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Top Doctors Providing Top Care

A list of Sactown’s Top Doctors for 2026

Congratulations to our 350 Top Doctors in Sactown Magazine’s annual list of our region’s best doctors! We’re honored so many of our own have earned the admiration of their peers and patients.

Sactown’s list demonstrates UC Davis Health’s across-the-board, world-class care as physicians from across multiple specialty areas were recognized.

Addiction Medicine

Alicia Agnoli
Daniel Colby
Mary (M.K.) Orsulak

Allergy and Immunology

Victoria Dimitriades
Vinay Goswamy
Rosemary Hallett
Anh Nguyen
Mohini Pathria
Sunil Saini
Suzanne Teuber

Anesthesiology

Orode Badakhsh
Rajvinder Dhamrait
James Littlejohn
Amrik Singh
Aubrey Yao

Breast Surgery

Hira Abidi
Candice Sauder

Cardiac Surgery

Sabrina Evans
Gary Raff

Cardiology

Radhika Bukkapatnam
Dali Fan
Tai Pham
Gagan Singh
Thomas Smith
Jeffrey Southard
Benjamin (Benny) Stripe
Garrett Wong

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Sean Flynn
Robert Kucejko
Miquell Miller
Erik Noren
Ankit Sarin

Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease

Jason Adams
Hugh Black
Brooks Kuhn
Christian Sandrock

Dermatology

 

Oma Agbai
Smita Awasthi
Alain Brassard
Daniel Eisen
Victor Huang
Sam Hwang
Jayne Joo
Maija Kiuru
Caitlin Peterman
Marc Silverstein
Danielle Tartar
Peggy Wu

Ear, Nose and Throat

Marianne Abouyared
Arnaud Bewley
Aditi Bhuskute
Andrew Birkeland
Rodney Diaz
Erynne Faucett
Jamie Funamura
Maggie Kuhn
Alexander Marston
Toby Steele
E. Bradley Strong
Travis Tollefson

Emergency Medicine

Emily Andrada
David Barnes
Daniel Colby
Daniel Hernandez
Elizabeth Johnson
Sarah Medeiros
Aimee Moulin
Leah Tzimenatos

Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Jose Lado Abeal
Hiba Basheer
Aili Guo
Mark Moriwaki
Sonal Phatak
Deborah (Deb) Plante
Dana Sheely
Prasanth Surampudi
Polly Teng

Family Medicine

Alicia Agnoli
Victor Baquero
Anthony (Tony) Jerant
Sarah Marshall

Gastroenterology

Christopher Bowlus
Asha Cogdill
Juan Garcia
Antonio Mendoza Ladd
Cecilia Terrado
Anastasia Waechter
Kimberly Wong

General Surgery

John Anderson
David Leshikar
Ho Phan
Tanya Rinderknecht
Hazem Shamseddeen

Genetics

Daniah Beleford
Kristin Herman
Madelena Martin
Suma Shankar
Joseph Shen

Geriatric Medicine

Rebecca Boxer
Huey Lin

Gynecologic Oncology

Rebecca Brooks
Hui Chen
Gary Leiserowitz
Nancy Nguyen

Hand Surgery

Robert Allen
Christopher Bayne
Clifford Pereira
Ravi Sood

Hematology and Oncology

Mili Arora
Helen Chew
Primo Lara Jr.
Tianhong Li
Joseph Tuscano

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Grace Amadi
Nathan Fairman
John MacMillan

Hospital Medicine/Hospitalist

Mithu Molla
Voltaire Sinigayan

Infectious Disease

Derek Bays
Stuart Cohen
Angel Desai
Alan Koff
Archana Maniar
Bennett Penn
George Thompson
Natascha Tuznik
Sarah Waldman

Internal Medicine

Brigitte Berry
Kevin Burnham
Olivia Campa
Jason Chang
Katerina Christiansen
Jennifer Draper
Elise Harris
Mark Henderson
Lisa Ho
Zachary Holt
Craig Keenan
Kirti Malhotra
Kathryn (Katie) Newell
Yunli Zheng

Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Zahabiya Chithiwala
Herman Hedriana
Amelia McLennan
Leanna Sudhof
Véronique Taché

Nephrology

Shubha Ananthakrishnan
Hiba Hamdan
Niti Madan
Michael Sim
Nasim Wiegley
Brian Young

Neurology

Alexandra Duffy
Marc Lenaerts
Norika Malhado-Chang
Lin Zhang

Neurosurgery

Orin Bloch
David Brandman
Stephano Chang
Branden Cord
Kee Kim
Allan Martin
Kiarash Shahlaie
Julia Sharma
Ben Waldau
Marike Zwienenberg

Nuclear Medicine

Cameron Foster
Lorenzo Nardo
Fatma Sen

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Alison Breen
Melissa Chen
Jocylen Glassberg
Bahareh Nejad
Clara Paik
Jenise Phelps
Iris Radler
Debra Swanson
Michael Trifiro
Stacey Wallach

Occupational Medicine

Enass Arahman

Ophthalmology

James Brandt
Jeffrey Caspar
Marcela Estrada
Nandini Gandhi
Benjamin Jastrzembski
Esther Kim
Jennifer Li
Michele Lim
Lily Lin
Yin (Allison) Liu
Jeffrey Ma
Mark Mannis
Ala Moshiri
Kareem Moussa
Susanna Park
Glenn Yiu

Orthopedic Surgery

Christopher Bayne
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Mauro Giordani
Eric Giza
Cassandra Lee
Mark Lee
Holly Leshikar
R. Lor Randall
Augustine Saiz
Megan Terle

Pain Medicine

David Copenhaver
Gagan Mahajan
Scott Pritzlaff
Chinar Sanghvi
Naileshni Singh

Pathology

Karen Matsukuma

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Loren Davidson
John Dorsett
Maya Evans
Nanette Joyce
Craig McDonald
Nicholas Race
Chris Shin
Shane Stone
Brandee Waite
Lisa Williams
Holly Zhao

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Ara Salibian
Ravi Sood
Travis Tollefson
Michelle Zaldana-Flynn

Psychiatry

Emilie Bhe
Jeremy DeMartini
Debra Khan
Helen Kales
Kate Richards
Lorin Scher

Radiation Oncology

Megan Daly
Ruben Fragoso
Arta Monjazeb
Shyam Rao
Xiao Zhao

Radiology

Matthew (Matt) Bobinski
Lorenzo Nardo
Arzu Ozturk
Osama Raslan
Simran Sekhon

Rheumatology

Shirin Ahmad
Gaurav Gulati
Suraj Timilsina
Barton Wise

Sleep Medicine

Kimberly Hardin
Shanti Shenoy

Sports Medicine

Kevin Burnham
Marcia Faustin
Brandon Hassid
Daniel Herman
Gina Lokna
Kevin Mullins
Alyssa Speciale
Brandee Waite
Alexandra (Ali) Warrick

Thoracic Surgery

Lisa Brown
David Cooke
Luis Godoy

Urology

Noah Canvasser
Thenappan Chandrasekar
Kaitlan Cobb
Marc Dall’Era
Philip Hsiao
Jennifer Rothschild
Jared Whitson

Vascular/Interventional Radiology

Roger Goldman
Maud Morshedi
Amol Shah
Catherine Vu

Vascular Surgery

Andrew Barleben
Misty Humphries
Melissa Keller
Mimmie Kwong

Adolescent Medicine

John Adams
Laura Prakash

Cardiac Surgery

Timothy Pirolli
Gary Raff

Cardiology

Mohammad Alnoor
Daniel Cortez
Jonathan Dayan
Frank Ing
Lakshmi Nagaraju
Kavitha Pundi
Sherzana Sunderji
Jay Yeh

Critical Care Medicine

Sara Aghamohammadi
Zachary Chaffin
Brian Goudy
Moonjoo Han
John Holcroft
Stephanie Mateev
Jennifer Plant
Viyeka Sethi
Jessica Signoff

Dermatology

Smita Awasthi
Caitlin Peterman

Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Roger Akins
Kathleen Angkustsiri

Endocrinology

Stephanie Crossen
Abigail Fruzza
Nicole Glaser
Lindsey Loomba-Albrecht
Caroline Schulmeister

Gastroenterology

Sindhura Batchu
Arthur de Lorimier
Kelly Haas
Daphne Say
Trinh Truong

Hematology and Oncology

Elysia Alvarez
Reuben Antony
Jonathan Ducore
Lisa Madden
Marcio Malogolowkin
Arun Panigrahi
Anjali Pawar
Noriko Satake

Infectious Disease

Dean Blumberg
Ritu Cheema
Leslie Chiang
Natasha Nakra
Elizabeth Partridge

Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine

Geoanna Marie Bautista
Kara Kuhn-Riordon
Satyan Lakshminrusimha
Steven McElroy
Catherine Rottkamp
Christina Sollinger

Nephrology

Lavjay Butani
Maha Haddad
Stephanie Nguyen
Gia Oh

Neurology

Frederick Bassal
William Benko
Celia Chang
Trishna Kantamneni

Neurosurgery

Cameron Sadegh
Julia Sharma
Marike Zwienenberg

Pediatrics (General)

Eric Crossen
Eric Fernandez y Garcia
Anita Jain
Laura Kair
Mitch Ratanasen
Lena van der List
Serena Yang

Psychiatry

Melissa Hopkins
Anne McBride
Alexis Rosvall

Pulmonology

Sara Abu-Nasser
Ambika Chidambaram
Sanjay Jhawar
Rory Kamerman-Kretzmer
Kiran Nandalike

Sleep Medicine

Ambika Chidambaram
Sanjay Jhawar
Kiran Nandalike

Surgery

Jamie Anderson
Erin Brown
Diana Farmer
Jonathan Kohler
Minna Wieck

Urology

Yvonne Chan
Eric Kurzrock