Thursday, March 28, 2024
DENVER — Denver Health is pleased to announce that 28 physicians have been named to the 2024 Castle Connolly Top Doctors list, joining only 7% of practicing physicians in the United States who receive this recognition.
Castle Connolly Top Doctors are peer-nominated and thoroughly vetted by a physician-led research team, according to the Castle Connolly Top Doctors website, “These doctors are best-in-class health care providers, embodying excellence in clinical care as well as interpersonal skills.”
Congratulations to the following Denver Health physicians for their recognition as a 2024 Castle Connolly Top Doctor:
- Matthew Alfano, MD, diagnostic radiology
- Timothy Amass, MD, pulmonology physician
- Philip Andreoli, MD, hospital physician
- Morris Askenazi, MD, family medicine
- Melissa Beagle, MD, family medicine
- Robert Belknap, MD, executive director, Public Health Institute
- Daniel Bessesen, MD, endocrinology physician
- Jennie Buchanan, MD, emergency medicine physician
- Michael Chen, MD, division chief of ophthalmology
- Sarah Christensen, MD, internal medicine physician
- Ivor Douglas, MD, chief of the division of pulmonary sciences and critical medicine
- Philip Fung, MD, medical director, international physicians program
- Sasha Gubser, MD, pediatrics urgent care physician
- Patricia Hagan, MD, director of newborn services
- Mark Kearns, MD, pulmonology physician
- Martina King, MD, hospital physician
- Claudia Kunrath, pediatric critical care medicine physician
- Scott Laker, MD, rehab physician
- Brett Leggett, MD, department chair of inpatient pediatrics
- Kathy Love-Osborne, MD, pediatrics general physician
- Cyril Mauffrey, MD, department chair of orthopedics
- Philip Mehler, MD, executive medical director of the ACUTE Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders and Severe Malnutrition
- Randy Miles, MD, associate department chair of radiology
- Ernest E. Moore, MD, trauma surgery physician
- George Olsen, MD, family medicine
- Lara Penny, MD, family medicine
- Jeffrey Sankoff, MD, emergency medicine physician
- Rehaan Shaffie, MD, hospital physician
- Stephen Stacey, MD, orthopedic surgery physician
- Christian Thurstone, MD, department chair of adult psychiatrists
- Jennifer Whitfield, MD, emergency medicine physician
- Robin Yasui, MD, geriatrician
- Luis Verduzco, MD, anesthesiology physician
Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors list comes in advance of 5280 Magazine’s annual list of top doctors, which will be announced in August.
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