Of Arkansas’ “Best Doctors,” More than Half Are on UAMS Faculty

By todd

| LITTLE ROCK – In recent polling by Best Doctors®, Inc., more than half the Arkansas “Best Doctors” are on the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

UAMS has 116 faculty members, or 52 percent, on the list of 221 “Best Doctors” from Arkansas. The UAMS physicians on the “Best Doctors” list are specialists in many areas, from pediatrics to geriatrics, and from neurosurgery to orthopaedic surgery. Some have joint appointments at one of the two UAMS affiliates, Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS). ACH and CAVHS are major clinical, research and teaching affiliates of UAMS. UAMS College of Medicine faculty physicians and surgeons provide the majority of medical care at both.

The “Best Doctors” list comes from Best Doctors Inc., a health care information service that polls about 30,000 doctors who have been identified in previous surveys as “the best” in their specialties and asks them: “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, and you could not treat them yourself, to whom would you refer them?” All voting is strictly confidential, so voters are not subject to the institutional, professional, or community pressures that often influence individual referrals. Physicians are not asked for and do not ever pay any fees for inclusion as a “Best Doctor.” Physicians are not notified of their inclusion until after the survey process is completed.

These UAMS physicians are on the “Best Doctors” list:

Ossama Al-Mefty (neurosurgery), K.S. Anand (pediatrics), Thomas E. Andreoli (nephrology), Edgardo J. Angtuaco (radiology), Teresita L. Angtuaco (radiology), Robert L. Archer (neurology), Robert W. Arrington (pediatrics), Ronald L. Baldwin (pediatrics), Bart Barlogie (hematology/oncology), Gary W. Barone (surgery), Debra D. Becton (pediatrics), Joseph K. Bissett (cardiology), Frank E. Block (anesthesiology), Charles M. Bower (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery), Robert W. Bradsher (infectious diseases), Rene E. Bressinck (dermatology), J. Ralph Broadwater (surgery), C. Winston Brown (psychiatry), John L. Carroll (pediatrics), Robert T. Cheek (general internal medicine), James A. Clardy (psychiatry), Joseph Colclasure (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery) and John B. Cone (surgery).

Toni Darville (pediatrics), Scott M. Dinehart (dermatology), John L. Dornhoffer (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery), Jonathan J. Drummond-Webb (surgery), Michael J. Edwards (surgery), John F. Eidt (surgery), Joseph M. Elser (pediatrics), Charles R. Feild (pediatrics), Ernest J. Ferris (radiology), Alex E. Finkbeiner (urology), Debra H. Fiser (pediatrics), Amy J. Fitzgerald (general internal medicine), Elizabeth A. Frazier (pediatrics), Guy F. Gardner (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery), W. Brooks Gentry (anesthesiology), May L. Griebel (pediatrics), Johannes M. Gruenwald (orthopaedic surgery), Ehab Y. Hanna (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery), Sami I. Harik (neurology), Steven E. Harms (radiology), Robert H. Hopkins (general internal medicine), Laura F. Hutchins (hematology/oncology), Richard J. Jackson (surgery), Richard F. Jacobs (pediatrics), Charles A. James (radiology), Laura P. James (pediatrics), Hugo E. Jasin (rheumatology) and Stacie Jones (pediatrics).

Stephen F. Kemp (pediatrics), J. Michael Key (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery), Jay Kincannon (dermatology), E.F. Klein (anesthesiology), V. Suzanne Klimberg (surgery), Karen J. Kozlowski (obstetrics and gynecology), Laura W. Lamps (pathology), Nicholas P. Lang (surgery), Bernadette M. Lange (pediatrics), Jon P. Lindemann (cardiology), David A. Lipschitz (geriatrics), Eleanor A. Lipsmeyer (rheumatology), Dennis D. Lucy (neurology), James S. Magee (pediatrics), Stavros C. Manolagas (endocrinology and metabolism), Rebecca E. Martin (infectious diseases), Timothy W. Martin (anesthesiology), W. Jean Matchett (radiology), Kevin M. Means (physical medicine and rehabilitation), Roberta A. Monson (general internal medicine), Thomas P. Monson (infectious diseases), Paula Morris (pediatrics), W. Robert Morrow (pediatrics), M. Michele Moss (pediatrics), Carl L. Nelson (orthopaedic surgery) and Richard W. Nicholas (orthopaedic surgery).

Eduardo R. Ochoa (pediatrics), T. Glenn Pait (neurosurgery), Maria G. Portilla (pediatrics), Gary L. Purnell (radiology), John F. Redman (urology), E. Albert Reece (obstetrics and gynecology), Charles H. Rodgers (family and preventive medicine), Juan Roman (obstetrics and gynecology), Stacy A. Rudnicki (neurology), Robert L. Safirstein (nephrology), Stephen M. Schexnayder (pediatrics), James W. Schmidley (neurology), Michael L. Schmitz (anesthesiology), Eldon G. Schulz (pediatrics), Gordon E. Schutze (pediatrics), Paul M. Seib (pediatrics), Joanna J. Seibert (radiology), Hemendra R. Shah (radiology), Gregory B. Sharp (pediatrics), Kristopher B. Shewmake (surgery), A. Larry Simmons (pediatrics), Christopher E. Smith (pediatrics), G. Richard Smith (psychiatry), Kendall L. Stanford (pediatrics), Steven W. Strode (family and preventive medicine) and James Y. Suen (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery).

Ruth L. Thomas (orthopaedic surgery), H. Gareth Tobler (surgery), William L. Tranum (hematology/oncology), Guido Tricot (hematology/oncology), John L. Vander Schilden (orthopaedic surgery), J. Michael Vollers (anesthesiology), Charles W. Wagner (surgery), Milton Waner (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery), Robert H. Warren (pediatrics), Paul J. Wendel (obstetrics and gynecology), Kent C. Westbrook (surgery), J. Gary Wheeler (pediatrics) and James C. Yuen (surgery).