VCOM - Virginia 2018 Yearbook

2017 Best Bedside Manner Awards For the 11th year in a row, OurHealth Roanoke & New River Valleys presented awards for local medical providers with the best bedside manner. Over 120 familiar names from VCOM made the list. The awards are based on votes from members of the public who depend on these medical professionals’ strong interpersonal skills to best understand their medical care. We are proud of the hard work of our clinical faculty in remaining compassionate toward their patients every day and of course training our students to do the same!

Allergy/Immunology Thomas Fame, MD Roanoke, Third Place

Emergency Medicine Brian Ekey, DO NRV, Second Place

Geriatric Care Aubrey Knight, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention Hematology/Oncology William Fintel, MD Roanoke, First Place Mark Kochenderfer, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention Padmaja Mallidi, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention

Clifford Culpepper, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention

Feras Ghosheh, MD NRV, First Place Bhairvi Trivedi, MD NRV, Second Place

Gates Hoover, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention

Joseph Joyce, DO NRV, Third Place

Kristina Kwak, MD NRV, First Place

Eric Stanley, DO NRV, Honorable Mention Matthew Borloz, MD MRV, Honorable Mention Endocrinology Kamran Rasul, MD Roanoke, Third Place

Allan Sklar, MD NRV, Third Place

Anesthesiology Matthew Fulton, DO Roanoke, Honorable Mention Kendrick Lee, DO NRV, First Place Amy Hamilton, MD NRV, Second Place Jeffery Brooks, MD NRV, Honorable Mention Bariatric Medicine TA Lucktong, MD Roanoke, Third Place Cardiology Andrew Maiolo, MD Roanoke, Third Place

Neurology Chunxiao Zhang, MD NRV, First Place

Heather Brooks, MD NRV, First Place

Jill Cramer, MD NRV, Third Place

Jerome Goldschmidt, MD NRV, Second Place

Family Practice Elliot Freed, DO NRV, First Place

Obstetrics & Gynecology Debra Clapp, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention

Harry McCoy, MD NRV, Third Place

Brian Dickens, DO NRV, Honorable Mention Mark Rogers, DO NRV, Honorable Mention Hilary Lois, DO NRV, Honorable Mention Issac Spence, DO NRV, Honorable Mention Fertility Specialist Emily Evans-Hoeker, MD Roanoke, First Place Gastroenterology Merritt Bern, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention

Infectious Disease Muddasar Chaudry, MD Roanoke, First Place Internal Medicine Roy Habib, MD Roanoke, Honorable Mention Patricia Kitchin, DO Roanoke, Honorable Mention

John Colby, MD NRV, First Place

Carrie Champine, DO NRV, Second Place Sanam Campbell, MD NRV, Third Place David Roberts, MD NRV, Honorable Mention Tamara Howell, MD NRV, Honorable Mention Kimberly Simcox, DO NRV, Honorable Mention Ophthalmology John Facciani, MD Roanoke, First Place – tie Richard Johnson, MD Roanoke, First Place – tie

Uzair Wyne, MD NRV, First Place

Sudhendu Choubey, MD NRV, Third Place

Greg Beato, DO NRV, First Place

William Thomas, DO NRV, Honorable Mention

Dermatology Daniel Hurd, DO NRV, First Place

Nephrology Fletcher Matthews, MD Roanoke, First Place

Chad Johnston, DO NRV, Second Place

Jennifer Sinclair, MD NRV, First Place

Aleksandra Brown, DO NRV, Third Place

Marc Ringold, MD NRV, Second Place

Fred Ballenger, MD Roanoke, Third Place

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