More Than 260 University of Maryland Medical System Physicians Recognized As “Top Doctors” In Baltimore Magazine 2024 Survey

More than 260 physicians in 84 specialties and sub-specialties who provide care across University of Maryland Medical System hospitals and other care locations are recognized as "Top Doctors" in the November 2024 issue of Baltimore magazine. Of the doctors recognized, 121 practice at the System's flagship academic hospital, the University of Maryland Medical Center, and are also on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  More than 220 of these providers, representing 65 specialties, work with adult patients, and more than 40 doctors representing nearly 20 specialties care for pediatric patients.

"Each fall, we look forward to the “Top Doctors” list which always includes many of our physicians across the System,” said Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer of UMMS. "Recognition by peers is one of the strongest validations of a clinician’s work, and we are particularly proud of our 260-plus doctors who are being recognized for providing compassionate, high-quality health care."

The "Top Doctors" results are based on Baltimore magazine's annual survey of thousands of physicians in the Baltimore region who were asked to name the best doctors; the list covers 130 specialties and subspecialties and more than 638 physicians who received the highest number of recommendations by their peers are included.

“We are honored to once again have so many of our specialists recognized among the most skilled in their respective fields,” said Bert W. O'Malley, MD, President and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center. “Their dedication to advancing medicine through discovery-based, patient-centered care is the reason they’ve earned this coveted acknowledgement from their peers and continue to win the trust of the patients, families, and communities we serve every day."

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 UM Upper Chesapeake Medical Center Aberdeen, both in Harford County, and University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute, located in Baltimore City.

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

Adult Specialties

Addiction Medicine

• Drew Fuller, MD

Addiction Medicine/Substance Use Disorder

• Kofi Owusu-Antwi, MD

Allergy/Immunology

• Paula Whittington, MD

Anesthesiology

• Glen Hessinger, MD

Cardiac Anesthesia

• Michael Boss, MD

Cardiology – Electrophysiology

• Timm Dickfeld, MD

Cardiology – Interventional

• Daniel Ambinder, MD
• Diljon Chahal, MD
• Charles Cummings, MD
• Anuj Gupta, MD
• Amir Najafi, MD
• Mukta Srivastava, MD
• Shumile Zaidi, MD

Cardiology – Non-Interventional

• Manjula Ananthram, MBBS
• Sonia Baker, MD
• Brian Barr, MD
• Robert M. Benitez, MD
• Catherine Campbell, MD
• Vivek Dhruva, DO
• Susie Hong-Zohlman, MD
• Carlos Ince, MD
• Manu Mysore, MD
• Amir Najafi, MD
• Anoop Patel, MD
• Jeremy Pollock, MD
• Gautam Ramani, MD
• Elliot Sultanik, MD
• Emil Thattassery, MD

Colo-Rectal

• Rebecca Brown, MD

Cosmetic Surgery – Breast/Body Contouring

• Nassif Soueid, MD
• Michele Shermak, MD

Dermatology – General

• Jamie Goldberg, MD
• Tola Oyesanya, MD
• Amie Sessa, MD

Emergency Medicine

• Reginald Brown, MD
• Brian Corwell, MD
• J. David Gatz, MD

Endocrinology

• Elizabeth Lamos, MD
• Rana Malek, MD
• Kashif Munir, MD
• Marjorie Pennant, MD

Family Medicine

• Diana Carvajal, MD
• Kyle Fletke, MD
• Shana Ntiri, MD
• Kristin Reavis, MD

Gastroenterology – General

• Eric Goldberg, MD
• Eiad Nasser, MD 
• Jordan Wolff, MD

Gastroenterology – Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Lauren George, MD
• Seema Patil, MD
• Sandra Quezada, MD

Geriatrics

• Ernestine Wright, MD

Gynecology – OB/GYN

• Madeline Dick-Biascoechea, MD
• Ada Emarievbe, MD
• Alyssa Hammer, MD
• Cescili Hopkins, MD
• Julie Hurvitz, MD
• Doee Kitessa, MD
• Jessica K. Lee, MD
• Julita Lett, MD

Hematology

• Ashkan Bahrani, MD
• Myo Min, MD

Hospitalist Medicine

• Manisha Bahl, MD
• Margie Banzuelo-Rio, MD
• Daniel Bashari, MD
• Mohamad Chehab, MD
• Elie Cheikh, MD
• Qinglin Gao, MD
• Fadi Saikali, MD

Infectious Disease

• Joel Chua, MD
• Omar Harfouch, MD
• Mettassebia Kanno, MD
• Mariam Khambaty, MD
• Poonam Mathur, DO
• Shivakumar Narayanan, MD
• Kathryn Schlaffer, MD
• Sarah Schmalzle, MD
• David Riedel, MD
• Patrick Ryscavage, MD
• Ravi Tripathi, MD

Infectious Disease/HIV Primary Care

• Gregory Taylor, MD

Intensivists/Critical Care

• Michael Allison, MD
• Madhat Arnouk, MD

Internal Medicine

• John Allen, MD
• Danielle Baek, MD
• Andrew Delapenha, MD
• Qinglin Gao, MD
• Jessica R. Lee, MD
• Stacy Schwartz, MD
• Aseem Sood, MD

Interventional Radiology

• Christopher McGinn, MD
• Shreyas Patel, MD 

Maternal–Fetal Medicine

• Pamela Matia, MD

Minimally Invasive Surgery

• Victoria Dowling, MD

Nephrology

• Mohamad Hanouneh, MD
• Tanuja Mishra, MD
• Aiman Shammas, MD
• Irfan Shukrullah, MD

Neuro Interventional Radiology

• Dheeraj Gandhi, MBBS
• Timothy Miller, MD

Neurology – Epilepsy

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

Neurology – General

• Syed Salahuddin, MD
• Syed Shaukat, MD

Neurology – Movement Disorder

• Lynn Chouhfeh, MD

Neurology – Neuroimmunology

• Sarah Fredrich, MD

Neurology – Neuromuscular

• Lindsay Zilliox, MD

Neuro-Oncology

• Haroon Ahmad, MD

Neurology – Vascular

• Michael Phipps, MD

Neurosurgery

• William W. Ashley Jr., MD
• Jacob Cherian, MD
• Timothy Chryssikos, MD, PhD
• Kenneth Crandall, MD
• James Frazier, MD
• Alexander Ksendzovsky, MD, PhD
• Mohamed Labib, MD
• Charles Sansur, MD
• Gary Schwartzbauer, MD, PhD
• Graeme Woodworth, MD
• Omar Zalatimo, MD

Oncology – General

• Michael Adashek, MD
• Ashkan Bahrani, MD
• Sandy Kotiah, MD
• Myo Min, MD

Oncology – Gynecologic

• Dwight Im, MD

Oncology – Orthopedic

• Vincent Ng, MD

Ophthalmology

• Eva DeVience, MD
• Lily Im, MD
• Sachin Kalyani, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Foot and Ankle

• Jeffrey Brodie, MD
• Natalie Danna, MD
• Kenneth DeFontes III, MD
• Hayden Hoffler, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Hand

• Alexander Choo, MD
• Emery Kim, MD
• Elizabeth Langhammer, MD
• Michael Marion, MD
• Raymond Pensy, MD
• Khurram Pervaiz, MD
• Bruce Wolock, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Joint

• Timothy Codd, MD
• Theodore Manson, MD
• Brian Mulliken, MD
• David Schroder, MD
• Scott Tarantino, MD
• Ke Xie, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Sports Medicine

• Scott Adams, MD
• Craig Bennett, MD
• Mark Clough, MD
• Alvin Detterline, MD
• R. Frank Henn III, MD
• Sarah Hobart, MD
• Natalie Leong, MD
• Sean Meredith, MD
• Jonathan Packer, MD
• M. Brian Polsky, MD
• Brian Shiu, MD
• Ralph Zade, MD

Otolaryngology – General

• Rodney Taylor, MD
• Jeffrey Wolf, MD

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Malignancies

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

Pathology 

• Fadi Habib, MD

Podiatry

• Mikel Daniels, MD
• Michael Gerrity, MD
• Carron Grant, MD
• Jacob Wynes, MD

Psychiatry – General

• Marissa Flaherty, MD
• Constance Lacap, MD

Pulmonary

• Fiona Meller-Azrieli, MD
• Peter Olivieri III, MD
• Nirav Shah, MD

Radiation Oncology

• Mark Mishra, MD
• Elizabeth Nichols, MD
• William Regine, MD

Radiology

• Edward Ahn, MD
• Randy Becker, MD
• Puneet Devgun, MD
• Anis Frayha, MD
• Laurence Goldstein, MD
• Kevin Jarrell, MD
• Haleema Javid, MD
• Nick Lomis, MD
• Loralie Ma, MD
• Aimee Maceda, MD
• Zina Novak, MD
• Bertan Ozgun, MD
• Amy Pepperney, MD
• Jessica Record, MD
• Rebecca Richardson, MD
• David Safferman, MD
• Satyajit Sarangi, MD
• Nils Schnor, MD
• Julian Simmons, MD
• Hardeep Singh, MD
• Ethan Spiegler, MD
• Robert Stroud, MD
• Shadi Yousefi, MD

Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology

• Kalonji Collins, MD
• Bernadette Siaton, MD
• Afton Thomas, DO

Sports Medicine

• Valerie Cothran, MD
• Kyle Yost, DO

Surgery – Minimally Invasive Gynecology

• Adina Maniu, MD

Surgery – Cardiac

• Bartley Griffith, MD
• Rawn Salenger, MD

Surgery – General

• Stephen Kavic, MD
• Atena Rosak, MD
• Samana Zulu, MD

Surgery – Reconstructive

• Yvonne Rasko, MD

Surgery – Spine

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

Surgery – Thoracic

• Gavin Henry, MD
• Alexander Sasha Krupnick, MD
• Christine Lau, MD

Surgery – Transplant

• Daniel Maluf, MD

Surgery – Vascular

• Richard Bafford, MD
• Andre Biuckians, MD
• Carter Frieburg, MD
• Mark Gonze, MD
• Khanjan ‘KJ’ Nagarsheth, MD
• Kristian Ulloa, MD

Trauma

• Jaclyn Clark, MD
• Rebecca Schwartz, MD
• Richard Wittmeyer, DO

Urology

• Benjamin Cohen, MD
• Nwamaka Fadahunsi, MD
• Brian Neuman, MD
• Marc Siegelbaum, MD

Pediatric Specialties

Adolescent Medicine

• Matthew Grant, MD

Neonatology

• Natalie Davis, MD
• Francesca Okolie, DO

Pediatric Allergy

• Manav Singla, MD

Pediatric Ambulatory Intensive Care

• Virginia Keane, MD

Pediatric Anesthesiology

• Stephanie Kahntroff, MD 

Pediatric Cardiology

• Alicia Chaves, MD
• Peter Gaskin, MD
• Michael Slack, MD
• Sudhir Vashist, MD

Pediatric Critical Care

• Adrian Holloway, MD

Pediatric Dermatology

• Dakara Wright, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• Forrest Closson, MD
• Getachew Teshome, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology

• Paula Newton, MD 
• Maria Eleni Nikita, MD
• Melissa Pagan Pares, MD

Pediatric ENT

• Amal Isaiah, MD

Pediatric Gastroenterology

• Jennifer Hong, MD, MPH
• Runa Watkins, MD

Pediatrics General

• Christina Brown, MD
• Rebecca Carter, MD 
• Claudia Cardenas, MD
• Ruby Dey, MD
• Tekeema Dixon, MD
• Mutiat Onigbanjo, MD
• Vandana Racherla, MD

Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine

• Michelle Chudow, MD
• Nidhi Goel, MD
• Lorena Hawkins, MD
• Julia Rosenstock, MD
• Krista Tookhan, MD

Pediatric Neurology

• Jessica Carpenter, MD
• Neil Porter, MD

Pediatric Neurosurgery

• Whitney Parker, MD, PhD

Pediatric Ophthalmology

• Janet Alexander, MD
• Samuel Andorsky, MD
• Dean Fiergang, MD
• Allison Jensen, MD
• Roni Levin, MD

Pediatric Sports Medicine

• Teri McCambridge, MD

Pediatric Surgery

• Eric Strauch, MD