“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.”

These are a few of the 76 physicians at Akron Children’s named to the list for 2019-2020.
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
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