Each year Richmond magazine asks doctors in Central Virginia to nominate fellow ‘Top Docs’ in the region. They’re asked to think about which local care providers they would visit themselves or recommend to family members. An extraordinary 78 of our CHoR physicians and surgeons made the 2018 list!

“I am proud to see so many of our physicians and surgeons named Top Docs by their peers,” said Elias Neujahr, CEO of CHoR. “We have an incredible team at CHoR – and we’re growing. Last year 68 of our colleagues were named in the survey, and I’m proud to say many of our new faculty are now ranked among the best. We are dedicated to advancing children’s health – and we do so by growing our people, programs and places to meet the needs of kids and families in our community.”

Special honors

The magazine also recognized two CHoR health care leaders with special honors.

Suzanne Britt, director of the Children’s Pavilion, was called, “a tireless advocate for children’s health, for the physicians and providers in our department, a leader in the field.” Britt not only ensures that everything is running smoothly today, but she looks to the future to meet the health care needs of our community moving forward. “It’s all worth it when we see the end result of quality, family-friendly services and facilities,” said Britt. “There are many hands and hearts involved in our team and I feel privileged to be among them.”

Dr. Robin Foster, director of the Child Protection Team was recognized for leading the charge to care for nearly 1,000 abused and neglected children across the state.

“Robin is always the one at the table saying, ‘What else can we do?’ said Jeanine Harper, executive director of Stop Child Abuse Now. “When you’re talking about a child who’s been sexually abused or a child who has been injured due to physical abuse or neglect – it kind of doesn’t get much harder than that,” Harper said. “Robin lives in the deep end of that work.”

Foster told Richmond Magazine, “In my 20-plus years with the child abuse team, I’ve seen children who have been chronically abused and neglected in their environment for years. And once those children are provided a protected environment, I’ve seen them knock everyone’s socks off in terms of what they’ve been able to accomplish…to be able to have the privilege of being the person who helped advocate for those children and tried to get them into an environment where that can happen is the best job in the world.”

‘Top Docs’

Take a look below to see if you recognize any of CHoR’s ‘Top Docs’. Click on the docs’ names to view their full bios.
*Denotes doctor who received the most votes in category.

For the complete list, pick up a copy of the April issue of Richmond magazine.

Jennifer Accardo*
Neurodevelopmental/Behavioral Pediatrics 

Pasquale Accardo
Neurodevelopmental/Behavioral Pediatrics

Cheryl Al-Mateen
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 

Charles Bagwell
Surgery 

Justin Brockbank*
Sleep Medicine 

Richard Brookman
Adolescent Medicine 

Timothy Bunchman*
Nephrology

Kerri Carter
Cardiology 

Daniel Coelho
Otolaryngology 

Adrian Cotterell
Transplant Surgery

Stephanie Crewe*
Adolescent Medicine

Kelley Dodson*
Otolaryngology 

John Edmondson*
Urology 

Nenita Estrera
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Robin Foster*
Child Abuse, Emergency Medicine

David J. Friedel
Infectious Diseases

Martin Graham
Gastroenterology 

Scott D. Gullquist
Cardiology

Anshu Gupta
Endocrinology

Amy Harper
Neurology 

Jeffrey H. Haynes
Surgery 

Marieka Helou
Hematology/Oncology

Karen Hendricks-Munoz*
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Tony Herndon
Urology

Sarah E. Hoffmann*
Rheumatology

Anne-Marie Irani*
Allergy/Immunology

Susan Jones
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

William C. Koch
Infectious Diseases 

Victoria G. Kuester*
Sports Medicine and Surgery

Santhosh Kumar
Allergy/Immunology

Patricia Lange
Surgery 

David A. Lanning*
Surgery

Kelly Lastrapes
Palliative and Hospice Care 

Suzanne R. Lavoie
Infectious Diseases 

Clifton C. Lee*
Hospital Medicine

Marlon F. Levy*
Transplant Surgery 

Ray Lewandowski*
Genetics

Megan Lo
Nephrology

Jessica Malloy*
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

David Marcello
Hospital Medicine 

Mark Marinello
Pediatric Intensive Medicine 

Beth C. Marshall*
Infectious Diseases 

Gita V. Massey*
Hematology/Oncology 

Sean McKenna*
General Pediatrics

Eugenio Monasterio
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 

Russell Moores
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Lawrence D. Morton*
Neurology

William Moskowitz*
Cardiology 

Claudio Oiticica
Surgery

Melinda Penn*
Endocrinology 

Rajanya S. Petersson
Otolaryngology 

Sanjai Rao
Neurology

Trevor Reichman
Transplant Surgery

Jennifer Rhodes*
Plastic/Reconstructive Surgery
Surgical Specialist 

Bruce K. Rubin
Pulmonology

Michael Ryan
Hospital Medicine 

Howard (Joel) Schmidt*
Pulmonology 

Syndi Seinfeld
Neurology

Bill Shaw*
Sports Medicine

Laurie Shinn
Dermatology

Jonathan Silverman
Emergency Medicine 

India Y. Sisler
Hematology/Oncology

Flora Szabo
Gastroenterology 

Jean E. Teasley*
Neurology, Palliative and Hospice Care

Gary Tye*
Neurosurgery
Surgical Specialist

Narendra Vadlamudi*
Gastroenterology

Gregory Vorona
Diagnostic Radiology

Judith Voynow
Pulmonology

Brant Ward
Allergy/Immunology

Ed Trey Wickham
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Christina M. Wiedl
Hematology/Oncology

Niran (Romesh) Wijesooriya
General Pediatrics

Duane Williams*
Pediatric Intensive Medicine

Douglas Willson
Pediatric Intensive Medicine

Chris Woleben
Emergency Medicine

Nina Xiao
Nephrology

Thomas Yeh
Surgical Specialist

Wei Zhao 
Allergy/Immunology