Twenty-two physicians affiliated with the University of South Alabama College of Medicine have been included in the 2014 Best Doctors in America database released this month. The following physicians were chosen for the list after extensive peer review by thousands of doctors:
• Dr. Jorge E. Alonso - Orthopaedic Surgery
• Dr. Susan L. Baker - Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Dr. Errol Crook - Nephrology
• Dr. R. Michael Culpepper - Nephrology
• Dr. Jack DiPalma - Gastroenterology
• Dr. Donna Lynn Dyess - Endocrine Surgery
• Dr. Karen Fagan - Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine
• Dr. Michael A. Finan - Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Dr. Richard P. Gonzalez - Trauma Surgery
• Dr. Johnson Haynes Jr. - Pulmonary Medicine
• Dr. Jorge L. Herrera - Hepatology and Gastroenterology
• Dr. David F. Lewis - Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Dr. Arnold Luterman - Burn Surgery
• Dr. Paul Maertens - Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Dr. Frederick Meyer - Hand Surgery
• Dr. Dean K. Naritoku - Neurology
• Dr. Prasit Nimityongskul - Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
• Dr. J. Michael O’Dowd - Cardiovascular Disease
• Dr. Albert W. Pearsall IV - Orthopaedic Surgery
• Dr. William O. Richards - Bariatric/Laparoscopic Surgery
• Dr. Theresa Pryor Roca - Pediatric Specialist
• Dr. John Alan VandeWaa - Infectious Disease
USA Physicians Group, the private practice of the academic physicians at the USA College of Medicine, is the region’s largest multi-specialty practice and the only academic physicians group along the central Gulf Coast.
Best Doctors, Inc. is a database that uses peer review along with other criteria to determine the most qualified doctors in various fields of medicine. The database seeks physicians whose reputation and expertise put them in the top 5 percent of their specific specialty. To ensure impartiality, physicians cannot pay to be included in the database, nor are they paid for their participation.
