115 University of Maryland Medical Center Physicians Recognized As “Top Doctors” In Baltimore Magazine 2023 Survey

Annual List Recognizes 115 UMMC Providers in 43 Adult and 17 Pediatric Specialties

BALTIMORE  — The University of Maryland Medical System is once again well-represented in Baltimore magazine’s annual “Top Docs” feature, with 220 physicians in 65 adult and 18 pediatric specialties recognized. Of the doctors recognized, 115 practice at the System's flagship academic hospital, the University of Maryland Medical Center.

"Having 220 physicians included as Top Docs and being recognized by their peers is a true example of our System's commitment to excellence and compassion," said Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer of UMMS. "Our clinicians take great pride in providing world class, high-quality health care for the tens of thousands of patients we serve across Maryland and it is a high honor to receive this recognition from peers."

The results across 129 specialties are based on nominations from physicians to the Baltimore magazine website, where they had the chance to nominate their peers. The more than 600 doctors who received the highest number of recommendations from their peers are included.

"On behalf of every UMMC patient and their families, we congratulate our physician colleagues on this well-deserved honor," said Bert W. O'Malley, MD, UMMC's President and CEO. "This coveted acknowledgment is another reflection of their remarkable dedication to helping patients reach their best possible health outcomes and to advancing the clinical innovations that will shape the future of medicine."

UMMS hospitals represented in "Top Docs" include the University of Maryland Medical Center – Downtown Campus; University of Maryland Medical Center – Midtown Campus, both located in Baltimore City; University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie (Anne Arundel County); University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson (Baltimore County); University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center (Bel Air) and University of Maryland Harford Memorial Hospital (Havre de Grace), both in Harford County, University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute, located in Baltimore City, and the Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore City.

Our "top doctors" at UMMC are listed below by specialty. Select their names to learn more about them or to make an appointment.

Adult Specialties

Addiction Medicine/Substance Use Disorder

• Kofi Owusu-Antwi, MD

Cardiology – Interventional

• Diljon Chahal, MD
• Anuj Gupta, MD
• Mukta Srivastava, MD
• Mark Vesely, MD
• Matthew Voss, MD

Cardiology – Non-Interventional

• Susie Hong-Zohlman, MD
• Gautam Ramani, MD
• Libin Wang, MD, PhD

Colo-Rectal

• Rebecca Brown, MD

Dermatology – General

• Zaineb Makhzoumi, MD

Emergency Medicine

• Brian Corwell, MD

Family Medicine

• Diana Carvajal, MD
• Natelaine Fripp, MD
• Kristin Reavis, MD

Gastroenterology – General

• Eric Goldberg, MD

Gastroenterology – Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Raymond Cross, MD

Gynecology – OB/GYN

• Jessica K. Lee, MD

Hematology

• Jennie Law, MD

Hospitalist Medicine

• Philip Dittmar, MD
• Norman Retener, MD

Infectious Disease

• Omar Harfouch, MD
• Mariam Khambaty, MD
• Poonam Mathur, DO
• Shivakumar Narayanan, MBBS
• Devang Patel, MD
• Rekha Rapaka, MD, PhD
• David Riedel, MD
• Kapil Saharia, MD
• Paul Saleeb, MD
• Kathryn Schlaffer, MD
• Sarah Schmalzle, MD
• Ravi Tripathi, MD

Intensivists-Critical Care

• Daniel Haase, MD
• Elizabeth Powell, MD

Internal Medicine

• John Allen, MD
• Danielle Baek, MD
• Jessica R. Lee, MD
• Stacy Schwartz, MD

Interventional Radiology

• Gaurav Jindal, MD

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

• Andrea Desai, MD

Neurology – Epilepsy

• Stephanie Chen, MD

Neurology – General

• Chandana Chauhan, MD

Neurology – Multiple Sclerosis

• David Benavides, MD, PhD

Oncology – Breast

• Paula Rosenblatt, MD

Oncology – Surgical

• Nader Hanna, MD

Ophthalmology

• Lily Im, MD
• Sarah Sunshine, MD
• Ramya Swamy, MD
• Kenneth Taubenslag, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Hand

• Raymond Pensy, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Joint

• Sumon Nandi, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Sports Medicine

• R. Frank Henn, MD

Otolaryngology – General

• Rodney Taylor, MD
• Jeffrey Wolf, MD

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Malignancies

• Kyle Hatten, MD
• Rodney Taylor, MD
• Jeffrey Wolf, MD

Psychiatry – General

• Marissa Flaherty, MD

Pulmonary Medicine

• Nirav Shah, MD

Radiation Oncology

• Elizabeth Nichols, MD
• William Regine, MD

Sports Medicine

• Valerie Cothran, MD
• Kyle Yost, DO

Surgery – Breast

• Suliat Nurudeen, MD

Surgery – Cardiac

• Mehrdad Ghoreishi, MD

Surgery – Minimally Invasive

• Stephen Kavic, MD

Surgery – Spine

• Daniel Cavanaugh, MD
• Kenneth Crandall, MD
• Steven Ludwig, MD

Surgery – Thoracic

• Gavin Henry, MD
• Christine Lau, MD
• Shelby Stewart, MD

Surgery – Transplant

• Raphael Meier, MD, PhD

Surgery – Transplant (Lung)

• Christine Lau, MD

Surgery – Vascular

• Khanjan 'KJ' Nagarsheth, MD
• Shahab Toursavadkohi, MD

Trauma

• Rishi Kundi, MD
• Thomas Scalea, MD

Urogynecology

• Madeline Dick-Biascoechea, MD

Urology

• Michael Phelan, MD

Pediatric Specialties

Adolescent Medicine

• Matthew Grant, MD

Behavior and Development

• Deborah Badawi, MD

Cardiology

• Alicia Chaves, MD
• Thomas Chin, MD
• Peter Gaskin, MD
• Rachel Moore, MD
• Nicholas Pietris, MD
• Michael Slack, MD
• Sudhir Vashist, MD

Critical Care

• Adrian Holloway, MD

Emergency Medicine

• Forrest Closson, MD
• Katelyn Donohue, MD
• Getachew Teshome, MD

Endocrinology

• Ryan Miller, MD
• Paula Newton, MD

Ear, Nose and Throat

• Amal Isaiah, MD, DPhil

Gastroenterology

• Samra Blanchard, MD
• Jennifer Hong, MD
• Runa Watkins, MD

General

• Rebecca Carter, MD
• Nisha Divakaruni, MD
• Mutiat Onigbanjo, MD
• Vandana Racherla, MD

Genetics

• Carol Greene, MD

Hematology/Oncology

• Regina Macatangay, MD
• Teresa York, MD

Hospitalist Medicine

• Jack Gladstein, MD
• Nidhi Goel, MD

Infectious Disease

• James Campbell, MD

Neonatology

• Eunsung Cho, MD
• Natalie Davis, MD
• Neena Jube-Desai, MD
• Francesca Okolie, DO

Neurology

• Jessica Carpenter, MD
• Gozde Erdemir, MD

Ophthalmology

• Roni Levin, MD

Surgery

• Helena Crowley, MD

About the University of Maryland Medical Center

The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is comprised of two hospital campuses in Baltimore: the 800-bed flagship institution of the 11-hospital University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and the 200-bed UMMC Midtown Campus. Both campuses are academic medical centers for training physicians and health professionals and for pursuing research and innovation to improve health. UMMC's downtown campus is a national and regional referral center for trauma, cancer care, neurosciences, advanced cardiovascular care, and women's and children's health, and has one of the largest solid organ transplant programs in the country. All physicians on staff at the downtown campus are clinical faculty physicians of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The UMMC Midtown Campus medical staff is predominately faculty physicians specializing in a wide spectrum of medical and surgical subspecialties, primary care for adults and children and behavioral health. UMMC Midtown has been a teaching hospital for 140 years and is located one mile away from the downtown campus. For more information, visit umm.edu.

About the University of Maryland Medical System

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit umms.org.