Best Doctors 2020: ΘνΓΓΙηCare Physicians Named to St. Louis Magazine List
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St. Louis Magazine has released its 2020 Best Doctors issue, revealing the area's top physicians as selected by other doctors. The list includes 164 physicians representing across more than 40 different specialties.
Founded by Harvard Medical School physicians in 1989, Best Doctors, Inc., helps identify outstanding physicians across a range of medical specialties.
In addition to the ΘνΓΓΙηCare doctors who made the Best Doctors List, the magazine also featured several stories about the research coming out of ΘνΓΓΙη School of Medicine.
Facing a Pandemic
As the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, ΘνΓΓΙη is a vital part of the nationwide effort to find safe and effective therapies and vaccines for the novel coronavirus.
Sarah George, M.D., an associate professor of infectious diseases at ΘνΓΓΙη, was the principal investigator on a trial conducted at SSM Health ΘνΓΓΙη Hospital, treating COVID patients with Remdesivir. The trial showed a shorter recovery time for patients treated with Remdesivir, versus those who received a placebo.
βWeβre not going to beat this until we get a vaccine,β George told . Thatβs why additional trials and studies of treatments are necessary.
The magazine working on testing potential vaccines. Daniel Hoft, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy, and Immunology and the Center for Vaccine Development, was also recently appointed to the National Vaccine Advisory Committee.
The pandemicβs impact on how doctors and patients interact cannot be underestimated. ΘνΓΓΙηCare moved 50 percent of patient appointments to telehealth in one week, Matthew Zimmie, M.D., assistant vice president and chief medical information officer for ΘνΓΓΙηCare, told St. Louis Magazine. ΘνΓΓΙηCare also set up telehealth hubs to connect underserved populations with physicians.
Staying connected during a time of social distancing can be difficult, but Terri Weaver, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at ΘνΓΓΙη, told it is important for mental well-being.
βAt its core, the pandemic stresses our personal and professional lives in nearly every way,β Weaver said in April. βThere is no break from the fear.β
The selected ΘνΓΓΙηCare physicians named as Best Doctors in 2020 β listed by specialty β are:
Adult Medicine
- Mark S. Dykewicz, M.D.
- Lisa J. Alderson, M.D.
- Bernard R. Chaitman, M.D.
- Michael Forsberg, M.D.
- Steven C. Smart, M.D.
- Ramona Behshad, M.D.
- Nicole M. Burkemper, M.D.
- Dee Anna Glaser, M.D.
- A. Mary Guo, M.D.
- M. Yadira Hurley, M.D.
- Daniel A. West, M.D.
- Stewart G. Albert, M.D.
- Raymond E. Bourey, M.D.
- Alan B. Silverberg, M.D.
- Denise Hooks-Anderson, M.D.
- Christine K. Jacobs, M.D.
- Mary Burton, M.D.
- Christine Y. Hachem, M.D.
- Jennifer L. LaBundy, M.D.
- Charlene Prather, M.D.
- Katie S. Schroeder, M.D.
- Jason Taylor, M.D.
- Brent A. Tetri, M.D.
- Julie K. Gammack, M.D.
- Gerald Mahon, M.D.
- Angela M. Sanford, M.D.
- Mark J. Fesler, M.D.
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John M. Richart, M.D.
- Donald J. Kennedy, M.D.
- Marcia Sokol-Anderson, M.D.
- Fred R. Buckhold, III, M.D.
- Robert M. Heaney, M.D.
- Thomas J. Olsen, M.D.
- Douglas Walden, M.D.
- Bahar Bastani, M.D.
- John C. Edwards, M.D.
- Krista Lentine, M.D.
- Kevin J. Martin, M.D.
- Rosemary Ouseph, M.D.
- Marie Philipneri, M.D.
- Rupinder K Sodhi, M.D.
- Thanh-Mai Vo, M.D.
- Aninda B. Acharya, M.D.
- Pratap Chand, M.D.
- Randall C. Edgell, M.D.
- Ghazala S. Hayat, M.D.
- Jafar Kafaie, M.D.
- L. James Willmore, Jr., M.D
- Erol Amon, M.D.
- E. Cristian Campian, M.D.
- Katherine M. Childress, M.D.
- Jennifer M. Goldkamp, M.D.
- Gil Gross, M.D.
- John T. Hoff, M.D.
- Brigid Holloran-Schwartz, M.D.
- Ming-Shian Kao, M.D.
- Cherie A. LeFevre, M.D.
- Fah Che Leong, M.D.
- Leslie McCloskey, M.D.
- Mary McLennan, M.D.
- Dorothea J. Mostello, M.D.
- Diane M. Petersen, M.D.
- Amy J. Ravin, M.D.
- Mitul B. Shah, M.D.
- Jaye M. Shyken, M.D.
- Andrew C. Steele, M.D.
- Michael Thomure, M.D.
- Tracy M. Tomlinson, M.D.
- D. Gregory Ward, M.D.
- Francisco P. Xynos, M.D.
- Pericles Xynos, M.D.
- Patrick Yeung, Jr., M.D.
- Oscar A. Cruz, M.D.
- Bradley Davitt, M.D.
- Sean Edelstein, M.D.
- Gabriela M. Espinoza, M.D.
- Douglas P. Blackall, M.D.
- David Brink, M.D.
- Nancy J. Phillips, M.D.
- Carole Vogler, M.D.
- Catalina Belean, M.D.
- Anjan Bhattacharyya, M.D.
- Alan R. Felthous, M.D.
- George T. Grossberg, M.D.
- Philip J. Lefevre, M.D.
- Mirela D. Marcu, M.D.
- William Newman, M.D.
- W. Maurice Redden, M.D.
- Joseph Espiritu, M.D.
- Ravi P. Nayak, M.D.
- David Stoeckel, M.D.
- Jeffrey J. Brown, M.D.
- Christina M. Doherty, M.D.
- Medhat M. Osman, M.D.
- Rama Atluri, M.D.
- Terry L. Moore, M.D.
Pediatric Medicine
- Joshua D. Arthur, M.D.
- Matt A. Broom, M.D.
- Ken Haller, M.D.
- M. Susan Heaney, M.D.
- Gene LaBarge, M.D.
- Jennifer S. Ladage, M.D.
- Martin Schmidt, M.D.
- Aline Tanios, M.D.
- Alan P. Knutsen, M.D.
- Kenneth Schowengerdt, M.D.
- Jamie S. Sutherell, M.D.
- Andrew C. Fiore, M.D.
- Charles B. Huddleston, M.D.
- Linda Shaw, M.D.
- Teresa L. Andreone, M.D.
- Jeremy Garrett, M.D.
- Lia Lowrie, M.D.
- Robert S. Ream, M.D.
- B. Craig Weldon, M.D.
- Jason A. Werner, M.D.
- Elaine Siegfried, M.D.
- Katherine R. Forrester, M.D.
- James M. Gerard, M.D.
- Steven P. Laffey, M.D.
- John R. Peter, M.D.
- David P. Dempsher, M.D.
- Susan Myers, M.D.
- Ajay Jain, M.D.
- Nisha Mangalat, M.D.
- Jeffrey Teckman, M.D.
- Stephen R. Braddock, M.D.
- William S. Ferguson, M.D.
- Christopher Hugge, M.D.
- Aaron Miller, M.D.
- Marilyn Maxwell, M.D.
- Nora L. Porter, M.D.
- Robert E. Fleming, M.D.
- Noah H. Hillman, M.D.
- Amit M. Mathur, M.D.
- H. Farouk Sadiq, M.D.
- Anne Marie Beck, M.D.
- Craig W. Belsha, M.D.
- Glen Fenton, M.D.
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Sean E. Goretzke, M.D,
- Elizabeth Engel, M.D.
- Aki S. Puryear, M.D.
- Jennifer V. Brinkmeier, M.D.
- Dary J. Costa, M.D.
- John A. Stith, M.D.
- Gary M. Albers, M.D.
- Blakeslee E. Noyes, M.D.
- Kurtis T. Sobush, M.D.
- Anthony J. Scalzo, M.D.
Surgery
- Kevin Behrns, M.D.
- Eddy Hsueh, M.D.
- Theresa L. Schwartz, M.D.
- John A. Boudreau, M.D.
- Thomas J. Fox, M.D.
- David Greenberg, M.D.
- Scott Kaar, M.D.
- David Karges, DO
- Djoldas Kuldjanov, M.D.
- Thomas J. Otto, M.D.
- Howard Place, M.D
- Jeffrey B. Whiting, M.D.
- John F. Eisenbeis, M.D.
- Frank Simo, M.D.
- Ronald Walker, M.D.
- Keith S. Naunheim, M.D.
The list is based on the annual βBest Doctors in Americaβ database, which considers more than one million peer evaluations to create a directory of approximately 40,000 doctors, from 40 medical specialties and 450 subspecialties.
ΘνΓΓΙηCare Physician Group is the academic medical practice of ΘνΓΓΙη, with more than 500 health care providers and 1,200 staff members in hospitals and medical offices throughout the St. Louis region. ΘνΓΓΙηCare physicians are among the most highly trained in their fields - more than 50 specialties in all - and are national and international experts, renowned for research and innovations in medicine.