More Than 10 Percent of UMass Memorial Health Care Physicians Named Best Doctors

Cancer Center of Excellence
Harrison G. Ball, MD - Gynecologic Oncology
Susan L. Zweizig, MD - Gynecologic Oncology
Kathryn Edmiston, MD - Medical Oncology
Thomas J. FitzGerald, MD - Radiation Oncology
Robert M. Quinlan, MD - Surgical Oncology, Breast Surgery
Giles F. Whalen, MD - Surgical Oncology
Robert D. Blute Jr., MD - Urology, Urologic Oncology

Heart and Vascular Center of Excellence
Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine, Echocardiography
James Chesebro, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine
Daniel Z. Fisher, MD, PhD - Cardiovascular Medicine, Interventional Cardiology
Joel M. Gore, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine
John F. Keaney Jr., MD - Cardiovascular Medicine
Theo E. Meyer, MD, DPhil - Cardiovascular Medicine, Congestive Heart Failure
Ira S. Ockene, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine
Linda A. Pape, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine
John A. Paraskos, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine
Robert A. Phillips, MD, PhD - Cardiovascular Medicine, Hypertension
Lawrence S. Rosenthal, MD, PhD - Cardiovascular Medicine, Electrophysiology
Oscar E. Starobin, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine, Congenital Heart Disease
Dennis A. Tighe Jr., MD - Cardiovascular Medicine, Echocardiography
Richard M. Wholey, MD - Cardiovascular Medicine, Interventional Cardiology
Eleanor M. Duduch, MD - Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cardiovascular Anesthesiology
Shubjeet Kaur, MD - Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cardiovascular Anesthesiology
Stanley K.C. Tam, MD - Cardiac Surgery
Bruce S. Cutler, MD - Vascular Surgery
Louis M. Messina, MD - Vascular Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Marc Fisher, MD - Stroke

Musculoskeletal Center of Excellence
David C. Ayers, MD - Arthritis & Joint Replacement Surgery
John J. Wixted, MD - Orthopedic Trauma
Julie K. Silver, MD - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Faren Williams, MD, MS - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Electrodiagnostic Medicine
Patrick J. Connolly, MD - Spine Surgery
Brian D. Busconi, MD - Sports Medicine
Deborah M. DeMarco, MD - Rheumatology, Osteoporosis
John A. Ferriss, MD - Rheumatology
Nancy Y. Liu, MD - Rheumatology
Katherine S. Upchurch, MD - Rheumatology

Children's Medical Center
Diane R. Blake, MD - Adolescent Medicine
Marianne E. Felice, MD - Adolescent Medicine
Ann L. Sattler, MD - Adolescent Medicine
Peter J. Foley, MD, PhD - Anesthesiology
J. Lance Lichtor, MD - Anesthesiology
Rebecca Moles, MD -Child Abuse
John H. Backman, MD - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Jean A. Frazier, MD - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
W. Peter Metz, MD - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Karen F. Rothman, MD - Dermatology
Karen Wiss, MD - Dermatology
Mary M. Lee, MD - Endocrinology
Leslie A. Soyka, MD - Endocrinology
Michael S. Stalvey, MD - Endocrinology, Diabetes
John L. Sullivan, MD - Immunology, Immunodeficiency
Katherine Luzuriaga, MD - Immunology/
Infectious Diseases
Francis J. Bednarek, MD - Neonatology
Alan P. Picarillo, MD - Neonatology
Joel H. Weiner, MD - Neonatology
Ann E. Salerno, MD - Nephrology
Gary Fudem, MD - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Janice F. Lalikos, MD - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Craniofacial Surgery
Angela L. Beeler, MD - Primary Care
William J. Durbin Jr., MD - Primary Care/Infectious Diseases
David M. Keller, MD - Primary Care
Jeffrey C. Lukas, MD - Primary Care
Patricia A. McQuilkin, MD - Primary Care
Safdar Medina, MD - Primary Care
Richard A. Moriarty, MD - Primary Care/Infectious Diseases
Beverly L. Nazarian, MD - Primary Care
Linda Sagor, MD, MPH - Primary Care
John M. Solomonides, MD - Primary Care
Mark A. Vining, MD - Primary Care
Terence R. Flotte, MD - Pulmonary Medicine
Ted M. Kremer, MD - Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Medicine
Brian P. O'Sullivan, MD - Pulmonary Medicine
Robert G. Zwerdling, MD - Pulmonary Medicine
Anthony J. Alario, MD - Rheumatology

Emergency Medicine
Harry M. Arters, MD - Emergency Medicine
Mary-Elise Manuell, MD - Emergency Medicine
Robert F. McCarron, MD - Emergency Medicine
Marie Mullen, MD - Emergency Medicine
Francis P. Renzi, MD - Emergency Medicine

Medical Specialties
Jeffrey D. Bernhard, MD - Dermatology
Gerald C. Gladstone, MD - Dermatology
Mary E. Maloney, MD - Dermatology, Laser Surgery & Birthmarks, Skin Cancer
Karen F. Rothman, MD - Dermatology
Mark J. Scharf, MD - Dermatology
Marjorie S. Safran, MD - Endocrinology, Thyroid
Graham Barnard, MD, PhD - Gastroenterology, General Hepatology
Kanishka Bhattacharya, MD - Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Dominic J. Nompleggi, MD, PhD - Gastroenterology
John K. Zawacki, MD - Gastroenterology
Catherine E. DuBeau, MD - Geriatric Medicine
Walter H. Ettinger Jr., MD, MBA - Geriatric Medicine, Hospital Medicine 
Jerry H. Gurwitz, MD - Geriatric Medicine
Eric J. Alper, MD - Hospital Medicine
Shahrzad Shidfar, MD - Hospital Medicine
Sarah H. Cheeseman, MD - Infectious Diseases
Sonia N. Chimienti, MD - Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS

   

Medical Specialties (continued)
Jennifer S. Daly, MD - Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS, Tropical Diseases & Travel Medicine
Raul E. Davaro, MD - Infectious Diseases
Robert W. Finberg, MD - Infectious Diseases, Transplantation Infections
Richard H. Glew, MD - Infectious Diseases, Tropical Diseases & Travel Medicine
Peter A. Rice, MD - Infectious Diseases
David M. Clive, MD - Nephrology
Jeffrey S. Stoff, MD - Nephrology
Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD - Neurology, Degenerative Diseases, Neuromuscular Disease
David A. Chad, MD - Neurology
Herbert G. Markley, MD - Neurology, Headache
David Paydarfar, MD - Neurology
Catherine A. Phillips, MD - Neurology, Epilepsy
Paula D. Ravin, MD - Neurology, Headache, Movement Disorders
Jane C. Sargent, MD - Neurology, Behavioral Neurology
William J. Schwartz, MD - Neurology
Sandra L. Horowitz, MD - Neurology/Sleep Medicine
Donald S. Stevens, MD - Pain Management
Richard S. Irwin, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, nterstitial Lung Diseases
Scott E. Kopec, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Hardy Kornfeld, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Craig M. Lilly, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
J. Mark Madison, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Nicholas Smyrnios, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Pathology
Armando E. Fraire, MD - Anatomic Pathology, Lung Pathology
Zhong Jiang, MD - Anatomic Pathology, Genitourinary Pathology
Thomas W. Smith, MD - Anatomic Pathology, Neuropathology

Primary Care
Ronald N. Adler, MD - Family Medicine
Frederic Baker, MD - Family Medicine
Katharine C. Barnard, MD - Family Medicine
Jeffrey D. Baxter, MD - Family Medicine
Lucy M. Candib, MD - Family Medicine
Joseph F. Daigneault, MD - Family Medicine
Dennis M. Dimitri, MD - Family Medicine
Frank J. Domino, MD - Family Medicine
Michael C. Ennis, MD - Family Medicine
Phillip O. Fournier, MD - Family Medicine
Jeremy Golding, MD - Family Medicine
Daniel O'Donnell, MD - Family Medicine
Joseph R. Stenger, MD - Family Medicine
Julia D. Andrieni, MD - Internal Medicine
Nancy E. Bennet, MD - Internal Medicine
Stephen B. Erban, MD - Internal Medicine
George H. Eypper, MD - Internal Medicine
Sharon C. Eypper, MD - Internal Medicine
Mary R. Hawthorne, MD - Internal Medicine
Gordon S. Manning, MD - Internal Medicine
Howard J. Sachs, MD - Internal Medicine
John M. Solomonides, MD - Internal Medicine
Bruce R. Weinstein, MD - Internal Medicine

Psychiatry
Sheldon Benjamin, MD - Psychiatry, Behavioral Neurology, Neuropsychiatry
Alan P. Brown, MD - Psychiatry
Deborah C. Field, MD - Psychiatry
Jeffrey L. Geller, MD, MPH - Psychiatry, ECT Therapy
Gerardo Gonzalez, MD - Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry
Marie H. Hobart, MD - Psychiatry, Affective Disorders
Nancy E. Pratt, MD - Psychiatry
Anthony J. Rothschild, MD - Psychiatry, Affective Disorders, Psychopharmacology
Douglas M. Ziedonis, MD, MPH - Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry

Radiology
Ajay K. Wakhloo, MD, PhD - Neurointerventional Radiology
Jerry P. Balikian, MD - Thoracic Radiology
Santiago T. Miro, MD - Thoracic Radiology

Surgical Specialties and Anesthesia
Mark Dershwitz, MD, PhD - Anesthesiology
Khaldoun Faris, MD - Anesthesiology
Stephen O. Heard, MD - Anesthesiology
J. Matthias Walz, MD - Anesthesiology
Justin A. Maykel, MD - Colon & Rectal Surgery, Colon & Rectal Cancer
Demetrius E. Litwin, MD, MBA - General Surgery
Richard A. Perugini, MD - General Surgery, Bariatric Surgery
John P. Weaver, MD - Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery
Frank McCabe, MD - Ophthalmology, Vitreo-Retinal Surgery
Raymond M. Dunn, MD - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Facial Aesthetic Surgery, Microsurgery, Wound Healing & Burns
Gary Fudem, MD - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Janice F. Lalikos, MD - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Craniofacial Surgery
Douglas M. Rothkopf, MD - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
James M. Shenko, MD - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Michael L. Blute, MD - Urology
Timothy B. Hopkins, MD - Urology

Women's Health
Ellen H. Delpapa, MD - Maternal Fetal Medicine
Karen W. Green, MD - Maternal Fetal Medicine, Infectious Disease
Jami A. Star, MD - Maternal Fetal Medicine
Mary M. Herlihy, MD - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Maria Narducci, MD - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Brenda Neary, MD - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Mary E. Scannell, MD - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Julia V. Johnson, MD - Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Machelle Seibel, MD - Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Michael P. Aronson, MD - Urogynecology