December 15, 2009
 
More than 100 Tucson physicians affiliated with the Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) at the University of Arizona are included among the 2009-2010 Best Doctors in America database.
The database includes about 45,000 U.S. physicians in more than 40 specialties and 400 subspecialties of medicine. They represent the top 3 to 5 percent of specialists in the country, according to Best Doctors Inc of Boston (www.bestdoctors.com).
The list is based on a biennial survey by Best Doctors Inc of tens of thousands of leading physicians who were asked whom they would go to for treatment in their own specialty. Founded in 1989 by doctors affiliated with Harvard University, the Best Doctors database helps patients identify specialists for complex medical cases or second opinions.
The 2009-2010 list includes more than 100 AHSC doctors in 25 specialties. Most are on the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine and are members of University Physicians Healthcare. They practice primarily at University Medical Center and its physician offices, at the University Physicians Hospital and Outpatient Clinics, and at the Southern Arizona Veterans Health Care System.
Allergy and Immunology 
and Internal Medicine 
Randy J. Horwitz
Anesthesiology 
Steven J. Barker 
R. Dennis Bastron 
Geraldine C. Diaz 
Brenda A. Gentz 
Stuart Roy Hameroff 
Peter R. Lichtenthal 
Robert G. (Butch) Loeb 
T. Philip Malan 
Wallace M. Nogami 
Craig M. Palmer 
David S. Sheinbein
Cardiovascular Disease 
Joseph S. Alpert 
Eric A. Brody 
Gordon A. Ewy 
Paul E. Fenster 
Mark J. Friedman 
Steven Goldman 
Julia H. Indik 
Elizabeth B. Juneman 
Karl B. Kern 
Beth R. Malasky 
Peter Ott 
Vincent L. Sorrell 
Hoang M. Thai 
Sergio G. Thal
Clinical Pharmacology 
and Endocrinology 
and Metabolism 
David G. Johnson
Clinical Pharmacology 
and Pulmonary Medicine 
John W. Bloom 
Steven R. Knoper
Critical Care Medicine 
Charles W. Otto
Dermatology 
Clara Curiel
Emergency Medicine 
Daniel L. Beskind 
Lisa Chan 
Albert B. Fiorello 
Harvey W. Meislin 
John C. Sakles 
Arthur B. Sanders
Family Medicine 
Colleen Cagno 
Paul R. Gordon 
Cynthia C. Johnston 
James P. Kerwin 
Randa M. Kutob 
Patricia Lebensohn 
Victoria Hope Maizes 
Lawrence M. Moher 
Myra L. Muramoto 
Victoria E. Murrain 
Tejal M. Parikh 
Edward G. Paul
Gastroenterology 
John Thomas Cunningham 
Ronnie Fass 
Steve Goldschmid 
M. Peter Lance 
Richard E. Sampliner
Geriatric Medicine 
Mindy Fain 
Hepatology 
Thomas D. Boyer
Infectious Disease 
Neil M. Ampel 
John N. Galgiani
Internal Medicine 
Kathleen E. Gibson 
Dawn P. Lemcke 
Kevin Moynahan 
Sonia M. Perez-Padilla 
Anthony M. Stazzone 
Jennifer L. Suriano
Internal Medicine, 
Clinical Pharmacology 
Timothy C. Fagan
Medical Oncology 
and Hematology 
Frederick R. Ahmann 
David S. Alberts 
Thomas D. Brown 
Robert B. Livingston 
Ana Maria Lopez 
Thomas P. Miller 
Alison T. Stopeck
Neurological Surgery 
Allan J. Hamilton
Neurology 
Geoffrey L. Ahern 
Bruce M. Coull 
Hemant S. Kudrimoti 
David M. Labiner 
Steven Z. Rapcsak
Neurology and 
Pain Medicine 
Harvey W. Buchsbaum
Obstetrics and 
Gynecology 
Setsuko K. Chambers 
Lynn M. Coppola 
Francisco A. Garcia 
Kenneth D. Hatch 
James E. Maciulla 
Kathryn L. Reed
Ophthalmology and 
Pediatric Ophthalmology 
Joseph M. Miller
Orthopaedic Surgery 
Robert B. Dzioba 
William A. Grana 
John T. Ruth
Pathology 
Thomas M. Grogan 
Anil Prasad Rama Rao 
Ronald S. Weinstein
Pediatric Allergy 
and Immunology 
Michael O. Daines
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery 
and Thoracic Surgery 
Jack G. Copeland 
Michael F. Teodori
Pediatric Cardiology 
Brent J. Barber 
Stanley J. Goldberg 
Scott E. Klewer 
Daniela Lax 
Ricardo Samson
Pediatric Critical Care 
Marc D. Berg 
Robyn Meyer 
Andreas A. Theodorou
Pediatric Developmental 
and Behavioral Problems 
Sydney Rice
Pediatric Emergency 
Medicine 
Dale P. Woolridge
Pediatric Endocrinology 
Mark D. Wheeler
Pediatric 
Gastroenterology 
Fayez K. Ghishan 
H. Hesham A-Kader Hassan 
Khalid M. Khan
Pediatric Hematology 
and Oncology 
Michael Lucien Graham 
Andrew M. Yeager
Pediatric Infectious 
Disease 
Sean P. Elliott 
Ziad M. Shehab
Pediatric Pulmonology 
Mark A. Brown 
Cori L. Daines 
Roni Grad 
Fernando D. Martinez 
Wayne J. Morgan
Pediatric Specialist/ 
Adolescent and Young 
Adult Medicine 
Richard A. Wahl
Pediatric Specialist/ 
Neonatal-Perinatal 
Medicine 
Alan D. Bedrick
Pediatrics General 
Conrad Clemens 
Karen M. Davenport 
Martha L. Eicher 
Cleo K. Hardin 
William A. Madden 
Jennifer B. Moher 
Philip J. Starceski 
Maria S. Theodorou
Psychiatry 
Linda Durst 
Richard D. Lane 
John Misiaszek 
Francisco A. Moreno 
Bernard Martin Morenz 
Timothy I. Mueller 
Rebecca L. Potter
Pulmonary Medicine 
Sammy C. Campbell
Radiation Oncology 
Shona T. Dougherty 
Baldassarre D. Stea
Radiology 
Raymond F. Carmody 
Theron W. Ovitt 
Joachim F. Seeger 
Carl J. Zylak
Rheumatology 
Jeffrey R. Lisse 
Margaret M. Miller
Surgical Oncology 
Hugo V. Villar
Urology 
John J. Mulcahy 
Mitchell Sokoloff
Vascular Surgery 
Joseph L. Mills
For more information or to arrange an appointment with these and others affiliated with the University of Arizona, please call the University Health Connection at (520) 694-8888.
