More Than 300 University of Maryland Medical System Physicians Recognized As “Top Doctors” In Baltimore Magazine 2020 Survey

BALTIMORE – More than 300 individual physicians in 135 specialties and sub-specialties who provide care across University of Maryland Medical System hospitals have been recognized as "Top Doctors" in the November 2020 issue of Baltimore magazine.

The results are based on Baltimore magazine's annual survey of roughly 14,000 physicians in the Baltimore region who were asked to name the best doctors in more than 130 specialties and subspecialties. Nearly 20,000 names were submitted, and only those who received the highest number of recommendations by their peers made the list, according to the magazine.

UMMS hospitals represented include the University of Maryland Medical Center – Downtown Campus, University of Maryland Medical Center – Midtown Campus, University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health, University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute, and Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. More than 150 of the UMMS doctors named are also faculty members at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

"We are extremely proud to see so many UMMS physicians recognized for their outstanding work and their dedication to providing compassionate, high-quality, patient and family-centered care. It's a true affirmation of their talents and experience as well as our focus on delivering the best possible care for our patients," said Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer of UMMS. "Leveraging the size and scale of our statewide health system, we are continuing to transform the way we deliver health care to bring more value to our patients and their communities and these incredible doctors are on the front lines of that work."

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

Acupuncturist (non-M.D.)

• Brian Jackson, LAc

Adolescent Medicine

• Jack Gladstein, MD

Allergy/Immunology

• Natalia Vernon, MD
• Paula Whittington, MD, PhD

Anesthesiology

• Douglas Martz, MD
• Mark DiMino, MD

Breast Surgery

• Suliat Nurudeen, MD
• Ethan S. Rogers, MD
• Michael J. Schultz, MD

Cardiac Anesthesia

• Patrick Odonkor, MD

Cardiac Surgery - Mitral Valve/Aortic Valve/Coronary Artery Bypass

• R. C. Stewart Finney, MD
• James Gammie, MD

Cardiology - Electrophysiology

• Timm-Michael Dickfeld, MD, PhD
• Minesh Patel, MD
• Brett Roberts, MD
• Vincent See, MD
• Paresh Shah, MD
• Stephen Shorofsky, MD
• Joyce Zeno-Moreira, MD

Cardiology - Interventional

• Natalia Berry, MD
• Diljon Chahal, MD
• Michael Drossner, MD
• Anuj Gupta, MD
• Amir Najafi, MD
• Ali Tabrizchi, MD
• Mark Vesely, MD
• Matthew Voss, MD
• Syed Shumile Haider Zaidi, MD

Cardiology - Non-Interventional

• Brian Barr, MD
• R. Michael Benitez, MD
• Vivek Dhruva, DO
• Stacy Fisher, MD
• Susie Hong- Zohlman, MD
• Mitika Maddula, MD
• Frank Morris, MD
• Amir Najafi, MD
• Ali Tabrizchi, MD
• Emil Thattassery, MD
• Libin Wang, MD, PhD

Clinical Genetics

• Carol Greene, MD

Colorectal

• Andrea Bafford, MD
• Howard Berg, MD
• Nader Hanna, MD

Cosmetic Surgery - Breast/Body Contouring

• Michael Cohen, MD
• Claire Duggal, MD
• Yvonne Rasko, MD
• Nassif E. Soueid, MD

Cosmetic Surgery - Facial

• Nassif E. Soueid, MD

Dermatologic Surgery

• Zaineb Makhzoumi, MD

Dermatology

• Jamie Goldberg, MD
• Zaineb Makhzoumi, MD
• Risa Jampel, MD
• Amie Sessa, MD

Diabetes Care

• Ruth Horowitz, MD
• Rana Malek, MD
• Kashif Munir, MD

Emergency Medicine

• Michael Abraham, MD
• Steven Bentman, MD
• Brian Corwell, MD
• Amit Chandra, MD
• Jaron SantelIi, MD
• Stephen Schenkel, MD
• Ben Vanlandingham, MD
• Michael Winters, MD

Emergency Medicine - Trauma

• Jose Diaz, Jr., MD
• David Efron, MD
• Thomas Scalea, MD

Endocrinology

• Rana Malek, MD
• Kashif Munir, MD

Environmental/Occupational Health

• Stella Hines, MD

Family Medicine

• Katherine Jacobson, MD
• Kristen Reavis, MD

Gastroenterology

• Peter Darwin, MD
• Eric Goldberg, MD
• Joshua Seth Forman, MD
• Scott Huber, MD
• Eiad Nasser, MD
• Dana Sloane, MD
• Edward Wolf, MD
• Jordan Wolff, MD

Gastroenterology-Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Raymond Cross, MD

General Cosmetic Surgery

• Michael Cohen, MD
• Claire Duggal, MD

• Yvonne Rasko, MD
• Nassif E. Soueid, MD

General Obstetrics/ High-Risk Obstetrics

• Sarah Crimmins, DO

General Pediatric Surgery

• Helena Crowley, MD, PhD
• Ruby Dey, MD
• Kimberly Lumpkins, MD
• James Moore, MD
• Eric Strauch, MD

General Pediatrics

• Rebecca Carter, MD

General Surgery

• Stephen Kavic, MD
• Scott Steinmetz, MD
• Samana Zulu, MD

Gynecologic Oncology

• Fouad Abbas, MD
• Teresa Diaz-Montes, MD
• Abbie Fields, MD
• Francis Grumbine, MD
• Dwight Im, MD
• Gautam Rao, MD
• Dana Roque, MD

Hematology

• Mian Khalid, MD
• Jennie Law, MD
• Shanique Palmer, MD
• Ann Zimrin, MD

Hospitalist Medicine

• Linda Adler, MD
• Elie Cheikh, MD
• Nidhi Goel, MD
• Abel Joy, MD
• Fadi Saikali, MD
• Kapil Sharma, MD

Hyperbaric Medicine

• Ziad Mirza, MD
• Kinjal Sethuraman, MD

Infectious Disease

• Mona Gahunia, DO
• Mettassebia Kanno, MD
• Morris Shochet, MD
• Faheem Younus, MD

Infectious Disease - Tropical Medicine

• Mettassebia Kanno, MD

Intensivists/Critical Care

• Madhat Arnouk, MD
• Jason Birnbaum, MD
• Jason Heavner, MD
• Hasan Shakoor, MD
• Nirav Shah, MD
• David Vitberg, MD

Internal Medicine - General

• Jung-Soo Hong, MD
• Mark G. Saba, MD

Interventional Radiology

• Ruchika Dua Bhatt, MD
• Kevin Jarrell, MD
• Margaret Lynch-Nyhan, MD
• John Werner, MD

Maternal-Fetal Medicine

• Sarah Crimmins, DO
• Katherine Goetzinger, MD
• Rebecca Jessel, MD
• Ozhan Turan, MD

Neonatology

• Natalie Davis, MD
• Dina El-Metwally, MD
• Suma Hoffman, MD
• Rose Viscardi, MD

Nephrology

• Veena Acharya, MD
• Eric Brown, MD
• Elias Ghandour, MD
• Tanuja Mishra, MD
• Jeffrey Posner, MD
• Aiman Sami Shammas, MD
• Matthew Weir, MD

Neurology - General

• Jason Rosenberg, MD
• Syed Salahuddin, MD

Neurology-Epilepsy

• Peter Crino, MD, PhD
• Jennifer Hopp, MD

Neurology-General

• Neil Porter, MD

Neurology-Movement Disorder

• Lynn Chouhfeh, MD
• Stephen Reich, MD
• Jason Rosenberg, MD
• Joseph Savitt, MD, PhD

Neurology - Multiple Sclerosis

• David Benavides, MD, PhD
• Daniel Harrison, MD
• Jason Rosenberg, MD

Neurology - Neuromuscular

• Neil Porter, MD
• Jason Rosenberg, MD

Neurosurgery

• James Frazier, MD
• Neal Naff, MD
• Charles Sansur, MD
• Graeme Woodworth, MD
• 
Omar Zalatimo, MD

Nuclear Medicine

• Wengen Chen, BM, PhD
• Philipose "Phil" Mulugeta, MD
• Ethan Spiegler, MD
• Frederic K. Yeganeh, MD

Oncology - Bone Marrow Transplant

• Nancy Hardy, MD
• Aaron Rapoport, MD
• Jean Yared, MD

Oncology - Breast

• Paula Rosenblatt, MD
• Katherine Tkaczuk, MD

Oncology - Colon

• Yixing Jiang, BM, PhD

Oncology - General

• Mian Kamal Khalid, MD


Oncology - Pancreatic

• Yixing Jiang, BM, PhD

Oncology - Prostate

• Arif Hussain, MD
• Benjamin Lowentritt, MD
• Heather Mannuel, MD

Ophthalmology

• Lily Im, MD
• Bennie Jeng, MD
• Kenneth Olumba, MD
• Lazaros Volikas, MD

Oral Maxillofacial

• John Caccamese, Jr., MD, DMD
• Joshua Lubek, MD, DDS
• Alexander Pazoki, MD, DDS

Orthopedic Oncology

• Vincent Ng, MD

Orthopedic Surgery - Foot and Ankle

• Roberto Brandao, DPM
• Natalie Danna, MD

Orthopedic Surgery - Hand

• Ngozi Akabudike, MD
• Emery L. Kim, MD
• Raymond Pensy, MD
• Khurram Pervaiz, MD

Orthopedic Surgery - Foot and Ankle

• Jeffrey Brodie, MD

Orthopedic Surgery - Joint

• James Huang, MD
• Theodore Manson, MD
• Scott Silverstein, MD
• Ke Xie, MD

Orthopedic Surgery - Sports Medicine

• Craig Bennett, MD
• Lysa Charles, MD
• R. Frank Henn III, MD
• Jonathan Packer, MD
• Morris Polsky, MD
• Scott Silverstein, MD
• Michael Wallace, MD
• Raj Yalamanchili, MD

Orthopedics - General

• Craig Bennett, MD
• Nicholas Grosso, MD
• Jonathan Packer, MD
• Michael Wallace, MD

Otolaryngology - Adult General

• Katherine Day, MD
• Praveen Duggal, MD
• Sungjoo Kim, MD
• James (Kevin) Markwell, MD
• Michael Rodrigues, MD
• Rodney Taylor, MD
• Jeffrey Wolf, MD

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Malignancies

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

Pain Management

• Brian Block, MD
• Louis Panlilio, MD

Palliative Medicine

• Helen Minifie Gordon, MD
• Raya Kheirbek, MD

Pathology

• Fadi Habib, MD
• Olga Ioffe, MD

Pediatric Allergy

• Mary Beth Bollinger, DO
• Anupama Kewalramani, MD

Pediatric Behavior & Development

• Deborah Badawi, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

• Alicia Chaves, MD
• Peter Gaskin, MBBS
• Deneen Heath, MD
• Geoffrey Rosenthal, MD, PhD
• Sudhir Vashist, MD, MBBS

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

• Jason Custer, MD
• Scott Penfil, MD

Pediatric Dermatology

• Teri Kahn, MD
• Dakara Wright, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• Forrest Closson, MD
• Elizabeth Hines, MD
• Richard Lichenstein, MD
• Getachew Teshome, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology

• Ryan Miller, MD
• Paula Newton, MD

Pediatric Gastroenterology

• Samra Blanchard, MD
• Runa Watkins, MD

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

• Regina Macatangay, MD
• Ashley Munchel, MD
• Teresa York, MD

Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine

• Jack Gladstein, MD
• Nidhi Goel, MD
• Talia Levy, MD
• Ifeoluwa Omitowoju, MD

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

• James Campbell, MD

Pediatric Nephrology

• Bakri Alzarka, MD

Pediatric Neurology

• Stephen Thompson, MD

Pediatric Neurosurgery

• Mari Groves, MD

Pediatric Ophthalmology

• Janet Alexander, MD
• M. Roni Levin, MD

Pediatric Orthopedics

• Joshua Abzug, MD

Pediatric Psychiatry (child)

• Sarah Edwards, DO

Pediatric Pulmonology

• Anayansi Lasso-Pirot, MD

Pediatric Rheumatology

• Melissa Hawkins-Holt, MD

Pediatric Sports Medicine

• Scott Adams, MD
• Ralph Zade, MD
• Brian Corwell, MD
• Teri McCambridge, MD

Pediatric Urology

• Adam Kern, MD
• Kimberly Lumpkins, MD
• Roger Voigt, MB, ChB

Plastic Surgery - Reconstructive

• Saif Al-Bustani, MD
• Claire Duggal, MD
• Erin Rada, MD
• Yvonne Rasko, MD
• Sheri Slezak, MD
• Nassif E. Soueid, MD

Podiatry (non-M.D.)

• Roberto Brandao, DPM
• David Wood, DPM
• Jacob Wynes, DPM

Prostate Cancer Surgery

• Ryan Cleary, MD
• Marc Siegelbaum, MD
• M. Minhaj Siddiqui, MD

Psychiatry-Eating Disorders

• Steven Crawford, MD

Pulmonary

• Linda Barr, MD
• Fiona Meller-Azrieli, MD
• Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS
• Hasan Shakoor, MD

Radiation Oncology

• Mark Mishra, MD
• Pranshu Mohindra, MD, MBBS
• Jason Molitoris, MD, PhD
• Elizabeth Nichols, MD
• William Regine, MD

Radiology

• Jean Jeudy, MD
• Philipose (Phil) Mulugeta, MD
• Jade Wong, MD
• Shadi Yousefi, MD

Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology

• Kalonji Collins, MD
• Melissa Hawkins-Holt, MD

Sleep Medicine

• Brian Bohner, MD
• Montserrat Diaz-Abad, MD

Spine Surgery

• Oren Blam, MD
• Steven Ludwig, MD
• Charles Sansur, MD
• P. Justin Tortolani, MD

Sports Medicine (Non-Surgical)

• Teri McCambridge, MD
• Jaron Santelli, MD
• Ralph Zade, MD

Surgery for Chronic Venous Disease/Varicose Veins

• Peter Mackrell, MD

Surgical Oncology

• Nader Hanna, MD
• Richelle Williams, MD

Thoracic Surgery

• Whitney Burrows, MD
• Gavin Henry, MD
• Shelby Stewart, MD

Transplant-Cardiac

• Bartley Griffith, MD

Transplant-Lung

• Bartley Griffith, MD
• Christine Lau, MD

Transplant: Kidney/Pancreas/Liver

• Joseph Scalea, MD

Urogynecology

• Tola Fashokun, MD
• Harry Johnson, MD
• Daniel Kim, MD
• Rena Malik, MD

Urology

• Nwamaka Tagbo Fadahunsi, MD
• Rena Malik, MD
• Michael Phelan, MD
• M. Minhaj Siddiqui, MD
• Geoffrey Sklar, MD

Vascular Surgery

• Carter Freiburg, MD
• Peter Mackrell, MD
• Khanjan Nagarsheth, MD
• Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD
• Shahab Toursavadkohi, MD
• Kristian Ulloa, MD

Weight Management

• Ava Port, MD