UK HealthCare has 154 physicians practicing medicine with University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children's Hospital and UK Good Samaritan Hospital who appear on the Best Doctors in America List for 2019-20 — more than any other hospital in Kentucky. 

The experts who are part of the Best Doctors in America database provide the most advanced medical expertise and knowledge to patients with serious conditions — often saving lives in the process by finding the right diagnosis and right treatment. The Best Doctors in America is an online resource developed by Best Doctors, Inc. Nationally, only about 5 percent of physicians qualify for this recognition, which is based on impartial peer review. The following are the 33 doctors recognized within Internal Medicine.

  • Adrian W. Messerli — Cardiovascular Disease – Interventional Cardiology
  • Alice C. Thornton — Infectious Disease – General Infectious Disease
  • Andrew Hoellein — Internal Medicine – General
  • Boutros Sawaya — Nephrology – General Nephrology
  • Dale E. Toney — Internal Medicine – General
  • David C. Booth — Cardiovascular Disease – Interventional Cardiology
  • David J. Moliterno — Cardiovascular Disease – General Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology,
  • David Rudy — Internal Medicine – General
  • Deborah Flomenhoft — Gastroenterology – Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Gretchen Lois Wells — Cardiovascular Disease – Congenital Heart Disease, General Cardiovascular Disease
  • Hartmut H. Malluche — Nephrology – General Nephrology, Toxicology
  • Jonathan Webb  — Nephrology – General Nephrology
  • Kenneth B. Ain — Endocrinology and Metabolism – General Endocrinology and Metabolism, Thyroid
  • Khaled M. Ziada — Cardiovascular Disease – Interventional Cardiology
  • Lisa R. Tannock — Endocrinology and Metabolism – General Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Mehdi Khosravi — Pulmonary Medicine – General Pulmonary Medicine; Sleep Medicine – General Sleep Medicine
  • Michael H. Young — Infectious Disease – General Infectious Disease
  • Mikel D. Smith — Cardiovascular Disease – Echocardiography
  • Nicole E. Leedy — Infectious Disease – General Infectious Disease
  • Philip A. Kern — Endocrinology and Metabolism – General Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Richard Morehead — Pulmonary Medicine – General Pulmonary Medicine; Sleep Medicine – General Sleep Medicine
  • Robert W. Lightfoot Jr. — Rheumatology – General Rheumatology, Vasculitis
  • Rolando Berger — Critical Care Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine; Pulmonary Medicine – General Pulmonary Medicine
  • Sadiq Ahmed — Nephrology – General Nephrology
  • Samuel Mardini  — Gastroenterology
  • Sanjay Dhar — Critical Care Medicine – Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine
  • Scott Morehead — Critical Care Medicine – Pulmonary Medicine
  • Susan Smyth — Cardiovascular Disease – General Cardiovascular Disease
  • T. Shawn Caudill — Internal Medicine – General
  • Takako S. Schaninger — Infectious Disease – HIV/AIDS
  • Thein Myint — Infectious Disease – General Infectious Disease
  • Thomas Whayne Jr. — Cardiovascular Disease – General Cardiovascular Disease
  • Vincent L. Sorrell — Cardiovascular Disease – Congenital Heart Disease, Diagnostic Radiology, Echocardiography, General Cardiovascular Disease, Nuclear Cardiology

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