Best Doctors in America 2009-10

Forty-Three Newton-Wellesley Hospital Physicians Named to the Best Doctors in America® List

Forty-three physicians affiliated with NWH appear on the Best Doctors in America® list for 2009-10. This widely respected list, created by Best Doctors, Inc., results from exhaustive polling of more than 40,000 physicians in the U.S. Doctors in more than 400 subspecialties of medicine appear on this year’s list. In a confidential review, former Best Doctors answer the question, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer?”

Best Doctors, Inc. evaluates the review results, and verifies additional information to meet inclusion criteria. The experts that are part of the Best Doctors in America® database provide the most advanced medical knowledge to patients with serious conditions.

Newton-Wellesley’s group of experts listed in the database includes world-class specialists in orthopaedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, gastroenterology, urology, ophthalmology and otolaryngology, among other disciplines.

Founded in 1989 by doctors affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Best Doctors has earned a worldwide reputation for reliable, impartial results by remaining totally independent. Doctors cannot pay to be included in the database and nor are they paid to provide their input. The list is a product of validated peer review, in which doctors who excel in their specialties are chosen. Only five percent of the doctors in America earn a spot on the list.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital physicians on the Best Doctors list include:

Eugene Aron, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Robert Banco, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
Joel L. Bass, MD, Pediatrics
Thomas L. Beatty Jr., MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Jonathan Benjamin, MD, Pediatrics
Ross S. Berkowitz, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Shelly C. Bernstein, MD Pediatrics
Joshua A. Boyce, MD, Pediatric Specialist (Allergy and Immunology)
David C. Brewster, MD, Vascular Surgery
Mark Drapkin, MD, Infectious Disease
Paul Feldon, MD, Hand Surgery
Andrew Freiberg, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
Lawrence Samuel Friedman, MD, Gastroenterology/Hepatology
W. Barry Gault, MD, Psychiatry
Don L. Goldenberg, MD, Rheumatology
Joshua Gundersheimer, MD, Pediatrics
Christopher J. Hartnick, MD, Pediatric Specialist
David B. Herzog, MD, Pediatric Specialist/Psychiatry
Thomas D. Horn, MD, Dermatology
Mark D. Hornstein, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Keith B. Isaacson, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Esther Jacobowitz Israel, MD, Pediatrics Specialist
Michael S. Jellinek, MD, Pediatric Specialist/Psychiatry
Louis G. Jenis, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
Maurice E. Keenan, MD, Pediatrics
Neeraj Kohli, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sang-Gil P. Lee, MD, Hand Surgery
Michael A. Lew, MD, Infectious Disease
John P. Long, MD, Urology
Joseph C. McCarthy, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
Phillip D. McCrary, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Elaine E. Metcalf, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Steven L. Miller, MD, Radiology
Frederick H. Millham, MD, General Surgery
Karen M. Puopolo, MD, Pediatric Specialist
Julian Robinson, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Daniel Patrick Ryan, MD, Pediatric Specialist
Brian Saltzman, MD, Urology
Jan Leslie Shifren, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Scott Glenn Tromanhauser, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
Mark Volk, MD, Pediatric Specialist
Harland Winter, MD, Pediatric Specialist
Henry M. Yager, MD, Nephrology