DOM physicians make up third of Banner’s ‘Top Doctors’ in Tucson

The latest list of Top Doctors is out from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., with local physicians who made the 2024 group featured in the April issue of Tucson Lifestyle magazine. 

Banner Health included a three-page ad congratulating its top doctors – 71, according to its spreadsheet. It also underscored its investment in training physicians and medical infrastructure in Tucson. Click the image at right for an enlarged view.

While every physician deserves recognition for their hard work and dedication to improving health and health care, 24 University of Arizona Department of Medicine faculty or affiliated doctors were included this year. They are:

Allergy & Immunology

• Tara Carr, MD
• Randy J. Horwitz, MD, PhD
• Puneet Shroff, MD

Cardiac Electrophysiology

• Mathew D. Hutchinson, MD
• Julia H. Indik, MD, PhD
• Peter Ott, MD 

Cardiovascular Disease

• Raj Janardhanan, MD
• Elizabeth B. Juneman, MD

Dermatology

• Jody Comstock, MD
• Keliegh S. Culpepper, MD

Gastroenterology

• Geoffrey D. Block, MD

Hematology

• Sima Ehsani Chimeh, MD

Infectious Diseases

• Elizabeth Connick, MD
• Stephen A. Klotz, MD
• Tirdad T. Zangeneh, DO

Internal Medicine

• Jennifer Flynn, MD (SAVAHCS affiliate with DOM Clerkship)

Interventional Cardiology

• Craig A. Hoover, MD

Medical Oncology

• Edward P. Gelman, MD

Pulmonary Disease

• Robert Aaronson, MD (TMC site director with IM Residency Program)
• James Knepler, MD
• Sairam Parthasarathy, MD

Sleep Medicine

• Daniel A. Combs, MD (Dual appointment with Pediatrics)
• Saif Mashaqi, MD

Congratulations to all our physicians from your staff, colleagues and patients. You’re all top doctors to us!

Help Pick Next Year's Top Docs

Castle Connolly Medical, a Ziff Davis company, is a health care, research and information firm founded to guide consumers to the country’s top doctors and hospitals. 

The firm says its physician-led team of researchers follows a rigorous selection methodology to pick top doctors at a regional and national level. Doctors don’t and can’t pay to be selected and profiled as Castle Connolly Top Doctors.

The online, confidential nomination process — go to www.castleconnolly.com/about-us/how-castle-connolly-selects-top-doctors — is open to all U.S. licensed physicians able to make nominations in any specialty and in any part of the country.

ALSO SEE:
“‘Top Doctors’ for 2023 Out in Tucson Lifestyles” | Posted April 11, 2023
“Banner Physicians Make Up Third of Tucson’s ‘Top Docs’ – DOM a Quarter of Those” | Posted June 26, 2019
“UA/Banner ‘Top Doctors’ Listings in Tucson Lifestyle Down in 2018” | Posted Aug. 3, 2018
“Dozens of DOM Faculty Among 140 Banner Physicians to Earn ‘Best Doctor’ Recognition” | Posted Jan. 23, 2018
“DOM Physicians Make Up a Quarter of UA ‘Top Doctors’ in 2017” | Posted July 13, 2017
“Tucson Lifestyle ‘Features’ Janardhanan, Yeager among UA Top Doctors in 2016” | Posted June 29, 2016
“2015 Top Docs, AzCIM, SALSA Spotlighted Among AHSC Top News Items of the Week” | Posted Sept. 4, 2015