The book includes the top 1 percent of specialists and sub-specialists for patients who can and will travel anywhere to find the best specialists for particularly difficult or complex problems. It also contains the top 10 percent of primary and specialty care physicians for patients seeking doctors near where they live and work.
Physicians are nominated by their peers in a Castle Connolly survey process each year. Physicians then are screened by a Castle Connolly physician-led research team who rank among the best in their specialties and in their communities.
Physicians listed as specialists and sub-specialists included nine full-time faculty and four with adjunct or clinical appointments. The full-time faculty and their specialties are: James Armitage, M.D., bone marrow transplant/lymphoma; Jim Edney, M.D., cancer surgery/thyroid and parathyroid; Donald Leopold, M.D., olfactory and sinus disorders/surgery; Stephen Rennard, M.D., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema; Byers Shaw, Jr., M.D., liver transplantation; Michael Sorrell, M.D., hepatitis/transplant medicine-liver; Paul Tomich, M.D., high-risk pregnancy; Jon Vanderhoof, M.D., nutrition/probiotics, short bowel syndrome; and Dennis Weisenburger, M.D., hematopathology/lymphoma.
Adjunct or clinical faculty and their specialties are: Steven Denenberg, M.D., cosmetic surgery-face, rhinoplasty; Thomas Howard, M.D., aortic surgery, aneurysm-aortic, carotid artery surgery; Alan Thorson, M.D., colon and rectal cancer, incontinence-fecal, laparoscopic surgery; and Lee Krauth, M.D., aneurysm-cerebral.
Physicians listed as the top 10 percent of primary and specialty care physicians included 23 faculty, two with adjunct or clinical appointments and one private practice physician at The Nebraska Medical Center.
They are: Philip Bierman, M.D., medical oncology; Gay Canaris, M.D., internal medicine; Peter Coccia, M.D., pediatric hematology; Kenneth Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., medical oncology; Alison Freifeld, M.D., infectious disease; Bruce Gordon, M.D., pediatric hematology-oncology; Jean Grem, M.D., medical oncology; John Haas, M.D., cardiovascular disease; Kristie Hayes, M.D., dermatology; Leslie Hellbusch, M.D., neurological surgery; Lynell Klassen, M.D., rheumatology; Rudy Lackner, M.D., thoracic surgery; Jennifer Larsen, M.D., endocrinology; Daniel Lydiatt, M.D., D.D.S., otolaryngology; William Lydiatt, M.D., otolaryngology; Laeth Nasir, M.D., family medicine; Mark Niebauer, M.D., Ph.D., cardiac electrophysiology; James O’Dell, M.D., rheumatology; Jane Potter, M.D., geriatric medicine; Parviz Pour, M.D., pathology; Thomas Tape, M.D., internal medicine; Julie Vose, M.D., hematology; and Debra Romberger, M.D., pulmonary disease.
Adjunct or clinical faculty and their specialties are: Steven Black, M.D., plastic surgery; Thomas Langdon, M.D., thoracic surgery; and Joel Schlessinger, M.D., dermatology, a private practice physician affilitated with The Nebraska Medical Center.