Awards, Honors, and Grants


December 19, 2018

Boston Magazine Names More Than 275 Brigham Health Physicians in 'Top Doctors' List

Boston magazine honored more than 275 Brigham Health physicians in its 2019 list of “Top Doctors.”

This year, the magazine highlighted 1,685 physicians in 66 different specialties as exemplary leaders in their respective fields. To prepare the annual list, Boston magazine partners with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research group, and invites physicians and medical leadership of leading hospital to identify highly skilled, exceptional doctors in the region. Castle Connolly’s physician-led team of researchers rigorously screens the nominated physicians to select those most highly regarded by their peers.

The following Brigham Health physicians are honored in this year’s edition:

Allergy and Immunology

Nora Barrett
John Costa
Anna Feldweg
Tanya Laidlaw 

Cardiac Electrophysiology

Christine Albert
Bruce Koplan
Usha Tedrow 

Cardiovascular Disease

Dale Adler
Elliott Antman
Akshay Desai
Michael Hession
James Kirshenbaum
Leonard Lilly
Joseph Loscalzo
David Morrow
Anju Nohria
Patrick O'Gara
Marc Pfeffer
Scott Solomon
Peter Stone
Michael Sweeney
David Williams 

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Ronald Bleday
Christian Corwin
Joel Goldberg 

Dermatology

Rachael Clark
Kathie Huang
Thomas Kupper
Nicole LeBoeuf
Joseph Merola
Pamela Scheinman
Chrysalyne Schmults
Ruth Ann Vleugels
Alice Watson 

Diagnostic Radiology

Carol Benson
Christine Denison
Peter Doubilet
Mary Frates
William Mayo-Smith 

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Gail Adler
Erik Alexander
Shalender Bhasin
Naomi Fisher
Florencia Halperin
Margo Hudson
Meryl LeBoff
Ellen Marqusee
Marie McDonnell
Ellen Seely
Maria Yialamas 

Family Medicine

Sarah Sciascia

Gastroenterology

Nikroo Hashemi
Joshua Korzenik
Muthoka Mutinga
John Saltzman
Benjamin Smith 

Geriatric Psychiatry

Olivia Okereke

Gynecologic Oncology

Ross Berkowitz
Sarah Feldman
Neil Horowitz
Michael Muto 

Hand Surgery

Philip Blazar
Brandon Earp
Christian Sampson 

Hematology

Gregory Abel
Edwin Alyea III
Kenneth Anderson
Elisabeth Battinelli
Jennifer Brown
Jean Connors
Eric Jacobsen
Paul Richardson
Robert Soiffer
Richard Stone 

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Janet Abrahm

Infectious Disease

Todd Ellerin
Francisco Marty
Paul Sax
Sigal Yawetz 

Internal Medicine

Reema Alshirawi
Jeffrey Bass
David Bates
Barbara Gottlieb
Sarah Kent
Donald Levy
Natalie Pauli
Karen Siller
Bonnie Southworth
Lawrence Starr

Interventional Cardiology

Deepak Bhatt
David Denmark
Anthony Marks
Pinak Shah

Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Lisa Dunn-Albanese
Katherine Economy
Thomas McElrath
Julian Robinson
Louise Wilkins-Haug 

Medical Oncology

Joseph Antin
Caroline Block
Harold Burstein
Daniel DeAngelo
Arnold Freedman
Judy Garber
Suzanne George
Robert Haddad
Michael Hassett
Vincent Ho
Frank Hodi
Pasi Janne
Jennifer Ligibel
Nancy Lin
Robert Mayer
Bradley McGregor
Beth Overmoyer
Ann Partridge
Deborah Schrag
Geoffrey Shapiro
David Steensma
Mary-Ellen Taplin
Eric Winer
Brian Wolpin 

Neonatal-Perinatal

Linda Van Marter

Nephrology

Anil Chandraker
David Charytan
Edgar Milford
David Mount
Julian Seifter
Ajay Singh
Theodore Steinman
John Tucker
Sushrut Waikar 

Neurological Surgery

Ossama Al-Mefty
Mohammad Ali Aziz-Sultan
E. Antonio Chiocca
Alexandra Golby
Ian Dunn
Kai Frerichs 

Neurology

Anthony Amato
Kirk Daffner
Barbara Dworetzky
Steven Feske
Steven Greenberg
Michael Hayes
Albert Hung
Page Pennell
John Piecyk
David Pilgrim
Paul Rizzoli
Martin Samuels
James Stankiewicz
Patrick Wen 

Neuroradiology

Charles Cho
Liangge Hsu
Amir Zamani 

Nuclear Medicine

Heather Jacene

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Sarah Cohen
Jon Einarsson
Stephanie Bird
Nawal Nour
Tracy Zinner
Liza Colimon
Marc Laufer
James Greenberg 

Orthopaedic Surgery

Gregory Brick
Elizabeth Matzkin
John Ready
Jay Zampini
James Kang
Richard Wilk
Christopher Chiodo 

Otolaryngology

Donald Annino Jr.
Neil Bhattacharyya
Jo Shapiro 

Pain Medicine

Christopher Gilligan
Edward Michna
Srdjan Nedeljkovic
Edgar Ross 

Pathology

Christopher Fletcher
Richard Kaufman
Stuart Schnitt
Jeffrey Golden
Robert Odze
Helmut Rennke 

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

David Reardon

Pediatrics

Parag Amin
Bruce Bunnell
Tracey Daley
Laura DeGirolami 

Plastic Surgery

Richard Bartlett
Matthew Carty
Edward Caterson
Stephanie Caterson
Yoon Chun
Charles Hergrueter
Dennis Orgill
Bohdan Pomahac
Andrea Pusic
Sumner Slavin
Simon Talbot 

Psychiatry

Hadine Joffe
John Grimaldi Jr.
Mohammed Issa
John Peteet 

Pulmonary Disease

Manuela Cernadas
Carolyn D'Ambrosio
Christopher Fanta
Elizabeth Gay
Elliot Israel
Karen Lahive
Bruce Levy
Anthony Massaro
Edward Nardell
Scott Schissel
Aaron Waxman
Gerald Weinhouse 

Radiation Oncology

Brian Alexander
Elizabeth Baldini
Jennifer Bellon
Anthony D'Amico
Phillip Devlin
Daphne Haas-Kogan
Karen Marcus
Andrea Ng
Paul Nguyen
Peter Orio III
Roy Tishler 

Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility

Raymond Anchan
Rachel Ashby
Janis Fox
Antonio Gargiulo
Elizabeth Ginsburg
Mark Hornstein
Brian Walsh 

Rheumatology

Julia Charles
Jonathan Coblyn
Karen Costenbader
Paul Dellaripa
William Docken
Simon Helfgott
Gwendolyn Kane-Wanger
Jeffrey Katz
Elena Massarotti
Paul Monach
Peter Nigrovic
Nancy Shadick
Michael Weinblatt 

Sleep Medicine

Stuart Quan
David Wellman 

Surgery

Stanley Ashley
Monica Bertagnolli
Katherina Calvillo
Thomas Clancy
Gerard Doherty
Margaret Duggan
Atul Gawande
Mehra Golshan
Pardon Kenney
Tari King
Sayeed Malek
Francis Moore Jr.
Faina Nakhlis
Chandrajit Raut
Esther Rhei
Scott Shikora
Douglas Smink
Ali Tavakkoli
Ashley Vernon 

Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Raphael Bueno
Yolonda Colson
Christopher Ducko
Hari Mallidi
Steven Mentzer
Scott Swanson
Jon Wee
Daniel Wiener 

Urogynecology/Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery

Vatche Minassian

Urology

Steven Chang
Adam Kibel
Michael Malone
Michael O'Leary
Graeme Steele 

Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Richard Baum
Dmitry Rabkin
Matthew Schenker 

Vascular Surgery

Michael Belkin
Matthew Menard
Charles Ozaki