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!

Abdominal Surgery
Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology
Hetal Hosalkar, MD
Cardiothoracic Radiology
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
Clinical Informatics
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Nicole Lopez, MD
Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD
Complex General Surgical Oncology
Critical Care Medicine
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
Gynecologic Oncology
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
Medical Oncology
Lyudmila A. Bazhenova, MD
Kathryn A. Gold, MD
Medical Toxicology
Nephrology
Joseph A. Abdelmalek, MD
Dhwanil Vyas, MD
Neurological Surgery
Alexander A. Khalessi, MD, MBA
Neurology
Neurotology
Ophthalmology
Don Kikkawa, MD
Bobby S. Korn, MD, PhD, FACS
Jeffrey Ewing Lee, MD
Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
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
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Psychiatry
Public Health and General Preventive Medicine
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
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
Transplant Hepatology
Transplantation Surgery
Undersea Medicine
Charlotte Sadler, MD
Peter Witucki, MD
Urology
Seth K. Bechis, MD
Jill Buckley, MD
Vascular Neurology
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.