Akron Children’s physicians receive top honors

“Best Doctors in America” by Best Doctors Inc. has named 72 of our physicians across 28 medical specialties to its list for 2019-2020.

“We congratulate our providers receiving these high honors, which are based on peer recognition of clinical excellence,” said Dr. Robert McGregor, chief medical officer. “Having so many Akron Children’s physicians recognized is great acknowledgement for the excellent care all of our caregivers provide to our patients.”

For nearly 15 years our physicians have been included in the esteemed Best Doctors list, where only 5 percent of doctors across the country receive the honor each year.

The list is created each year through extensive nominations process open to all licensed physicians in America. Physicians do not and cannot pay to be selected for the list.

Below is the complete list by specialty of  those with privileges on Akron Children’s medical staff who were voted to the list.

Adolescent medicine

James J. Fitzgibbon

Anesthesiology

Tarun Bhalla

Cardiology

Peter F. Aziz

Thomas Fagan

Mark D. Jacobstein

Chandrakant R. Patel

Critical care

James B. Besunder

Michael T. Bigham

Michael L. Forbes

Daniel Jay Lebovitz

John F. Pope

Patricia Raimer

Family medicine

Jeffrey D. Bachtel

Elliot B. Davidson

Michael DeRubeis

John A. DiSabato

Richard James Dom Dera, Jr.

Vernon J. Hershberger

David Lance Jackson

Kelli R. Sabin

Gastroenterology

Matthew Wyneski

Hand surgery

Thomas J. Reilly

Hematology-oncology

Prasad V. Bodas

John H. Fargo

Jeffrey D. Hord

Steven Kuerbitz

Donna F. Patton

Sarah Z. Rush

Stephanie L. Savelli

Hospital medicine

Scott Beichner

Kathryn O. Mansel

Robert S. McGregor

Douglas E. Moses

Eugene Michael Mowad

James Albert Nard III

Troy Sands

Jeffrey D. Solomon

Wendy Van Ittersum

General Pediatrics

Douglas Hackenberg

Molly Shaw

Wade Wilde

Cooper White

Infectious disease

John R. Bower

Blaise L. Congeni

Internal medicine

Titus G. Sheers

Maternal fetal medicine

Jennifer T. Ahn

Neonatology

Jennifer L. Grow

Nephrology

Shefali Mahesh

Neurology

Thiruvengadam Kulasekaran

Bruce H. Cohen

Michael H. Kohrman

Diane L. Langkamp

Obstetrics

Prabhcharan Gill

Orthopedic surgery

Patrick M. Riley

Todd F. Ritzman

Dennis Weiner

Scott D. Weiner

Palliative care

Sarah Friebert

Pathology

Mark Steele

Pediatric radiology

Michael Rubin

Plastic surgery

Ananth Murthy

Psychiatry

Steven W. Jewell

Pulmonology

Gregory J. Omlor

Radiology

Thomas Herbener

Research

Michael E. Kelly

Sports medicine

Joseph Congeni

Surgery

David A. Andrews

John Crow

Joseph A. Iocono

Robert L. Parry

Timothy Pittinger

Thoracic surgery

Gosta Pettersson