Boston Magazine Recognizes 116 Boston Medical Center Physicians Among City's Top Doctors

BOSTON – Boston magazine has named 116 Boston Medical Center (BMC) affiliated physicians and surgeons from across 46 specialties to its 2023 Top Doctors guide. Boston magazine’s annual Top Doctors list includes hundreds of Boston-area physicians from a wide range of medical specialties and is available on Boston magazine’s website.

BMC, an academic medical center that is the principal teaching affiliate of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has proudly cared for all in our community for more than 150 years. BMC was ranked the fourth most racially inclusive hospital in the United States by the Lown Institute, and our diverse physicians reflect the community the hospital serves.

BMC is home to top clinical care and research, with a commitment to diversity in clinical trials. In 2022, BMC was the 18th largest recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health among independent U.S. hospitals and received over $304 million in sponsored researched funding. BMC’s deep commitment to health equity addresses longstanding injustices and eliminates barriers to health. Its Health Equity Accelerator finds solutions to the most pressing health disparities in the nation.

The following Boston Medical Center clinicians have been included on the list:

Cardiac Electrophysiology

• Robert Helm, MD
• Kevin Monahan, MD

Cardiovascular Disease

• Gary Balady, MD
• Sheilah Bernard, MD
• Robert Eberhardt, MD
• Alice Jacobs, MD
• Ashvin Pande, MD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

• Michelle Durham, MD, MPH

Child Neurology

• Jessica Chao, MD
• Laurie Douglass, MD
• Rinat Jonas, MD
• Patrick Mabray, MD
• Alcy Torres, MD

Clinical Genetics

• Jodi Hoffman, MD

Dermatology

• Rhoda Alani, MD
• Christina Lam, MD
• Tania Phillips, MD

Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

• Marilyn Augustyn, MD

Diagnostic Radiology

• Jorge Soto, MD
• Jaroslaw Tkacz, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

• Sara Alexanian, MD
• Sonia Ananthakrishnan, MD
• Alan Farwell, MD
• Stephanie Lee, MD, PhD
• Elizabeth Pearce, MD

Family Medicine

• Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD
• Lana Habash, MD
• Charles Williams, MD

Gastroenterology

• David Lichtenstein, MD
• Robert Lowe, MD
• David Nunes, MD

Geriatric Medicine

• Heidi Auerbach, MD
• Lisa Caruso, MD
• Hollis Day, MD, MS
• Won Lee, MD

Hand Surgery

• Andrew Stein, MD

Hematology

• Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD

Infectious Diseases

• Sabrina Assoumou, MD MPH

Internal Medicine

• Thomas Barber, MD
• Melissa DiPetrillo, MD
• Warren Hershman, MD, MPH
• Angela Jackson, MD
• Susan Phillips, MD
• Jeffrey Samet, MD
• Charles Tifft, MD

Interventional Cardiology

• Claudia Hochberg, MD

Maternal & Fetal Medicine

• Jodi Abbott, MD, MSC MCHM
• Aviva Lee-Parritz, MD

Medical Oncology

• Gretchen Gignac, MD
• Matthew Kulke, MD
• Adam Lerner, MD

Nephrology

• Laurence Beck, MD
• Jasvinder Bhatia, MD
• Jean Francis, MD
• Andrea Havasi, MD
• Lauren Stern, MD

Neurological Surgery

• James Holsapple, MD

Neurology

• Anna Cervantes-Arslanian, MD
• Steven Feske, MD
• David Greer, MD, MA
• Douglas Katz, MD
• Thanh Nguyen, MD
• Marie Saint-Hilaire, MD

Neuroradiology

• Glenn Barest, MD
• Harprit Bedi, MD
• Osamu Sakai, MD, PhD

Obstetrics & Gynecology

• Paul Hendessi, MD

Ophthalmology

• Tony Pira, MD
• Susannah Rowe, MD, MPH

Orthopaedic Surgery

• Ayesha Abdeen, MD
• Paul Tornetta, MD

Otolaryngology

• Michael Cohen, MD
• Anand Devaiah, MD
• Gregory Grillone, MD
• J. Pieter Noordzij, MD
• Michael Platt, MD, MsC

Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery

• Waleed Ezzat, MD
• Jeffrey Spiegel, MD

Pain Medicine

• Michael Perloff, MD
• Eduard Vaynberg, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

• Sharon O'Brien, MD

Pediatric Dermatology

• Margaret Lee, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology

• Suleiman Mustafa-Kutana, MD

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

• Elizabeth Barnett, MD
• Ellen Cooper, MD
• Stephen Pelton, MD

Pediatric Otolaryngology

• Jessica Levi, MD

Pediatric Pulmonology

• Karissa Brazauskas, MD
• Robyn Cohen, MD

Pediatrics

• Melissa Nass, MD

Plastic Surgery

• Jaromir Slama, MD

Psychiatry

• Hannah Brown, MD
• David Henderson, MD

Pulmonary Disease

• Jeff Berman, MD
• John Bernardo, MD
• Finn Hawkins, MB, BCH
• Elizabeth Klings, MD
• Fredric Little, MD
• George O'Connor, MD

Radiation Oncology

• Ariel Hirsch, MD
• Minh-Tam Truong, MD

Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility

• Wendy Kuohung, MD

Rheumatology

• David Felson, MD, PhD
• Eugene Kissin, MD
• Tuhina Neogi, MD
• Michael York, MD

Surgery

• Donald Hess, MD
• David McAneny, MD

Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

• Laurence Brinckerhoff, MD

Urology

• Mark Katz, MD
• Ricardo Munarriz, MD
• Linda Ng, MD
• Robert Oates, MD
• David Wang, MD

Vascular Surgery

• Alik Farber, MD
• Jeffrey Kalish, MD

Top Docs are selected through a research, review, and peer nomination process run by Castle Connolly for Boston Magazine.