When your health matters most, so does choosing the right doctor.
The Little Rock metro is full of hospitals and clinics with amazing healthcare providers, so to find the best of the best, we went directly to the source: their peers.
Below is our annual list of Little Rock’s Top Docs, all currently licensed and practicing, as voted by their fellow medical professionals.
Below, you’ll meet some of these doctors through paid promotional content. Whether they choose to advertise in the magazine has no bearing on this list. Doctors with listed clinics/hospitals advertised in this issue.
For a full focus on women’s health, watch for our 2026 list of Top Docs for Women in the October issue.
LITTLE ROCK’S TOP DOCS 2026
Addiction Medicine
Michael J. Mancino
UAMS Health
Allergy Immunology
Anil K. Badhwar
Kelly D. Burks
Meredith Dilley
Melissa Graham
Jim Mark Ingram
Little Rock Allergy and Asthma Clinic
Teri Jeffers
Four Seasons Allergy & Asthma Clinic, PA
Joshua Kennedy
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Blake Scheer
Little Rock Allergy and Asthma Clinic
Ashley Stoner
Little Rock Allergy and Asthma Clinic
Anesthesiology
Joshua C. Chance
Bradley Hogate
OrthoArkansas
Joseph Jansen
CARTI
Jacob Lewis
OrthoArkansas
Victor Mandoff
UAMS Health
Gregory R. Mehaffey
UAMS Health
Arundathi Reddy
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
John Robben
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Cardiology
Michael Cross
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Scott A. Davis
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Wesley M. Fiser
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Jay D. Geoghagan
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
David G. Jones
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Ramey Marshell
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Alexander Orsini
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Hakan Paydak
UAMS Health
Kirby N. Von Edwins
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Thomas Wallace
CHI St. Vincent
Evan Watts
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Lawrence Greiten
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Mark Orman Hardin
Pouya Hemmati
Katy A. Marino
UAMS Health
Frederick Meadors
CHI St. Vincent
Jason L. Muesse
UAMS Health
Matthew A. Steliga
UAMS Health
Nicholas D. Tingquist
UAMS Health
Colon & Rectal Surgery
Lance Burns
CHI St. Vincent
S. Thomas Kang
UAMS Health
Jonathan A. Laryea
UAMS Health
Jason Mizell
Lee Raley
CHI St. Vincent
Cosmetic Surgery
David Bauer
Rhys Branman
Edward J. Love
Melanie Prince
Michael Spann
Suzanne Yee
Dr. Suzanne Yee Cosmetic & Laser Surgery Center
Dermatology
Randall L. Breau
Hayden Franks
Franks Dermatology
Jacey Guthrie
Gibson & Guthrie Dermatology
Lindsay Lipke
Dermatology Group of Arkansas
Andrea Mabry
Thomas Manning
Kayla Mohr
Austin Morgan
Ray K. Parker
Brian Wayne
Marla Wirges
Emergency Medicine
Elizabeth Storm
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism
Zulekha Hamid
CHI St. Vincent
Nidhi Jain
CHI St. Vincent
Soumya Thumma
Baptist Health
Family Medicine
Sara Blair
John Cockerell
Stephanie Cody
Barry Ford
Daniel Hardin
Kevin Hiegel
Reed Thomas
Gastroenterology
Johnathan D. Goodwin
Otis Gordon
CHI St. Vincent
Brian T. Hughes
Sumant Inamdar
UAMS Health
Johnny Jones
Bobby Kakati
Whit Knapple
David McElreath
Brian McGee
Angela K. Nutt
Dhaval H. Patel
Jeffrey Robertson
Mary Katherine Rude
UAMS Health
Patrick Selakovich
David Sosnoff
Baptist Health Gastroenterology Clinic
R. Paul Svoboda
Paul Edwin Williams
Baptist Health Gastroenterology Clinic
General Surgery
Chris M. Cate
Benjamin L. Davis
UAMS Health
Gregory J. Engstrom
CHI St. Vincent
Patrick Fleeman
Brandon Ingram
CHI St. Vincent
Peter J. Kim
Alfred Marotti
Michael M. Pollock
Matthew L. Roberts
UAMS Health
James Walker
CHI St. Vincent
Shannon Zehtaban
Geriatric Medicine
Jeanne Y. Wei
UAMS Health
Hand Surgery
Jeanine Andersson
OrthoArkansas
David Black
OrthoArkansas
John W. Bracey Jr.
UAMS Health
G. Thomas Frazier Jr.
UAMS Health
Brian Norton
OrthoArkansas
David Rhodes
Arkansas Surgical Hospital
Mark Tait
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Richard Wirges
OrthoArkansas
Theresa Wyrick-Glover
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Hematology
Brad Baltz
Joana Mack
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Hospice & Palliative
Jaclynn Elias
CARTI
Sarah E. Harrington
UAMS Health
Kenneth M. Sauer
Hospitalist
Ramez Heshmat A. Awad
UAMS Health
Marc Stanley
Cody Webster
Infectious Disease
Juan Carlos Rico Crescencio
UAMS Health
Ryan K. Dare
UAMS Health
Susan K. Delap
Jessie Frazier
Dwight A. Lindley
Michael Saccente
UAMS Health
Brandon Walser
Infectious Disease Resource Group
Heather Young
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Gregory Zawada
Arkansas Pulmonary & Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
Mark Dyer
CHI St. Vincent
Raymond Edwards
CHI St. Vincent
Robert H. Hopkins Jr.
UAMS Health
Siobahn Hruby
Anna Kendrick
Kristen J. Shealy
UAMS Health
Tobias J. Vancil
UAMS Health
Interventional Cardiology
Vasili Lendel
Vijay Raja
Scott Ryan
Aaron Strobel
Arkansas Cardiology / Baptist Health Heart Institute
Neonatology
Angela Chandler
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Jessica Jakubowicz
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Sara Peeples
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Misty Virmani
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Nephrology
Muhammad G. Alam
Prajwal Chevireddy
Alex David
John K. Heifner
Fakhar Ijaz
Nishank Jain
UAMS Health
Nithin Karakala
UAMS Health
Shane P. Kimball
Kashaf A. Rasheed
Mary Jo Shaver
Manisha Singh
UAMS Health
Neurological Surgery
Gregory Albert
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Gautam Gandhi
Arkansas Surgical Hospital / Pinnacle Spine & Neurosurgery
Ali Krisht
CHI St. Vincent
Eylem Ocal
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Blake Phillips
Baptist Health Neurosurgery Arkansas
Ali Raja
Arkansas Surgical Hospital
Jonathan Reding
Baptist Health Neurosurgery Arkansas
Deanna Sasaki-Adams
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Neurology
Robert L. Archer
UAMS Health
Bradley Boop
CHI St. Vincent
Rohit Dhall
UAMS Health
Robert Silzer
Oncology
Lauren Appell
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Konstantinos Arnaoutakis
UAMS Health
Omar T. Atiq
UAMS Health
David Becton
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Andrew M. Briggler
CARTI
Jamie Burton
CARTI
Rhonda Gentry
CARTI
Ryan E. Hall
CARTI
Kewen Jauss
CARTI
Lawrence Mendelsohn
CARTI
Derek Middleton
CARTI
Kamal Patel
CARTI
Grace Raja
CARTI
Thomas B. Sneed
CARTI
Diane Wilder
CARTI
Naveen Yarlagadda
CARTI
Ophthalmology
Katherine Baltz
Tracy Baltz
Little Rock Eye Clinic
John Russell Burks
Little Rock Eye Clinic
Joseph G. Chacko
UAMS Health
Romona L. Davis
UAMS Health
Monica Hall
Little Rock Eye Clinic
Christian Hester
Little Rock Eye Clinic
R. Grant Morshedi
Little Rock Eye Clinic
Edward Penick III
Paul Phillips
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Severin Pouly
Little Rock Eye Clinic
Sami Uwaydat
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Monica Verma
David B. Warner
UAMS Health
Byron Wilkes
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Hugh Burnett
Orthopedic Surgery
Troy Ardoin
OrthoArkansas
C. Lowry Barnes
UAMS Health
Paul Edwards
Arkansas Surgical Hospital
Eric Gordon
OrthoArkansas
Samuel Moore
Arkansas Surgical Hospital
Gordon Newbern
OrthoArkansas
Adam Norwood
Jeffrey B. Stambough
UAMS Health
Orthopedics
Jesse Abeler
Arkansas Surgical Hospital
Michael Hussey
OrthoArkansas
Kenneth Martin
Arkansas Surgical Hospital / Martin Orthopedics
Corey Montgomery
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Larry Nguyen
Arkansas Surgical Hospital
Kirk Reynolds
OrthoArkansas
P. Allan Smith
OrthoArkansas
Otolaryngology
Jennings Russell Boyette
UAMS Health
David Cash
Chris Colclasure
Arkansas Otolaryngology Center
Edward Gardner
H. Graves Hearnsberger III
Anvesh R. Kompelli
UAMS Health
Mauricio A. Moreno
UAMS Health
William A. Rolston IV
Jumin Sunde
UAMS Health
Ozlem E. Tulunay Ugur
UAMS Health
Emre A. Vural
UAMS Health
Adrian Williamson
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pain Management
Drew Beasley
OrthoArkansas
Andrew “Gunter” Cain
OrthoArkansas
Gary Frankowski
OrthoArkansas
Johnathan H. Goree
UAMS Health
G. Lawson Smith
UAMS Health
Pathology
Melody K. Harrison
Pathology Laboratories of Arkansas
Eric Rosenbaum
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Sara Shalin
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Allergy Immunology
Tamara Perry
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Robert Pesek
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Amy Scurlock
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Cardiology
Brian Eble
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Kenneth Knecht
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Dermatology
Megan Evans
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Jay Kincannon
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Endocrinology
Jon Oden
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Travis Ayers
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Hospitalist
Rebecca Cantu
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Sara Sanders
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Brittany Slagle
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Orthopedics & Orthopedic Surgery
Robert Blasier
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Matthew Landrum
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Brien Rabenhorst
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Brant Sachleben
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Scott Schoenleber
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Otolaryngology
Larry Hartzell
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Adam Johnson
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Abby Nolder
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Gresham Richter
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Andre Wineland
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatric Surgery
Jeffrey Burford
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Sid Dassinger
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Richard Jackson
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Robert Maxson
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Deidre Wyrick
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Pediatrics General
Emily Barnes
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Natalie Burr
Little Rock Pediatric Clinic
Induja Gunasekaran
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Joshua Lyon
Joshua O’Neill
Little Rock Pediatric Clinic
Sowmya Patil
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Rebecca Perin
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Catherine Robben
Little Rock Pediatric Clinic
Chad Rodgers
Little Rock Pediatric Clinic
Aaron Strong
Little Rock Pediatric Clinic
September Westbrook
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Rodrigo Cayme
OrthoArkansas
Laura Hobart-Porter
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Sarah V. Hunton
UAMS Health
Thomas Scott Kiser
Rani H. Lindberg
UAMS Health
Stephen Paulus
OrthoArkansas
Jamie C. Pinto
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Keith G. Wolter
UAMS Health
Eric Wright
Wright Plastic Surgery & Med Spa
Zachary Young
Arkansas Plastic Surgery
James Yuen
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Podiatry
Jesse Burks
Arkansas Surgical Hospital
Terri R. Cohen
UAMS Health
Megan Herring
Naval Patel
Psychiatry
Robert Jarvis
Charles Jenson
Baptist Health
Duong Nguyen
Taylor Pahls
Baptist Health
Shona L. Ray-Griffith
UAMS Health
Natasha Sra
Jessica Stovall
Abeer Washington
Hannah H. Williams
UAMS Health
Pulmonology
Eyad Abochale
William T. Atchley
UAMS Health
Nathan Hill
Jason B. Holder
CHI St. Vincent
Cidney S. Hulett
Adil Imran
CHI St. Vincent
Supriya Jambhekar
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Krishna Kakkera
CHI St. Vincent – Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic
Emily G. Kocurek
UAMS Health
Nikhil Kumar Meena
UAMS Health
Radiation Oncology
Xiang Gao
CARTI
Matthew E. Hardee
CARTI
Sanjay Maraboyina
UAMS Health
Michael May
CARTI
Jonathan Pagan
CARTI
Christopher C. Ross
CARTI
Radiology
Claire B. Beaumont
Gwendolyn M. Bryant-Smith
UAMS Health
Ryan Fitzgerald
David Hays
CARTI
James C. Meek
UAMS Health
Mollie Meek
Arkansas Urology
Donald B. Norwood
CARTI
Roopa Ram
UAMS Medical Center
Raghu Ramakrishnaiah
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Kenneth V. Robbins
Reproductive Endocrinology
Dean M. Moutos
Arkansas Fertility & Gynecology
Rheumatology
Tamer Alsebai
CHI St. Vincent
Cummins Lue
CHI St. Vincent
Spinal Surgery
Wayne L. Bruffett
UAMS Health
David Bumpass
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Ikemefuna Onyekwelu
OrthoArkansas
Justin Seale
OrthoArkansas
Jason Smith
OrthoArkansas
Sports Medicine
Michael Israel
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Jonathan Wyatt
OrthoArkansas
Surgical Oncology
J. Camilo Barreto
CARTI
Jerri S. Fant
CARTI
Sonia T. Orcutt
UAMS Health
John R. Sims
CARTI
Scott J. Stern
CARTI
Urogynecology
Sallie Oliphant
UAMS Health
Urology
John Paul Brizzolara
CARTI
Gerald Heulitt
Arkansas Urology
Ronald Kuhn
CARTI
Timothy D. Langford
UAMS Health
Keith Mooney
CARTI
Ashay Patel
Arkansas Children’s / UAMS Health
Ismael Zamilpa
Arkansas Children’s
Vascular Surgery
Kalenda Kasangana
Kyla Shelton
Christian Simmons
Lauren M. Story-Hefta
UAMS Health
Top Docs List Methodology & Disclaimers
DataJoe Research is a software and research company specializing in data collection and verification, and conducts various nominations across the U.S. on behalf of publishers. To create the “top doctors” list, DataJoe Research facilitated an online peer-nomination process, also referencing government sources. In addition, DataJoe often conducts media analysis through internet research to factor in public perception. DataJoe then tallied the nominations per category for each doctor to isolate the top nominees in each category. After collecting nominations and factoring additional information from the media analysis, DataJoe checked and confirmed that each published winner had a current, active license status with the state regulatory board. If we were not able to find evidence of a doctor’s current, active registration with the state regulatory board, that doctor was excluded from the list. In addition, any doctor who has been disciplined, up to the time frame of our review process for an infraction by the state regulatory board, was excluded from the list. Finally, DataJoe presented the tallied result to the magazine staff for final review and adjustments.
Final note. We recognize that there are many good doctors who are not shown in this representative list. This is only a sampling of the huge array of talented professionals within the region. Inclusion in the list is based on the opinions of responding doctors in the region and the results of our research campaign. We take time and energy to ensure fair voting, although we understand that the results of this survey nomination are not an objective metric. We certainly do not discount the fact that many, many good and effective doctors may not appear on the list.
Disclaimers. DataJoe uses best practices and exercises great care in assembling content for this list.
DataJoe does not warrant that the data contained within the list are complete or accurate. DataJoe does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any liability to any person for any loss damage caused by errors or omissions herein whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. All rights reserved. No commercial use of the information in this list may be made without written permission from DataJoe.
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