A total of 114* Stony Brook Medicine physicians have been named “Top Doctors” on Castle Connolly Top Doctors 2025 list. The list includes full-time doctors from Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, across 49 different specialties. The “Top Doctors” list represents the top 7% of physicians in the U.S., and the top 7% of New York area physicians.
The annual “Top Doctors” list for the New York metro area is based on peer-reviewed surveys from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York-based research and information company. Each year, Castle Connolly surveys tens of thousands of practicing physicians across the US to ensure its list reflects the latest in quality care on both the national and regional levels. The company evaluates several criteria when selecting Top Doctors, including professional qualifications, education, hospital and faculty appointments, research leadership, professional reputation and disciplinary history. Through Castle Connolly’s research process, only 70,000 board-certified physicians out of 997,000 board-certified practicing doctors in the United States (7 percent) have been awarded Top Doctor status.
Castle Connolly “Top Doctors”
Adolescent Medicine
Allergy and Immunology
Anesthesiology
Dr. Christine Cokinos
Dr. Ana Costa
Dr. Zvi Jacob
Dr. Daryn Moller
Dr. Eleanor Romano
Dr. Syed Y. Shah
Dr. Eric Zabirowicz
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Dr. Roger Fan
Dr. Eric J. Rashba
Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Emanuel Demetrios Chryssos
Dr. Grace Chung
Dr. Lev Lubarsky
Dr. Hal A. Skopicki
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Dermatology
Dr. Tara Lynn KaufmannDr. Katherine Siamas
Diagnostic Radiology
Dr. Avraham Bluestone
Dr. Kathleen C. Finzel
Dr. Elaine S. Gould
Dr. Seth O. Mankes
Dr. Pablo R. Ros
Emergency Medicine
Dr. Eric Morley
Dr. Adam Singer
Dr. Brian Wright
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Dr. Alan Chang
Dr. Marina Charitou
Dr. Marie Gelato
Dr. Alan Goldenberg
Dr. Carolyn Maxwell
Family Medicine
Dr. Alex M. Aponte
Dr. Ghazal Sinha
Gastroenterology
Dr. Olga C. Aroniadis
Dr. Lionel S. D'Souza
Dr. Farah Monzur
Geriatric Medicine
Dr. Jennifer Hensley
Dr. Kimberly Kranz
Dr. Catherine Nicastri
Gynecologic Oncology
Hand Surgery
Dr. Anne Marie Meo
Dr. Samantha I. Muhlrad
Hematology
Internal Medicine
Dr. Alexea Gaffney-Adams
Dr. David Goodrich
Dr. Donna Heinemann
Dr. Diane Klein-Ritter
Dr. Susan Y. Lee
Dr. Patricia G. Ng
Dr. Mandeep K. Patel
Dr. Grace E. Reina
Dr. Lloyd D. Simon
Dr. Tracey Spinnato
Dr. William A. Wertheim
Dr. Xiaolei Zhu
Maternal and Fetal Medicine
Dr. Cecilia Avila
Dr. James Bernasko
Medical Oncology
Dr. Dipen Patel
Nephrology
Dr. Farah Daccueil
Dr. Heesuck Suh
Neurology
Neuroradiology
Dr. David J. Fiorella
Dr. Robert Peyster
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Constantine Bakas
Dr. David A. Baker
Dr. Todd R. Griffin
Dr. Pedro R. Segarra
Ophthalmology
Dr. Robert Honkanen
Dr. Gideon L. Schneck
Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Nicholas Divaris
Dr. Sandra J. Iannotti
Dr. Fazel Khan
Dr. Stephen A. Kottmeier
Dr. James Penna
Dr. Steven P. Sampson
Dr. Edward D. Wang
Pathology
Dr. Jela Bandovic
Dr. Kenneth R. Shroyer
Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. Ken-Michael Bayle
Dr. Stuart M. Holzer
Dr. Peter Morelli
Dr. Laurie E. Panesar
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dr. Keith John Breglio
Dr. Anupama Chawla
Pediatrics General
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Dr. Christy Beneri
Dr. Sharon A. Nachman
Pediatric Neurology
Pediatric Pulmonology
Pediatric Rheumatology
Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Kenneth W. Gow
Dr. Richard J. Scriven
Pediatric Urology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Psychiatry
Pulmonary Disease
Radiation Oncology
Rheumatology
Dr. Asha Patnaik
Dr. Saika Sharmeen
Surgery
Dr. Brian J. O'Hea
Dr. Daniel Rutigliano
Surgical Oncology
Dr. Sherif R. Abdel-Misih
Dr. Aaron R. Sasson
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Urogynecology/Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
Urology
Dr. Howard L. Adler
Dr. Frank Darras
Dr. Jason Kim
Vascular Surgery
*As of April 2025