Awards, Honors, and Grants


January 24, 2023

Boston Magazine Names Over 370 Brigham Physicians in 'Top Doctors' List

Boston magazine named more than 370 Brigham physicians to its 2023 list of “Top Doctors.”

This year, the magazine highlighted more than 1,914 Massachusetts physicians in 70 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 hospitals 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.

See below for a list of Brigham physicians honored in this year’s edition.

Allergy & Immunology

  • Nora Barrett
  • Kathleen Buchheit
  • John Costa
  • Anna Feldweg
  • David Hong
  • Margee Louisias
  • David Sloane
  • Paige Wickner

Cardiac Electrophysiology

  • Bruce Koplan
  • David Martin
  • Seth McClennen
  • William Sauer
  • Usha Tedrow
  • Paul Zei

Cardiovascular Disease

  • Dale Adler
  • Jorge Alvarez
  • Elliott Antman
  • J. Corrodi
  • Akshay Desai
  • Susan Feinstein
  • Marie Gerhard-Herman
  • Michael Hession
  • James Kirshenbaum
  • Leonard Lilly
  • Joseph Loscalzo
  • David Morrow
  • Anju Nohria
  • Patrick O'Gara
  • Arvind Pandey
  • Gregory Piazza
  • Paul Schubert
  • Scott Solomon
  • Peter Stone
  • Thomas Tadros
  • Adam Zucker

Colon & Rectal Surgery

  • Ronald Bleday
  • Joel Goldberg
  • James Yoo

Dermatology

  • Elizabeth Buzney
  • Margaret Cavanaugh-Hussey
  • Rachael Clark
  • Jason Frangos
  • Kathie Huang
  • Chad Jessup
  • Thomas Kupper
  • Cecilia Larocca
  • Nicole LeBoeuf
  • Joseph Merola
  • Chrysalyne Schmults
  • Manisha Thakuria
  • Ruth Ann Vleugels
  • Abigail Waldman
  • Alice Watson

Diagnostic Radiology

  • Carol Benson
  • Christine Denison
  • Pamela DiPiro
  • Peter Doubilet
  • Mary Frates
  • William Mayo-Smith
  • Michele Walters

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

  • Gail Adler
  • Sara Ahmadi
  • Erik Alexander
  • Shalender Bhasin
  • Naomi Fisher
  • Anna Goldman
  • Ole-Petter Hamnvik
  • Margo Hudson
  • Meryl LeBoff
  • Ellen Marqusee
  • Marie McDonnell
  • Ellen Seely
  • Alexander Turchin
  • Anand Vaidya

Family Medicine

  • Sarah Sciascia

Gastroenterology

  • Hiroyuki Aihara
  • Jessica Allegretti
  • Walter Chan
  • Alison Goldin
  • Nikroo Hashemi
  • Kunal Jajoo
  • Pichamol Jirapinyo
  • Joshua Korzenik
  • Muthoka Mutinga
  • Anna Rutherford
  • Marvin Ryou
  • John Saltzman
  • Benjamin Smith
  • Rachel Winter

Gynecologic Oncology

  • Ross Berkowitz
  • Sarah Feldman
  • Colleen Feltmate
  • Neil Horowitz
  • Michael Muto

Hand Surgery

  • Philip Blazar
  • Brandon Earp
  • Christian Sampson

Hematology

  • Gregory Abel
  • Maureen Achebe
  • Elisabeth Battinelli
  • Jennifer Brown
  • Jorge Castillo
  • Nathan Connell
  • Jean Connors
  • Arielle Langer
  • Richard Stone

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

  • Janet Abrahm

Infectious Disease

  • Roger Clark
  • Joel Katz
  • Paul Sax
  • Sigal Yawetz

Internal Medicine

  • Laila Akhund
  • Reema Alshirawi
  • David Bates
  • Danielle Brook
  • Jordan Busch
  • Nancy Corliss
  • Nina Cotran
  • Lauren de Leon
  • Steven Flier
  • Barbara Gottlieb
  • Jennifer Kaufman
  • Sarah Kent
  • Donald Levy
  • Jennifer Parent
  • Natalie Pauli
  • Karen Siller
  • Bonnie Southworth
  • Yun Xia
  • Maria Yialamas

Interventional Cardiology

  • Pinak Shah
  • Piotr Sobieszczyk
  • David Denmark
  • Anthony Marks

Maternal & Fetal Medicine

  • Lisa Dunn-Albanese
    Katherine Economy
    Thomas McElrath
    Louise Wilkins-Haug

Medical Oncology

  • Kenneth Anderson
  • Joseph Antin
  • Caroline Block
  • Craig Bunnell
  • Harold Burstein
  • Susana Campos
  • Jennifer Chan
  • Daniel DeAngelo
  • Arnold Freedman
  • Judy Garber
  • Suzanne George
  • Robert Haddad
  • Michael Hassett
  • Vincent Ho
  • Frank Hodi
  • Eric Jacobsen
  • Pasi Janne
  • Bruce Johnson
  • Ann LaCasce
  • Jennifer Ligibel
  • Nancy Lin
  • Filipa Lynce
  • Ursula Matulonis
  • Erica Mayer
  • Bradley Mcgregor
  • Jeffrey Meyerhardt
  • Patrick Ott
  • Ann Partridge
  • Paul Richardson
  • Geoffrey Shapiro
  • Robert Soiffer
  • Mary-Ellen Taplin
  • Brian Wolpin

Nephrology

  • Anil Chandraker
  • David Mount
  • Julian Seifter
  • Ajay Singh

Neurological Surgery

  • Mohammad Aziz-Sultan
  • E. Antonio Chiocca
  • Rose Du
  • Kai Frerichs
  • Alexandra Golby
  • Timothy Smith

Neurology

  • Anthony Amato
  • Tracy Batchelor
  • Shamik Bhattacharyya
  • Tanuja Chitnis
  • Merit Cudkowicz
  • Kirk Daffner
  • Barbara Dworetzky
  • Steven Greenberg
  • Michael Hayes
  • Albert Hung
  • Brian McGeeney
  • Scott McGinnis
  • John Piecyk
  • David Pilgrim
  • Paul Rizzoli
  • Patrick Wen

Neuroradiology

  • Charles Cho
  • Liangge Hsu
  • Amir Zamani

Nuclear Medicine

  • Heather Jacene

Obstetrics & Gynecology

  • Ashley Ackerman
  • Mobolaji Ajao
  • Stephanie Bird
  • Thomas Connolly
  • James Greenberg
  • Marc Laufer
  • Nawal Nour
  • Hannah Parker
  • Liza Swedarsky
  • Tracy Zinner

Ophthalmology

  • Teresa Chen
  • Reza Dana
  • Dean Eliott
  • Suzanne Freitag
  • David Friedman
  • Matthew Gardiner
  • Mami Iwamoto
  • Leo Kim
  • Nahyoung Lee
  • Brendan McCarthy
  • Joan Miller
  • Shizuo Mukai
  • Roberto Pineda
  • Joseph Rizzo
  • Lucia Sobrin
  • David Wu
  • Michael Yoon
  • Lucy Young

Orthopaedic Surgery

  • Gregory Brick
  • Antonia Chen
  • Christopher Chiodo
  • Courtney Dawson
  • Richard Iorio
  • James Kang
  • Elizabeth Matzkin
  • John Ready
  • Vivek Shah
  • Richard Wilk
  • Jay Zampini
  • Mitchel Harris
  • Scott Martin

Otolaryngology

  • Donald Annino
  • Regan Bergmark
  • Thomas Carroll
  • Carleton Corrales
  • Laura Goguen
  • Stella Lee
  • Alice Maxfield
  • Anthony Prince
  • Eleni Rettig
  • Rachel Roditi
  • Jennifer Shin
  • Ravindra Uppaluri

Pain Medicine

  • Christopher Gilligan
  • Edward Michna
  • Srdjan Nedeljkovic
  • Edgar Ross

Pathology

  • Christopher Fletcher
  • Richard Kaufman
  • Elizabeth Morgan
  • Helmut Rennke
  • Stuart Schnitt
  • Tad Wieczorek

Pediatric Allergy & Immunology

  • Joshua Boyce

Pediatric Cardiology

  • Jane Newburger

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

  • David Reardon

Pediatric Surgery

  • Steven Fishman

Pediatrics

  • Parag Amin
  • Bruce Bunnell
  • Tracey Daley
  • Laura DeGirolami
  • Kristie Koppenheffer
  • Margaret Manion
  • Dainel O'Connor
  • Louis Vernacchio

Plastic Surgery

  • Matthew Carty
  • Yoon Chun
  • Dennis Orgill
  • Andrea Pusic
  • Simon Talbot

Psychiatry

  • John Grimaldi
  • Mohammed Issa
  • Hadine Joffe
  • John Peteet

Pulmonary Disease

  • Manuela Cernadas
  • Carolyn D'Ambrosio
  • Christopher Fanta
  • Elizabeth Gay
  • Elliot Israel
  • Bruce Levy
  • Edward Nardell
  • Scott Schissel
  • Majid Shafiq
  • 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
  • Shyam Tanguturi
  • Roy Tishler

Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility

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

Rheumatology

  • Senada Arabelovic
  • Julia Charles
  • Jonathan Coblyn
  • Karen Costenbader
  • Paul Dellaripa
  • Sonali Desai
  • Simon Helfgott
  • Gwendolyn Kane-Wanger
  • Jeffrey Katz
  • Elena Massarotti
  • Peter Nigrovic
  • Nancy Shadick
  • Laura Tarter
  • Michael Weinblatt

Sleep Medicine

  • Khalid Ismail
  • Sogol Javaheri

Surgery

  • Stanley Ashley
  • Monica Bertagnolli
  • Thomas Clancy
  • Gerard Doherty
  • Hassan Khalil
  • Sayeed Malek
  • Elizabeth Mittendorf
  • Chandrajit Raut
  • Esther Rhei
  • Douglas Smink
  • Ali Tavakkoli
  • Ashley Vernon
  • Tari King
  • Faina Nakhlis
  • Laura Dominici

Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

  • Raphael Bueno
  • Christopher Ducko
  • Hari Mallidi
  • M. Blair Marshall
  • Ciaran McNamee
  • Steven Mentzer
  • Matthew Rochefort
  • Scott Swanson
  • George Tolis
  • Jon Wee
  • Abby White
  • Daniel Wiener

Urogynecology/Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery

  • Vatche Minassian

Urology

  • Steven Chang
  • Martin Kathrins
  • Adam Kibel
  • Mark Preston
  • Graeme Steele
  • Quoc-Dien Trinh

Vascular & Interventional Radiology

  • Richard Baum
  • Dmitry Rabkin
  • Matthew Schenker

Vascular Surgery

  • Michael Belkin
  • Edwin Gravereaux
  • Matthew Menard
  • Louis Nguyen
  • Charles Ozaki