A Top Hospital, In a Top City, With Top People

The Colorado Springs community continues to recognize what we have all come to know. We aren’t just a top children’s hospital because of our new building. What makes Children’s Colorado, Colorado Springs truly special is the people who work here. And year after year, they are recognized as the very best at what they do.

This year, our doctors earned unprecedented accolades from their peers when Colorado Springs Style Magazine published 33 Children's Colorado doctors in their "Top Docs" list. Our doctors also swept eight of the nine pediatric-only specialties.

About Colorado Springs' top doctors 

Each year, Colorado Springs Style magazine surveys doctors in the El Paso County Medical Society to learn who they would recommend if they or a family member needed care. The following Children's Colorado physicians were recognized in the 2019 “Top Docs” list.

We congratulate them all.

Allergy and immunology

• Eric Caplan, MD

Anesthesiology medicine

• Daniel Balch, MD

Aesthetic medicine

• Elizabeth Piantanida, MD

Critical care surgery

• Thomas Schroeppel, MD

General surgery

• Tiffany Willard, MD
• Keyan Riley, MD

Hand surgery

• Dale Cassidy, MD
• Jeffry Watson, MD
• Karl Larsen, MD

Pediatric anesthesiology

• Grant Young, MD
• Matthew Petrie, MD

Foot, ankle surgery

• John Shank, MD

Neurological surgery

• John McVicker, MD

Ophthalmology

• Matthew Chang, MD
• Ron Pelton, MD
• Scott Smetana, MD

Oral & maxillofacial surgery

• Matthew D'Addario, DDS

Pathology, anatomic and clinical

• Cory Dunn, MD

Pediatric cardiology

• Robert Greensides, MD
• Martin Runciman, MD

Pediatric gastroenterology

• Christine Waasdorp-Hurtado, MD

Pediatric neurosurgery

• Thomas Ridder, MD

Pediatric ophthalmology

• Dave Lee, MD
• Ellen Miller, MD

Pediatric orthopedic surgery

• Brian Shaw, MD

Pediatric radiology

• Karim Hruska, MD

Pediatric surgery

• David Bliss, MD
• John Bealer, MD

Pediatrics

• Kerri Bagnall, MD
• Shabnum Matthews-Vu, MD 

Plastic surgery

• Frederic Deleyiannis, MD

Sports medicine

• Derek Purcell, MD

Total joint replacement

• James Duffey, MD