital, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, GBMC.

PEDIATRICS, NEUROLOGY
Edward Gratz
2435 W. Belvedere Ave., Ste. 32, 410-601-8300. AGE: n/a. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: Case Western Reserve University Hospital, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland. YIP: 27. BC: Pediatric Neurology; Pediatrics. PRIV: Sinai Hospital, Franklin Square Hospital, GBMC, St. Agnes, St. Joseph Medical Center, University of Maryland.

PEDIATRICS, NEUROSURGERY
Benjamin S. Carson
The Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, Department of Neurosurgery, 600 N. Wolfe St., Harvey 811, 410-955-7888. AGE: 57. MS: University of Michigan School of Medicine. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 24. BC: Neurological Surgery; Pediatric Neurological Surgery. PRIV: Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

PEDIATRICS, ENDOCRINE
Debra Counts
University of Maryland Hospital for Children, 22 S. Greene St., 800-492-5538. AGE: 49. MS: Johns Hopkins University. RES: Johns Hopkins Hospital. YIP: 15. BC: Pediatrics; Pediatric Endocrinology. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center, Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.

PEDIATRICS, ORTHOPEDICS
Paul D. Sponseller
601 N. Caroline St, 5th Fl., 410-955-3870. AGE: 52. MS: University of Michigan. RES: University of Wisconsin. YIP: 22. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Johns Hopkins.

PHYSICAL MEDICINE, REHAB
Scott E. Brown
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore (Brown is Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-6585.  AGE: 48. MS: UMDNJ-Rutgers. RES: Albert Einstein, Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx. YIP: 18. BC: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Pain Medicine; Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Independent Examiner (voluntary boards). PRIV: Sinai Hospital, Northwest Hospital, Levindale.

Michael Shear
1920 Greenspring Dr., Ste. 125, Timonium, 410-308-4900. AGE: 55. MS: University of Maryland. RES: Union Memorial Hospital. YIP: 22. BC: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. PRIV: Union Memorial, Northwest Hospital Center.

PSYCHIATRY
Samuel Adler
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-5461. AGE: 59. MS: Medical College of Virginia. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 31. BC: Psychiatry. PRIV: Sinai Hospital, Northwest Hospital, Levindale.

PULMONARY
Linda F. Barr
7505 Osler Dr., Ste 410, Towson, 410-321-5651. AGE: 50. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 24. BC: Pulmonary Medicine; Critical Care; Internal Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

John H. Eppler
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651. AGE: 56. MS: University of Cincinnati. RES: Union Memorial Hospital. YIP: 23. BC: Internal Medicine; Pulmonary Disease; Critical Care Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center.

Mitchell L. Schwartz
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson, 410-494-1662. AGE: 46. MS: New Jersey Medical School. RES: Medical College of Virginia. YIP: 21. BC: Pulmonary Medicine; Critical Care Medicine. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center.

RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Albert Blumberg
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 443-849-2540. AGE: 57. MS: Jefferson Medical College. RES: University of California at San Francisco. YIP: 30. BC: Radiology. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, St. Agnes.

Mark J. Brenner
Sinai, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., Dept. of Radiation Oncology, 410-601-5689. AGE: 58. MS: Tufts University. RES: Harvard Joint Center for Radiation Therapy. YIP: 23. BC: Radiation Oncology. PRIV: Northwest Hospital, Sinai Hospital.

Robert K. Brookland
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 1400, Towson, 443-849-2540. AGE: 54. MS: Georgetown University. RES: Georgetown University Hospital; Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. YIP: 24. BC: Therapeutic Radiology. PRIV: Northwest, St .Joseph, GBMC, and St. Agnes.

Eva S. Zinreich
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 1400, 443-849-2540. AGE: 62. MS: Institutul de Medicina Medical School, Tirgu-Mures, Romania. RES: University of Brussels, Belgium; Sinai Hospital; Johns Hopkins. YIP: 32. BC: Diagnostic radiology; Therapeutic Radiology. PRIV: Northwest, St. Joseph, GBMC, and St. Agnes.

RADIOLOGY, GENERAL DIAGNOSTIC
Hyo S. Ahn
Sinai Hospital, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 410-601-4865. AGE: 63. MS: Yonsei University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. RES: West Virginia Medical School. YIP: 28. BC: Diagnostic Radiology, CA2 in neuroradiology. PRIV: Sinai Hospital, Northwest Hospital, Union Memorial Hospital.

H. Alexander Munitz
GBMC (Munitz is chairman of the Radiology Department), 6701 N. Charles St., Towson, 410-580-2301. AGE: 57. MS: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. RES: Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. YIP: 32. BC: Diagnostic Radiology. PRIV: GBMC.

Carlton C. Sexton
Union Memorial, Johnston Prof. Bldg., 3333 N. Calvert St., 410-554-2585. AGE: 56. MS: Duke University. RES: Yale. YIP: 23. BC: Diagnostic and neuroradiology. PRIV: Union Memorial.

Edward Steiner
Advanced Radiology, many locations, corp. office 7253 Ambassador Rd., 443-436-1116. AGE: 52. MS: University of Rochester. RES: University of Rochester, Harvard Medical School, fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. YIP: 22. BC: Diagnostic radiology. PRIV: Franklin Square, GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Carroll Hospital Center.

RADIOLOGY, BREAST
Wendie Berg
American Radiology Services, Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, 10755 Falls Rd., Ste. 440, Lutherville, 410-583-2705. AGE: 48. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 16.
BC: Diagnostic Radiology. PRIV: Johns Hopkins.

Judy M. Destouet
Advanced Radiology, Pamona Square, Ste. 112, 1700 Reisterstown Rd., 410-580-2100. AGE: 61. MS: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. RES: Barnes Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. YIP: 29. BC: Diagnostic Radiology. PRIV: GBMC, Franklin Square Medical Center.

Barbara M. Jaeger
Tyanna O’Brien Center for Women’s Imaging, Mercy Medical Center, 227 St. Paul Pl., 410-332-9102. AGE: 48. MS: University of Florida College of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 13. BC: Diagnostic Radiology. PRIV: Mercy Medical Center.

RHEUMATOLOGY
Ira T. Fine
10753 Falls Rd., Ste. 225, Lutherville, 410-583-2828. AGE: 60. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 27. BC: Rheumatology; Internal Medicine. PRIV: Johns Hopkins, Sinai Hospital.

Raymond H. Flores
2200 Kernan Dr., 410-448-6398. AGE: 57. MS: Harvard Medical School. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 26. BC: Internal Medicine; Rheumatology. PRIV: University of Maryland, Kernan Orthopaedic and Rehabilatation Hospital.

Howard W. Hauptman
1220B E. Joppa Rd., Ste. 310, 410-494-1888. AGE: 54. MS: St. George’s University. RES: GBMC. YIP: 21. BC: Internal Medicine; Rheumatology. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Franklin Square Hospital.

RHEUMATOLOGY, PEDIATRIC
Stephen George
4801 Dorsey Hall Dr., Ste. 226, Ellicott City, 410-992-7440. AGE: 51. MS: University of Maryland. RES: Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA. YIP: 16. BC: Adult Rheumatology; Pediatric Rheumatology; Internal Medicine; Pediatrics. PRIV: University of Maryland, Howard County Hospital, Sinai Hospital, Mercy Medical Center, Carroll Hospital Center.

SLEEP SPECIALIST
Brian Bohner
Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, 6535 N. Charles St., Ste. 550, Towson, 410-494-1662. AGE: 50. MS: Penn. State University. RES: Kessler Air Force Base as major in Air Force. YIP: 24. BC: Pulmonary Medicine; Critical Care Medicine; Sleep Disorders Medicine. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Union Memorial, Sinai Hospital, Northwest Hospital, Good Samaritan.

Jason Marx
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 409, Towson, 410-321-5651. AGE: 42. MS: Georgetown University. RES: Stanford University Medical Center. YIP: 15. BC: Internal Medicine; Pulmonary Disease; Critical Care Medicine; Sleep Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital, GBMC, Franklin Square, Harbor Hospital, Sinai, Hopkins Bayview, Good Samaritan.

SPORTS MEDICINE
Leslie S. Matthews
Union Memorial (Matthews is chief of Orthopedic Surgery), 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 400, 410-554-2865. AGE: 57. MS: Baylor College of Medicine, Loyola MBA. RES: Johns
Hopkins. YIP: 26. BC: Orthopedic Surgery. PRIV: Union Memorial Hospital.

Teri Metcalf McCambridge
8322 Bellona Ave., Ste. 100, Towson, 410-337-7900. AGE: 39. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 10. BC: Pediatrics; Sports Medicine. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, GBMC.

Andrew M. Tucker
Address: 1407 York Rd., Ste. 100-A, Lutherville, 410-821-8062. AGE: 48. MS: Southern Illinois University. RES: North Carolina Baptist Hospital at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. YIP: 17. BC: Family Medicine; Sports Medicine. PRIV: Union Memorial Hospital.

SURGERY, BARIATRIC
David von Rueden
3421 Benson Ave., Ste. 210, 410-368-3003. AGE: 60. MS: University of Wisconsin. RES: Medical College of VA, Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. YIP: 27. BC: General Surgery.
PRIV: St. Agnes Hospital.

SURGERY, BREAST
Neil B. Friedman
The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Pl., 410-332-9330. AGE: 51. MS: University of Maryland. RES: Cornell. YIP: 19. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: Johns Hopkins, Mercy Medical Center.

Lauren A. Schnaper
GBMC, 6701 N. Charles St., Ste. 3105, 443-849-2600. AGE: 60. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 22. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: GBMC.

Michael J. Schultz
7501 Osler Dr., Ste. 205, Towson, 410-427-5510. AGE: 61. MS: University of Maryland. RES: Sinai Hospital. YIP: 30. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Northwest Hospital Center, GBMC, Surgery Center of Baltimore.

SURGERY, CARDIAC
R.C. Stewart Finney Jr.
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr., Ste. W255, Towson, 410-337-1783. AGE: 50. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 14. BC: Cardiothorasic Surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Union Memorial, Sinai.

SURGERY, COLON RECTAL
Debra A. Vachon
301 St. Paul Pl., 410-783-5800. AGE: 49. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 18. BC: Colon Rectal Surgery. PRIV: Mercy, St. Joseph Medical Center, St. Agnes Hospital, Northwest Hospital, Howard County General Hospital.

SURGERY, GENERAL
J. Lawrence Fitzpatrick
Mercy Medical Center, 301 St. Paul Pl., Ste. C304, 410-332-9265. AGE: 52. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 21. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: Mercy
Medical Center.

Frank S. Rotolo
1205 York Rd., Lutherville, 410-821-6260. AGE: 53. MS: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. RES: Duke University Medical Center. YIP: 18. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center.

NEUROSURGERY
Amiel W. Bethel
GBMC, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 N. Charles St., No. 600, Towson, 443-849-4270. AGE: 43. MS: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 11. BC: Neurological Surgery. PRIV: University of Maryland, GBMC, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital.

Reginald J. Davis
GBMC, Physicians Pavilion North, 6535 North Charles St., No. 600, Towson, 443-849-4270.
AGE: 53. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 20. BC: Neurological Surgery; Spine Surgery. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Baltimore Spine Center.

Neal J. Naff
10751 Falls Rd., Ste. 301, Lutherville, 410-616-7600. AGE: 43. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 10. BC: Neurosurgery. PRIV: Sinai, St. Joseph Medical Center, Johns
Hopkins, Carroll County, Union Memorial, GBMC (Chief of neurosurgery at Sinai, St. Joseph).

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, GENERAL
Mukund S. Didolkar
2401 W. Belvedere Ave., 1st Floor, 410-601-8317. AGE: 66. MS: Government Medical College, Nagpur, India. RES: University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD. YIP: 30. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: Sinai Hospital, Northwest, Johns Hopkins, St. Joseph’s Medical Center, GBMC, Mercy Medical Center, Harbor Hospital, St. Agnes, Union Memorial.

Nader Hanna
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-7320. AGE: 46. MS: Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. RES: St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center (Tufts University), Boston, Surgery. YIP: 14. BC: General Surgery; Surgical Oncology. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center.

Armando Sardi
Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy, 227 St. Paul Place, 4th Fl., 410-332-9294. AGE: 54. MS: Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, South America. RES: South Baltimore General, St. Agnes. YIP: 20. BC: General Surgery; Surgical Oncology. PRIV: Mercy Medical Center.

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, HEAD AND NECK
John R. Saunders Jr.
GBMC (Saunders is chief of medical staff), 6569 N. Charles St., Physicians Pavilion West, Ste. 401, Towson, 443-849-8940. AGE: 63. MS: Georgetown University. RES: Walter Reed Army Medical Center. YIP: 26. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: GBMC, Johns Hopkins.

SURGERY, ORAL MAXILLOFACIAL
John F. Caccamese Jr.
650 W. Baltimore St., Ste. 1401, 410-706-6195. AGE: 37. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center. YIP: 4. BC: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. PRIV: University of Maryland, Sinai Hospital, GBMC, Kernan Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Hospital.

Julius Hyatt
10 Warren Rd., Ste. 330, Cockeysville, 410-666-5225; 10 Crossroads Dr., Ste. 200, Owings Mills, 410-363-7780. AGE: 50. MS: University of Maryland Dental School (DDS). RES: Johns Hopkins University. YIP: 18. BC: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. PRIV: GBMC Section Chair, University of Maryland.

SURGERY, RETINA AND VITREOUS
Raymond N. Sjaarda
GBMC 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 605, Towson, 410-296-9700. AGE: 47. MS: Duke University School of Medicine. RES: Cullen Eye Institute, Houston. YIP: 17. BC: Ophthalmology.
PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Maryland General, University of Maryland, Frederick Memorial Hospital.

SURGERY, THORACIC
Neri M. Cohen
GBMC, 6569 N. Charles St., Ste. 701, Towson, 443-849-3470. AGE: 47. MS: University of Maryland. RES: Medical College of Virginia (now, VCU Medical Center). YIP: 10. BC: General Surgery; Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. PRIV: GBMC, St. Agnes Hospital.

Richard Heitmiller
Union Memorial Hospital (Heitmiller is Chief of Surgery), 3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 610, 410-554-2063. AGE: 54. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Massachusetts General. YIP: 21. BC: General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery. PRIV: Union Memorial.

SURGERY, TRANSPLANT
Stephen T. Bartlett
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 South Greene St., Room N4E40, 410-328-8407. AGE: 55. MS: University of Chicago. RES: University of Pennsylvania Hospital. YIP: 29. BC: General Surgery; Vascular Surgery. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center.

Robert A. Montgomery
720 Rutland Ave., Ross Bldg., Ste. 765, 410-614-8297. AGE: 48. MS: University of Rochester. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 21. BC: General Surgery. PRIV: Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Benjamin Philosophe
University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 South Greene St., Ste. 200, 410-328-5408. AGE: 45. MS: Boston University (MD and Ph.D.). RES: Washington University, St. Louis. YIP: 9.
BC: General Surgery. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center.

SURGERY, TRAUMA
Thomas M. Scalea
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, 22 S. Greene St., 410-328-8976. AGE: 57. MS: Medical College of Virginia. RES: Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY. YIP: 30. BC: Surgery; Surgery Critical Care. PRIV: University of Maryland Medical Center, VA Medical Center.

SURGERY, VASCULAR
Peter J. Golueke
GBMC, 6565 North Charles St., Ste. 605, Towson, 410-825-4928. AGE: 53. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: State University of New York, Kings County Hospital. YIP: 24. BC: Vascular Surgery. PRIV: GBMC, St Joseph Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center.

Wayne Reichman
St. Joseph Medical Center, 7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 408, O’Dea Medical Arts Bldg., Towson, 410-296-3845; Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, 520 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Ste. 306, ACC Bldg., Bel Air, 410-879-2006. AGE: 50. MS: Medical College of Virginia. RES: Brown University, Rhode Island; fellowship, Medical College of Virginia. YIP: 19. BC: Vascular Surgery. PRIV: St. Joseph Medical Center, Upper Chesapeake, GBMC, Sinai Hospital.

SURGERY, HEPATO-BILIARY
John Cameron
Johns Hopkins, 600 North Wolfe St., Blalock 679, 410-955-5166. AGE: 71. MS: Johns Hopkins. RES: Johns Hopkins. YIP: 37. BC: American Board of Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery. PRIV: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Mark H. Fraiman
7505 Osler Dr., Ste. 503, Odea Medical Arts Bldg., Towson, 410-427-2024. AGE: 46. MS: University of Maryland School of Medicine. RES: St. Agnes Hospital. YIP: 11. BC: General
Surgery. PRIV: Good Samaritan, St. Joseph Medical Center, GBMC, St. Agnes.

SURGERY, PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE (Not cosmetic)
Paul N. Manson
Johns Hopkins (Manson is chief of the Department of Cosmetic and Facial Plastic Surgery), 601 N. Caroline St., 410-955-9897. AGE: 64. MS: Northwestern University, Chicago. RES: Boston City Hospital (Harvard), Johns Hopkins (for plastics). YIP: 32. BC: Plastic Surgery; General Surgery. PRIV: Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland.

UROLOGY
Brad Lerner
3333 N. Calvert St., Ste. 600, 410-467-7665. AGE: 49. MS: University of Maryland. RES: University of Maryland Medical Center, specialty training at Baylor College of Medicine
in male reproductive medicine and surgery. YIP: 19. BC: Urology. PRIV: Union Memorial (chief of Urology), GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Good Samaritan.

Ronald F. Tutrone
GBMC, 6535 N. Charles St., Physicians Pavilion North, Ste. 625, 410-825-5454. AGE: 47. MS: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers Medical School. RES: King’s County Hospital, State University of NY, Downstate Medical Center (general surgery); Harvard residency at Brigham and Women’s

Hospital (urology). YIP: 15. BC: Urology. PRIV: GBMC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Good Samaritan, Union Memorial.

Key

MS: Medical School.
RES: Where physician did residency/fellowships.
YIP: Years in practice.
BC: Board certifications.
PRIV: Where physician has privileges

How We Compiled The List

Using names chosen at computer-random from medical association mailing lists, we surveyed more than 2,000 physicians in the region to find out where they would send a member of their family in each of 69 specialties.

Then we ran their names by the doctor policing folks, the Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance, to look for legal problems. (Yes, a couple were eliminated in that step.)

In every case, we insisted that docs on the list be accepting new patients, at the very least by referral, because our readers are not served otherwise.

Why are there four or five docs listed in one specialty and only one in some others? In cases where several physicians were running neck and neck in the number of peer referrals,
we included them all.

Meet The Dr.

Arthur A. Serpick is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency at University Hospital. He entered private practice at Maryland General Hospital, then at St. Joseph Medical Center, where he served as Head of the Department of Medicine, and Vice President of Medical Affairs.

Dr. Melissa Sparrow is clinical director of pediatric inpatient and emergency services at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Dr. Sparrow earned her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. William H. B. Howard received his medical degree from the University of Maryland. His interest in athletic injuries sparked by his 28 years playing Division A rugby, Dr. Howard was a founder of what is now the Arnold Palmer SportsHealth Center at Union Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Jerome Riechmister, Chief of Orthopedics and Vice Chairman of the Board at Sinai Hospital, received his medical degree at the University of Maryland Medical Center, served his residency at Washington Hospital Center, and is board-certified in orthopedic surgery.

Dr. Michael R. Jablonover, Chief Medical Officer at the Kernan Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Hospital, and at University Specialty Hospital, received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

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Thomas Smyth, M.D. habitually fiddles with his wedding ring. But
one day this July, the 48-year-old urologist with Chesapeake Urology
Associates, P.A. realized he couldn’t get the ring off his finger. He
also felt weaker and more tired than he should, and so he thought he
might have injured a cervical disk; he scheduled an MRI for the next
day. At home that night, his weakness and fatigue continued. He
couldn’t walk the dog for longer than a few minutes, and he posited to
his wife Tina that perhaps he had Lyme disease. By the next day, things
had taken a turn for the worse.

“I got up the next morning, and my thighs burned when [my feet] hit
the floor,” he recalls. “I got in the shower, and the soap literally
just fell from my hands, and I had the feeling that, if I reached down
to get it, I would fall. I woke Tina up and said, ‘Something’s really
wrong.'”

Smyth went to the emergency room at St. Joseph’s Medical Center at
about 6:30 a.m., and his wife returned home to care for their three
young sons. At the ER, the weakness in his arms and legs worsened. “I
was very concerned that it was a tumor—a brain tumor or a spinal cord
tumor,” he says. “I was petrified of that.” However, an MRI showed no
tumor. Yet by 11:30 a.m., he was unable to walk.

Eventually, the culprit was discovered: Smyth was diagnosed with
Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder in which the body’s immune
system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. While most
patients do recover from the illness, it can cause almost complete
paralysis before it improves, and there is a danger that the paralysis
can affect the body’s ability to function before recovery can begin. By
midnight, Smyth was completely paralyzed as he lay in the intensive
care unit, receiving immunoglobulin treatments.

According to Smyth, the first 12 hours was the hardest. “I wanted to
be in control,” he says. “Not in a mean way, but I wanted to know what
was going on, and I hated waiting for people to come to tell me
information.” Late that first night, he had what he calls his “come to
Jesus” moment—a span of time when he relied on his spirituality to help
him let go of his need to control his own care. He made himself do what
he tells his patients to do, and trust that his caregivers were giving
him the best care possible.

There is an old stereotype that doctors don’t get sick—and there’s a
related saying that, when doctors do get sick, they make the worst
patients. Doctors are supposed to be infallible, unbreakable—bastions
of health who aren’t supposed to fall prey to illness like the average
person.

When a doctor does become sick, it creates a complicated situation
for not only the physician patient, but for the physician treating the
doctor, and the patients that the sick doctor oversees.

“Doctors are used to being in control, and relinquishing that role is
very, very difficult,” says Mark Ehrenreich, a psychiatrist and
director of the division of consultation/liaison psychiatry at the
University of Maryland Medical Center. “Being a good doctor involves
being fairly compulsive and detail-oriented; being a patient doesn’t
necessarily involve that. Being a patient in the hospital really means
relinquishing control to everyone and their brother.”

We like to think that doctors have all the answers. Not surprisingly,
doctors also like to think that they have all the answers. But
according to Ehrenreich, this can be a dangerous myth. Just because a
patient is a doctor doesn’t mean the patient is an expert in the field
of his ailment. For the treating physician, it can be difficult to be
in charge of someone who knows everything that can go wrong in a
hospital, and who has intimate knowledge of the medical system. The key
is to treat a doctor like any other patient—and for the doctor who is
sick to behave like they aren’t a physician.

Ehrenreich says that doctors who become ill should “think of yourself
as a patient, and make sure you are being fully informed. Don’t assume
that, because you’re a doctor, you should know this. If you have
cancer and you’re not an oncologist, you’re not going to know what the
oncologist knows.”

Unfortunately for Stacey Keen, M.D., she knew exactly what was wrong
with her own body. As a radiologist with Advanced Radiology
specializing in breast imaging, Keen, 53, spends every day on the
frontline battling breast cancer. So when she put her own mammogram on a
viewing box in 2000, she knew right away that the images she saw were
breast cancer.

“In medical training, you’re used to being in intense situations, and
not reacting with your gut,” she explains. “My first reaction was to
be very intellectual about the whole thing.”

As she went through the steps of treatment for her stage-two breast
cancer—including a lumpectomy, eight cycles of chemotherapy and six and a
half weeks of radiation—reality finally sank in. “Even for me, being
in the medical field and specializing in breast imaging, it was
overwhelming,” she says. “I don’t know how women who don’t have a
background in medicine can handle this volume of information, because my
head was swimming.”

In addition to the support of friends and family, Keen relied on work
to bring a sense of normalcy to her life during treatment. “It was
such a relief to go back to work and be a doctor again, and not a
patient, because it’s so much easier to give care than to get it,” she
explains. “It’s more anxiety provoking when it’s you, and you’re
uncertain as to what the future is going to bring.”

The very qualities that sometimes make a good doctor—confidence,
prudence, caution—can work against a physician. Ehrenreich explains that
doctors often downplay their own ailments: “As doctors, we tend to
diagnose ourselves and treat ourselves, and we tend to minimize a
symptom: ‘Oh, it’s just a little chest pain,’ or you find a lump and
say, ‘Most lumps are nothing,'” he explains. “You don’t want to be seen
as another anxious patient, and that fear of how you’ll be seen is an
impediment to getting treatment.”

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Daniel Dietrick, M.D., didn’t even have chest pains—it was merely
mild heartburn that began to annoy him back in the spring of 2006.
Dietrick thought nothing of it; he’d recently passed a stress test, had
good cholesterol, and had no family history of heart disease. He was a
perfectly healthy 46-year-old with three young sons. “I’d take a
Pepcid or a Tums and it would go away in about 15 minutes,” he recalls.

But on May 17th, when he was at work at GBMC (he is a urologist
specializing in cancer treatment), the heartburn came on again—and this
time, it wouldn’t go away. Two medical colleagues convinced him to get
an EKG right away. What it revealed was an abnormality ominously
referred to within the medical community as “the tombstone sign.”

“I walked down to the ER, and tapped an ER doc on the shoulder and
said, ‘What do you think of this EKG?'” he recalls. “He said, ‘Wow, this
is really bad, whose is this?’ and I said, ‘It’s mine.’

“Five minutes later, I was in cardiac arrest.”

While in the ER at GBMC, Dietrick’s heart stopped—for under one
minute—before he was resuscitated. He was transferred to the Heart
Center at St. Joseph’s, where he received five stents to alleviate heart
blockages of 90 to 95 percent. For the first time, he found himself
asking the question so many of his patients had asked him in the past:
Why did this happen to me?

“I’ve always intellectualized about risk factors and other things,
but when it comes right down to it, no one really knows why any one
person gets any one disease,” he says.

“I happened to get this one, and luckily, I was in the right place at the right time.”

For doctors who have faced and conquered illnesses, the emergence of a
new and guiding sense of understanding—and empathy—is very common.

“I’m grateful for my experience, because I learned so much,” says
Smyth. After spending five days in intensive care, completely bed-ridden
and relying on caregivers for his every need, he was transferred to
Good Samaritan’s rehabilitation unit where—over the course of two
weeks—he learned how to walk again. By late August, he was miraculously
back at work, although on a schedule that accommodated his recovery (he
still suffers from fatigue). “I wouldn’t wish this on any doctor, but I
wish there was a way to train doctors in it. I don’t know that you can
teach a doctor empathy, but boy, that would be a valuable lesson.”

“When I got this, I said to God, ‘Look, I always had a lot of
empathy, did I really need to get this?'” says Stacey Keen. “But
really, it did make me even more empathic.”

With illness, there also comes a greater understanding of just what
the day-to-day patient experience is like. “What I realized from this,”
says Smyth, “is that the patient is paying attention all the time and
to every health care professional, not just to the doctor but to the
nurse, even to the person who brings in the food tray. They’re
constantly observing not only what people are doing to you, but how they
do it to you. Are they cheerful? Are they careful? What’s being said
outside in the hall? You have nothing to do in a hospital bed but sit
and get better, so there’s a lot of free time to pay attention.”

Smyth says he’s learned the hard way the value of always being
confident and in a good mood when he’s around patients, regardless of
what may be going on at home or in the office. He’s now aware that he’s
on stage at all times, and behaviors like having a heated discussion
with a nurse over a patient, or arguing in the halls outside patient’s
rooms, are unacceptable. Doctors who have been on the receiving end of
care now say they realize the incredible importance of little gestures,
like giving a patient a little smile when you’re taking their blood.
Even if the patient doesn’t smile back, the gesture registers, and is an
important step in the healing process.

“A hospital is the best place to be if you’re sick, but it’s not
restful, it’s uncomfortable,” says Dietrick. “The food is fine, but it’s
not great.”

Dietrick went through a cardiac rehabilitation program at St.
Joseph’s, and he credits the program for making him healthier now than
he ever was before—and for teaching him how to live his new, post-heart
attack life. “I’m much more appreciative of making sure my patients get
rest,” he says. “I’m much more appreciative of, in general, how
uncomfortable it is to be in a hospital bed, away from your family, and
wondering what will happen next.”

If there’s one misery all patients can identify with, it’s the
waiting. Waiting for the test results. Waiting for the doctor. Waiting
to know what happens next. While doctors are uniquely privileged and can
sometimes pull strings with colleagues to get tests and results
performed faster, even doctors learn what it is like to live with
anticipation.

“The wait is agony,” says Keen. “You can’t sleep. I know, because the
first couple of weeks, I couldn’t sleep until I got the treatment I
needed. It’s the waiting that’s the worst.”

Dr Stacy Keen-16-Edit

Keen has become a self-proclaimed “rabid advocate” for getting
patients the care and information they need as soon as possible.
Dietrick now gives his surgical patients a detailed information packet
that outlines what the procedure is, how it works, and what they can
expect before, during and after surgery.

“I like to think I communicate a lot better with my patients now,” he
says. “There’s an incredible amount of mystery surrounding being in
the hospital. What I’ve tried to do is help alleviate some of the fear
of being in the hospital by helping my patients understand what is
going to happen to them, each step of the way.”

And how do patients react to seeking care from a physician who has
been revealed to be all-too- human? Smyth received over 100 cards from
well-wishers when he was ill. He wrote a letter that he gave to all his
patients, explaining the nature of his absence from work. He says the
problem is that doctors are put on a pedestal where the expectations of
their performance are unrealistic. While some patients are
understanding of his current light schedule as he completes his
recovery, others are not. “In the back of my mind, I wonder what
[patients] think of me,” he says, “but time will tell, one way or the
other.”

“Some people say to me, ‘You’re a doctor, you’re not supposed to get
sick,'” says Dietrick. “But I was a person for many years before I
became a physician, and as a physician I’m still human. I think this has
given me the opportunity to talk openly with patients—it’s a bridge to
my patients, that illness happens to everybody.”

Smyth says that he has a newfound understanding of the importance of
creating a trusting relationship with his patients. “We can’t just walk
into a patient’s room or the office exam room, tell someone something,
and divorce ourselves from their emotional attachment to it,” he says.
“Having been through this, I realize how critical our ability to
support [patients] is. We can’t assume they know what to do, or that
they hear what we say the first time. We need to assume they want
support, and they want continued guidance and reassurance.”

Stacey Keen, whose cancer is in remission, put her experiences into a
self-published book, Defeating Breast Cancer: A Physician’s Story of
Healing, Martial Arts and Life, and says that she will often share her
story with patients if she feels it will help them get though the
difficulty of a cancer diagnosis. “If I tell a patient there is cancer
on their biopsy, I can give them encouragement and say, ‘I had this six
years ago and I’m doing okay.’ And I can also describe to them what’s
ahead, and try to remove some of the fear,” she says. “The other thing
is, I think it gives me more credibility as a doctor, and a bond with
people who have breast cancer.”

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How This List Was Created

This list is excerpted from The Best Doctors in America 2007 database, which includes approximately 41,000 doctors in more than 40 medical specialties. Best Doctors believes that physicians are the most qualified to evaluate the experience and skill sets of other physicians. Best Doctors asks physicians: “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?” Clinical status that is current, temporary, or indefinite is subject to change at any time per individual doctor. Please note that many physicians, particularly specialists, request or require a referral prior to accepting a new patient. The Best Doctors in America database is compiled and maintained by Best Doctors, Inc. For more information, visitbestdoctors.com, or contact Best Doctors by telephone 800-675-1199. Please note that lists of doctors are not available on the Best Doctors website. Best Doctors, Inc., has used its best efforts in assembling material for this list but does not warrant that the information contained herein is complete or accurate, and does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions herein whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. Copyright 2007 by Best Doctors, Inc. All rights reserved. This list, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission. No commercial use of the information in this list may be made without permission of Best Doctors, Inc. No fees may be charged, directly or indirectly, for the use of the information in this list without permission. “Best Doctors”, “The Best Doctors in America”, and the Best Doctors logo are registered trademarks of Best Doctors, Inc., and are used under license.

Navigating the bureaucratic seas of the American health care system can be a daunting task for even the healthiest of us. When we get sick, all we want to do is tell our woes to a doctor who will heal us. But to get to that doctor, there’s a labyrinth of paperwork and information sheets and referrals and pre-approvals and HIPAA forms and insurance card photocopying and . . . well, sometimes, it all seems like things are designed to keep us from getting to our doc. While we can’t make the paperwork go away, we’re doing our part to make things a little easier. Here’s our latest compendium of outstanding physicians from across the Baltimore area. The list reflects the demographics of the region’s medical community—which means there are lots of doctors from the city’s two giant teaching hospitals, Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland Medical Center. There are many from big suburban hospitals like Greater Baltimore Medical Center and St. Joseph. And there are more than a few private practice physicians as well. (To find out how this list was created, and how to best use it, please read “How This List Was Created” below.)

Remember, this article should be used as a starting point for your own research into finding a physician—do some homework about who is best for your own unique health situation. This is the biggest list we’ve ever printed, and we hope it helps you chart a healthy course to the best doctor for you.

Addiction Medicine
Donald R. Jasinski
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Department of Addiction Medicine
410-550-1906

Allergy and Immunology
Peter S. Creticos
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Department of Clinical Immunology
410-550-2301

Kenneth C. Schuberth
The Maryland Pediatric Group
10807 Falls Road, Suite 200, Lutherville
410-321-9393

Robert A. Wood
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
410-955-5883

Anesthesiology
Paul Christo
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Division of Pain Medicine
410-955-1818

Todd Dorman
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine
410-955-5928

Richard P. Dutton
University of Maryland
Medical Center
R Adams Cowley
Shock Trauma Center
410-328-2628

Blaine Easley
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
410-955-7610

Timothy B. Gilbert
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-328-6120

Andrew P. Harris
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology
410-955-2544

Andrew M. Malinow
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-328-6120

Douglas G. Martz Jr.
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-328-6120

Edward D. Miller Jr.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dean’s Office
410-955-3180
* Primarily administrative

David Gregory Nichols
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Department of Pediatric Anesthesia
410-955-8401

Mary Njoku
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-328-6120

Daniel Nyhan
Johns Hopkins Hospital
410-955-7519

Srinivasa Raja
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine
410-955-7246
* Accepting new patients for pain management

Anne M. Savarese
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-328-6120

David L. Schreibman
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-328-6120

Frederick Sieber
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-550-0942

Myron Yaster
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine
410-955-2393

Cardiovascular Disease

Stephen C. Achuff
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-955-7670

Robert Michael Benitez
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
410-328-5396

Ronald D. Berger
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-614-2751
*Accepting new arrhythmia patients

Roger Blumenthal
Johns Hopkins Heart Health at Timonium
Ciccarone Preventative Cardiology Center
410-308-7170

Jeffrey A. Brinker
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-955-6086

Hugh Calkins
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-955-7405

Hunter C. Champion
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
410-502-0018
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

Mary Corretti
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-955-5000

Nicholas J. Fortuin
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2666

Thomas Guarnieri
Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates
410-825-5150
*Accepting new patients on a case by case basis

Carlos S. Ince Jr.
Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates
410-644-5111

Edward K. Kasper
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
410-550-0536

Mark Kelemen
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
410-328-7877

Richard A. Lange
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-955-3116

Joao A. C. Lima
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-614-1284
* Primarily administrative and works in research

Mandeep R. Mehra
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
410-328-7716

Shellee Nolan
Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates
410-583-1170

James K. Porterfield
Midatlantic Cardiovascular
Associates
410-825-5150

Jon R. Resar
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-614-1132

Stuart Russell
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-955-5708
* Accepting new heart failure patients

Steven Schulman
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-955-7378
* Temporarily not accepting new patients

Thomas A. Traill
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Division of Cardiology
410-614-3140

Robert Vogel
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
410-328-8795

Ilan Wittstein
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiology
410-614-6258

Roy C. Ziegelstein
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Medicine
410-550-0523

Dermatology

Grant J. Anhalt
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Dermatology
410-955-2992

Anthony Gaspari
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Dermatology
410-328-5766

Ronald Goldner
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Dermatology
410-328-3167

Linda L. Lutz
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Dermatology
410-328-3167
* Accepting new cancer patients

Stanley J. Miller
1104 Kenilworth Drive,
Suite 201, Towson
443-279-0340

Warwick L. Morison
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road,
Lutherville
410-847-3700

Eva Simmons-O’Brien
8320 Bellona Avenue,
Suite 20, Towson
410-821-7546

John W. Skouge
The Center for Surgical Dermatology
1302 Bellona Avenue, Lutherville
410-825-6810
* Accepting new skin cancer patients

Robert A. Weiss
Maryland Laser Skin and
Vein Institute
54 Scott Adam Road,
Suite 301, Hunt Valley
410-666-3960

S. Elizabeth Whitmore
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Dermatology
410-955-5933
* Accepting new patients.
Specializes in allergic contact dermatitis

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Douglas Wilmot Ball
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology
410-955-3663

Issam Essa Cheikh
Union Memorial Hospital
Diabetes and Endocrine Center
410-554-4511

David S. Cooper
Sinai Hospital
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism
410-601-5961
* Accepting new thyroid disease patients. Available for consultations and second opinions

Paul William Ladenson
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
410-955-9270

Francis Lee
Bay West Endocrine
6535 North Charles Street,
Suite 400N, Towson
410-828-7417
* Temporarily not accepting new patients.

W. Tabb Moore
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-955-3663

Sally M. Pinkstaff
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism
410-601-5961

Christopher D. Saudek
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
410-955-2132

Gary S. Wand
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
410-955-7225

Family Medicine

Gillian Adams
Plumtree Family Health Center
104 Plumtree Road, Suite 102, Bel Air
410-569-4224
* Currently not accepting new patients

Richard Colgan
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Family and
Community Medicine
410-328-8792

Barbara Gardner Cook
Johns Hopkins Community
Physicians at White Marsh
443-442-2300
* Currently not accepting new patients

Tyler Cymet
Sinai Hospital
Department of Family Medicine
410-601-6840

Mel Daly
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Geriatric Medicine
443-849-3184

Kevin S. Ferentz
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Family and Community Medicine
410-328-2686

Joyce King
Franklin Square Hospital Center
Department of Family Practice
443-777-2037
* Accepting new Helix patients

Ursula McClymont
Baltimore Medical Systems
410-558-4747

Sallie Rixey
Franklin Square Hospital Center
Department of Family Practice
443-777-2000
* Accepting new Helix patients

Kellie B. Smaldore
Smaldore Family Practice Associates
2227 Old Emmorton Road, Suite 220, Bel Air
410-515-9040
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

David Lesley Stewart
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Family and Community Medicine
410-328-8792

Paul A. Valle Jr.
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
443-849-3680

Joseph Zebley
Greenspring Medical Associates
2 Hamill Road, Suite 222
443-524-4481
* Accepting new patients that are participating in the MD Value in Prevention program. Available for referrals, consultations, and second opinions on a case by case basis to non-participating patients

Gastroenterology

Sudhir Dutta
Sinai Hospital
Sinai GI Associates
410-601-5392

Francis Giardiello
Johns Hopkins University
Division of Gastroenterology
410-955-2635

H. Franklin Herlong
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Gastroenterology
410-550-0791

David F. Hutcheon
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2631
* Accepting new patients with Medicare and those participating in the Johns Hopkins Employee Health Plan

Anthony Nicholas Kalloo
Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
Department of Gastroenterology
410-955-9697

Esteban Mezey
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-955-4166

William J. Ravich
Green Spring Station
10751 Falls Road, Suite 401, Lutherville
410-616-2840

Paul J. Thuluvath
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-955-4166

Geriatric Medicine

Michele F. Bellantoni
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
410-550-0925
* Accepting new patients over age 65

Charles E. Boult
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health
410-955-6546

John Russell Burton
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Division of Geriatric
Medicine and Gerontology
410-550-0925
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

Thomas E. Finucane
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Division of Geriatric
Medicine and Gerontology
410-550-0925

Steven R. Gambert
Sinai Hospital
Department of Medicine
410-601-6340
* Primarily administrative

Fred Michael Gloth III
Victory Springs Senior Health Associates
210 Business Center Drive,
Reisterstown
410-526-1490

Andrew P. Goldberg
Baltimore VA Medical Center
Department of Geriatric
Medicine/GRECC
410-605-7183

Hand Surgery

Thomas M. Brushart
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
410-955-9663
* Accepting new patients with hand and/or nerve related problems

A. Lee Dellon
Dellon Institute for Peripheral Nerve Surgery
3333 North Calvert Street
Suite 370
410-467-5400
* Accepting new self-pay patients. Does not accept insurance

Thomas J. Graham
Union Memorial Hospital
The Curtis National Hand Center
410-235-3869

Infectious Disease

Anthony Amoroso
Institute of Human Virology
410-706-4613

Paul G. Auwaerter
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-502-7066

John G. Bartlett
Johns Hopkins University
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-614-3631

Wayne N. Campbell
Union Memorial Hospital
Department of Medicine
410-554-2284

Ellis S. Caplan
University of Maryland Medical Center
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
410-328-3656
* Currently not accepting new patients

Richard E. Chaisson
Johns Hopkins University
Center for Tuberculosis Research
410-955-1755
* Available for consultations to in-patients admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital

Charles E. Davis
Institute of Human Virology
410-328-1900

Joel E. Gallant
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-502-8650
* Accepting new patients on a case by case basis

Bruce L. Gilliam
Family Health Center
827 Linden Avenue
410-225-8083
* Above information is for HIV patients

Philip A. Mackowiak
VA Maryland Health Care System
Medical Care Clinical Center
410-605-7199
* Currently not accepting new patients

Thomas C. Quinn
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-955-7635

Stuart C. Ray
Johns Hopkins University
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-614-6089

Robert Redfield
Institute of Human Virology
410-706-4613

Cynthia L. Sears
Johns Hopkins University
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-614-0141
* Accepting new HIV patients on a case by case basis

David L. Thomas
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-955-0349

John W. Warren
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-706-7560
* Primarily works in research

Jonathan M. Zenilman
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Division of Infectious Diseases
410-550-9080


Internal Medicine (General)

Jeffrey S. Alexander
120 Sister Pierre Drive, Suite 101, Towson
443-901-0301
* Currently not accepting new patients

Sheldon Amsel
UniversityCare at Waxter Center
410-396-1295

Charles S. Angell
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7114

Bimal Ashar
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-502-7453

John N. Aucott
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7124
* Temporarily not accepting new patients

Paul G. Auwaerter
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-502-7066

Lee Randol Barker
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
|Division of General Internal Medicine
410-550-0509
* Currently not accepting new patients

Eric Biren Bass
1830 E. Monument Street,
Room 8068
410-955-0670
* Currently not accepting new patients. Available for referrals and second opinions

Stuart B. Bell
Union Memorial Hospital
Department of Internal Medicine
410-889-8388
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

Richard A. Berg
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2711

Pratima Bose
301 St. Paul Place, Suite 312 E
410-332-9359

R. Dobbin Chow
Good Samaritan Hospital
443-444-4818

Sarah L. Clever
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
410-955-5512
* Temporarily not accepting new patients

Joseph Cofrancesco Jr.
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-955-1725

Dana Frank
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7112

Gino Marcello Freeman
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Internal Medicine
443-849-3594

Neal M. Friedlander
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Internal Medicine
443-849-3594
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

Stephen H. Glasser
Health Associates
2700 Quarry Lake Drive
410-415-5814

Andrew P. Goldberg
Baltimore VA Medical Center
Department of Geriatric
Medicine/GRECC
410-605-7183
* Primarily works in research

Kenneth M. Greene
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
410-821-2800

Richard J. Gross
Johns Hopkins Community
Physicians at White Marsh
4924 Campbell Boulevard,
Suite 200
443-442-2300
* Temporarily accepting a limited number of new patients. Available for consultations, referrals, and second opinions

Tammy D. Hadley
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7110

David Kafonek
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2630

Harry W. Kaplan
4000 Old Court Road,
Suite 301, Pikesville
410-653-0000
* Temporarily not accepting new patients

David E. Kern
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Division of General Internal Medicine
410-550-0509
* Currently not accepting new patients. Available for referrals.

Timothy L. Krohe
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7108
* Temporarily not accepting new patients

Bruce A. Leff
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
410-550-0925

Thomas J. Lynch
Mercy Medical Center
Internal Medicine Primary Care
410-659-0808

Jeffrey Magaziner
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2774

Nick Mellis
2352 York Road, Timonium
410-560-5652
* Currently not accepting new patients

Redonda Miller
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Medicine
410-955-3010
Susan Molinaro
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7110
* Temporarily not accepting new patients

Mary Newman
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7120

Brent G. Petty
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Internal Medicine
410-933-5320
* Currently and indefinitely not
accepting new patients

Gregory Prokopowicz
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-955-5528
* Currently and indefinitely not
accepting new patients

Waiel Samara
Union Memorial Hospital
Department of Internal Medicine
410-889-8388

Patricia A. Savadel
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-7177
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

William Schlott
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-955-2065
* Currently not accepting
new patients

Lisa Simonson
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-955-1111
* Currently not accepting
new patients

Stephen Sisson
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-955-6738
* Currently and indefinitely
not accepting new patients

Rosalyn Walker Stewart
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Internal Medicine
410-955-3613

Milan Wister
4000 Old Court Road,
Suite 301, Pikesville
410-653-0000

Susan Wolfsthal
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Medicine
410-328-5196
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Medical Genetics

Harry C. Dietz III
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Genetics Clinic Office
410-955-3071
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Carol L. Greene
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Pediatric Genetic Clinic
410-328-3335

Carole M. Meyers
Planned Parenthood
of Maryland
330 North Howard Street
410-788-4400
* Currently not accepting
new patients

Medical Oncology and
Hematology

Martin D. Abeloff
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8822
* Currently and indefinitely
not accepting new patients

Richard Ambinder
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8964

Deborah K. Armstrong
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8964

Robert A. Brodsky
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-502-2546

Michael Carducci
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8964

Nancy E. Davidson
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8964

Russell DeLuca
Baltimore Washington Medical Center
Tate Cancer Center,
Glen Burnie
410-761-9896

Ross C. Donehower
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8838

Mario Eisenberger
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-614-3511

David S. Ettinger
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8847

Arlene A. Forastiere
Johns Hopkins Hospital
410-955-8964

Ivana Gojo
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Marlene and Stewart
Greenebaum Cancer Center
410-328-2594

Steven D. Gore
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at
Johns Hopkins
410-955-8781

Stuart A. Grossman
The Sidney Kimmel
Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8837

Charles S. Hesdorffer
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Hematology
410-955-8664

Meyer R. Heyman
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center
410-328-7450

Judith E. Karp
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-502-7726

Flavio Kruter
555 South Center Street,
Westminster
410-751-6066

William P. McGuire III
Franklin Square Hospital Center
Division of Medical Oncology
443-777-7826

Roberto Pili
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-8964

William Sharfman
Johna Hopkins at Green
Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2970

David Andrew Van Echo
Harbor Hospital
HarborView Cancer Center
410-350-3386

Nephrology

Michael J. Choi
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Division of Nephrology
410-955-0670
* Currently not accepting new patients

Neurological Surgery

Allan J. Belzberg
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-5810

Henry Brem
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-2248

James N. Campbell
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-3406

Ronald J. Cohen
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
410-321-7360

Ziya Gokaslan
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-4424
* Accepting new patients. Does not accept Medicare or BCBS insurance.

Judy Huang
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-502-5767

Frederick Lenz
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-955-2257
William W. Maggio
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
410-328-6034

Richard B. North
Sinai Hospital
The LifeBridge Health Brain and Spine Institute
410-601-1950

Alessandro Olivi
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
410-550-0465

Alfredo Quinones
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
410-550-3367

Daniele Rigamonti
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-2259
* Accepting new patients on a case by case basis

John D. Rybock
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Department of Neurological Surgery
410-502-0463
* Currently not accepting new patients. Primarily reads X-rays.

J. Marc Simard
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
410-328-6034

Rafael Tamargo
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-614-1533

Jon D. Weingart
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-614-3052

Timothy Witham
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-4424

Jean-Paul Wolinsky
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-4424

Neurology

Eric M. Aldrich
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-614-2381
* Hospitalist. Sees in-patients.

Elizabeth Barry
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323

Gregory K. Bergey
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Epilepsy Center
410-955-7338
* Accepting new patients with epilepsy or seizure disorders

Christopher T. Bever Jr.
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-5858
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Peter Arthur Calabresi
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Multiple Sclerosis Center
410-614-1522
* Accepting new patients for
consultations. Available for
referrals and second opinions.

Vinay Chaudhry
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Neurology
410-955-9167

David R. Cornblath
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-955-2229

Andrea Corse
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-614-4278

Martha B. Denckla
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Department of Developmental Cognitive Neurology
443-923-9250

Paul S. Fishman
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323

Barry Gordon
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Department of Neurology
410-955-8531

John W. Griffin
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-955-2227

Daniel Francis Hanley
Johns Hopkins University
Acute Care Neurology
410-614-6996

Douglas Kerr
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-502-7099
* Available for consultations and second opinions

Steven Jay Kittner
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323

Gregory Lewis Krauss
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-955-2822

Allan Krumholz
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323

John Joseph Laterra
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-614-3853

Ronald P. Lesser
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-955-1270

Justin C. McArthur
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-955-3730

John W. McDonald
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Institute for Spinal Cord Injury
443-923-9414
* Accepting new patients by referral only and on a case by case basis

Beth B. Murinson
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-614-1196

Avindra Nath
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
443-287-4656

Bruce A. Rabin
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-616-7188

Stephen G. Reich
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323

Jeffrey D. Rothstein
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-614-5972

Walter Royal III
University of Maryland Medical Center
Maryland Center for
Multiple Sclerosis
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323

Lisa M. Shulman
University of Maryland Medical Center
Maryland Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323
* Accepting new patients
with movement disorders and Parkinson’s Disease

Barney J. Stern
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323

William J. Weiner
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Neurology
410-328-4323
* Accepting new patients with movement disorders such as
Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, Tourette’s Tumor Disorders, Chorea Dystonia Moclonus, and Restless Leg Syndrome

Howard D. Weiss
2411 West Belvedere Avenue, Suite 202
410-367-7600
* Accepting new patients for
consultation and management
with a special focus on Parkinson’s Disease

Ursula Isolde Wesselmann
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-614-4517

Robert J. Wityk
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Neurology
410-955-2228

David S. Zee
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-955-3319

Neurology, Child

Thomas Crawford
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Neurology
410-614-5807

Michael Johnston
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Department of Neurology
443-923-9315
* Currently not accepting new patients. Available for consultations, referrals, and second opinions

Eric Kossoff
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurology
410-614-6054

SakkuBai Naidu
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Department of Neurogenetics
443-923-2778

Gerald Raymond
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Department of Neurology
443-923-2750
* Accepting new patients on a case by case basis

Harvey S. Singer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Neurology
410-955-7212

Eileen P. G. Vining
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-9100

Nuclear Medicine

Richard L. Wahl
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Division of Nuclear Medicine
410-614-3764

Dean F. Wong
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Radiology
410-955-8433

Harvey Ziessman
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Division of Nuclear Medicine
410-614-3764

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Samuel Akman
OB/GYN Specialists of Maryland
1205 York Road, Suite 14,
Lutherville
410-832-5511

Lindsay S. Alger
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-328-5960

Jean Rene Anderson
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2749

Thelma Seimaa Asare
OB/GYN Specialists of Maryland
1205 York Road, Suite 14,
Lutherville
410-832-5511

Milagros Atienza
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Maternal-
Fetal Medicine
410-502-3200

Jon Joseph Bellantoni
520 Upper Chesapeake Drive, Suite 301, Bel Air
443-643-4300
* Unable to reach doctor to verify address and clinical activity

Jessica L. Bienstock
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
410-502-3200

Karin J. Blakemore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology
410-583-2749

Robert E. Bristow
Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Kelly Gynecologic
Oncology Service
410-955-8240

Anne E. Burke
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-550-0335

Raymond Cox Jr.
St. Agnes Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-368-2626
* Primarily administrative

Jude Crino
Johns Hopkins at Green
Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2888
* Accepting new obstetrics patients

Donovan Dietrick
Franklin Square Hospital Center
443-777-7831
* Accepting new gynecology patients

Richard Marcus Ellerkmann
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Gynecology
443-849-2767
* Accepting new gynecology patients

Mary Anne Facciolo
Capital Women’s Care
7505 Osler Drive,
Suite 402, Towson
410-339-7447
*Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Harold Edward Fox
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-614-0178

Jairo E. Garcia
Johns Hopkins Hospital at
Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2753
* Accepting new in vitro
fertilization patients

Rene R. Genadry
Johns Hopkins Hospital at
Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2991

Robert L. Giuntoli II
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
410-955-6700
* Accepting new gynecologic
oncology patients

Ernest Graham
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
410-502-3200

Francis C. Grumbine
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Gynecologic Oncology
443-849-2765
* Accepting new gynecologic
oncology patients

Robert E. Gutman
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-550-0335

Victoria Handa
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2749

Deborah Lyon Hebb
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
410-296-6090
* Accepting new obstetrics patients
Endrika L. Hinton
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
443-849-8707

Nancy Hueppchen
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Maternal-
Fetal Medicine
410-502-3200
* Accepting new obstetrics patients

Harry W. Johnson Jr.
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-328-5960
* Accepting new urogynecology patients

Mary Jo Johnson
St. Joseph Medical Center
Towson
410-337-4480

Harvey H. Kasner
OB/GYN Specialists of Maryland
1205 York Road, Suite 14,
Lutherville
410-832-5511

Eugene Katz
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Shady Grove Reproductive
Science Center
443-849-2484

Lisa A. Kolp
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-616-7140
* Accepting new infertility patients

Judy M. Lee
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins Moore Clinic
410-955-1725

Michael S. Lifson
OB/GYN Specialists of Maryland
1205 York Road, Suite 14,
Lutherville
410-832-5511

Marc Lowen
Village Obstetrics and Gynecology
37 Walker Avenue, Suite 100, Pikesville
410-653-6500

Carole M. Meyers
Planned Parenthood of Maryland
330 North Howard Street
410-788-4400

Katherine Miller-Bass
Fertility Center of Maryland
110 West Road, Suite 102, Towson
410-296-6400

Hugh E. Mighty
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-328-5966

Lorraine Milio
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Maternal-
Fetal Medicine
410-502-3200

Santiago L. Padilla
Fertility Center of Maryland
110 West Road, Suite 102,
Towson
410-296-6400

Robert F. Pegues
OB/GYN Specialists of Maryland
1205 York Road, Suite 14,
Lutherville
410-832-5511

Joel Pleeter
Village Obstetrics and Gynecology
37 Walker Avenue, Suite 100, Pikesville
410-653-6500

Carol Ritter
8415 Bellona Lane, Suite 213
410-296-2557

Neil B. Rosenshein
Mercy Medical Center
Weinberg Center for Women’s Health & Medicine at Mercy
410-332-9200

Judith Rossiter
St. Joseph Medical Center
Perinatal Center
410-337-4480
* Currently not accepting new patients. Available for consultations, referrals, and second opinions.

David B. Schwartz
Sinai Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
410-601-9711
* Primarily administrative

Frank R. Witter
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Women’s Health Center
410-955-1421

Howard A. Zacur
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2714

Ruthann T. Zern
Capital Women’s Care
7505 Osler Drive,
Suite 402, Towson
410-339-7447
*Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Ophthalmology

Donald A. Abrams
Sinai Hospital
Krieger Eye Institute
410-601-5700

Neil M. Bressler
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-8342

Susan B. Bressler
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-3648

Peter A. Campochiaro
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-5106
* Primarily sees patients with retinal diseases by referral only. Will see self-referrals on a case
by case basis.

Roy S. Chuck
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10753 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2802

James P. Dunn Jr.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-2966

Daniel Finkelstein
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-3429

David Steven Friedman
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-6082

Bert M. Glaser
National Retina Institute
901 Dulaney Valley Road,
Suite 200, Towson
410-337-4500

John D. Gottsch
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-7928

David L. Guyton
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-8314
* Accepting new children or adults needing Strabismus surgery due to misalignment and/or double vision

Julia A. Haller
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-3518

James T. Handa
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-3518
* Accepting new patients
with retinal diseases and
intraocular tumors

Nicholas T. Iliff
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-550-9427
* Accepting new patients for
oculoplastic and orbital surgery

Henry D. Jampel
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-6082
*Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Allan D. Jensen
200 East 33rd Street,
Suite 426
410-235-1133

Shalom E. Kelman
1777 Reisterstown Road,
Suite 234
410-580-1800

Irene H. Maumenee
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-5214
* Primarily works in research

Peter J. McDonnell III
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
443-287-1511

Neil R. Miller
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-8679

Harry A. Quigley
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-6052

Alan Lee Robin
Mid-Atlantic Glaucoma Experts
6115 Falls Road, Suite 333
410-377-2422
Oliver D. Schein
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-7677

Sharon Solomon
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-614-6908

Walter J. Stark
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-5490

John T. Thompson
Retina Specialists
6569 N. Charles Street, Physician’s Pavilion West, Suite 605, Towson
410-296-9700

Jennifer Elizabeth Thorne
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Ophthalmology
410-955-2966

Robert S. Weinberg
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Department of Ophthalmology
410-550-3000

C. P. Wilkinson
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Ophthalmology
443-849-2196

Orthopaedic Surgery

Paul Asdourian
Union Memorial Hospital
Greater Chesapeake Orthopaedic Associates
410-554-2867

Robert J. Brumback
Union Memorial Hospital
Greater Chesapeake
Orthopaedic Associates
410-554-6645

Timothy P. Codd
Orthopaedic Associates
8322 Bellona Avenue,
Suite 100, Towson
410-337-7900

Carol E. Copeland
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Orthopaedics
410-328-6280
* Primarily sees patients in the Trauma Center. Will see referral patients on a case by case basis.

Andy Cosgarea
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2850

Leigh Ann Curl
Harborview Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery
2900 South Hanover Street
410-350-8336

Randy F. Davis
Mid-Atlantic Spine and Orthopaedics
305 Hospital Drive, Suite 303, Glen Burnie
410-553-8290

Frank R. Ebert
Union Memorial Hospital
Greater Chesapeake
Orthopaedic Associates
410-554-2850
* Accepting new patients for
joint replacement

Frank Frassica
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
410-955-9300
* Currently and indefinitely not
accepting new patients

David S. Hungerford
Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland
Department of Orthopaedics
410-532-4732

Leslie Matthews
Union Memorial Hospital
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
410-554-2865

Edward G. McFarland
Johns Hopkins at Green
Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-583-2850

Mark S. Myerson
Mercy Medical Center
Institute for Foot and Ankle
Reconstruction
410-659-2800

Jason Nascone
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Orthopaedics
410-326-6280
* Accepting new patients. Practice is limited to acute fracture management, post traumatic re-construction, and bone infections.

Vincent D. Pellegrini Jr.
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Orthopaedics
410-328-8919
* Accepting new patients with diagnoses of hip, knee, and hand/upper extremity arthritis

Steve Alan Petersen
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station
10755 Falls Road, Lutherville
410-847-3517

Andrew N. Pollak
University of Maryland Medical Center
R Adams Cowley Shock
Trauma Center
410-448-6400

Lew Schon
Union Memorial Hospital
Greater Chesapeake Orthopaedic Associates
410-554-2891

Marcus Sciadini
University of Maryland
Medical Center
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
410-448-6400

Clifford H. Turen
University of Maryland Medical Center
R Adams Cowley Shock
Trauma Center
410-448-6400

Otolaryngology

Patrick Byrne
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-4985

John P. Carey
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-7381

Paul W. Flint
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-1080

Howard Wayne Francis
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-1686

Michael J. Holliday
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-3492

Wayne Koch
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-4906

Lloyd Minor
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-3403

John K. Niparko
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery
410-955-1686

Robert A. Ord
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery
410-706-6195

Ralph P. Tufano
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-3628

Pathology

Frederic B. Askin
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgical Pathology
410-955-8116
* Unable to reach doctor to verify address and clinical activity

Michael Borowitz
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-614-2889
* Currently not accepting new patients. Available for second opinions of pathology slides

Peter C. Burger
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pathology
410-955-8378

Jonathan I. Epstein
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Medical Institute
Department of Pathology
410-955-3580

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Kenneth C. Schuberth
The Maryland Pediatric Group
10807 Falls Road, Suite 200, Lutherville
410-321-9393

Robert A. Wood
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Allergy
and Immunology
410-955-5883
Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Endrika L. Hinton
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
443-849-8707

Meredith Loveless
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Children’s Medical Practice
410-550-4605

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Ken M. Brady
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
410-955-2393

Eugenie Heitmiller
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of
Anesthesiology and
Critical Care Medicine
410-614-1162

David Gregory Nichols
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
410-955-8401

Anne M. Savarese
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
410-328-6120

Jamie Schwartz
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
410-955-2393

Donald Shaffner
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
410-955-6412

Myron Yaster
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine
410-955-2393

Aaron L. Zuckerberg
Sinai Hospital
410-601-9193

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Duke E. Cameron
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-955-2698
Pediatric Cardiology

Joel I. Brenner
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Cardiology
410-955-9714

Richard E. Ringel
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Cardiology
410-955-9714

Philip Spevak
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
410-955-5987
* Primarily sees in-patients

Pediatric Critical Care

Ivor Berkowitz
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
410-955-2393

James Fackler
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine
410-955-7610

Leah Zena Harris
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology
410-955-2393

Elizabeth Hunt
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Pediatric Critical Care
410-955-2393

David Gregory Nichols
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
410-955-8401

Lewis Romer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
410-955-9444

Donald Shaffner
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Anesthesiology
410-955-6412

Pediatric Dermatology

Bernard Alan Cohen
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Pediatric Dermatology
410-955-2049
Pediatric Endocrinology

Karen M. Armour
Sinai Hospital
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
410-601-8331

David William Cooke
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
410-955-6463

Debra R. Counts
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
410-328-3410
* Accepting new patients on a case by case basis

Emily Germain-Lee
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
410-955-6463

Judith V. McLaughlin
Sinai Hospital
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
410-601-8331

Leslie P. Plotnick
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
410-614-2359

Sally Radovick
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
410-955-6463

Barry J. Reiner
1001 Pine Heights Avenue,
Suite 202
410-646-4009

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Carmelo Cuffari
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Gastroenterology
410-955-8769

Steven J. Czinn
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics
410-328-6777

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Robert John Arceci
The Sidney Kimmel
Comprehensive
Cancer Center
at Johns Hopkins
410-502-7519

James F. Casella
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Pediatric
Hematology
410-955-6132

George J. Dover
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
410-955-6132
* Currently not accepting
new patients

Donald Small
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Oncology
410-955-8817

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Neal A. Halsey
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
410-614-3917

Julia A. McMillan
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
410-955-2727
* Primarily sees in-patients

Robert Harry Yolken
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
410-614-0004
* Primarily works in research

Pediatric Metabolic Diseases

Carol L. Greene
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Pediatric Genetic Clinic
410-328-3335

Richard I. Kelley
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Department of Neurogenetics
443-923-2783

David Valle
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Metabolic Diseases
410-955-4260

Pediatric Nephrology

Jeffrey J. Fadrowski
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Nephrology
410-955-2467

Barbara A. Fivush
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
410-955-2467
*Temporarily not accepting
new patients. Available for
referrals, consultations, and
second opinions.

Susan L. Furth
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
410-955-2467
* Attending physician

Susan R. Mendley
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
410-328-5303

Alicia M. Neu
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Pediatric Nephrology
410-955-2467

Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Benjamin S. Carson
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric
Neurosurgery
410-955-7888

George Jallo
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
410-955-7851

Pediatric Ophthalmology

David L. Guyton
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-8314

Michael X. Repka
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
410-955-8314

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

Michael Ain
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
410-955-3135

Paul Sponseller
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
410-955-3136

Pediatric Otolaryngology

Charles J. Limb
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-502-4269
David E. Tunkel
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
410-955-1559

Pediatric Pain Management

Myron Yaster
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric
Anesthesia and Critical
Care Medicine
410-955-2393

Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehab

James Rodney Christensen
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Pediatric Rehabilitation
443-923-9440

Frank S. Pidcock
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Pediatric Rehabilitation
443-923-9440

Pediatric Plastic Surgery

Craig A. Vander Kolk
Associate Director
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at Mercy Medical Center
6th Floor
Weinberg Center
227 St. Paul Place
410-332-9700

Pediatric Pulmonology

Preston W. Campbell III
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
410-955-2795
* Accepting new patients on a case by case basis

Sharon McGrath-Morrow
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
410-955-2035

Peter J. Mogayzel Jr.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Cystic Fibrosis Center
410-955-2035

Shruti Maka Paranjape
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Cystic Fibrosis Center
410-955-2795

Beryl J. Rosenstein
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric Specialties
410-955-2795

Laura M. Sterni
Mt. Washington
Pediatric Hospital
Dept. of Pediatric Pulmonology
410-955-2035

Pamela L. Zeitlin
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
410-955-2035

Pediatric Specialist/Abused Children

Howard Dubowitz
University of Maryland Medical Center
Center for Child Protection
410-706-6144

Pediatric Specialist/Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine

Hoover Adger Jr.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
410-955-2910

Alain Joffe
Johns Hopkins University
Student Health and Wellness Center
410-516-8270
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients. Practice limited to students enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University schools of arts, sciences, and engineering.

Pediatric Specialist/Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Marilee Allen
Kennedy Krieger Institute
NICU Developmental Clinic
443-923-2600
* Accepting new patients for neurodevelopmental consultations. Does not provide primary pediatric care.

Susan Aucott
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neonatology
410-955-5259
* Primarily sees patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the hospital

Alan Bedrick
Franklin Square Hospital Center
Section of Neonatology
443-777-7748
* Primarily sees patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the hospital

Renee Fox
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology
410-328-6003

Catherine H. Jones
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Neonatology
410-550-4224
* Primarily sees patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the hospital

Edward E. Lawson
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Neonatology
410-955-5259
* Accepting new patients.
Practice limited to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Available for consultations.

Lawrence M. Nogee
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Neonatology
410-955-5259

Siew-Jyu Wong
St. Agnes Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
410-368-2504
* Primarily sees in-patients

Pediatric Surgery

Paul M. Colombani
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatric Surgery
410-955-2717

Pediatric Urology

John P. Gearhart
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Brady Urological Institute
410-955-5358

Ranjiv Mathews
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Urology
410-955-3693

Pediatrics (General)

Paul Bodnar
Mainstreet Pediatrics
515 Fairmount Avenue, Suite 200, Towson
410-494-1369

Lauren Bogue
10755 Falls Road, Suite 260, Lutherville
410-583-2955
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Ralph Brown
2435 West Belvedere Avenue, Suite 52
410-578-8301
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Timothy F. Doran
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics
443-849-6444
* Currently not accepting new patients

James E. Fragetta
The Maryland Pediatric Group
10807 Falls Road, Suite 200, Lutherville
410-321-9393

Dennis L. Headings
The Maryland Pediatric Group
10807 Falls Road, Suite 200, Lutherville
410-321-9393
* Accepting new patients on
a case by case basis

Alain Joffe
Johns Hopkins University
Student Health and Wellness Center
410-516-8270
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients. Practice limited to students enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University schools of arts, sciences, and engineering.

Dawan V. King
Family Health Centers of Baltimore
315 North Calvert Street
410-500-5500

Alan M. Lake
The Maryland Pediatric Group
10807 Falls Road, Suite 200, Lutherville
410-321-9393

Daniel J. Levy
Child and Teen Wellness Center
10085 Red Run Boulevard,
Suite 307, Owings Mills
410-363-1843
* Currently not accepting
new patients

Michael W. May
9501 Old Annapolis Road, Suite 101, Ellicott City
410-992-9339

Rose M. Mulaikal
Mainstreet Pediatrics
515 Fairmount Avenue,
Suite 200, Towson
410-494-1369

Carole Anne Parnes
9501 Old Annapolis Road,
Suite 101, Ellicott City
410-992-9339

Peter C. Rowe
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
410-955-9229

Kenneth C. Schuberth
The Maryland Pediatric Group
10807 Falls Road, Suite 200, Lutherville
410-321-9393

Michael E. Sherlock
1205 York Road, Suite 27,
Lutherville
410-321-8822

Jonathan Surell
Mainstreet Pediatrics
515 Fairmount Avenue,
Suite 200, Towson
410-494-1369

Kenneth Tellerman
222 West Cold Spring Lane
410-243-8632

Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation

James Rodney Christensen
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Pediatric Rehabilitation
443-923-9440

Barbara J. de Lateur
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
410-502-2272

R. Samuel Mayer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
410-614-4030

Jeffrey B. Palmer
Johns Hopkins Hospital
410-614-4030

Frank S. Pidcock
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Pediatric Rehabilitation
443-923-9440

David Andrew Pitts
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation
410-614-4030

Leon Reinstein
Sinai Hospital
Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine
410-601-5597

Cristina Sadowsky
Kennedy Krieger Institute
443-923-9230
Kenneth Silver
Good Samaritan Hospital
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
410-532-4700

Richard D. Zorowitz
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
410-550-5299

Plastic Surgery

William A. Crawley
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Department of Plastic Surgery
410-494-1450

A. Lee Dellon
Dellon Institute for Peripheral
Nerve Surgery
3333 North Calvert Street,
Suite 370
410-467-5400
* Accepting new self-pay patients. Does not accept insurance

Paul N. Manson
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Division of Plastic Surgery
410-955-9469

Stephen M. Milner
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Division of Plastic Surgery
410-550-0886

Chi-Tsung Su
1629 York Road, Suite A,
Lutherville
410-321-1400

Craig A. Vander Kolk
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery
410-955-2136

Psychiatry

Jill Berkowitz
2107 Burdock Road
410-653-3468

Fred S. Berlin
104 East Biddle Street
410-539-1661

John Boronow
Sheppard Pratt Health System
Department of Psychiatry
410-938-4306
* Currently not accepting
new patients

William T. Carpenter Jr.
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
Spring Grove Hospital Center
410-402-7101
* Primarily works in research

J. Raymond DePaulo Jr.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
410-955-3130

Lisa Dixon
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
410-706-3211
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

Jeffrey S. Janofsky
30 East Padonia Road,
Suite 206, Timonium
410-560-2136

Geetha Jayaram
Johns Hopkins Hospital
410-955-2237

Deirdre M. Johnston
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Neuropsychiatry and Memory Group
410-955-6158

Anthony F. Lehman
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
410-328-6735
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

Joseph G. Liberto
VA Maryland Health Care System
Mental Health Clinical Center
410-605-7368
* Temporarily not accepting
new patients

John R. Lion
Two Village Square, Suite 217
410-433-6333

John R. Lipsey
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
410-955-7162
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

Richard J. Loewenstein
Sheppard Pratt Health System
410-938-5070
* Temporarily not accepting new patients. Available for consultations and second opinions

Constantine George
Lyketsos
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
410-550-0062

David Neubauer
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
410-550-0066
* Unable to reach doctor to verify clinical address and activity

Stephen A. Polakoff
413 South Camp Meade Road, Linthicum Heights
410-859-3111

Peter Vincent Rabins
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Geriatric Psychiatry
410-955-6736

Paul E. Roberts
711 West 40th Street
410-467-8383

Robert Roca
Sheppard and Enoch
Pratt Hospital
410-938-4320
* Currently not accepting
new patients

Neil Brian Sandson
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
410-938-3000
* Available for psychopharmacology consultations to in-patients and hospital day patients

John Andrew Talbott
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
410-328-2132

Psychiatry/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

David B. Pruitt
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry
410-328-1111

V. Susan Villani
Kennedy Krieger Institute
School Programs
443-923-4507
* Currently not accepting new patients. Primarily sees children attending school.

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Michael Patrick Boyle
Johns Hopkins
Outpatient Center
Department of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
410-502-7044
* Primarily sees patients with
cystic fibrosis

Edward James Britt
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Pulmonary and Critical
Care Medicine
410-706-2171

Nancy A. Collop
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
443-287-3313

Henry Fessler
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
410-955-3467

Jonathan B. Orens
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
410-955-3468
* Primarily sees in-patients in the final stage of lung diseases for lung transplantation. Will see
patients with general pulmonary problems, advanced lung diseases including interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Albert J. Polito
Mercy Medical Center
Lung Center
410-332-9732

Salim Rizk
Union Memorial Hospital
Department of Pulmonology
410-467-4470

Philip L. Smith II
Johns Hopkins Bayview
Care Center
Asthma and Allergy Center
410-550-0545

Peter Terry
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
410-955-3467

Ko-Pen Wang
Harbor Hospital
Chest Diagnostic Center
410-354-6330

Robert A. Wise
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Asthma and Allergy Center
410-550-5864

Pamela L. Zeitlin
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pediatric Pulmonary
410-955-2035

Theodore L. DeWeese
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Department of Radiation Oncology
410-955-7068

William Regine
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
410-328-6080

Mohan Suntha
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
410-328-6080

Radiology

Wendie Berg
American Radiology Services
10755 Falls Road, Suite 440, Lutherville
410-583-2706
* Specializes in breast imaging

Elliot K. Fishman
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Department of Radiology
410-955-5173

Nagi Khouri
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Avon Breast Center
410-955-7095

Jonathan Lewin
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Radiology
410-955-5678

Patrick C. Malloy
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Vascular and
Interventional Radiology
410-328-5112

Reuben S. Mezrich
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
410-328-0152

Kieran P. Murphy
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Radiology
410-955-8525

Robert D. Pugatch
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
410-328-0152

Philip Anthony Templeton
Templeton Radiology
1302 Upper Glencoe Road, Sparks
410-472-3372

Charles S. White
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
410-328-0152

David M. Yousem
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Radiology
410-955-2685

Gregg Zoarski
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Neuroradiology
410-328-5052

Rheumatology

Alan Baer
Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland
Division of Rheumatology
410-532-4646

David B. Hellmann
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Asthma and Allergy Center
410-550-6825
* Currently and indefinitely not accepting new patients

Marc C. Hochberg
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Rheumatology
410-406-6474
* Temporarily not accepting new patients

Michelle A. Petri
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Department of Rheumatology
410-955-9114

Fredrick M. Wigley
Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center
Asthma and Allergy Center
410-550-7715

Sleep Medicine

Nancy A. Collop
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
443-287-3313

David Neubauer
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences
410-550-0066

Surgery

Dana K. Andersen
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Department of Surgery
410-550-5900

William A. Baumgartner
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiac Surgery
410-955-5248

Edward E. Cornwell
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-955-2244

Frederic E. Eckhauser
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-502-0932

Julie A. Freischlag
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
443-287-3497

Richard F. Heitmiller II
Union Memorial Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-554-2063

Adrian Park
University of Maryland
Medical Center
Department of Surgery
410-328-6442

Bruce A. Perler
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Vascular Surgery
410-955-2618

Michael Schultz
St. Joseph Medical Center
Department of Surgery
410-427-5510

Martha A. Zeiger
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Endocrinology and Oncologic Surgery
410-614-1197

Surgical Oncology

Charles M. Balch
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-502-5977

Michael Choti
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-7113

Thoracic Surgery

William A. Baumgartner
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-955-5248

John Conte
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Cardiac Surgery
410-955-1753

Bartley P. Griffith
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Cardiac Surgery
410-328-5842

Richard F. Heitmiller II
Union Memorial Hospital
Department of Surgery
410-554-2063

Mark J. Krasna
St. Joseph Medical Center
Division of Thoracic Surgery
410-427-2220

Richard N. Pierson III
University of Maryland Medical Center
Division of Cardiac Surgery
410-328-5842
* Accepting new transplant patients

Stephen Clyde Yang
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Division of Thoracic Surgery
410-614-3891

Urology

Richard B. Alexander
University of Maryland Medical Center
Department of Urology
410-328-5109

H. Ballentine Carter
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Brady Urological Institute
410-955-0351

Jacek L. Mostwin
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Brady Urological Institute
410-955-4461

Alan W. Partin
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Brady Urological Institute
410-614-4876

Patrick C. Walsh
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Brady Urological Institute
410-955-6100
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Putting together one of our Top Docs features is always a daunting task, made more so by living where we do. Sure, in a normal city it might not be so tough to round up the handful of doctors with national reputations in their fields. But here in Baltimore, we’re faced with a wealth of candidates with international reputations. Between the University of Maryland’s shock-trauma unit, the women’s health specialists at Mercy and GBMC, Union Memorial’s hand center, St. Joseph’s cardiologists—to name just a few examples—and, of course, the medical behemoth that is Johns Hopkins, how is a magazine supposed to narrow the field down to just a few stellar practitioners in any given specialty? It’s enough to make an editorial staff feel, well, a little ill.

This year, we got help, enlisting the aid of Best Doctors, a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in surveying doctors on who they consider the best in various specialties. This list is the result of thousands of surveys and phone interviews, with a little tweaking from us to weed out doctors not accepting new patients, making the list a little more user-friendly. And we compiled interesting facts and quotes from a survey we sent out to those on the list. We think the result is our most comprehensive list of top doctors ever—369 of them, to be precise. Get well soon.

Elizabeth Kingsley, cardiologist

Originally, Elizabeth Kingsley thought she’d practice internal medicine with a special focus on cardiology. “But to keep up and be involved in the field, I had to focus on cardiology exclusively,” she says. “The heart is a fascinating organ, from its molecular biology to its mechanics, to its pathophysiology. Even now, the science is very attractive to me.”

Cardiology is what challenged and stimulated her the most. “It also gave me a little fear,” says the 51-year-old, “because there was often very little time to make decisions.”

Kingsley is the fourth partner in Cardiology Associates, a 23-physician cardiology practice with offices in Annapolis and the Washington, D.C. area. The practice treats the full range of cardiovascular diseases and conditions from palpitations to rhythm disorders to three-vessel coronary artery disease, says Kingsley, whose own areas of special interest are women’s health, cardiac catheterization, and transesophageal echocardiography. The practice also runs clinical studies of drugs and devices, such as aortic stents.

Kingsley graduated from Goucher College and the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed her residencies at the Boston V.A. Medical Center.

The Arnold resident is a member of the Board of Trustees of Anne Arundel Medical Center, is part of the hospital’s active staff (and an ex-officio president of its medical staff), and also serves as a senior attending physician at Washington Hospital Center.

Kingsley says that her own heart is in good shape, but only because she takes care of it. She follows a low-calorie “Mediterranean” diet—with a weekly dispensation for chocolate cake—mountain bikes, kayaks, sails, and tries to minimize her stress by listening to and playing music. She’s a classical pianist, and her husband—fellow cardiologist Stephen Valenti, with whom she has two children—is a guitarist.

Kingsley entered the specialty of cardiology when very few women were in the field. In 1982, she was Harvard’s first female cardiology fellow at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital.

“I can remember attending meetings of 300 to 400 cardiologists and there being maybe five women,” recalls Kingsley. “Let’s put it this way: There was never a long line for the ladies’ room.”

Kingsley says that working in what still is a male-dominated specialty has many upsides. “One is that people, both patients and colleagues, remember you,” she says. “If you develop a positive reputation, you’ll become known quickly.”

Stuart Grossman, Neuro-oncologist

Each day, the patients in the oncology units of The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins think about how much they hurt.

They’re supposed to; it’s part of how they determine their “pain score,” a way to measure how much they have hurt in the past 24 hours, and the primary way that the doctors know their patients are getting adequate pain relief.

To come up with their pain score, patients use something called the Johns Hopkins Pain Rating Instrument, which Stuart Grossman, who is 55, devised about a decade after joining Hopkins in 1981.

“Seventy to 80 percent of cancer patients will have pain, and we have excellent treatments for it,” says Grossman. “But the treatments are not always used in the right way. Doctors and nurses are good at treating things that they can see or that are associated with hard numbers—we’re not so good at subjective complaints. Pain is highly subjective.”

To come up with a way to quantify pain, Grossman—who now co-directs the Oncology Center Pain Team—and his staff created a slide-rule-like device with a scale from zero (no pain) to 10 (the worst pain patients could imagine). If patients have a pain score of four or higher, they get a visit from the Pain Team, who will consult with their doctors to help get their pain under control.

This fall, Grossman and his colleagues at Hopkins’ Center for Cancer Pain Research released a software program that teaches health-care providers how to determine the dose of pain-killing drug they should prescribe when switching a patient’s medication. The Center for Cancer Pain Research is also training physicians around the world in cancer pain management.

Aside from the pain research, Grossman directs the Kimmel Center’s neuro-oncology program, and also conducts brain-tumor research for a consortium funded by the National Cancer Institute. Grossman also attends on the solid-tumor and neuro-oncology consultation services at Hopkins and spends a few days a week seeing his own brain tumor patients, many of whom travel fair distances to take advantage of his specialized knowledge.

Grossman graduated from Harvard College and the University of Rochester Medical School. He completed his first residency, in internal medicine, at Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital and his medical oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He lives in Towson with his wife, University of Maryland Medical Center pediatrician Linda S. Grossman, and their three daughters.

Mary Anne Facciolo, OB/GYN

To hear Mary Anne Facciolo talk, you’d think labor is easy. “I can get anyone through labor,” she boasts. “That’s the easy part. The hard part comes later—after you leave the hospital and start raising the child.”

A mother of two, she knows of which she speaks—both personally and professionally.

Facciolo is a partner in Charm City OB-GYN, which is located in the O’Dea Medical Arts building at St. Joseph Medical Center. She co-founded the practice in 1985 with fellow Baltimore Top Doc Ruthann Zern. Today, Charm City has five partners—all of them female—and Facciolo says she can’t imagine working without them.

“I know that in my absence my partners will take care of my patient the same way I would,” she says. “We all have the same practice philosophy. We don’t have widely different opinions on the management of labor or gynecology, and we’re all a little obsessive-compulsive.”

Charm City OB-GYNs offers a full range of obstetrical and gynecological services to patients from teenagers to women in their 90s. “Our patients are great,” Facciolo says. “We have a broad mix: white-collar, blue-collar, stay-at-home moms, single parents. Most have been referred by other patients.”

In fact, Facciolo says, some of her patients are second-generation: “I’m starting to see babies that I delivered years ago come in as teenagers. They want me to be their gynecologist.”

Facciolo, 49, attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and did her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband, Michael X. Repka, an ophthalmologist at the Wilmer Eye Institute, and their two teenage children in northern Baltimore.

In the 19 years that Facciolo has been practicing, she’s seen trends and preferences in child birth evolve. “When I first started out, more women wanted natural childbirth and vaginal births after Caesareans,” Facciolo says. “Today, I get fewer requests for natural childbirth and more for epidurals. More women are also becoming comfortable with repeat C-sections. I think they like the idea of knowing when they will deliver.”

Facciolo works to accommodate patients’ birth plans—detailed lists of what they want (classical music, gathered family) and don’t want (drugs, epidurals) during labor. “I go over the plans with them point by point,” Facciolo says. “I say, ‘Yes, we can do this. Maybe we can do this. And no, we can’t do that.’ Depending on the patient, we can usually do most of what they want, but I tell them that there is ultimately only one birth plan—the plan for a healthy mother and a healthy baby.”

“Once we have that,” she adds, “the adventure of parenthood can begin.”

Leslie Matthews, Orthopaedic Surgeon

Les Matthews doesn’t play lacrosse anymore.

But at 51, the former Hopkins varsity lacrosse team captain and National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee is still an athlete. He swims, bikes, and runs. He even competes in triathlons, such as the Columbia Half Ironman 2000.

This helps him identify with the many patients of his who are athletes themselves. Matthews is an orthopaedic consultant to Johns Hopkins, Morgan State, Villa Julie, and Goucher. And together with his partners—Greater Chesapeake Orthopaedic Associates—he provides sports medicine coverage for all of St. Paul’s School’s sports as well as sideline coverage for its football and lacrosse teams.

Greater Chesapeake is a 14-physician practice located in Union Memorial Hospital’s Johnston Professional Building. Matthews specializes in knee and shoulder surgery, but the other 13 members of the practice have various specialties. “As a team, we cover all aspects of orthopaedics except orthopaedic oncology,” he says.

Matthews attended Hopkins as an undergraduate, Texas’s Baylor College of Medicine for med school, and then returned to Hopkins for both his general and orthopaedic surgery residencies.

In 1982, he became assistant chief of Union Memorial’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; he was appointed chief in 1992. Matthews is also an orthopaedic consultant for Good Samaritan Hospital and is an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Johns Hopkins.

Even with all of these commitments, Matthews still spends the bulk of his time seeing patients. “Sixty percent of my time is spent in the office, and 40 percent is in surgery,” he says. Those patients include couch potatoes, athletes of all ages, and everyone in between, with everything from sports injuries to arthritis. But in every case, he concentrates on trying to get in and out of the joint with the least amount of trauma.

“Our practice does more arthroscopic surgery than anything else,” Matthews says. “We’ve been able to find new applications and technology to treat an ever wider array of orthopaedic problems. Just five years ago, we treated all rotator cuff injuries with big, open surgical procedures. Now, we treat them with minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery.”

Matthews had an experience of his own with arthroscopic surgery last fall, when he stepped into a hole while running and tore cartilage in his knee. “I called my partner John O’Donnell and told him what happened, and he operated on me the next day,” Matthews recalls. “I was back in the operating room doing surgery within 12 hours.”

After his surgery, Matthews had to lay off running for a while, but the athlete in him wouldn’t be sidelined for long. “Not only is running my favorite form of exercise, it is also my greatest source of stress relief,” he says. It wasn’t long before Matthews was back to his 25-30 mile-a-week regimen.

After all, he’s got to keep in shape for the next triathlon.

Thomas Finucane, Geriatric Specialist

According to Thomas Finucane, a geriatric specialist at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, all medicine is to one degree or another a combination of science and social work. “With geriatrics, it’s about fifty-fifty,” he says.

Finucane runs a 65-bed nursing home unit of the Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center at the Bayview Medical Center, which provides long-term, chronic medical, rehabilitation, and outpatient primary care to the elderly. He also co-directs the hospital’s Elder Housecall program, which brings in-home medical care to housebound elderly in the Bayview community.

Finucane says that treating the elderly is different from treating younger people—in a way that has nothing to do with common stereotypes. “In a lot of medicine, doctors are doing something to people,” he explains. “In geriatrics, there is often more collaboration between the doctor and the patient.

As an example, Finucane says, when doctors find a spot on a young person’s lung, they generally try to find out what it is and take it out. “Treatment is aggressive. There’s not a lot of ambiguity there,” he says. “But if the patient is 85 and in poor health, you might not be able to diagnose or remove the spot without killing him—sooner than the spot on the lung would.

“In this case, the patient and doctor can choose to do one of several things: keep an eye on the spot; opt for palliative treatment; or decline treatment and choose to die with comfort and dignity,” he says. “There are many possible futures.”

Finucane graduated from Harvard College and Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, and completed his residency at George Washington University Medical Center. Aside from his clinical duties, Finucane is also a professor at both the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bioethics Institute. The 53-year-old Finucane is married to Robin McKenzie, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The two have five children and live in Howard County.

One essential lesson he tries to teach his medical students is the never-ending value of each elderly patient.

“Doctors in training often only see the elderly at their worst—when they are demented and delirious and very sick,” he says. “It is important for young doctors to have more perspective, to get to know the elderly who are living valuable and pleasurable lives.”

To ensure that medical students get this exposure, Finucane takes them on home visits and to the outpatient clinic to meet Bayview’s elderly patients who are well and active.

Finucane points to an 88-year-old patient of his with breast cancer, a bad heart valve, diabetes, and low vision. Depressing? Far from it: “All of these conditions are stabilized, which allows her to provide daycare for her great-grandchildren,” Finucane says. “She enjoys it very much. Her grandchildren rely on her. She feels useful.”

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