Over 650 CU Anschutz School of Medicine Providers Named in 2026 5280 Magazine's Top Docs List

Peer recognition from fellow physicians is one of the profession’s highest honors, and this year hundreds of CU Anschutz providers earned a place on 5280 Magazine’s annual Top Doctors list.

CU Medicine is proud to recognize over 650 University of Colorado physicians named to 5280 Magazine's 2026 Top Doctors list. Selected through peer nominations from physicians across the Denver metro area, the annual recognition highlights clinicians whose expertise, leadership and patient care have earned the respect of their colleagues.

Highlights from this year’s recognition:

  • Over 650 CU Anschutz School of Medicine faculty named among Denver’s top doctors

  • Representation across 73 medical specialties

This year's honorees represent a broad range of specialties and reflect the depth of talent across the CU Anschutz School of Medicine and CU Medicine clinical practices. Their inclusion underscores a shared commitment to advancing healthcare through exceptional clinical care, innovation and compassion.

Congratulations to our CU Medicine Top Doctors for 2026

The following list reflects physicians affiliated with the University of Colorado as of July 1, 2026 who were recognized in 5280 Magazine's Top Doctors list for 2026.

Addiction Medicine

Kaylin Klie, MD, MA


Addiction Psychiatry

Alexis Ritvo, MD, MPH, BA


Adolescent Medicine

Eric Sigel, MD

Diane Straub, MD, MPH


Allergy & Immunology

Jordan Abbott, MD

William Anderson, MD

Kirstin Carel, MD

Christine Cho, MD

David Fleischer, MD

Pia Hauk, MD

Anjeli Kalra, MD

Daniel Searing, MD


Anesthesiology

Benjamin Abrams, MD

Bryan Ahlgren, DO

Alan Bielsky, MD

Michael Canepa, MD

Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, MD, PhD, FASA

Anthony Oliva, MD, PhD

Angela Selzer, MD


Cardiovascular Disease

Larry Allen, MD

Amrut Ambardekar, MD

Amy Barley, DO

Andreas Brieke, MD

Peter Buttrick, MD

Joseph Kay, MD

Prateeti Khazanie, MD

Brian Stauffer, MD


Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Jennifer Hagman-Hazell, MD

Kimberly Kelsay, MD


Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Lohit Garg, MBBS

Paul Varosy, MD

Matthew Zipse, MD


Clinical Genetics and Genomics

Peter Baker, MD

Shawn McCandless, MD

Matthew Taylor, MD, PhD

Janet Thomas, MD


Colon & Rectal Surgery

Jon Vogel, MD


Complex General Surgical Oncology

Ana Gleisner, MD, PhD


Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology

Gregory Allen, MD

Tammy Wang, MD

Patricia Yoon, MD


Critical Care Medicine

Sarah Alber, MD

Marc Moss, MD

David Murphy, MD, PhD


Dermatology

Anna Bruckner, MD

Misha Miller, MD

Lori Prok, MD


Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Abigail Angulo, MD

Nicole Tartaglia, MD


Diagnostic Radiology

Ashish Chawla, MD

Toshi Clark, MD

William Colantoni, DO

Mary Jesse, MD

Daniel Vargas, MD


Emergency Medicine

Emmy Betz, MD, MPH

Alexander Ebinger, MD

Jean Hoffman, MD

Katherine Mayer, MD

Kristen Nordenholz, MD

Michael Overbeck, MD

Gannon Sungar, DO

Jennifer Wiler, MD

Julie Winkle, MD

Angela Wright, MD


Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

Bryan Haugen, MD

Sean Iwamoto, MD

Michael McDermott, MD

Neda Rasouli, MD

Micol Rothman, MD

Margaret E. Wierman, MD


Family Medicine

Kelly Arnett, MD, MPH

Brian Bacak, MD

Bhargavi Chekuri, MBBS, MD, MS

Morteza Khodaee, MD

Jeffrey Lewis, MD

Lauren Oberle, MD

Rachel Rodriguez, MD, FAAFP


Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery

Marsha K. Guess, MD, MS


Gastroenterology

Steven Edmundowicz, MD

Blair Fennimore, MD

Whitney Jackson, MD

Raj Shah, MD


Geriatric Medicine

Bennett Parnes, MD


Gynecologic Oncology

Kian Behbakht, MD, MBA

Saketh Guntupalli, MD

Christine Walsh, MD, MS


Hematology

Tyler Buckner, MD

Stuart Lind, MD


Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Ann Navarro-Leahy, MD

Allison Wolfe, MD


Infectious Disease

Thomas Campbell, MD

Lakshmi Chauhan, MD

Katherine Frasca, MD

Brian Gundy, MBBS, MD, MPH

Andrés Henao, MD

Misha Huang, MD

Steven Johnson, MD

Nancy Madinger, MD

Brian Montague, DO

Larissa Pisney, MD


Internal Medicine

Adam Abraham, MD

Lilia Cervantes, MD

Karen Chacko, MD

Ronald Colson, MD

Sean Cowley, DO

Matthew DeCamp, MD

Robert Doolan, MD

Esteban Gallego, MD

Jeffrey Glasheen, MD

Himangi Kaushal, MD, MBA

Mark Kissler, MD

Henry Kramer, MD

Jean Kutner, MD, MPH/MSPH

Rita Lee, MD

Juan Lessing, MD

Demitriy Levin, MD

CT Lin, MD

Laura Macke, MD

William Manning, MD

Adam Meyer, MD

Li-Kheng Ngov, MD

Madhavi Patt, MD

Richard Penaloza, MD

Mitra Razzaghi, MD

Scott Saunders, MD

David Tanaka, MD


Interventional Cardiology

Rory Bricker, MD

John Messenger, MD

Stephen Waldo, MD


Maternal & Fetal Medicine

Henry Galan, MD

Michael Zaretsky, MD


Medical Oncology

Radhika Acharya-Leon, DO

Virginia Borges, MD

Paul Bunn, MD

Anthony Elias, MD

Christopher Geiger, MD

Laura Graham, MD

Peter Kabos, MD

Madeleine Kane, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Kessler, MD

Christopher Lieu, MD

Wells Messersmith, MD

Sapna Patel, MD


Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Jim Barry, MD

Patricia Hagan, MD

Thomas Parker, MD

Erica Wymore, MD


Nephrology

Judith Blaine, MD, PhD

Michel Chonchol, MD


Neurological Surgery

Michael Handler, MD

Kevin Lillehei, MD

Corbett Wilkinson, MD

Samy Youssef, MD, PhD, MSc, FAANS


Neurology

Jeffrey Bennett, MD, PhD

Victoria Pelak, MD

Amanda Piquet, MD

Dianna Quan, MD

Brian Sauer, MD

Laura Strom, MD


Neurology (Special Qualifications in Child Neurology)

Kevin Ess, MD, PhD

Kelly Knupp, MD

Marcy Yonker, MD


Neuroradiology

Andrew Callen, MD

Justin Honce, MD

David Mirsky, MD

Valeria Potigailo, MD


Nuclear Medicine

Robert Quaife, MD


Obstetrics & Gynecology

Lauren Bouchard, MD

Daniel Jacobson, MD

Allison Patterson, MD

Emily Schneider, MD


Ophthalmology

Richard Davidson, MD

Darren Gregory, MD

Eric Hink, MD

Malik Kahook, MD

Naresh Mandava, MD

Emily McCourt, MD

Scott Oliver, MD

Jeffrey Olson, MD

Michael Puente Jr., MD

Leo Seibold, MD

Michael Taravella, MD


Orthopedic Surgery

Jay Albright, MD

Matthew Belton, MD

Martin Boublik, MD

Jonathan Bravman, MD

Evalina Burger-Van der Walt, MD

Jason Dragoo, MD

Mark Erickson, MD

Rachel Frank, MD

Sumeet Garg, MD

Craig Hogan, MD

Christopher Kleck, MD

T. Jay Kleeman, MD

Braden Mayer, MD

Eric McCarty, MD

Michelle Wolcott, MD


Otolaryngology

Mona Abaza, MD, MS

Yuri Agrawal, MD, MPH

John Campana, MD

Anne Getz, MD

Todd Kingdom, MD

Christopher Oliver, MD

Adam Terella, MD


Pathology

Dara Aisner, MD, PhD

Mary Berg, MD

Carlyne Cool, MD

Mark Lovell, MD

Ann Thor, MD


Pediatric Anesthesiology

Megan Brockel, MD

Monica Hoagland, MD

Tom Majcher, DO

Thanh Nguyen, MD

Thomas Notides, MD

James Thomas, MD

Leah Webb, MD

Gina Whitney, MD

Matthew Wilder, MD


Pediatric Cardiology

Kathryn Collins, MD

Melanie Everitt, MD

D. Dunbar Ivy, MD

Jane Nydam, MD

Elizabeth Yeung, MD


Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Cindy Barrett, MD

Angela Czaja, MD

Cameron Gunville, DO

Brian Jackson, MD

Michele Loi, MD

Aline Maddux, MD

Eva Nozik, MD

Carleen Schneiter, MD

Erin Stenson, MD

Christina Sul, MD

Christine Vohwinkel, MD

Patrick Wilson, MD, MPH


Pediatric Dermatology

Carla Torres-Zegarra, MD


Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Rachel Cafferty, MD


Pediatric Endocrinology

Jennifer Barker, MD

Melanie Cree, MD, PhD

Stephanie Hsu, MD, PhD

Phil Zeitler, MD, PhD


Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dania Brigham, MD

Edwin deZoeten, MD, PhD

Glenn Furuta, MD

Ed Hoffenberg, MD

Michael Narkewicz, MD

Ronald Sokol, MD


Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Nicholas Foreman, MD

Lia Gore, MD

Margaret Macy, MD

Kelly Maloney, MD


Pediatric Infectious Disease

Jessica Cataldi, MD

Elizabeth McFarland, MD

Kevin Messacar, MD

Sean O'Leary, MD

Sarah Parker, MD

Suchitra Rao, MD

Justin Searns, MD


Pediatric Nephrology

Bradley Dixon, MD


Pediatric Pulmonology

Christopher Baker, MD

Robin Deterding, MD

Monica Federico, MD

Scott Sagel, MD, PhD


Pediatric Radiology

Aparna Annam, MD

Lorna Browne, MD

Kimberly Dannull, MD

Roger Harned, MD

Kari Hayes, MD

Patricia Ladd, MD

LaDonna Malone, MD

Mariana Meyers, MD

Matthew Monson, DO

Jill Stein, MD

Jaime Stewart, MD

Zachary Trenbeath, MD

Jason Weinman, MD


Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine

Anne Stratton, MD


Pediatric Rheumatology

Robert Fuhlbrigge, MD, PhD

Jennifer Soep, MD


Pediatric Surgery

Shannon Acker, MD

Jose Diaz-Miron, MD

David Patrick, MD


Pediatric Urology

Jeffrey Campbell, MD

Nicholas Cost, MD

Vijaya Vemulakonda, MD

Duncan Wilcox, MD


Pediatrics

Emily Albrecht, MD

Mandy Allison, MD

Lauren Anderson, MD

Kathleen Brimsek, MD

Mark Brittan, MD, MPH

Jillian Cotter, MD

Ellen Roy Elias, MD

Steven Federico, MD

Richard Gustafson, MD

Maya Haasz, MD

Nancy Krebs, MD

Jessica Landry, MD

Justin Lockwood, MD

Kimberly O'Hara

Jenny Reese, MD

Douglas Scudamore, MD

Kaitlin Widmer, MD

Jason Zamkoff, MD


Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Rachel Brakke-Holman, MD

Monika Krzesniak-Swinarska, MD

Scott Laker, MD

Benjamin Marshall, DO

William Niehaus, MD

Nathan Odom, MD

Katherine Payne, MD

Joseph Rosenthal, MD, MPH

Stephanie Tow, MD


Plastic Surgery

Brooke French, MD

Christodoulas Kaoutzanis, MD

David Mathes, MD


Plastic Surgery (Within the Head and Neck)

Andrew Winkler, MD


Psychiatry

Rachel Davis, MD


Pulmonary Disease

David Badesch, MD

Todd Bull, MD

Edward Dempsey, MD

Anne Fuhlbrigge, MD

Bridget Graney, MD

Fernando Holguin, MD


Radiation Oncology

Brian Kavanagh, MD, MPH

Rachel Rabinovitch, MD


Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility

Cassandra Roeca, MD

Nanette Santoro, MD


Rheumatology

Kevin Deane, MD

Isaac Harley, MD

Joann Zell, MD


Sports Medicine

Bradley Changstrom, MD

Stephanie Chu, MD

Kyle Goerl, MD

Sourav Poddar, MD


Surgery

Steven Ahrendt, MD

Nicole Christian, MD

Michael Cripps, MD

Robert McIntyre, MD

Paul Montero, MD


Surgery of the Hand

Louis Catalano, MD

Kia Washington, MD


Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Muhammad Aftab, MD

Joseph Cleveland, MD

Jordan Hoffman, MD

Robert A Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS

John Mitchell, MD


Urology

Ty Higuchi, MD, PhD

Paul Maroni, MD

Randall Meacham, MD


Vascular Surgery

Mark Nehler, MD

Max Wohlauer, MD

Jeniann Yi, MD


Additional CU Anschutz SOM faculty members recognized as 2026 5280 Magazine's Top Doctors

Alan Aboaf, MD

Rafeul Alam, MD

Ahmad Alsaleem, MD

Philip Andreoli, DO

Karen Andrews, MD

Larissa Applegate, MD

Ehrin Armstrong, MD, MPH/MSPH

Sharisse Arnold Rehring, MD

Morris Askenazi, MD

Stephanie Augustine, MD

Boris Bayerman, DO

Melissa Beagle, MD, MPH/MSPH

Marc Belman, MD

Shira Belman, MD

Robert Belknap, MD

Lisa Bennett, MD

Jeffrey Berliner, DO

Victoria Bender, MD

Ovidio Bermudez, MD

David Beuther, MD

Bahri Bilir, MD

Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MS

Geoffrey Block, MD

Mark Boguniewicz, MD

Brian Bradow, MD

Brooke Breitnauer, MD

Kathleen Brimsek, MD

Alia Broman, MD

Kimberly Broxterman, MD

Morgan Brubaker, MD

David Brown, CAA

Kevin Brown, MD

Jennie Buchanan, MD

Edward Buckingham, MD, MPH

Heather Burton, MD

Lillian Coppola, MD

Fernando Carreira, MD

Liron Caplan, MD, PhD

Laurie Carr, MD

John Carroll, MD

Dennis Carter, MD

Shane Cass, MD

Cheryl Cavanaugh, MD

Mark Chandler, MD

Lyssa Chacko, MD

Vivian Chao, PsyD

Shalini Chahal, MD

Michael Chen, MD

Varun Chopra, MD

Allen Cohn, MD, MS

Leeanne Coakley, MD

Jeromy Cole, MD

Thomas Collins, MD

Madeline Comneck, MD

Ryan Conner, DO

Blaze Cook, MD

Barrett Cowan, MD

Joseph Craig, MD

Matthew Daley, MD

Charles Daley, MD

Samay Dalal, MD

Cara Dawson, MD

Elizabeth Dee, MD

Douglas Dennis, MD

Matthew Dickinson, MD

Temitope Dimmer, MD

Lori DiRusso, MD

Cory Dunnick, MD

Robin Dunn, MD

Stephen Dreyer, MD

Aaron Eberhardt, MD

Meighan Elder, MD

Anna Engeln, MD

Travis Engelbert, MD

Regina English, MD

Michael Erlanger, MD

Nicole Erwin, MD

Alan Feiner, MD

James Fenton, MD

Kelly Ferraro, MD

Margaret Fitzpatrick, MD, MS

Deirdre Foster, MD

Mark Foster, MD

John Froelich, MD

Andrew Freeman, MD

Philip Fung, MD

Thomas Gallagher, MD

Michael Gallagher, MD

Lauren Galpin, MD

Timothy Gensler, MD

Marjorie George, MD

Nsangou Ghogomu, MD

William Gillaspie, MD

Molly Goloback, MD

Alex Goldsmith, MD, MS

Rebecca Gordon, MD

Justin Green, MD

Steve Groshong, MD, PhD

Leah Groves, MD

Sasha Gubser, MD

Rai Gurdev, MD

Danna Gunderson, MD

Ellina Hall, DPT, PT

Anne Hanson, DO

Michael Hanley, MD

Mischa Haroutunian, MD

Anne Heenan, MD

Felipe Hernandez, MD

Joel Hirsh, MD

Jeffrey Hollis, MD

Flavia Hoyte, MD

John Hudson, MD

Tristan Huie, MD

Linda Huang, MD

Julian Hsu, MD

Katherine Hurlbut, MD

Davis Hurley, MD

Janetta Iwanicki, MD

Brian Jacquette, MD

Shannon Jantz, MD

Kirk Jeffers, MD

Timothy Jenkins, MD

Mark Johansen, MD

Christopher Johnnides, MD

Nicole Joseph, MD

Patrick Joynt, MD

Alma Juels, MD

Nadine Kamel-Mikhaeel, MD

Richard Kang, MD

Mark Kearns, MD

Rebecca Keith, MD

Jeffrey Kern, MD

Jeffrey Kerr-Layton, MD

Benjamin Katz, MD

Stuart Kassan, MD

Shannon Kasperbauer, MD

Rohit Katial, MD

Mark Kiehn, MD

Darlene Kim, MD

Renee King, MD

Stacey King, MD

Sorenna Kirkegaard, MD

Matthew Koehler, PA-C (Physician Assistant – Certified)

Daniel Kortsch, MD

Deniz Kolozs, MD

Stephanie Kolpak, MD

Bryan Kono, MD

Laxmi Kondapalli, MD

David Korman, MD

Adam Koszowski, MD

Martin Krsak, MD

Elma Kresso, MD

Micheline Kuhr, MD

Claudia Kunrath, MD

Avrom Kurtz, PA-C (Physician Assistant - Certified), MS

Austin Lammers, MD

Ian Lang, DO

Eric Lavonas, MD

Jonathan Lee, MD

Teofilo Lee-Chiong, MD

Matthew Lewis, MD

Jill Levy, MD

Brent Levy, MD

Benjamin Li, MD

Kaleigh Lindholm, MD

Cassana Littler, MD

Lance Little, DO

Tracy Lippard, MD

Eryn Lonnquist, MD

Steven Lommatzsch, MD

Jeremy Long, MD

Kathryn Love-Osborne, MD

Christopher Lowery, MD

Susan Lurie, MD

Esther Lum, MD, PhD

Kenneth Lyn-Kew, MD

Jennifer Lyden, MD

Lisa Maier, MD

Noah Makovsky, MD

Michael Makley, MD

Aristides Maniatis, MD

Diana Mancini, MD

Scott Mann, MD

Jason Martin, MD

Jason Martin, MD

Kerri Mason, MD

Kristin Mason, MD

Stacey Mason, MD

Jody Mathie, MD

Cyril Mauffrey, MD

Taylor McCormick, MD

Rebecca McGourty, MD

Erin Medlin, MD

David Mellman, MD

Jordan Mendoza, MD

Ben Mendoza, MD

David Miller, MD

Mathew Monson

Manuel Montano, MD

Arturo Montano, MD

Maria Moreira, MD

Anne-Lisa Munson, MD

Amy Nash, MD

Vignesh Narayanan, MD

Sonja Nazareth, MD

Santosh Nandi, MD

Laura Newberry, MD

Justin Newman, PA-C (Physician Assistant - Certified)

Lindsay Nicholson, MD

Robyn Nolan, MD

Noelle Northcutt, MD

Mary O’Keefe, MD

George Olsen, MD

Sonia Okuyama Sasaki, MD

Kanao Otsu, MD

Katrina Oyague, MD, FACS

Anuradha Paranjape, MD, MPH, FACP

Antigone Parrish, MD

Erik Parker, DO, FAAP

Devchand Paul, FNP (Family Nurse Practitioner), MSN

Kimberly Patterson, PhD

Shalvi Patel, MD

Lara Penny, MD

Brooke K. Pengel, MD

Quyen Pham, MD

Isaac Pierre, MD

Barbara Piasecki, MD

Morgan Pinkston, MD

Alex Polotsky, MD

Nathan Rabinovitch, MD

Ramu Raju, MD

Lara Rappaport, MD, PhD

Arvin Rao, MD

Jennifer Ray, DNP (Doctor of Nurse Practice), APRN (Advance Practice Registered Nurse), FNP (Family Nurse Practitioner)

Robert Rhodes, MD

Michelle Rhodes, MD

David Richards, MD

Sarah Richey, MD

Mark Robinson, MD

Genie Roosevelt, MD, MPH/MSPH

Cecile Rose, MD, MPH/MSPH

Soham Roy, MD

Jeffrey Rumbyrt, MD

Jordan Ryan, MD

Milene Saavedra, MD

Yasmin Sacro, MD

Michele Salli, MD

Allen Schreiber, MD

Mary Jo Schmitz, MD

Gregory Schwartz, MD, PhD

Rehaan Shaffie, MD

Manish Shah, MD

Alexandra Smart, MD

Joshua Soloman, MD

E. Spencer

Eric Spier, MD

Stephen Stacey, MD

Sarah Stella, MD

Matthew Stenmark, MD

Evan Stepp, MD

Sarah Sullivan, MD

Tina Suneja, MD

Scott Sutton, MD

Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, MD

Dale Terasaki, MD, MPH

Molly Thiessen, MD

Christian Thurstone, MD

Amanda Toney, MD

Brandon Tracy-Davison, MD

Stacy Trent, MD, MPH

Nelson Trujillo, RN

Thomas Tsai, MD

Kim Tyler, MD

David VanSickle, MD, PhD

Luis Verduzco, MD, BS

Sarah Wachtel, MD

Zeke Walton, MD

Elizabeth Wallace, MD

Kathryn Walsh, MD

Leah Warner, MD, MPH

Emily Warm, MD

Christopher Washington, MD

Michael Wechsler, MD

Alexandra Weeks, MD

Gareth Weiner, MD

Howard Weinberger, MD

Gil Weintraub, MD

James Welle, MD

Andrew White, MD

Klane White, MD, MSc

Jennifer Whitfield, MD, MPH/MSPH

David Winn, MD

Diane Winters, MD

Sarah Winbourn, MD

Samir Witta, MD, PhD

Adam Wolff, MD

Chelsea Wolf, MD

Stephen Wolf, MD

Melanie Wong, MD

James Woodrow, MD

Benjamin Yang, MD

Alison Yager, MD

Robin Yasui, MD

Moon Yoon, MD

Heather Young, MD

David Zalkin, MD

Darren Zimbelman, MD

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This post was originally posted on 8/1/2026