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MUSC physicians among best in America The following list of MUSC clinical faculty members was provided by Best Doctors Inc., the world’s leading resource for patients, families and physicians seeking medical experts, resources and guidance in the treatment of illnesses and injuries.   The 281 MUSC doctors named among the nation’s best for 2007 include those who were either full time or part time and affiliated with MUSC at the time the survey for selections was made. Affiliated Anesthesiology: Latha Hebbar, Kim Jeanine Payne; Cardiology: Jeremy Ringewald; Cardiovascular Disease: Valerian Lancy Fernandes, Pamela Bowe Morris, Michael Zile; Developmental Pediatrics: Jane Charles,  Michelle Macias; Emergency Medicine: Joseph Losek; Endocrinology: Deborah Anne Bowlby; Family Medicine: John R. Freedy, Robert Mallin, Marty S. Player, Ann M. Rodden; Gastroenterology: R. Bhanu Pillai; Internal Medicine (General): Courtney Brady, Patrick James Cawley, William Moran, Shakaib Ur Rehman, Anna Jane Senseney, Tamara Wolfman; Medical Genetics: Robert Saul; Medical Oncology and Hematology: Lawrence Brian Afrin, Paul Edward O’Brien; Neurology: Robert J. Adams, Jonathan Jacob Halford, Paola Tumminello; Neurological Surgery: Bruce  Frankel, Gerald F. Tuite; Ophthalmology: Joseph Michael Lally Jr., Elizabeth Sharpe; Orthopaedic Surgery: David Goetz; Pathology: Armand B. Glassman;  Pediatrics (General): Robert Clifford; Pediatric Specialist: Geoffrey A. Forbus, Eric Matthew Graham, Anthony M. Hlavacek, George M. Johnson; Plastic Surgery: Heidi D. Williams, Rodney Bert Young III; Psychiatry: Linda Austin, Deborah Deas; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Alice Maxine Boylan, Peter Doelken, Dee Walker Ford, Michael Frye; Radiology: Susan Johnston Ackerman, Uwe (Josef) Schoepf, Claudio Schonholz; Surgical Oncology: Nestor Esnaola; Surgery: Samuel Hazell; Thoracic Surgery: John S. Ikonomidis; Urology: Stephen Savage Children's Hospital Adolescent Pediatrics: Janice D. Key; Anesthesiology: Melinda K. Bailey, Jeana Havidich, John Scott Walton; Cardiology: J. Philip Saul, Varsha M. Bandisode; Developmental Pediatrics: Dilip M. Purohit; Emergency: David M. Habib, Frederick W. Tecklenburg; Emergency Critical Care: Sally A. Webb; Neonatology: William Michael Southgate; Neurology, Child: Bernard Lee Maria, Robert P. Turner; Orthopaedic Surgery: Richard H. Gross; Pediatric Specialist: Varsha M. Bandisode,  R. Austin Raunikar, J. Philip Saul, Sara Elizabeth Schuh, William Michael Southgate, Frederick W. Tecklenburg; Pediatrics (General): William T. Basco Jr.; Plastic Surgery: Marcelo Hochman; Psychiatry: Eve Garlington Spratt, Russell Bryan Wolfe; Surgery: Andre Hebra Medical Center Allergy and Immunology: Bruce Devon Ball, Albert Frank Finn Jr., Allen P. Kaplan, Ned T. Rupp; Anesthesiology: Calvert C. Alpert, Joseph Gerald Reves, Charles T. Wallace, John Scott Walton; Cardiology: Andrew M. Atz; Cardiovascular Disease: James Allen Lester Glenn, Michael R. Gold, Christopher Nielsen, Terrence Xavier O’Brien, Eric R. Powers, William H. Spencer III, Bruce W. Usher, J. Marcus Wharton; Clinical Pharmacology: Brent Egan, Perry V. Halushka; Dermatology: Joel Cook, Pearon Gordon Lang Jr., John C. Maize Sr., Eleanor Elizabeth Sahn; Endocrinology and Metabolism: Julius Sagel; Family Medicine: Clive D. Brock, Peter John Carek, Alexander Wallace Chessman, Dewey Todd Detar, David Garr, Wanda Clark Gonsalves, Barry L. Hainer, A. Kesh Hebbar, William J. Hueston, Dana King, Richelle Koopman, James Arthur Lipke, Steven M. Ornstein,  Tamatha Psenka, William M. Simpson Jr., Gebhard Josef Steuer, Terrence E. Steyer; Gastroenterology: Donald O. Castell, Peter B. Cotton, Brenda J. Hoffman; Geriatric Medicine: Jerome E. Kurent; Hand Surgery: John M. J. Ernst, John Angus McFadden II, Gerald James Shealy; Infectious Disease: Joseph R. (Bob) Cantey, L.W. Preston Church, Cassandra Salgado, Dannah Wray; Internal Medicine (General): Elisha L. Brownfield, Walter A. Brzezinski, Benjamin Clyburn, Kimberly S. Davis, Donald Lee Fox, Lawrence Mohr, Pamela Pride, Sarah Stapleton, M. Kathleen Wiley, Jeffrey G. Wong; Medical Genetics: G. Shashidhar Pai; Medical Oncology and Hematology: Frank J. Brescia, Carol A. Sherman, Robert Kenneth Stuart; Neonatology: William Michael Southgate, Carol Wagner; Neurological Surgery: Byron N. Bailey, Brian G. Cuddy,  Robert H. Hawes, George H. Khoury, Sunil Patel, Istvan (Steve) Takacs; Neurology: David L. Bachman, Kenneth J. Bergmann, Jerome E. Kurent, Paul Baker Pritchard III; Nephrology: Newton Craig Brackett Jr., William Randolph Tyor, Michael Ullian; Neurology, Child: David A. Griesemer, Kenton Roy Holden, Robert P. Turner; Nuclear Medicine: Leonie Gordon, Kenneth M. Spicer; Obstetrics and Gynecology: James F. Carter, Robert B. Flowers, Donald L. Fylstra, Christian S. Geier, Laura M. Goetzl, Donna D. Johnson, Matthew F. Kohler, Roger B. Newman, David E. Soper, Steven Swift, J. Peter VanDorsten, Victor J. Weinstein; Ophthalmology: Gene R. Howard, Lowrey P. King, David A. Lee, Richard Ames Saunders, Richard Ames Saunders, Kenneth A. Sharpe, Kerry D. Solomon, Reuben R. Tipton III, David T. Vroman, John E. Weaver, Thomas A. Whitaker, M. Edward Wilson Jr.; Orthopaedic Surgery: Richard H. Gross; Otolaryngology: Terrence A. Day, Boyd Gillespie, Khanh-Gien G. Hoang, Paul R. Lambert, J. David Osguthorpe; Pathology: John C. Maize Sr., John S. Metcalf, Michael Timothy Smith; Pediatrics (General): Paul Martin Darden, Sandra A. Powell, Thomas Godfrey Quattlebaum, John Routt Reigart II, John B. Sperry Jr., Robert Davis Stapleton, Roger C. Taylor, Robert Charles Weaver; Pediatric Specialist: C. Michael Bowman, Sandra L. Fowler, Benjamin Shinn Horne, L. Lyndon Key Jr., Tim Charles McQuinn,  Bryan L. Ohning, John Orak, G. Shashidhar Pai, Dilip M. Purohit, Sara Elizabeth Schuh, Girish S. Shirali, Isabel Virella-Lowell; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: James E. Warmoth; Plastic Surgery: Louis E. Costa II, Richard Curry Hagerty, Richard M. Kline Jr., James F. Mooney III, John H. Robinson; Psychiatry: Raymond F. Anton Jr., Timothy D. Brewerton, Kathleen Theresa Brady, Douglas F. Crane, Mark S. George, James Eugene Edwards, Lisa Dorn Hand, Markus J. P. Kruesi, R. Bruce Lydiard, R. Layton McCurdy, Jacobo Enrique Mintzer, Katharyn J. Ouzts, Alberto B. Santos, Jonathan M. Stein, Eve Garlington Spratt, Edgar J. Weiss, Joseph James Zealberg; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Patrick Allen Flume, Kristin B. Highland, Marc Andrew Judson, Lawrence Mohr, Steven A. Sahn, Gerard Anthony Silvestri, Charlton Bell Strange III, Mary Jean Vogt; Radiation Oncology: Joseph M. Jenrette III; Radiology: Philip Costello, Jeanne Griffin Hill, Nancy Lynne Stiles Curry, John P. Deveikis, Denise Mary Mulvihill, James Gaillard Ravenel, Scott Rovner, John Bayne Selby Jr., Kenneth M. Spicer, Renan Uflacker, Jeremy W. R. Young; Rheumatology: Marcy Bolster, Alan N. Brown, Gary S. Gilkeson, James C. Oates, Richard Michael Silver, Edwin A. Smith; Surgery: David Benson Adams, Bruce M. Elliott, Angello Lin, P. R. Rajagopalan, Jacob G. Robison; Surgical Oncology: Paul Lawrence Baron; Thoracic Surgery: Scott M. Bradley, Fred A. Crawford Jr., Arthur J. Crumbley III, John Martin Kratz, Carolyn Elaine Reed; Transplant: Prabhakar Kalyanpur Baliga, Kenneth Chavin; Urology: Ian A. Aaronson, William C. Carter III, Harry S. Clarke Jr., Thomas E. Keane Jr., Ross A. Rames, Eric Scott Rovner; Vascular: Thomas E. Brothers.     Friday, Feb. 1, 2008 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.