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Top Doctors Providing Top Care

A list of Sactown Magazine’s Top Docs for 2025

Congratulations on the more than 300 Top Docs honors for UC Davis Health physicians in Sactown Magazine’s annual list of our region’s best doctors! We’re honored so many of our own have earned the admiration of their peers and patients.

Sactown’s list demonstrates UC Davis Health’s across-the-board, world-class care as physicians from across multiple specialty areas were recognized.

Addiction Medicine

Alicia Agnoli
Daniel Colby
Aimee Moulin
Mary Orsulak

Allergy and Immunology

Victoria Dimitriades
Vinay Goswamy
Rosemary Hallett
Anh Nguyen
Sunil Saini
Suzanne Teuber

Anesthesiology

Orode Badakhsh
Rajvinder Dhamrait
Matthew Grow
Maria Gutierrez
James Littlejohn
Niroop Ravula
Amrik Singh
Aubrey Yao

Breast Surgery

Hira Abidi
Candice Marcum Sauder

Cardiac Surgery

Sabrina Evans
Gary Raff

Cardiology

Radhika Bukkapatnam
Dali Fan
Jason Rogers
Gagan Singh
Thomas Smith
Jeffrey Southard
Benjamin Stripe
Garrett Wong

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Robert Kucejko
Miquell Miller
Erik Noren
Ankit Sarin

Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease

Jason Adams
Mark Avdalovic
Hugh Black
Florence Chau-Etchepare
Christian Sandrock

Dermatology

 

Oma Agbai
Smita Awasthi
Alain Brassard
Daniel Eisen
Maxwell Fung
Victor Huang
Jayne Joo
Emanual Maverakis
Marc Silverstein
Danielle Tartar
Peggy Wu

Ear, Nose and Throat

Marianne Abouyared
Debbie Aizenberg
Arnaud Bewley
Aditi Bhuskute
Andrew Birkeland
Rodney Diaz
Erynne Faucett
Scott Fuller
Jamie Funamura
Maggie Kuhn
Toby Steele
E. Bradley Strong
Travis Tollefson

Emergency Medicine

Emily Andrada
David Barnes
Daniel Colby
Julia Magana
Sarah Medeiros
Leah Tzimenatos

Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Aili Guo
Mark Moriwaki
Sonal Phatak
Deborah Plante
Dana Sheely
Prasanth Surampudi
Polly Teng

Family Medicine

Alicia Agnoli
Victor Baquero
Anthony Jerant
Sarah Marshall
Sabrina Silva-McKenzie

Gastroenterology

Christopher Bowlus
Eric Chak
Asha Cogdill
Juan Garcia
Eric Mao
Valentina Medici
Antonio Mendoza Ladd
Jesse Stondell
Cecilia Terrado
Anastasia Waechter

General Surgery

John Anderson
David Leshikar
Ho Phan
Hazem Shamseddeen

Genetics

Daniah Beleford
Kristin Herman
Madelena Martin
Suma Shankar
Joseph Shen

Geriatric Medicine

Rebecca Boxer
Alia Tuqan

Gynecologic Oncology

Rebecca Brooks
Hui (Amy) Chen
Gary Leiserowitz

Hand Surgery

Robert Allen
Christopher Bayne
Andrew Li
Clifford Pereira
Ravi Sood

Hematology and Oncology

Mili Arora
Helen Chew
Primo Lara Jr.

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Grace Amadi
Nathan Fairman
Annemarie Hargadon
Mook-Lan Iglowitz
John MacMillan

Hospital Medicine/Hospitalist

Mithu Molla
Voltaire Sinigayan

Infectious Disease

Derek Bays
Stuart Cohen
Kaitlyn Hardin
Archana Maniar
George Thompson
Sarah Waldman

Internal Medicine

Kevin Burnham
Olivia Campa
Mark Henderson
Lisa Ho
Zachary Holt
Craig Keenan
Kathryn Newell
Yunli Zheng

Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Nina Boe
Nancy Field
Herman Hedriana
Amelia McLennan
Leanna Sudhof
Véronique Taché

Nephrology

Shubha Ananthakrishnan
Hiba Hamdan
Niti Madan
Michael Sim
Brian Young

Neurology

Alexandra Duffy
Elizabeth Ekpo
Marc Lenaerts
Norika Malhado-Chang
Kwan Ng
Ivy Nguyen
Alan Yee
Lin Zhang

Neurosurgery

Orin Bloch
David Brandman
Branden Cord
Kee Kim
Allan Martin
Kiarash Shahlaie
Ben Waldau

Nuclear Medicine

Cameron Foster
Lorenzo Nardo
Fatma Sen

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Alison Breen
Jocylen Glassberg
Bahareh Nejad
Clara Paik
Jenise Phelps
Debra Swanson
Michael Trifiro

Ophthalmology

James Brandt
Jeffrey Caspar
Marcela Estrada
Nandini Gandhi
Benjamin Jastrzembski
Esther Kim
Michele Lim
Lily Lin
Allison Liu
Mark Mannis
Ala Moshiri
Susanna Park
Glenn Yiu

Orthopedic Surgery

Christopher Bayne
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Mauro Giordani
Eric Giza
Brian Haus
Mark Lee
Holly Leshikar
Robert (R. Lor) Randall
Gillian Soles
Amanda Whitaker

Pain Medicine

David Copenhaver
Scott Fishman
Gagan Mahajan
Scott Pritzlaff
Chinar Sanghvi
Naileshni Singh

Pathology

Karen Matsukuma

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Loren Davidson
John Dorsett
Maya Evans
Nanette Joyce
Craig McDonald
Chris Shin
Brandee Waite
Lisa Williams

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Clifford Pereira
Ara Salibian
Travis Tollefson
Michelle Zaldana-Flynn

Psychiatry

Emilie Bhe
Kate Richards
Lorin Scher

Radiation Oncology

Megan Daly
Ruben Fragoso
Arta Monjazeb
Shyam Rao
Xiao Zhao

Radiology

Matthew Bobinski
Osama Raslan

Rheumatology

Barton Wise

Sleep Medicine

Kimberly Hardin

Sports Medicine

Kevin Burnham
Marcia Faustin
Gina Lokna
Kevin Mullins
Brandee Waite
Alexandra (Ali) Warrick

Thoracic Surgery

Lisa Brown
David Cooke
Luis Godoy

Urology

Noah Canvasser
Thenappan Chandrasekar
Marc Dall’Era
Philip Hsiao
Eric Kurzrock
Jennifer Rothschild
Jared Whitson

Vascular/Interventional Radiology

Amol Shah
Catherine Vu

Vascular Surgery

Nasim Hedayati
Misty Humphries
Mimmie Kwong

Adolescent Medicine

John Adams
Laura Prakash

Cardiology

Hema Bhargava
Daniel Cortez
Jonathan Dayan
Frank Ing
Sherzana Sunderji
Jay Yeh

Cardiac Surgery

Timothy Pirolli
Gary Raff

Critical Care Medicine

Moonjoo Han
John Holcroft
Stephanie Mateev
JoAnne Natale
Jennifer Plant
Viyeka Sethi
Jessica Signoff

Dermatology

Smita Awasthi
Caitlin Peterman

Endocrinology

Stephanie Crossen
Abigail Fruzza
Nicole Glaser
Lindsey Loomba
Armaiti Mody
Caroline Schulmeister
Dennis Styne

Gastroenterology

Sindhura Batchu
Arthur de Lorimier
Kelly Haas
Maheen Hassan
Daphne Say
Trinh Truong

Hematology and Oncology

Elysia Alvarez
Reuben Antony
Jonathan Ducore
Lisa Madden
Marcio Malogolowkin
Arun Panigrahi
Anjali Pawar

Infectious Disease

Dean Blumberg
Ritu Cheema
Daniel Dodson
Natasha Nakra
Elizabeth Partridge

Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine

Lee Donohue
Kristin Hoffman
Kara Kuhn-Riordon
Satyan Lakshminrusimha
Steven McElroy
Catherine Rottkamp
Christina Sollinger

Nephrology

Lavjay Butani
Maha Haddad
Arundhati Kale
Stephanie Nguyen
Gia Oh

Neurology

Frederick Bassal
William Benko
Amy Brooks-Kayal
Celia Chang
Trishna Kantamneni

Neurosurgery

Cameron Sadegh
Julia Sharma
Marike Zwienenberg

Pediatrics (General)

Eric Crossen
Anita Jain
Mitch Ratanasen
Lena van der List
Serena Yang

Psychiatry

Melissa Hopkins
Anne McBride

Pulmonology

Sara Abu-Nasser
Ambika Chidambaram
Sanjay Jhawar
Rory Kamerman-Kretzmer
Kiran Nandalike
Shaina Willen

Sleep Medicine

Ambika Chidambaram
Kiran Nandalike

Surgery

Jamie Anderson
Erin Brown
Diana Farmer
Shinjiro Hirose
Jonathan Kohler
Payam Saadai

Urology

Yvonne Chan
Eric Kurzrock