Sixty-three doctors with University of Louisville Physicians have made the “Best Doctors in America” list for 2014.  Only 5 percent of doctors in the U.S. earn the honor in which doctors who excel in their specialties are selected by their peers.

Five physicians are included in more than one speciality. J. David Richardson, M.D., is listed in three specialty areas: Surgery, Thoracic Surgery and Vascular Surgery. Four other physicians are listed in two specialties each: Rodney Folz, M.D., in Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine; Toni Ganzel, M.D., in Otolaryngology and Pediatric Otolaryngology; Craig McClain, M.D., in Gastroenterology and Hepatology; and Shaio Woo, M.D., in Pediatric Radiology and Radiology Oncology.

The UofL physicians and their specialties listed among "Best Doctors in America" are:

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Kelli M. Bullard Dunn - General Colon and Rectal Surgery

Susan Galandiuk - Colon and Rectal Cancer; General Colon and Rectal Surgery

Critical Care Medicine

Rodney J. Folz - Pulmonary Medicine

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Stephen J. Winters - General Endocrinology and Metabolism

Gastroenterology

Craig J. McClain - General Gastroenterology; Pancreatic Disease

Kristine Krueger - General Gastroenterology

Stephen McClave - General Gastroenterology

Geriatric Medicine

James G. O'Brien - General Geriatric Medicine

Hepatology

Craig J. McClain - General Hepatology

Infectious Disease

Julio Ramirez - HIV/AIDS

Medical Oncology and Hematology

Donald Miller - General Medical Oncology and Hematology

Nephrology

Alfred A. Jacobs, Jr. - Dialysis

Amy C. Dwyer - Dialysis

Eleanor DeLand Lederer - General Nephrology

Jon B. Klein - Glomerular Diseases

Kenneth McLeish - Glomerular Diseases

Rosemary Ouseph - General Nephrology

Neurology

Anand G. Vaishnav - Stroke

Kerri Remmel - General Adult Neurology; Stroke

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Jonathan Weeks - Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Sean Francis - Urogynecology

Sharmila Makhija - Gynecologic Oncology

Vernon Cook - Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Ophthalmology

Charles C. Barr - Medical Retinal Diseases; Vitreo-Retinal Surgery

Henry J. Kaplan - Medical Retinal Diseases; Uveitis; Vitreo-Retinal Surgery

Joern Bernhard Soltau - Glaucoma

Judith Mohay-Ambrus - Glaucoma

Shlomit Schaal - Medical Retinal Diseases

Otolaryngology

Arun Gadre - Otology

Jeffrey Bumpous - Head and Neck Surgery; Oncological Surgery

Toni M. Ganzel - General Otolaryngology

Welby I. Winstead - General Otolaryngology

Pediatric Specialist

Amy O. Hardin - Pediatric Critical Care

Christopher L. Johnsrude - Pediatric Cardiology

Dan L. Stewart - Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

David Howard Adamkin - Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

David J. McLario - Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Erle H. Austin, III - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Gary Scott Marshall - Pediatric Infectious Disease

George C. Rodgers, Jr. - Pediatric Medical Toxicology

Kenneth Lucas - Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Kenneth N. Schikler - Pediatric Rheumatology

Kristina K. Bryant - Pediatric Infectious Disease

Mary E. Fallat - Pediatric Surgery

Nemr Eid - Pediatric Pulmonology

Sandra Herr - Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Shiao Y. Woo - Pediatric Radiation Oncology

Thomas Stephen - Pediatric Gastroenterology

Toni M. Ganzel - Pediatric Otolaryngology

Vicki L. Montgomery - Pediatric Critical Care

Walter Sobczyk - Pediatric Cardiology

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Steve R. Williams - Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation; Traumatic Brain Injury

Plastic Surgery

Bradon Jay Wilhelmi - General Plastic Surgery

Gordon R. Tobin - General Plastic Surgery

Pulmonary Medicine

Jesse Roman - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; General Pulmonary Medicine; Interstitial Lung Diseases; Lung Cancer

Rafael Leuba Perez - General Pulmonary Medicine

Rodney J. Folz - General Pulmonary Medicine

Radiation Oncology

Shiao Y. Woo - Brain Cancer

Radiology

James C. Reed - Chest

Surgery

Brian Gregory Harbrecht - Trauma

Frank B. Miller - General Surgery; Trauma

Gary C. Vitale - Gastroenterologic Surgery

Glen Allen Franklin - Trauma

J. David Richardson - General Surgery

Surgical Oncology

Charles Raben Scoggins - General Surgical Oncology

Kelly McMasters - Breast Cancer; Gastroenterologic Cancer; Melanoma

Robert C. G. Martin - Gastroenterologic Cancer; General Surgical Oncology

Thoracic Surgery

J. David Richardson - Adult Thoracic Surgery

Mark Slaughter - Adult Cardiac Surgery; Transplantation

Vascular Surgery

J. David Richardson - Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

The list is assembled by Best Doctors Inc. as the result of polling more than 45,000 physicians in the U.S. In a confidential review, current physician listees answer the question, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer?”

The peer review determines the physicians included - doctors cannot buy listings, nor are they paid to provide their input.  Only those who earn the consensus support of their peers as well as meet additional, detailed qualification criteria are included.

Gallup has audited and certified Best Doctors Inc.’s database of physicians and its "Best Doctors in America" list as using the highest industry standards in survey methodology and processes.

Doctors in over 40 specialties and 400 subspecialties of medicine appear on this year’s list.