2025 Top Doctors in San Diego

Many UC San Diego Health physicians in 50 specialties were named "Top Docs" in the annual San Diego Magazine "Physicians of Exceptional Excellence" survey.

These outstanding physicians were recognized among San Diego County's best doctors by their peers. Congratulations to our 2025 Top Docs!

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Abdominal Surgery

Garth Ross Jacobsen, MD

Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Dalia A. Banks, MD, FASE

Anesthesiology

Hetal Hosalkar, MD

Cardiothoracic Radiology

Elizabeth K. Weihe, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Joshua A. Boys, MD
Eugene Golts, MD
Michael M. Madani, MD, FACS

Cardiovascular Disease

Lori B. Daniels, MD, FACC
Anna McDivit Mizzell, MD

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Shavon Moore, MD

Clinical Informatics

Robert El-Kareh, MD, MPH

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Nicole Lopez, MD
Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD

Complex General Surgical Oncology

Jula Veerapong, MD

Critical Care Medicine

Jess Mandel, MD

Emergency Medicine

Allyson Kreshak, MD, FACEP, FACMT

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Charles H. Choe, MD
Vala Hamidi, MD
Heather L. Hofflich, DO
Patricia S. Juang, MD
Kristen Kulasa, MD
Jimmy Mao, MD
Jodi Nagelberg, MD
Nandi Shah, MD
Gina N. Woods, MD

Family Medicine

Michelle Lee Johnson, MD
Caitlin MacMillen, DO
Cassandra Morn, MD
Ariel Portera, DO

Gastroenterology

Syed M. Abbas Fehmi, MD
Thomas John Savides, MD

Geriatric Medicine

Parag Agnihotri, MD
Tessa Antalan, MD
Belicia Ding, MD
Veronica V. Gonzalez, MD
Roopali Gupta, MD
Momo Kurosaka, MD
Eddie Lam, MD, MPH
Alison Moore, MD, MPH, FACP
Ramin Motarjemi, MD
Ian C. Neel, MD
Khai H. Nguyen, MD, MHS
Anjoulie Pujji, DO
James R. Templeman, MD, MPH
Lindsey Yourman, MD

Geriatric Psychiatry

Steve Koh, MD, MPH, MBA

Gynecologic Oncology

Ramez N. Eskander, MD

Hematology Oncology

Sandip P. Patel, MD
Rebecca A. Shatsky, MD

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Marielle Bolaño, MD
Heidi Yeung, MD

Hospitalist

Deepak Asudani, MBBS
Ali Farkhondehpour, MD

Infectious Disease

Jill S. Blumenthal, MD
Edward R. Cachay, MD
Nancy Law, DO, MPH
Francesca Torriani, MD

Internal Medicine

Sarah Horman, MD
Marlene Millen, MD
Ryan J. Moran, MD, MPH
Armelia Sani, MD, FACP
Pearl Yu, MD

Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology

Zachary T. Berman, MD

Medical Oncology

Lyudmila A. Bazhenova, MD
Kathryn A. Gold, MD

Medical Toxicology

Alicia Minns, MD

Nephrology

Joseph A. Abdelmalek, MD
Dhwanil Vyas, MD

Neurological Surgery

Alexander A. Khalessi, MD, MBA

Neurology

Royya Modir, MD

Neurotology

Rick A. Friedman, MD, PhD

Ophthalmology

Don Kikkawa, MD
Bobby S. Korn, MD, PhD, FACS
Jeffrey Ewing Lee, MD

Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Bryan T. Leek, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery

Scott Taber Ball, MD
Frank E. Chiarappa, MD
Alexandra K. Schwartz, MD

Otolaryngology

Kevin Thomas Brumund, MD
Charles Coffey, MD
Adam DeConde, MD
Theresa Guo, MD
David B. Hom, MD, FACS
Deborah Watson, MD

Pain Management

Timothy Furnish, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Kenneth Vitale, MD

Psychiatry

Stephanie Martinez, MD

Public Health and General Preventive Medicine

Christine Thorne, MD, MPH

Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine

Kamyar Afshar, DO
Praveen Akuthota, MD
George Z. Cheng, MD, PhD
Daniel R. Crouch, MD
Jisha Joshua, MD
Kim M. Kerr, MD
Timothy Morris, MD
Mazen F. Odish, MD
Robert Owens, MD
Bernie Y. Sunwoo, MBBS
Jenny Yang, MD

Radiation Oncology

Jona Hattangadi-Gluth, MD
Jyoti S. Mayadev, MD
Dominique Rash, MD
Ajay Sandhu, MD
Parag Sanghvi, MD, MSPH
Catheryn M. Yashar, MD

Radiology

Claude Sirlin, MD

Sports Medicine

Suraj A. Achar, MD, FAAFP
Amy Leu, DO
Sarah Merrill, MD
Alan Shahtaji, DO

Surgical Critical Care

Laura Haines, MD, FACS
Jeanne Lee, MD, FACS

Surgical Oncology

Andrew M. Lowy, MD, FACS
Jason Sicklick, MD, FACS

Thoracic Surgery

Mark W. Onaitis, MD

Transplant Hepatology

Irine E. Vodkin, MD

Transplantation Surgery

Gabriel T. Schnickel, MD, MPH

Undersea Medicine

Charlotte Sadler, MD
Peter Witucki, MD

Urology

Seth K. Bechis, MD
Jill Buckley, MD

Vascular Neurology

Brett C. Meyer, MD

 



UC San Diego Health does not partake in the classification of Top Doc specialties. The list above includes specialty designations as provided by the San Diego County Medical Society.