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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