Denver's 5280 Magazine has released its 2026 list of Top Doctors, and CU Anschutz School of Medicine faculty continue to be recognized among Colorado's leading physicians. Congratulations to the more than 660 faculty members who earned the distinction of "Top Doctor."
Compiled in partnership with Castle Connolly, the annual list recognizes physicians across more than 70 medical specialties.
We extend our congratulations to the following faculty members who were recognized this year:
Addiction Medicine
Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MS
Kaylin Klie, MD, MA
Dale Terasaki, MD, MPH
Addiction Psychiatry
Alexis Ritvo, MD, MPH, BA
Christian Thurstone, MD
Adolescent Medicine
Ovidio Bermudez, MD
Eric Sigel, MD
Diane Straub, MD, MPH
Allergy & Immunology
Jordan Abbott, MD
Rafeul Alam, MD, PhD
William Anderson, MD
Karen Andrews, MD
Mark Boguniewicz, MD
Kirstin Carel, MD
Christine Cho, MD
David Fleischer, MD
Pia Hauk, MD
Flavia Cecilia Hoyte, MD
Anjeli Kalra, MD
Rohit Katial, MD
Kanao Otsu, MD
Nathan Rabinovitch, MD
Jeffrey Rumbyrt, MD
Daniel Searing, MD
Anesthesiology
Benjamin Abrams, MD
Bryan Ahlgren, DO
Alan Bielsky, MD
David Brown, CAA
Michael Canepa, MD
Mark Chandler, MD
Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, MD, PhD
Alma Juels, MD
Matthew Koehler, MD
Adam Koszowski, MD
Anthony Oliva, MD, PhD
Gurdev Rai, MD
Angela Selzer, MD
Luis Verduzco, MD, BS
Cardiovascular Disease
Larry Allen, MD
Amrut Ambardekar, MD
Amy Barley, DO
Andreas Brieke, MD
Peter Buttrick, MD
Andrew Freeman, MD
Prateeti Khazanie, MD
Darlene Kim, MD
Gregory Schwartz, MD, PhD
Brian Stauffer, MD
Nelson Trujillo, MD
Howard Weinberger, MD, FACC
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Edward Buckingham, MD, MPH
Ryan Conner, DO
Deirdre Foster, MD
Jennifer Hagman-Hazell, MD
Kim Kelsay, MD
Susan Lurie, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Lohit Garg, MBBS
Christopher Lowery, MD
Paul Varosy, MD
Matthew Zipse, MD
Clinical Genetics & Genomics
Peter Baker, MD
Shawn McCandless, MD
Matthew Taylor, MD, PhD
Janet Thomas, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery
Santosh Nandi, MD
Jon Vogel, MD
Complex General Surgical Oncology
Ana Gleisner, MD, PhD
Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology
Gregory Allen, MD
Soham Roy, MD, FAAP, FACS
Patricia Yoon, MD
Critical Care Medicine
Sarah Alber, MD
Kenneth Lyn-Kew, MD
Marc Moss, MD
David Murphy, MD, PhD
Dermatology
Anna Bruckner, MD
Cory Dunnick, MD
Thomas Gallagher, MD
Anne Hanson, OD
Misha Miller, MD
Lori Prok, MD
Jennifer Ray, MD
Tina Suneja, MD
Elizabeth Wallace, MD
Gil Weintraub, MD
Melanie Wong, MD
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Abigail Angulo, MD
Robyn Nolan, MD
Nicole Tartaglia, MD
Diagnostic Radiology
Ashish Chawla, MD
Toshi Clark, MD
William Colantoni, DO
Blaze Cook, MD
Elizabeth Dee, MD
Stephen Dreyer, MD
Mary Jesse, MD
Daniel Vargas, MD
Emergency Medicine
Emmy Betz, MD, MPH
Jennie Buchanan, MD
Aaron Eberhardt, MD
Alex Ebinger, MD
Anna Engeln, MD
Molly Goloback, MD
Leah Groves, MD
Mischa Haroutunian, MD
Jean Hoffman, MD, MBA, MS, FACEP
Katherine Hurlbut, MD
Janetta Iwanicki, MD
Patrick Joynt, MD
Renee King, MD
Eric Lavonas, MD
Brent Levy, MD
Benjamin Li, MD
Kerri Mason, MD
Katherine Mayer, MD
Taylor McCormick, MD
Manuel Montaño, MD
Maria Moreira, MD
Kristen Nordenholz, MD
Michael Overbeck, MD
Morgan Pinkston, MD
David Richards, MD
Jordan Ryan, MD
William Gannon Sungar, DO
Molly Thiessen, MD
Stacy Trent, MD, MPH
Leah Warner, MD, MPH
Alexandra Weeks, MD
Jennifer Whitfield, MD, MPH/MSPH
Jennifer Wiler, MD
Julie Winkle, MD
Stephen Wolf, MD
Angela Wright, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Bryan Haugen, MD
Sean Iwamoto, MD
Mike McDermott, MD
Neda Rasouli, MD
Micol Rothman, MD
Margaret E. Wierman, MD
Family Medicine
Kelly Arnett, MD, MPH
Morris Askenazi, MD
Stephanie Augustine, MD
Brian Bacak, MD
Boris Bayerman, DO
Melissa Beagle, MD, MPH/MSPH
Bhargavi Chekuri, MBBS, MD, MS
William Gillaspie, MD
Felipe Hernandez, MD
Julian Hsu, MD
Shannon Jantz, MD
Morteza Khodaee, MD
Stacey King, MD
Daniel Kortsch, MD
Michelene Kuhr, MD
Matthew Lewis, MD
Jeffrey Lewis, MD
Stacey Mason, MD
Lauren Oberle, MD
George Olsen, MD
Shalvi Patel, MD
Lara Penny, MD
Isaac Pierre, MD
Robert Rhodes, MD
Rachel Rodriguez, MD, FAAFP
Michele Salli, MD
Moon Yoon, MD
Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
Marsha K. Guess, MD, MS
Gastroenterology
Bahri Bilir, MD
Fernando Carreira, MD
Lyssa Chacko, MD
Steven Edmundowicz, MD
Blair Fennimore, MD
Whitney Jackson, MD
Barbara Piasecki, MD
Ramu Raju, MD
Allen Schrieber, MD
Raj Shah, MD
Gareth Weiner, MD
Geriatric Medicine
Bennett Parnes, MD
Robin Yasui, MD
Gynecologic Oncology
Kian Behbakht, MD, MBA
Saketh Guntupalli, MD
Erin Medlin, MD
Mary Schmitz, MD
Christine Walsh, MD, MS
Hematology
Tyler Buckner, MD
Alan Feiner, MD
Stuart Lind, MD
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Kelly Ferraro, MD
Ann Navarro-Leahy, MD
Allison Wolfe, MD
Infectious Disease
Robert Belknap, MD
Thomas Campbell, MD
Lakshmi Chauhan, MD
Margaret Fitzpatrick, MD, MS
Katherine Frasca, MD
Brian Grundy, MBBS, MD, MPH
Andrés Henao, MD, PhD
Misha Huang, MD
Timothy Jenkins, MD
Steven Johnson, MD
Shannon Kasperbauer, MD
Martin Krsak, MD
Nancy Madinger, MD
Brian Montague, DO
Lindsay Nicholson, MD
Larissa Pisney, MD
Heather Young, MD
Internal Medicine
Alan Aboaf, MD
Adam Abraham, MD
Philip Andreoli, DO
Victoria Bender, MD
Heather Burton, MD
Lilia Cervantes, MD
Karen Chacko, MD
Vivian Chao, MD
Ronald Colson, MD
Lillian Coppola, MD
Sean Cowley, DO
Cari Dawson, MD
Matthew DeCamp, MD
Rob Doolan, MD
Meighan Elder, MD
Mark Foster, MD
Philip Fung, MD, BA
Esteban Gallego, MD
Lauren Galpin, MD
Jeffrey Glasheen, MD
Alex Goldsmith, MD, MS
Anne Heenan, MD
Jeffrey Hollis, MD
Nicole Joseph, MD
Himangi Kaushal, MD, MBA
Mark Kissler, MD
Henry Kramer, MD
Elma Kreso, MD
Jean Kutner, MD, MPH/MSP
Ian Lang, DO
Rita Lee, MD
Jonathan Lee, MD
Juan Lessing, MD
Dimitriy Levin, MD
Jill Levy, MD
CT Lin, MD
Tracy Lippard, MD
Jeremy Long, MD
Jennifer Lyden, MD
Laura Macke, MD
Diana Mancini, MD
William Manning, MD
Rebecca McGourty, MD
David Mellman, MD
Ben Mendoza, MD
Adam Meyer, MD
Li-Kheng Ngov, MD
Noelle Northcutt, MD
Anuradha Paranjape, MD, MPH, FACP
Madhavi Patt, MD
Kimberly Patterson, PhD
Richard Penaloza, MD
Mitra Razzaghi, MD
Yasmin Sacro, MD
Scott Saunders, MD
Rehaan Shaffie, MD
Sarah Stella, MD
Scott Sutton, MD
David Tanaka, MD
Sarah Wachtel, MD
James Welle, MD
David Winn, MD
Interventional & Diagnostic Radiology
E. Brooke Spencer, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Ehrin Armstrong, MD
Rory Bricker, MD
John Carroll, MD
John Messenger, MD
Thomas Tsai, MD
Stephen Waldo, MD
Benjamin Yang, MD
Maternal & Fetal Medicine
Henry Galan, MD
Michael Zaretsky, MD
Medical Oncology
Radhika Acharya-Leon, DO
Virginia Borges, MD
Paul Bunn, MD
Laurie Carr, MD
Allen Cohn, MD, MS
Anthony Elias, MD
Christopher Geiger, MD
Laura Graham, MD
Peter Kabos, MD
Madeleine Kane, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Kessler, MD
Austin Lammers, MD
Christopher Lieu, MD
Wells Messersmith, MD
Nadine Mikhaeel-Kamel, MD
Vignesh Narayanan, MD
Sonia Okuyama Sasaki, MD
Sapna Patel, MD
Devchand Paul, DO, PhD
Samir Witta, MD, PhD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Jim Barry, MD
Trish Hagan, MD
Tom Parker, MD
Erica Wymore, MD
Nephrology
Judith Blaine, MD, PhD
Michel Chonchol, MD
Neurological Surgery
Michael Handler, MD
John Hudson, MD, PhD
Kevin Lillehei, MD
Erik Parker, MD
Mark Robinson, MD
David VanSickle, MD, PhD
Corbett Wilkinson, MD
A. Samy Youssef, MD, PhD, MSc, FAANS
Neurology
Jeffrey Bennett, MD, PhD
Avrom Kurtz, MD
Eryn Lonnquist, MD
Michael Makley, MD
Arturo Montano, MD
Victoria Pelak, MD
Amanda Piquet, MD
Dianna Quan, MD
Brian Sauer, MD
Laura Strom, MD
Adam Wolff, MD
Neurology (Special Qualifications in Child Neurology)
Kevin Ess, MD, PhD
Kelly Knupp, MD
Andrew White, MD
Marcy Yonker, MD
Neuroradiology
Andrew Callen, MD
Justin Honce, MD
Eric Lyders, MD
David Mirsky, MD
Valeria Potigailo, MD
Nuclear Medicine
Robert Quaife, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Kara Alexandrovic, MD
Brittney Bastow, MD
Lauren Bouchard, MD
Brooke Breitnauer, MD
Madeline Comneck, MD
Jeffrey Kerr-Layton, MD
Jordan Mendoza, MD
Sonja Nazareth, MD
Antigone Parrish, MD
Alison Patterson, MD
Emily Schneider, MD
Diane Winters, MD
Occupational Medicine
Cecile Rose, MD, MPH/MSPH
Ophthalmology
Michael Chen, MD
Richard Davidson, MD
Michael Erlanger, MD
Darren Gregory, MD
Eric Hink, MD
Malik Kahook, MD
Naresh Mandava, MD
Emily McCourt, MD
Scott Oliver, MD
Jeffrey Olson, MD
Michael Puente Jr., MD
Leo Seibold, MD
Michael Taravella, MD
Orthopedic Surgery
Jay Albright, MD
Matthew Belton, MD
Martin Boublik, MD
Jonathan Bravman, MD
Evalina Burger-Van der Walt, MD
Douglas Dennis, MD
Jason Dragoo, MD
Robin Dunn, MD
Mark Erickson, MD
Rachel Frank, MD
Michael Gallagher, MD
Sumeet Garg, MD
Craig Hogan, MD
Kirk Jeffers, MD
Richard Kang, MD
Christopher Kleck, MD
T. Jay Kleeman, MD
Lance Little, MD
Cyril Mauffrey, MD
Braden Mayer, MD
Eric McCarty, MD
Justin Newman, MD
Stephen Stacey, MD
Zeke Walton, MD
Klane White, MD, MSc
Michelle Wolcott, MD
Otolaryngology
Mona Abaza, MD, MS
Yuri Agrawal, MD, MPH
John Campana, MD
Anne Getz, MD
Nsangou Ghogomu, MD
Todd Kingdom, MD
Scott Mann, MD
Christopher Oliver, MD
Arvin Rao, MD
Adam Terella, MD
Pain Medicine
Jeromy Cole, MD
Pathology
Dara Aisner, MD, PhD
Mary Berg, MD
Shalini Chahal, MD
Carlyne Cool, MD
Steve Groshong, MD, PhD
Ellina Hall, DO
Kaleigh Lindholm, MD
Mark Lovell, MD
Mary O’Keefe, MD
Ann Thor, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Megan Brockel, MD
Monica Hoagland, MD
Tom Majcher, DO
Thanh Nguyen, MD
Thomas Notides, MD
James Thomas, MD
Leah Webb, MD
Gina Whitney, MD
Matthew Wilder, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
Kathryn Collins, MD
Melanie Everitt, MD
Dunbar Ivy, MD
David Miller, MD
Jane Nydam, MD
Elizabeth Yeung, MD
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Cindy Barrett, MD
Alia Broman, MD
Angela Czaja, MD
Cameron Gunville, DO
Brian Jackson, MD
Claudia Barberio Kunrath, MD
Michele Loi, MD
Aline Maddux, MD
Eva Nozik, MD
Carleen Schneiter, MD
Erin Stenson, MD
Christina Sul, MD
Christine Vohwinkel, MD, PhD
Katie Walsh, MD
Patrick Wilson, MD, MPH
Pediatric Dermatology
Carla Torres-Zegarra, MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Rachel Cafferty, MD
Lara Rappaport, MD, PhD
Genie Roosevelt, MD, MPH/MSPH
Amanda Toney, MD
Pediatric Endocrinology
Jennifer Barker, MD
Melanie Cree, MD, PhD
Stephanie Hsu, MD, PhD
Aristides Maniatis, MD
Phil Zeitler, MD, PhD
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dania Brigham, MD
Edwin deZoeten, MD, PhD
Glenn Furuta, MD
Ed Hoffenberg, MD
Ronald Sokol, MD
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Nick Foreman, MD
Lia Gore, MD
Meg Macy, MD
Kelly Maloney, MD
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Jessica Cataldi, MD
Elizabeth McFarland, MD
Kevin Messacar, MD, PhD
Sean O’Leary, MD
Sarah Parker, MD
Suchitra Rao, MD
Justin Searns, MD
Pediatric Nephrology
Bradley Dixon, MD
Pediatric Pulmonology
Christopher Baker, MD
Robin Deterding, MD
Monica Federico, MD
Scott Sagel, MD, PhD
Pediatric Radiology
Apama Annam, DO
Lorna Browne, MD
Kimberly Dannull, MD
Roger Harned, MD
Kari Hayes, MD
Patricia Ladd, MD
LaDonna Malone, MD
Mariana Meyers, MD
Matthew Monson, DO
Jill Stein, MD
Jaime Stewart, MD
Zachary Trenbeath, MD
Jason Weinman, MD
Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
Anne Stratton, MD
Pediatric Rheumatology
Robert Fuhlbrigge, MD, PhD
Jenny Soep, MD
Pediatric Surgery
Shannon Acker, MD
Jose Diaz-Miron, MD
David Partrick, MD
Pediatric Urology
Jeff Campbell, MD
Nicholas Cost, MD
Vijaya Vemulakonda, MD
Duncan Wilcox, MD
Pediatrics
Emily Albrecht, MD
Mandy Allison, MD
Lauren Anderson, MD
Larissa Applegate, MD
Sharisse Arnold-Rehring, MD
Marc Avner, MD
Shira Belman, MD
Kathleen Brimsek, MD
Mark Brittan, MD, MPH
Kimberly Broxterman, MD
Cheryl Cavanaugh, MD
Leeanne Coakley, MD
Jillian Cotter, MD
Joseph Craig, MD
Matthew Daley, MD
Brandon Davison-Tracy, MD
Temitope Dimmer, MD
Lori DiRusso, MD
Ellen Roy Elias, MD
Regina English, MD
Nicole Erwin, MD
Steven Federico, MD
Sasha Gubser, MD, MPH/MSPH
Danna Gunderson, MD
Richard Gustafson, MD
Maya Haasz, MD
Brian Jaquette, MD
Sorenna Kirkegaard, MD
Deniz Kolozs, MD
Bryan Kono, MD
Nancy Krebs, MD, MS
Jessica Landry, MD
Cassana Littler, MD
Justin Lockwood, MD
Kathy Love-Osborne, MD
Noah Makovsky, MD
Jody Mathie, MD
Anna-Lisa Munson, MD
Amy Nash, MD
Laura Newberry, MD
Kimberly O’Hara, MD
Jenny Reese, MD
Michelle Rhodes, MD
Danielle Roberts, MD
David Scudamore, MD
Sarah Sullivan, MD
Emily Warm, MD
Kaitlin Widmer, MD
Sarah Winbourn, MD
Alison Yager, MD
David Zalkin, MD
Jason Zamkoff, MD
Darren Zimbelman, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Jeffrey Berliner, DO
Rachel Brakke Holman, MD
Morgan Brubaker, DO
Mark Johansen, MD
Monika Krzesniak-Swinarska, MD
Scott Laker, MD
Benjamin Marshall, DO
Kristin Mason, MD
William Niehaus, MD
Nathan Odom, MD
Katherine Payne, MD
Scott Primack, DO
Joseph Rosenthal, MD, MPH
Eric Spier, MD
Plastic Surgery
Brian Bradow, MD
Brooke French, MD
Linda Huang, MD
Christodoulos Kaoutzanis, MD
Mark Kiehn, MD
Jason Martin, MD
David Mathes, MD
Manish Shah, MD
Plastic Surgery (Within the Head & Neck)
Andrew Winkler, MD
Podiatry
Varun Chopra, DPM
Psychiatry
Rachel Davis, MD
Chelsea Wolf, MD
Pulmonary Disease
Ahmad Alsaleem, MD
Timothy Amass, MD
David Badesch, MD
David Beuther, MD
Kevin Brown, MD
Todd Bull, MD
Samay Dalal, MD
Charles Daley, MD
Edward Dempsey, MD
Matthew Dickinson, MD
James Fenton, MD
Anne Fuhlbrigge, MD
Marjorie George, MD
Bridget Graney, MD
Michael Hanley, MD
Fernando Holguin, MD
Tristan Huie, MD
Mark Kearns, MD
Rebecca Keith, MD
Jeffrey Kern, MD
Teofilo Lee-Chiong, MD
Steven Lommatzsch, MD
Esther Lum, MD
Lisa Maier, MD
Clara Restrepo, MD
Sarah Roark, MD
Milene Saavedra, MD
Alexandra Smart, MD
Joshua Solomon, MD
Evan Stepp, MD
Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, MD
Michael Wechsler, MD
James Woodrow, MD
Radiation Oncology
Dennis Carter, MD
Brian Kavanagh, MD, MPH/MSPH
Rachel Rabinovitch, MD
Matthew Stenmark, MD
Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Laxmi Kondapalli, MD
Alex Polotsky, MD, MS
Cassandra Roeca, MD
Nanette Santoro, MD
Rheumatology
Liron Caplan, MD, PhD
Kevin Deane, MD
Timothy Gensler, MD
Rebecca Gordon, MD
Isaac Harley, MD
Joel Hirsh, MD
Stuart Kassan, MD
David Korman, MD
Quyen Pham, MD
Kim Tyler, MD
Joann Zell, MD
Sleep Medicine
Sarah Richey, MD
Sports Medicine
Shane Cass, DO
Bradley Changstrom, MD
Stephanie Chu, DO
Kyle Goerl, MD
K. Brooke Pengel, MD
Sourav Poddar, MD
Surgery
Steven Ahrendt, MD
Nicole Christian, MD
Thomas Collins, MD
Michael Cripps, MD
Stefanie Kolpak, MD
Robert McIntyre, MD
Paul Montero, MD
Katrina Oyague, MD, FACS
Fredric Pieracci, MD, MPH/MSPH
Surgery of the Hand
Louis Catalano, MD
John Froelich, MD
Davis Hurley, MD
Kia Washington, MD
Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery
Muhammad Aftab, MD
Joseph Cleveland, MD
Jordan Hoffman, MD
Robert A. Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS
John D. Mitchell, MD
Urology
Barrett Cowan, MD
Justin Green, MD
Ty Higuchi, MD, PhD
Benjamin Katz, MD
Paul Maroni, MD
Randall Meacham, MD
Vascular Surgery
Lisa Bennett, MD, MSCS
Travis Engelbert, MD
Christopher Johnnides, MD
Mark Nehler, MD
Christopher Washington, MD
Max Wohlauer, MD
Jeniann Yi, MD
The list reflects CU Anschutz School of Medicine faculty as of July 1, 2026 who were recognized in 5280 Magazine's Top Doctors list for 2026.
