2025 Top Doctors

Over 100 Department of Medicine faculty are recognized in the July/August 2025 issue of Seattle Magazine's Top Doctors. Several volunteer clinical faculty also made the list.

Top doctors are nominated by their colleagues for providing exceptional patient care.

Congratulations to all who made the list:

Allergy and Infectious Diseases

• Jehan Budak
• Seth Cohen
• Shireesha Dhanireddy
• Robert Harrington
• Thomas Hawn
• Ajit Limaye
• Paul Pottinger
• Robert Rakita
• Alison Roxby
• John Scott
• David Spach
• Wesley Van Voorhis

Cardiology

• Nazem Akoum
• Michael Chen
• Andrew Cheng
• Richard Cheng
• Creighton Don
• Daniel Fishbein
• Rosario Freeman
• Eric Krieger
• Wayne Levy
• W. Robb MacLellan
• James McCabe
• April Stempien-Otero
• Catherine Otto
• David Owens
• Salpy Pamboukian
• Kristen Patton
• Jeanne Poole
• Jordan Prutkin
• Karen Stout
• Gary Weeks
• Eugene Yang

Gastroenterology

• Bryan Balmadrid
• Renuka Bhattacharya
• Cynthia Ko
• Scott Lee
• Michael Saunders
• Richard Tobin

General Internal Medicine

• John Amory
• Bradley Anawalt
• Julia Becke
• Sona Bhatti
• Neetilekha Choudhury
• Edward Dy
• Barak Gaster
• Deborah Greenberg
• Deborah Huang
• Margaret Isaac
• Kay Johnson
• Hillary Liss
• Joseph Merrill
• Kim O'Connor
• Douglas Paauw
• Genevieve Pagalilauan
• John Sheffield
• Paul Sutton
• Renata Thronson

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

• Elizabeth Phelan
• May Reed

Hematology and Oncology

• Janis Abkowitz
• Christina Baik
• Heather Cheng
• Elena Chiorean
• Stacey Cohen
• Jason Comer
• Nancy Cui
• Keith Eaton
• David Garcia
• Ajay Gopal
• Anna Halpern
• William Harris
• Sioban Keel
• Hannah Linden
• Edmond Marzbani
• Smitha Menon
• Bruce Montgomery
• Mary-Elizabeth Percival
• Jerald Radich
• Cristina Rodriguez
• Rachael Safyan
• Brenda Sandmaier
• Veena Shankaran
• Stephen Smith
• Jennifer Specht
• Chaitra Ujjani
• Evan Yu
• David Zhen

Medical Genetics

• Sirisak Chanprasert
• Fuki Hisama
• Gail Jarvik

Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

• Anthony Desantis
• Richard Failor
• Irl Hirsch
• Stephanie Page

Nephrology

• Christopher Blosser
• Leah Haseley
• Nicolae Leca
• Kimberly Muczynski
• Kathryn Treit

Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

• Ganesh Raghu

Rheumatology

• Julie Carkin
• Grant Hughes
• Scott Pollock
• Mark Wener