MIAMI – Sixty-one physicians affiliated with Nicklaus Children’s Hospital have made the Best Doctors in America® List for 2015-2016. Only five percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor, decided by impartial peer review.
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The Nicklaus Children’s Hospital physicians who made this year’s list are:
Dr. Eduardo C. Alfonso, Ophthalmology
Dr. Israel Alfonso, Neurology
Dr. Mislen Bauer, Medical Genetics
Dr. Audina M. Berrocal, Ophthalmology
Dr. Redmond Burke, Cardiovascular surgery
Dr. Cathy Anne Burnweit, Pediatric surgery
Dr. Enrique J. Canton, Pediatrics
Dr. William F. Carroll, Neonatology
Dr. Miguel A. Castellan, Urology
Dr. Melissa C. Clemente, Pediatrics
Dr. Hernan Cruz, Neonatology
Dr. Marco Danon, Endocrinology
Dr. Sandeep P. Dave, Otolaryngology
Dr. Alejandro Diaz, Endocrinology
Dr. Magaly Diaz-Barbosa, Neonatology
Dr. Michael Duchowny, Neurology
Dr. Jaime Edelstein, Pediatrics
Dr. Ernesto E. Erdmann, Pediatrics
Dr. Lori A. Fein, Pediatrics
Dr. Steven B. Fishberger, Cardiology
Dr. Maria Franco, Pulmonology
Dr. Rani S. Gereige, Pediatrics
Dr. Mark S. Ginsburg, Pediatrics
Dr. Norman David Goldberg, Honorary/Emeritus
Dr. Luis Gonzalez-Mendoza, Endocrinology
Dr. Ruben Gonzalez-Vallina, Gastroenterology
Dr. Rafael Gosalbez, Urology
Dr. Erick Hernandez, Gastroenterology
Dr. Vivian Hernandez-Trujillo, Asthma and Immunology
Dr. Parul Jayakar, Genetics
Dr. Ronald J. Kanter, Cardiology
Dr. Ziad Khatib, Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Colin Knight, Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Judith W. Lederhandler, Pediatrics
Dr. Sarah Legorburu-Selem, Pediatrics
Dr. Rafael Enrique Llanso, Pediatrics
Dr. Cecilio (Leo) Lopez, Cardiology
Dr. Leopoldo Malvezzi, Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Madeleen Margaret Mas, Cardiology
Dr. Luis Santiago Medina, Radiology
Dr. Marcos A. Mestre, Pediatrics
Dr. Ian Miller, Neurology
Dr. Phillip Gary Newcomm, Jr., Pediatrics
Dr. Jose Alberto Nodar, Pediatrics
Dr. Ana Maria Paez, Emergency medicine
Dr. Ana L. Paredes, Nephrology
Dr. Philip Paul, Honorary/Emeritus
Dr. Jose E. Perez-Rodriguez, Endocrinology
Dr. John Ragheb, Neurosurgery
Dr. Felix I. Ramirez-Seijas, Nephrology
Dr. Trevor Jesse Resnick, Neurology
Dr. Mario A. Reyes, Pediatrics
Dr. John A. Rock, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Antonio Rodriguez, Pulmonology
Dr. Anthony Rossi, Cardiac Intensivist
Dr. Norman R. Ruiz-Castaneda, Pediatrics
Dr. Moises Simpser-Dubovoy, Pulmonology
Dr. Lorena M. Siqueira, Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Elizabeth Welch, Cardiology
Dr. Gil Wernovsky, Cardiology
Dr. S. Anthony Wolfe, Plastic Surgery
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About Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Where Your Child Matters Most ™ (2025)
For 75 years, Nicklaus Children's has stood as a beacon of hope for children and families across the state of Florida and beyond. Nicklaus Children's Hospital is South Florida's #1 nonprofit, freestanding specialty licensed hospital exclusively for children serving close to 70 percent of children in the Miami metropolitan community. In addition, Nicklaus Children's offers care within NCH North Hospital in Naples, Jupiter Medical Center's De George Pediatric Unit and select Baptist Health Hospital pediatric emergency units. The hospital and its network of more of nearly 35 outpatient care locations offer lifesaving care in in Miami-Dade, Broward, Martin, and Palm Beach counties. These outpatient locations include an array of urgent care, pediatric primary care, and subspecialty care centers and are either hospital-based or outpatient locations under Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, LLC (NCPS). Providing a pipeline of future physicians and groundbreaking research, Nicklaus Children's is an academic and clinical affiliate of Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Nicklaus Children's is home to centers of excellence including the Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute, the Nicklaus Children's Orthopedics, Sports Health and Spine Institute, Nicklaus Children's Neuroscience Institute and Nicklaus Children's Heart Institute. The 325-bed hospital is renowned for excellence in all aspects of pediatric medicine, with many programs routinely ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. Nicklaus Children's also includes a nonprofit physician practice subsidiary with over 40 specialties, and an ambulatory surgery center.