Announcing Our 2024 Top Doctors

Congratulations to more than 120 of our clinical faculty physicians for being recognized as 2024 Top Doctors in 45 adult and 15 pediatric specialties and subspecialties. Our physicians, faculty members of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, deliver exceptional care across the state in outpatient practice locations, at the University of Maryland Medical Center and other UMMS hospitals.

The "Top Doctors" results are based on Baltimore magazine's annual survey of thousands of physicians in the Baltimore region who were asked to name the best doctors; the list covers 130 specialties and subspecialties and more than 638 physicians who received the highest number of recommendations by their peers are included.

See below for our full list of Top Docs.

Adult

Addiction Medicine/Substance Use Disorder

Kofi Owusu-Antwi, MD

Cardiology – Electrophysiology

Timm Dickfeld, MD

Cardiology – Interventional

Diljon Chahal, MD
Anuj Gupta, MD
Mukta Srivastava, MD

Cardiology – Non-Interventional

Manjula Ananthram, MD
Brian Barr, MD
R. Michael Benitez, MD
Susie Hong- Zohlman, MD
Manu Mysore, MD
Gautam Ramani, MD

Colo-Rectal

Rebecca Brown, MD

Emergency Medicine

Brian Corwell, MD
J. David Gatz, MD

Endocrinology

Elizabeth Lamos, MD
Rana Malek, MD
Kashif Munir, MD
Marjorie Pennant, MD

Family Medicine

Diana Carvajal, MD
Kyle Fletke, MD
Shana Ntiri, MD
Kristin Reavis, MD

Gastroenterology – General

Eric Goldberg, MD

Gastroenterology – Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Lauren George, MD
Seema Patil, MD
Sandra Quezada, MD

Gynecology – OB/GYN

Julie Hurvitz, MD
Doee Kitessa, MD
Jessica K. Lee, MD

Infectious Disease

Joel Chua, MD
Omar Harfouch, MD
Mariam Khambaty, MD
Poonam Mathur, MD
Shivakumar Narayanan, MD
David Riedel, MD
Patrick Ryscavage, MD
Kathryn Schlaffer, MD
Sarah Schmalzle, MD
Ravi Tripathi, MD

Infectious Disease/HIV Primary Care

Gregory Taylor, MD

Intensivists/Critical Care

Andrea Levine, MD

Internal Medicine

John Allen, MD
Danielle Baek, MD
Andrew Delapenha, MD
Jessica R. Lee, MD
Stacy Schwartz, MD
Aseem Sood, MD

Neuro Interventional Radiology

Dheeraj Gandhi, MD
Timothy Miller, MD

Neurology – Neuroimmunology

Sarah Fredrich, MD

Neurology – Epilepsy

Stephanie Chen, MD
Peter Crino, MD
Jennifer Hopp, MD

Neurology – Multiple Sclerosis

Sarah Fredrich, MD

Neurology – Neuromuscular

Lindsay Zilliox, MD

Neurology – Vascular

Michael Phipps, MD

Neuro-Oncology

Haroon Ahmad, MD

Neurosurgery

Jacob Cherian, MD
Timothy Chryssikos, MD
Kenneth Crandall, MD
Alexander Ksendzovsky
Mohamed Labib, MD
Charles Sansur, MD
Gary Schwartzbauer, MD
Graeme Woodworth, MD

Oncology – Orthopedic

Vincent Ng, MD

Ophthalmology

Lily Im, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Foot and Ankle

Natalie Danna, MD

Orthopedic Surgery - Hand

Raymond Pensy, MD

Orthopedic Surgery – Sports Medicine

R. Frank Henn, III, MD
Natalie Leong, MD
Sean Meredith, MD
Jonathan Packer, MD

Otolaryngology – General

Rodney Taylor, MD
Jeffrey Wolf, MD

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Malignancies

Kyle Hatten, MD
Rodney Taylor, MD
Jeffrey Wolf, MD

Podiatry

Jacob Wynes, DPM

Psychiatry – General

Marissa Flaherty, MD
Constance Lacap, MD

Pulmonary

Nirav Shah, MD

Radiation Oncology

Mark Mishra, MD
Elizabeth Nichols, MD
William Regine, MD

Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology

Bernadette Siaton, MD
Afton Thomas, DO

Sports Medicine

Valerie Cothran, MD
Kyle Yost, DO

Surgery – Cardiac

Bartley Griffith, MD

Surgery – General

Stephen Kavic, MD

Surgery – Reconstructive

Yvonne Rasko, MD

Surgery – Spine

Kenneth Crandall, MD
Steven Ludwig, MD

Surgery – Thoracic

Alexander Sasha Krupnick, MD
Christine Lau, MD

Surgery – Transplant

Daniel Maluf, MD

Surgery – Vascular

Khanjan Nagarsheth, MD

Trauma

Jaclyn Clark, MD
Rebecca Schwartz, MD
Richard Wittmeyer, MD

Urogynecology

Madeline Dick-Biascoechea, MD

Pediatrics

Adolescent Medicine

Matthew Grant, MD

Neonatology

Natalie Davis, MD
Francesca Okolie, DO

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Stephanie Kahntroff, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Alicia Chaves, MD
Peter Gaskin, MD
Michael Slack, MD
Sudhir Vashist, MD

Pediatric Critical Care

Adrian Holloway, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Forrest Closson, MD
Getachew Teshome, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology

Paula Newton, MD
Maria Eleni Nikita, MD
Melissa Pagan Pares

Pediatric ENT

Amal Isaiah, MD

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Jennifer Hong, MD, MPH
Runa Watkins, MD

Pediatrics General

Rebecca Carter, MD 
Mutiat Onigbanjo, MD
Vandana Racherla, MD

Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine

Nidhi Goel, MD

Pediatric Neurology

Jessica Carpenter, MD
Neil Porter, MD

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Whitney Parker, MD, PhD

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Janet Alexander, MD
Roni Levin, MD

Pediatric Surgery

Eric Strauch, MD