Best Doctors Taps 118 UMC Faculty for Top 2004 List

The University of Mississippi Medical Center boasts 118 of the Best Doctors in America, according to a biannual medical referral guide listing the nation’s top doctors.

“Patients coming to the Medical Center for their care should expect the very best from their health professionals,” said Dr. Dan Jones, UMC vice chancellor for health affairs. “This external validation of excellence should give them an extra dose of confidence that they are being cared for by the best.”

Since 1992, Best Doctors, a Boston, Mass., medical referral company, has compiled a list of the country’s elite physicians and made it available to the public.

According to the Best Doctors’ Web site, “when one of the originators of the Best Doctors concept was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 1986 and told he had only months to live, he struggled to find the best doctors and treatment for his condition. After he successfully found the right care, he set out to help empower other patients through information.”

The Best Doctors’ list is compiled by surveying doctors who were previously on the list. About 30,000 U.S. doctors, or about four percent of doctors nationwide, are named to the list each time it’s published, according to the Best Doctors’ site.

The Medical Center has faculty and clinical faculty on the list, including pediatricians, surgeons, dermatologists, anesthesiologists and neurologists.

“The Medical Center should be proud to have so many physicians recognized by their peers at the national level as having the attributes of a ‘best doctor,’” said Jones, who is among the 117 UMC physicians on the list.

- Thyrie Bland (8/23/04)

UMC Faculty Listed by Best Doctors in America Patricia Ainsworth, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry

Giorgio Aru, associate professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

William Ray Arnett, clinical assistant professor of family medicine

William C. Ashford, clinical instructor in ophthalmology

Radhakrishna Baliga, professor of pediatrics

Mark Aubrey Barraza, clinical professor of surgery

Michael Henry Baumann, professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care medicine) and Director of the Department of Respiratory Therapy

Diane K. Beebe, professor of family medicine

Carolyn Letitia Bigelo, associate professor of medicine (oncology and hematology)

Phyllis Robinson Bishop, associate professor of pediatrics

James A. Bofill, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology

Gary Glenn Bolton, clinical assistant professor of medicine (dermatology)

Richard Carlton Boronow, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology

David Steven Braden, clinical professor of pediatrics

Thais Emily Brown-Tonore, assistant professor of family medicine

Claude D. Brunson, professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology

L. Susan Buttross, professor of pediatrics and Director of the Child Development Clinic

Guy Douglas Campbell, Jr., professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care medicine) and Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Stanley Willetts Chapman, professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and Director of the Division Infectious Disease

Ching Jygh Chen, professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology

Charles Calvin Coleman, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry

James J. Corbett, professor and chair of the Department of Neurology

Bryan D. Cowan, professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Jeffrey D. Crout, assistant professor of pediatrics

John David Current, associate professor of anesthesiology

Suman Kumar Das, clinical professor of surgery

Richard D. deShazo, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine

Michael Doherty, associate professor of radiology

John J. Donaldson, professor of pediatrics and coordinator of pediatric ambulatory services

Bernard Joseph Dreiling, professor of medicine (oncology and hematology)

David N. Duddleston, clinical assistant professor of medicine

Makram Raouf Ebeid, associate professor of pediatrics

Owen B. Evans, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics

Joe Clark Files, professor of medicine (oncology and hematology), associate vice chair of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Division of Hematology

Richard Wade Finley, professor of medicine (infectious disease)

James Fontanesi, professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology

Jackson E. Fowler, Jr., professor of surgery (urology)

Ruth K. Fredericks, clinical assistant professor of neurology

Alan Edward Freeland, professor of orthopedic surgery

Erwyn E. Freeman, Jr., clinical assistant professor of pediatrics

Charles Harry Gaymes, associate professor of pediatrics

Judith Gore Gearhart, associate professor of family medicine

William Geissler, professor of orthopedic surgery

Cris Glick, clinical professor of pediatrics (newborn medicine)

John Gosche, associate professor of surgery

Glen Robert Graves, professor of pediatrics (newborn medicine)

Alexander J. Haick, Jr., clinical assistant professor of surgery

Harriette Lee Hampton, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology

Kenneth James Hardy, professor of medicine (rheumatology) and Director of the Division of Rheumatology and Molecular Immunology

Valee Harisdangkul, professor of medicine (rheumatology)

Haynes Louis Harkey III, professor of neurosurgery

Kimberly Harkins, assistant professor of medicine

Robert B. Harrison, professor of radiology

Harold McDonald Henderson, professor of medicine (infectious disease)

Robert M. Herndon, professor of neurology

Betty Lou Herrington, assistant professor of pediatrics

Reed B. Hogan, clinical assistant professor of medicine

Samuel P. Hopper, clinical instructor in pediatrics

James L. Hughes, M. Beckett Howorth Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Rathi V. Iyer, professor of pediatrics

Michael E. Jabaley, clinical professor of surgery (plastic surgery and hand surgery)

Richard Terry Jackson, associate professor of medicine

Daniel W. Jones, vice chancellor for health affairs, dean of the School of Medicine, and Langford Professor of Medicine

Leslie L. Jones, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics

James Albert Joransen, professor of pediatrics

Stephen Frederick Kemp, associate professor of medicine (allergy and immunology)

Albert Michael Koury, clinical instructor in surgery

Nancy C. Lawhon, associate professor of radiology

Annette Kay Low, associate professor of medicine

Robert A. Mallette, clinical professor of ophthalmology

James Nello Martin, Jr., professor of obstetrics and gynecology and Director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Connie S. McCaa, professor of ophthalmology and Director of Ophthalmological Research

John B. McCraw, professor of surgery (plastic surgery)

Robert A. McGuire, professor and chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery

G. Rodney Meeks, Wiser Professor of Gynecologic Surgery and Director of the Division of Gynecology

William Marcus Meeks, Jr., associate professor of medicine and Director of the Division of Geriatrics

Billy Edwin Mink, Jr., assistant professor of pediatrics

Don Quinton Mitchell, clinical professor of medicine (allergy and immunology)

John E. Moffitt, associate vice chancellor for health affairs and professor of pediatrics (allergy and immunology)

James U. Morano, professor emeritus of radiology

John C. Morrison, professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology

Rathel Linwood Nolan, professor of medicine (infectious disease)

Michael J. Nowicki, associate professor of pediatrics

Andrew D. Parent, professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery

Paul Harmon Parker, professor of pediatrics and Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology

Rameshkumar Babubhai Patel, professor of radiology

William D. Payne, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics

Anthony Bedear Petro, clinical assistant professor of surgery

Deirdre Melessa Phillips, professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine

Cynthia I. Powers, associate professor emeritus of radiology

John William Pruett, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior

Dale Jeanette Pullen, professor of pediatrics and Director of the Division of Hematology-Oncology

Melinda S. Ray, clinical instructor in pediatrics

Philip Glen Rhodes, professor of pediatrics and Director of the Division Newborn Medicine

John David Richardson, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry

Shirley D. Schlessinger, associate professor of medicine (nephrology), Director of the Division of Continuing Health Professional Education and associate dean for graduate medical evaluation

Grace Garretson Shumaker, clinical assistant professor of medicine

Somprasong Songcharoen, professor of surgery

William H. Sorey, associate professor of pediatrics

Jimmy Lee Stewart, assistant professor of medicine

Scott P. Stringer, professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences

Sankarasubramony H. Subramony, professor and vice chair of the Department of Neurology

Mecheri Sundaram, professor of neurology

Herman Alfred Taylor, Jr., professor of medicine (cardiovascular disease) and Director of the Jackson Heart Study

James Tate Thigpen, professor of medicine (oncology and hematology) and Director of the Division of Oncology

Robert H. Thompson, Jr., clinical assistant professor of pediatrics

Thomas Allan Thompson, clinical assistant professor of medicine

Audrey Tsao, professor of orthopedic surgery

Helen Dean Turner, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of medicine (infectious disease)

Ralph B. Vance, professor of medicine (medical oncology and hematology)

V. V. Vedanarayanan, professor of pediatrics and associate professor of neurology

Carl Randle Voyles, clinical associate professor of surgery

Elbert Frazier Ward, associate professor of orthopedic surgery

Charles Martin Webber, assistant professor of family medicine

Paul Burl Welch, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics

Michael D. Winniford, professor and vice chair of the Department of Medicine (cardiovascular disease) and professor and vice chair of the Department of Surgery

Marion R. Wofford, associate professor of medicine and Director of the Division of Hypertension

Anne Bridges Yates, associate professor of pediatrics (allergy and immunology)

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