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University of Colorado School of Medicine and CU Medicine continue to lead Denver's medical landscape, with 295 providers recognized in 5280 Magazine's prestigious Top Doctors list for 2024

This year's compilation showcases the cream of Denver's medical community, featuring hundreds of exceptional doctors across 70+ specialties. The selection process, rooted in peer recognition, asks Denver-area physicians to nominate colleagues they would trust with their own or their family's care.

Key Highlights:

• 295 CU Medicine physicians honored as Denver's best doctors
• Recognition spans 67 medical specialties
• Peer-nominated list reflects trust within Denver's medical community

For patients seeking the best doctor in Denver, this list serves as a valuable resource. It underscores CU Medicine's commitment to excellence in healthcare, solidifying its position as a leader among Denver doctors.

CU Medicine Top Doctors for 2024 include:

Addiction Medicine

Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MS

Kaylin Klie, MD, MA

Addiction Psychiatry

Alexis Ritvo, MD, MPH, BA

Adolescent Medicine

David Kaplan, MD, MPH/MSPH

Eric Sigel, MD

Diane Straub, MD, MPH

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Allergy & Immunology

Jordan Abbott, MD

William Anderson, MD

Fred (Dan) Atkins, MD

Mark Boguniewicz, MD

Kirsten Carel, MD

Jason Catanzaro, MD, MS

Christine Cho, MD

Stephen Dreskin, MD, PhD

Cullen Dutmer, MD

David Fleischer, MD

Pia Hauk, MD

Flavia Hoyte, MD

Katial Rohit, MD

Kanao Otsu, MD

Daniel Searing, MD

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Anesthesiology

Sarah Alber, MD

Alan Bielsky, MD

Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, MD, PhD, FASA

Anthony Oliva, MD, PhD

Luis Verduzco, MD, BS

Nathaen Weitzel, MD

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Cardiovascular Disease

Larry Allen, MD

Amrut Ambardekar, MD

Andreas Brieke, MD

Peter Buttrick, MD

Joseph Kay, MD

Gregory Schwartz, MD, PhD

Eugene Wolfel, MD

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Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Jennifer Hagman-Hazell, MD

Kimberly Kelsay, MD

Christian Thurstone, MD

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Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Paul Varosy, MD

Matthew Zipse, MD

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Clinical Genetics & Genomics

Shawn McCandless, MD

Matthew Taylor, MD, PhD

Janet Thomas, MD

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Colon & Rectal Surgery

Jon Vogel, MD

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Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology

Gregory Allen, MD

Soham Roy, MD, FAAP, FACS

Patricia Yoon, MD

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Dermatology

Mariah Brown, MD

Anna Bruckner, MD

Cory Dunnick, MD

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Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Sandra Friedman, MD, MPH/MSPH

Nicole Tartaglia, MD

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Diagnostic Radiology

Matthew Alfano, MD

Lorna Browne, MD

Ashish Chawla, MD

Gerald D Dodd, MD

Roger Harned, MD

Kari Hayes, MD

Patricia Ladd, MD

David Lynch, MD

Randy Miles, MD, MPH

Jill Stein, MD

Zachary Trenbeath, MD

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Emergency Medicine

Emmy Betz, MD, MPH

Jennie Buchanan, MD

Jean Hoffman, MD

Katherine Mayer, MD

Michael Overbeck, MD

Jeffrey Sankoff, MD

Jennifer Wiler, MD

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Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

Daniel Bessesen, MD

Bryan Haugen, MD

Michael McDermott, MD

Neda Rasouli, MD

Julia Rifkin, MD

Micol Rothman, MD

Margaret E. Wierman, MD

Family Medicine

Brian Bacak, MD

Melissa Beagle, MD, MPH/MSPH

Colleen Conry, MD

Rachel Rodriguez, MD

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Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery

Marsha K. Guess, MD, MS

Gastroenterology

Steven Edmundowicz, MD

Raj Shah, MD

Geriatric Medicine

Daniel Matlock, MD

Bennett Parnes, MD

Jeffrey Wallace, MD, MPH

Robin Yasui, MD

Gynecologic Oncology

Kian Behbakht, MD, MBA

Hematology

Tyler Buckner, MD

Stuart Lind, MD

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Ann Navarro-Leahy, MD

Infectious Disease

Maheen Abidi, MD, FAST, FIDSA

Robert Belknap, MD

Thomas Campbell, MD

Lakshmi Chauhan, MD

Katherine Frasca, MD

Andrés Henao, MD

Misha Huang, MD

Steven Johnson, MD

Martin Krsak, MD

Nancy Madinger, MD

Brian Montague, DO

Larissa Pisney, MD

Cara Wilson, MD

Internal Medicine

Adam Abraham, MD

Philip Andreoli, DO

Lilia Cervantes, MD

Karen Chacko, MD

Sarah Christensen, MD

Ronald Colson, MD

Brandon Combs, MD

Robert Doolan, MD

Philip Fung, MD, BA

Martina King, MD

Henry Kramer, MD

Jean Kutner, MD, MPH/MSPH

Rita Lee, MD

Philip Mehler, MD

Richard Penaloza, MD

Scott Saunders, MD

Rehaan Shaffle, MD

David Tanaka, MD

Interventional Cardiology

John Carroll, MD

John Messenger, MD

Maternal & Fetal Medicine

Henry Galan, MD

Medical Oncology

Virginia Borges, MD

Paul Bunn, MD

Laurie Carr, MD

Anthony Elias, MD

Peter Kabos, MD

Madeleine Kane, MD, PhD

Elizabeth Kessler, MD

Wells Messersmith, MD

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Jim Barry, MD

Patricia Hagan, MD

Thomas Parker, 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

John Corboy, MD, MA

Samuel DeStefano, MD

Victoria Pelak, MD

Dianna Quan, MD

Brian Sauer, MD

Mark Spitz, MD

Laura Strom, MD

Neurology (Special Qualifications in Child Neurology)

Kelly Knupp, MD

Marcy Yonker, MD

Neuroradiology

Valeria Potigailo, MD

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Leslie Appiah, MD

Jean Dwinnell, MD

Daniel Jacobson, MD

Meggan Zsemlye, MD

Occupational Medicine

Cecile Rose, MD, MPH

Ophthalmology

Michael Chen, MD

Richard Davidson, MD

Michael Erlanger, MD

Darren Gregory, MD

Malik Kahook, MD

Naresh Mandava, MD

Emily McCourt, MD

Scott Oliver, MD

Jeffrey Olson, MD

Leo Seibold, MD

Michael Taravella, MD

Orthopedic Surgery

Jay Albright, MD

Sayan De, MD

Jason Dragoo, MD

Mark Erickson, MD

Sumeet Garg, MD

T. Jay Kleeman, MD

Cyril Mauffrey, MD

Stephen Stacey, MD

Klane K. White, MD, MSc

Michelle Wolcott, MD

Otolaryngology

Mona Abaza, MD, MS

John Campana, MD

Todd Kingdom, MD

Pathology

Dara Aisner, MD, PhD

Mary Berg, MD

Carlyne Cool, MD

Bette DeMasters, MD

Steve Groshong, MD

Ann Thor, MD

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Tom Majcher, DO

Thomas Notides, 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

Cameron Gunville, DO

Claudia Kunrath, MD

Pediatric Dermatology

Carla Torres-Zegarra, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology

Jennifer Barker, MD

Phil Zeitler, MD, PhD

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Edwin deZoeten, MD, PhD

Glenn Furuta, MD

Ed Hoffenberg, MD

Michael Narkewicz, MD

Ronald Sokol, MD

Frederick Suchy, MD

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Nicholas Foreman, MD

Lia Gore, MD

Margaret Macy, MD

Kelly Maloney, MD

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Elizabeth McFarland, MD

Sarah Parker, MD

Pediatric Nephrology

Bradley Dixson, MD

Pediatric Pulmonology

Robin Deterding, MD

Monica Federico, MD

Scott Sagel, MD, PhD

Pediatric Rheumatology

Megan Curran, MD

Robert Fuhlbrigge, MD, PhD

Jennifer Soep, MD

Pediatric Surgery

Fritz Karrer, MD

David Patrick, MD

Pediatric Urology

Jeffrey Campbell, MD

Nicholas Cost, MD

Vijaya Vemulakonda, MD

Duncan Wilcox, MD

Pediatrics

Mandy Allison, MD

Lauren Anderson, MD

Larissa Applegate, MD

Ellen Roy Elias, MD

Sasha Gubser, MD, MPH/MSPH

Nancy Krebs, MD, MS

Brett Leggett, MD, FAAP

Kathryn Love-Osborne, MD

David Zalkin, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Rachel Brakke-Holman, MD

Jonathan Finnoff, DO, FACSM

Scott Laker, MD

Joseph Rosenthal, MD, MPH

Plastic Surgery

Julian Winocour, MD, FACS

Plastic Surgery (Within the Head and Neck)

Adam Terella, MD

Andrew Winkler, MD

Pulmonary Disease

Timothy Amass, MD

David Badesch, MD

Kevin Brown, MD

Todd Bull, MD

Charles Daley, MD

Edward Dempsey, MD

Ivor Douglas, MD

Anne Fuhlbrigge, MD

Marjorie George, MD

Fernando Holguin, MD

Mark Kearns, MD

Jeffrey Kern, MD

Abigail Lara, MD

Teofilo Lee-Chiong, MD

Lisa Maier, MD

Barry Make, MD

Milene Saavedra, MD

Elaine Schwartz, MD

Joshua Soloman, MD

Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, MD, MSCS

Ellen Volker, MD

Michael Wechsler, MD

Radiation Oncology

Brian Kavanagh, MD, MPH

Rachel Rabinovitch, MD

Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility

Alex Polotsky, MD

Cassandra Roeca, MD

Nanette Santoro, MD

Rheumatology

Kevin Deane, MD

Stuart Kassan, MD

Joann Zell, MD

Sports Medicine

Martin Boublik, MD

Sourav Poddar, MD

Deborah Saint-Phard, MD

Surgery

Gretchen Ahrendt, MD

Steven Ahrendt, MD

Robert McIntyre, MD

Ernest Moore, MD

Richard Schulick, MD, MBA

Surgery of the Hand

Louis Catalano, MD

Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Muhammad Aftab, MD

Joseph Cleveland, MD

David Fullerton, MD

Jordan Hoffman, MD

Robert A Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS

Max Mitchell, MD

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