Not So Lonely at the Top

Our care providers and specialists work at the top of their fields. We see the results of that work every day, in the innovative treatments they deliver, and in the kids and families who are healed under their care. And each year, we see many of them recognized in the pages of 5280 Magazine’s Top Docs issue.

They’re in good company.

This year, 5280 named 86 of our doctors as the best in metro Denver at what they do. In fact, our doctors were recognized in 89 categories. This confirms yet again that we have the strongest pediatric talent in the region. We congratulate our providers, and our entire medical staff, for the work they do day in and day out to build brighter, happier lives for Colorado kids. 

In compiling the Top Docs list, the magazine turned to Denver physicians for their opinion. For the past 24 years, 5280 has surveyed doctors and asked them, specialty by specialty, which metro-area physicians they would trust to treat themselves and their families. 

The following Children's Colorado physicians were recognized on 5280's 2019 Top Docs list:

Adolescent Medicine

• David Kaplan

• Amy Sass

• Eric Sigel

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

• Joseph Kay

• Amber Khanna

Allergy and Immunology

• Stephen Dreskin

Child Abuse Pediatrics

• Antonia Chiesa

• Andrew Sirotnak

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Beau Carubia

Clinician Genetics & Genomics

• Austin Larson

Colon & Rectal Surgery

• Jon Vogel

Complex General Surgical Oncology

• Richard Schulick

Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology

• Kenny Chan

• Jeremy Prager

Congenital Cardiac Surgery

• David Campbell

• James Jaggers

• Max Mitchell

Dermatology

• Harvey Arbuckle

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

• Sandra Friedman

• Robyn Nolan

• Ann Reynolds

Epilepsy

• Cornelia Drees

Interventional Cardiology

• John Messenger

Medical Toxicology

• Jennie Buchanan

• Christopher Hoyte

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

• Mauricio Palau

• Adam Rosenberg

Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

• Ellen Elias

• Sandra Friedman

Neurology (Special Qualifications in Child Neurology)

• Julie Parsons

• Andrew White

Neuromuscular Medicine

• Matthew Wicklund

Neurotology

• Stephen Cass

• Samuel Gubbels

Ophthalmology

• Jeffrey SooHoo

Orthopedic Sports Medicine

• Armando Vidal

Otolaryngology

• Todd Kingdom

Pediatric Anesthesiology

• Alan Bielsky

Pediatric Cardiology

• D. Dunbar Ivy

• David Miller

• Marco Pinder

• Michael Schaffer

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

• Todd Carpenter

• Claudia Kunrath
  
  
• Carol Okada

Pediatric Dermatology

• Harvey Arbuckle

• Anna Bruckner

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• Joseph Grubenhoff

Pediatric Endocrinology

• Aristides Maniatis

• Philip Zeitler

Pediatric Gastroenterology

• David Brumbaugh

• Jason Soden

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

• Lia Gore

• Brian Greffe

Pediatric Infectious Disease

• James Gaensbauer

• Kevin Messacar

• Suchitra Rao

Pediatric Nephrology

• Jens Goebel

• Danielle Soranno

Pediatric Otolaryngology

• Kenny Chan

• Jeremy Prager

Pediatric Pathology

• Jennifer Black

• Mark Lovell

Pediatric Pulmonology

• Robin Deterding

• Monica Federico

• Oren Kupfer

• Scott Sagel

Pediatric Radiology

• Brian Bagrosky

• Matthew Monson

• Lisa Niebergall

Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine

• Susan Apkon

• Joyce Oleszek

Pediatric Rheumatology

• Katharine Moore

• Jennifer Soep

Pediatric Surgery

• Denis Bensard

• Jennifer Bruny

Pediatric Transplant Hepatology

• Amy Feldman

• Michael Narkewicz

• Shikha Sundaram

Pediatric Urology

• Job Chacko

• Peter Furness, III

• Duncan Wilcox

Pediatrics

• Ana Flores

• Noah Makovsky

• Kimberly O'Hara
  
  
• Darren Zimbelman

Plastic Surgery

• Joyce Aycock

• Brooke French

• Corinne Wong

Sports Medicine

• Armando Vidal

Surgery

• Robert McIntyre, Jr.

• Richard Schulick

Surgical Critical Care

• Robert McIntyre, Jr.

Surgical Oncology

• Richard Schulick

Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

• John Mitchell

Children’s Colorado doctors also swept 14 categories, including: Adolescent Medicine; Adult Congenital Heart Disease; Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics; Neurodevelopmental Disabilities; Pediatric Cardiology; Pediatric Critical Care; Pediatric Infectious Disease; Pediatric Pathology; Pediatric Pulmonology; Pediatric Radiology; Pediatric Rheumatology; Pediatric Transplant Hepatology; Pediatric Urology and Plastic Surgery.

The doctors listed are based at Children's Hospital Colorado or have medical staff privileges. Children's Colorado's medical staff includes University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty as well as community-based providers, and we congratulate them all.