Top doctors providing top care

A list of Sacramento Magazine’s Top Doctors for 2022

Congratulations on the more than 280 Top Docs honors for UC Davis Health physicians in Sacramento Magazine’s annual list of our region’s best doctors, published in the magazine’s December 2022 issue. We’re honored so many of our own have earned the admiration of their peers and patients.

The list demonstrates UC Davis Health’s across-the-board, world-class care as physicians from across 63 specialty areas, including 18 pediatric subspecialties, were recognized.

Best doctors in adult medicine

Addiction Medicine

Alicia Agnoli
Daniel Colby
Martin Leamon
Aimee Moulin

Allergy and Immunology

Victoria Dimitriades
Rosemary Hallett
Anh Nguyen
Suzanne Teuber

Anesthesiology

Richard Applegate
Rajvinder Dhamrait
Robert Kriss
Niroop Ravula

Breast Surgery

Richard Bold
Candice Sauder

Cardiac Surgery

Sabrina Evans
Victor Rodriguez

Cardiology

Radhika Bukkapatnam
Dali Fan
Gagan Singh
Thomas Smith
Uma Srivatsa
Jeffrey Southard
Garrett Wong

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Wissam Halabi

Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease

Jason Adams
Hugh Black
Brooks Kuhn
Samuel Louie
Susan Murin
Chinh Phan
Christian Sandrock
Christian Sebat
Nicholas Stollenwerk
Amir Zeki

Dermatology

Oma Agbai
Smita Awasthi
Barbara Burrall
Samuel Hwang
Marc Silverstein
Danielle Tartar
Peggy Wu

Ear, Nose and Throat

Debbie Aizenberg
Arnaud Bewley
Peter Belafsky
Rodney Diaz
Jamie Funamura
Maggie Kuhn
Lane Squires
Toby Steele
Edward Strong
Travis Tollefson

Emergency Medicine

Emily Andrada-Brown
David Barnes
Daniel Colby
Ian Julie
Nathan Kuppermann
Erik Laurin
Julia Magana
Lisa Mills
Kara Toles
Samuel Turnipseed
Katren Tyler

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Mark Moriwaki
Dana Sheely

Family Medicine

Alicia Agnoli
Micaela Godzich
Anthony Jerant
Sarah Marshall

Gastroenterology

Christopher Bowlus
Juan Garcia
Valentina Medici
Jesse Stondell
Cecilia Terrado
Anastasia Waechter

General Surgery

John Anderson
Michael Campbell
Sepideh Gholami
David Leshikar

Genetics

Kristin Herman
Madelena Martin
Suma Shankar

Geriatric Medicine

Calvin Hirsch

Gynecologic Oncology

Hui (Amy) Chen
Vanessa Kennedy
Gary Leiserowitz

Hand Surgery

Robert Allen
Christopher Bayne
Clifford Pereira
Robert Szabo

Hematology and Oncology

Mili Arora
Helen Chew
Brian Jonas
Edward Kim
Tianhong Li
Jonathan Riess
Joseph Tuscano
Theodore Wun

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Nathan Fairman
Annemarie Hargadon
John MacMillan
Theresa Murdock-Vlautin
Hospital Medicine/Hospitalist Catherine Chia
Mithu Molla
Voltaire Sinigayan
Alexis Toney

Infectious Disease

Dean Blumberg
Ritu Cheema
Stuart Cohen
Archana Maniar
Bennett Penn
George Thompson
Natascha Tuznik
Sarah Waldman

Internal Medicine

Kevin Burnham
Olivia Campa
Zachary Holt
Craig Keenan
Kathryn Newell
Yunli Zheng

Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Nancy Field
Herman Hedriana
Amelia McLennan
Veronique Tache

Nephrology

Shubha Ananthakrishnan
Andrew Chin
Niti Madan
Jose Morfin
Brian Young

Neurology

Alexandra Duffy
Marc Lenaerts
Norika Malhado-Chang
Vicki Wheelock
Alan Yee
Lin Zhang

Neurosurgery

Orin Bloch
Griffith Harsh
Kee Kim
Kiarash Shahlaie
Marike Zwienenberg
Nuclear Medicine Cameron Foster
Lorenzo Nardo

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Alison Breen
Catherine Cansino
Amy George
Jocylen Glassberg
Gary Leiserowitz
Bahareh Nejad
Jenise Phelps
Debra Wright Swanson
Michael Trifiro

Ophthalmology

Nandini Gandhi
Michele Lim
Yin Liu
Mark Mannis
Ala Moshiri

Orthopedic Surgery

Mauro Giordani
Brian Haus
Mark Lee
Holly Leshikar
Steven Thorpe

Pain Medicine

David Copenhaver
Charles De Mesa
Scott Fishman
Kenneth Furukawa
Gagan Mahajan
Scott Pritzlaff

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Shawna Arsenault
Maya Evans
Nanette Joyce
Craig McDonald
Daniel Neudorf
Chris Shin
Brandee Waite
Holly Zhao

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Clifford Pereira
Lee Pu
Travis Tollefson
Granger Wong

Psychiatry

Jeremy DeMartini
Helen Kales
Ruth Shim

Radiation Oncology

Megan Daly
Ruben Fragoso
Arta Monjazeb
Shyam Rao
Richard Valicenti

Radiology

Matthew Bobinski
Ghaneh Fananapazir
John McGahan
Rebecca Stein-Wexler

Rheumatology

Shirin Ahmad
Gurtej Cheema
Angel Herrera Guerra
Barton Wise

Sleep Medicine

Kimberly Hardin

Sports Medicine

Kevin Burnham
Marcia Faustin
Julie Ingwerson
Cassandra Lee
Jeffrey Tanji
Brandee Waite

Thoracic Surgery

Lisa Brown
David Cooke
Luis Godoy

Urology

Noah Canvasser
Marc Dall’Era
Christopher Evans
Jennifer Rothschild

Vascular/Interventional Radiology

Rex Pillai
Catherine Vu

Vascular Surgery

Misty Humphries
Mimmie Kwong
Matthew Mell

Best doctors in pediatric medicine

Adolescent Medicine Laura Kester Prakash
Cindy Schorzman
Cardiology Daniel Cortez
Jonathan Dayan
Sherzana Sunderji
Jay Yeh

Critical Care Medicine

Sara Aghamohammadi
Constantine Dimitriades
John Holcroft
James Marcin
Stephanie Mateev
JoAnne Natale
Jennifer Plant
Viyeka Sethi
Jessica Signoff

Dermatology

Smita Awasthi

Endocrinology

Stephanie Crossen
Abigail Fruzza
Nicole Glaser
Lindsey Loomba-Albrecht
Dennis Styne

Gastroenterology

Arthur de Lorimier
Kelly Haas
Sunpreet Kaur
Daphne Say
Trinh Truong

Hematology and Oncology

Elysia Alvarez
Reuben Antony
Jong Chung
Jonathan Ducore
Marcio Malogolowkin
Arun Panigrahi
Anjali Pawar

Infectious Disease

Dean Blumberg
Ritu Cheema
Natasha Nakra
Elizabeth Partridge
Jean Wiedeman
Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine Kristin Hoffman
Kara Kuhn-Riordon
Satyan Lakshminrusimha
Francis Poulain
Catherine Rottkamp
Payam Vali

Nephrology

Lavjay Butani
Maha Haddad
Arundhati Kale
Stephanie Nguyen

Neurology

William Benko
Celia Chang
Trishna Kantamneni
Shannon Liang

Neurosurgery

Michael Edwards
Marike Zwienenberg

Pediatrics (General)

Robert Byrd
Eric Crossen
Anita Jain
Mitch Ratanasen

Psychiatry

Anne McBride
Murat Pakyurek

Pulmonology

Sanjay Jhawar
Kiran Nandalike

Sleep Medicine

Sanjay Jhawar
Kiran Nandalike

Surgery

Erin Brown
Diana Farmer
Shinjiro Hirose
Jonathan Kohler
Payam Saadai

Urology

Eric Kurzrock
Jennifer Yang