UC Docs Named Among Tristate's Best

Cincinnati Magazine's

Top Docs issue hit the newsstands in November.  The magazine surveyed 3,600 area doctors to find out "whom they would turn to if a family member or friend needed medical attention."  Out of the 171 rated physicians, 32 physicians and 17 adjunct or visiting associates from the UC College of Medicine were chosen by their peers:

Allergy and Immunology

Jonathan Bernstein, MD

Breast Diseases

Elizabeth Shaughnessy, MD

Colon and Rectal

Janice Rafferty, MD

Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

John Kitzmiller, MD

Family Medicine

Jeff Heck, MD

General Surgery

Michael Nussbaum, MD

Geriatrics

Greg Warshaw, MD

Infertility

Michael Thomas, MD

Internal Medicine

Robert Baughman, MD

Mark Bibler, MD

Peter Frame, MD

Joseph Palasck, MD

Greg Rouan, MD

Shashi Kant, MD

Neurological Surgery

John Tew, MD

Thomas Saul, MD

William Tobler, MD

Neurology

Joseph Broderick, MD

Daniel Kanter, MD

Ophthalmology

Andrew Robbins, MD

Joshua Sands, MD

Otolaryngology

Jack Gluckman, MD

Pediatrics

Beverly Connelly, MD

Pediatric Specialties

Henry Neale, MD

Psychiatry

Lawson Wulsin, MD

Radiology

Thomas Tomsick, MD

Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

John Kitzmiller, MD

Rheumatology

J. Lawrence Houk, MD

Michael Luggen, MD

Thoracic Surgery

John Howington, MD 

Walter Merrill, MD

Urology

Bruce Bracken, MD

Vascular Surgery

John Edwards, MD

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