130 Specialists at RUSH Named 'Top Doctors'

Chicago magazine features 130 specialists at RUSH on its new list of Chicago’s Top Doctors

The magazine’s January issue also highlights Mihir Bhayani, MD, and his oral cancer and mortality rates research.

The list of top doctors is prepared in cooperation with Castle Connolly, a healthcare research and information company that asks physicians and hospital leaders to identify highly skilled doctors.

Following are physicians at RUSH who were selected by their peers as among the best. The doctors’ names are arranged alphabetically by specialty:

Allergy and Immunology

• Payal D. Patel

Cardiovascular Disease

• Erica Engelstein
• Annabelle Santos Volgman

Child Neurology

• Peter Heydemann
• Charles Marcuccilli

Colon and Rectal Surgery

• Theodore J. Saclarides

Emergency Medicine

• Tina Sundaram

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

• Brian Kim

Family Medicine

• Max Pitlosh
• Fred Richardson
• Steven K. Rothschild

Gastroenterology

• Mark T. DeMeo
• Ali Keshavarzian
• Irving Waxman

Geriatric Medicine

• Jack Olsen

Gynecologic Oncology

• Amina Ahmed
• Summer B. Dewdney
• Andras Ladanyi

Hand Surgery

• Mark S. Cohen
• John Fernandez
• Robert Wysocki

Infectious Disease

• Beverly Sha

Internal Medicine

• Susan Glick
• Joseph Hennessy
• Danuta Hoyer
• William Kehoe
• Bryan Moline
• Shaila Pai-Verma
• Scott Palmer
• Vesna Skul
• Pamela Strauss

Interventional Cardiology

• Neeraj Jolly
• Gary Schaer
• Jeffrey Snell
• Hussam Suradi

Medical Oncology

• Melody Ann Cobleigh
• Mary Jo Fidler
• Sunita Nathan
• Ruta Rao

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

• Aloka L. Patel
• Jean M. Silvestri

Nephrology

• Stephen M. Korbet
• Roger A. Rodby
• Haimanot Wasse
• William L. Whittier

Neurology

• Antoaneta J. Balabanov
• Lawrence P. Bernstein
• Amar B. Bhatt
• James Castle
• Michael Chen
• Lenny Cohen
• Andrew Dorsch
• Christopher G. Goetz
• Augusto Miravalle
• Malathi Rao
• Ligia N. Rioja
• Michael C. Smith
• Sarah Song
• Aimee Joy Szewka
• Robert B. Wright

Neurosurgery

• Richard W. Byrne
• Stephan Munich
• Lorenzo F. Muñoz
• John O’Toole
• Sepehr Sani
• Vincent C. Traynelis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Mary S. Farhi
• Barbara Soltes
• Sadia Haider

Ophthalmology

• Thomas Deutsch
• Jonathan Rubenstein
• Tatyana Spektor
• Kenya Williams

Orthopedic Surgery

• Charles A. Bush-Joseph
• Christopher J. DeWald
• Brian Forsythe
• Grant Garrigues
• Steven Gitelis
• Edward Goldberg
• Joshua Jacobs
• Denis Nam
• Shane Nho
• Frank Phillips
• Nikhil N. Verma
• Adam B. Yanke

Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery     

• Samer Al-Khudari
• Mihir K. Bhayani
• Elias Michaelides
• Peter Papagiannopoulos
• Peter Revenaugh
• Ryan Smith
• Kerstin Stenson
• Bobby Tajudeen
• Dean Toriumi

Pain Medicine

• Timothy R. Lubenow

Pediatric Endocrinology

• Carla Z. Minutti

Pediatric Gastroenterology

• Randolph M. McConnie
• Anil Kesavan

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

• Lisa Giordano

Pediatric Urology

• Jonathan H. Ross

Pediatrics

• Margaret A. Scotellaro

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

• Leda A. Ghannad

Plastic Surgery

• John Q. Cook
• George Kokosis
• Loren Schechter
• Deana Shenaq

Psychiatry

• Robert B. Shulman
• Sandra S. Swantek
• John M. Zajecka

Pulmonary Disease

• Robert A. Balk
• Prema Nanavaty

Radiation Oncology

• Dian Wang

Rheumatology

• Robert S. Katz

Sports Medicine

• Joshua Blomgren

Surgery

• Donald Nash
• Andrea Madrigrano
• Keith W. Millikan
• Cristina O’Donoghue
• William Piccione

Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

• Michael Liptay
• Christopher W. Seder

Transplant Hepatology

• Costica Aloman
• Steven Flamm
• Justin Mitchell
• Nancy Reau

Urogynecology/Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery

• Cynthia A. Brincat
• Fareesa Khan

Urology

• Laurence A. Levine
• Srinivas Vourganti

Vascular and Interventional Radiology

• Bulent Arslan