How we did it: D Magazine mailed a letter to nearly 6,000 local doctors, encouraging them to visit www.dmagazine.com to cast their votes for the Best Doctors in Dallas. In our confidential online poll, we asked them to name two physicians they would send their patients or loved ones to in 40 specialties. Only those with a valid Texas medical license were eligible.
An outside marketing firm tallied the results, and a panel of esteemed local physicians reviewed the list prior to publication. This list is designed with the patient in mind; therefore, under the guidance of the panel, we did not include specialties in which the patient has little or no say, such as anesthesiology or pathology. Nor did we include pediatrics, which is vast enough to warrant its own feature story (last published in July 2004). We also admit that these specialties are broad in some instances. This list is extensive but by no means inclusive. If you don’t see your doctor on the list, and it is someone you like and trust, you should stick with him.
ALLERGY/IMMUNOLOGY
Elliot Ginchansky
Gary Gross
Rebecca Gruchalla
David Khan
Jane Lee
William Lumry
MIchael Ruff
Robert Sugerman
Richard Wasserman
Leslie Weisberg
BARIATRIC SURGERY
James Davidson
Stephen V. Hamn
Nirmal Jayaseelan
Todd McCarty
David Provost
Dirk Rodriguez
BREAST SURGERY
Peter Beitsch
W. Lee Bourland
Lynn Canavan
Edward J. Clifford
David Euhus
Archana Ganaraj
Michael Grant
David Hampe
Sally Knox
Alison Laidley
Ann Marilyn Leitch
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Allan Anderson
Thomas C. Andrews
Azam Anwar
Martin Berk
James Boehrer
Melissa Carry
Tony Das
Cara East
Charles Gottlich
Srinivas Gunukula
John F. Harper
Kenneth Johnson
Darryl L. Kawalsky
Charles Levin
David Levine
Steven L. Meyer
David Rawitscher
J. Rosenthal
Kenneth Saland
Rick Snyder
Jack Spitzberg
Robert Stoler
John L. Tan
Ravi Vallabhan
John Warner
Samuel Woolbert
Clyde W. Yancy
CARDIOVASCULAR/THORACIC SURGERY
Richard T. Bowman
Eric Chang-Tung
Todd M. Dewey
David Fosdick
Baron Hamman
Robert Hebeler
A. Carl Henry
John Jay
Michael Jessen
William Jones
Michael J. Mack
Mitchell J. Magee
Greg Matter
Dan Meyer
David O. Moore
Melvin Platt
W. Steves Ring
William H. Ryan III
COLON/RECTAL SURGERY
Dale D. Burleson
Robert Cloud
Randy W. Crim
R.D. Dignan
J. Marcus Downs
Erik Fetner
Philip J. Huber Jr.
Jefferson Bennett Hurley
Salim Jabbour
Robert Jacobson
Warren Lichliter
Anthony Macaluso Jr.
Narinder K. Monga
Clark Odom
Todd A. Odom
Don R. Read
Clifford L. Simmang
Paitoon Tulanon
COSMETIC/RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Gregg M. Anigian
Fritz Barton
Benjamin Bassichis
A. Jay Burns
Frederick J. Duffy Jr.
Ronald M. Friedman
Fred L. Hackney
Patrick Hodges
Kent Hughes
Jeffery Krueger
Hamlet Newsom
Scott Oishi
Paul G. Pin
Bryan H. Pruitt
Rod Rohrich
Denton Watumull
Steven J. White
Natan Yaker
DERMATOLOGY
Jennifer Cather
Cynthia O. Clegg
Lucius Cook
Melissa Costner
Chris Crawford
James Herndon
Peter Hino
Karen Houpt
Mary E. Hurley
Karen Lund
Alan Menter
Jerold Michaelson
Amit Pandya
Laura Sears
Allison Singer
Jerald Sklar
Lori Stetler
Mark Thieberg
Daniel Witheiler
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Sean Black
Compton Broders III
Matthew Bush
Michael Fawcett
Lawrence Hum
Joe Meier
Terry Noah
William Norcross
Dighton Packard
Paul Pepe
David Pillow
Louis Portera
Roy L. Rea
Robert Simonson
Mark Till
ENDOCRINOLOGY
Stephen Aronoff
Howard Baum
Zaven Chakmakjian
Steven Dorfman
William Fears
David Feinstein
Priscilla Hollander
Jonathan Leffert
Audrey Miklius
Emilia M. Popa
Philip Raskin
Julio Rosenstock
Richard Sachson
Mitchell Sorsby
Raphaelle Vallera
FAMILY PRACTICE
J. Mark Anderson
Leonard M. Behr
Dana A. Bleakney
David Brehm
Robert A. Cook
Carl Couch
Christopher C. Crow
Guy L. Culpepper
Clifford Fullerton
Sander Gothard
Perry E. Gross
Bruce B. Henry
Richard A. Honaker
Ansuya Kumar
Lawrence McNally
John R. Morgan
Dale Ragle
Shelley Roaten
Cynthia Shughrue
Douglas Stafford
Richard P. Townsend
Sara Tranchina
Jaime Vasquez
William J. Walton
Judith Werner
GASTROENTEROLOGY
Paul Anderson
Sally Brooks
Blair Conner
Daniel DeMarco
Osvaldo Fajardo
Markus Goldschmiedt
Andrew Gottesman
John Hamilton
Greg Hodges
Gerald Isbell
Rajeev Jain
Katherine Little
Peter Loeb
Willis Maddrey
Michael Nunez
Kimberly Persley
Charles Richardson
Thomas Rogoff
Allen W. Rubin
John Secor
William Stevens
Paul Tarnasky
GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
Amy Anderson
Ann Arnold
Phillip Aronoff
Paul Cary
Donna Casey
Lisa Clark
Carol Croft
William Downs
Theresa Eichenwald
Susan Irene Fesmire
Robert L. Fine
Mark Fleschler
Dirk Frater
Robert Harris Jr.
Gary Hoss
William Howard
Mitchell Huebner
Muhammad Khan
Steve Lau
Steven Leach
Paul Madeley
Hugh McClung
Jack Melton
Jeb Miers
J. Shaun Murphy
Paul Neubach
Stuart Owen
Jeff Phillips
Gary Reed
Weldon Smith
Jay Teng
L. Ray Teng
Gary Tigges
Martin True
Paul Wade
Rick Waldo
F. David Winter
Randall Wooley
GENERAL SURGERY
Richard S. Anderson
David Arnold
Ronald Aronoff
Ernest Beecherl
John Cottey
Howard Derrick
Brian Gogel
Robert M. Hagood
William Kantor
Andres U. Katz
Martin L. Koonsman
Joseph A. Kuhn
Ward Lane
Zelig Lieberman
John Preskitt
Robert V. Rege
Charles Rubey
George Shires
Bruce Smith
Stacy Stratmann
Walton Taylor
Matthew Westmoreland
John Winter
GERIATRICS
Mitch Carroll
Mary Hammack
Ziad Haydar
Mary Norman
Vivyenne Roche
Craig Rubin
Dorothy Sherwood
Belinda Vicioso
Wilson Weatherford
GYNECOLOGY/OBSTETRICS
Sharon Bakos
John Bertrand
David M. Bookout
Karen Bradshaw
Julian Carter
Donald J. Coney
Tara Dullye
Walter F. Evans
Ted Fogwell
Jennifer Freeman
Deborah A. Fuller
Jan Goss
Robert Gunby
Julie M. Hagood
Steven Harris
Eugene Hunt
Richard J. Joseph
Patricia Ann LaRue
Ann E. Lutich
Jane E. Nokleberg
Frank E. Oliver
James K. Richards
Amy G. Sigman
A. Jay Staub
Mayra Thompson
Kim Vernon
Kathryn Waldrep
GYNECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY
Steven Bernstein
Bruce Fine
Sam Lifshitz
Carolyn Matthews
Alan Munoz
John Schorge
David Scott Miller
Allen Stringer
HAND SURGERY
Jay Boulas
Arnold V. DiBella
Michael Doyle
Paul R. Ellis III
Hugh A. “Bo” Frederick
Earl Lund
Kimberly Mezera
Timothy Schacherer
Purcell Smith III
W. Dennis Stripling
David J. Zehr
HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Robert B. Berryman
Barry Brooks
Robert Collins
Barry Cooper
Dennis J. Costa
John Cox
Claude Denham
Eugene Frenkel
Susan C. Guba
Manish Gupta
Barbara Haley
Sherron Helms
Houston Holmes
Jaya Juturi
Ronald Kerr
Robert Kirby
Barry Levinson
Kristi McIntyre
Robert Mennel
Joyce O’Shaughnessy
Michael H. Park
Steve Perkins
John Pippen
Cynthia Rutherford
Michael Savin
Gabriel A. Shapiro
Jivesh Sharma
Scott Stone
James Strauss
Charles White
Lalan Wilfong
HEPATOLOGY
Gary L. Davis
Reem H. Ghalib
William Lee
Rita Lepe
Jeffrey Weinstein
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
David Allen
Nicholaos C. Bellos
Steven G. Davis
Edward Goodman
Howard Kussman
Allison Liddell
James Luby
Perry Glenn Pate
Bonnie Rawot
Steve Seidenfeld
Louis M. Sloan
William L. Sutker
Gebre Tseggay
INFERTILITY
Samuel J. Chantilis
Brian Cohen
James W. Douglas
Karen L. Lee
James Madden
Samuel P. Marynick
J. Michael Putman
Alfred J. Rodriguez
Ellen Wilson
NEPHROLOGY/HYPERTENSION
Jose Castillo-Lugo
Robert Farkas
Andrew Fenves
Steven Hays
Judson Hunt
Freda Levy
Venkata Ram
Steve Rinner
Russell Silverstein
Jeffrey R. Thompson
Robert Toto
Ruben Velez
Ronald Victor
Bruce Wall
Michael Wiederkehr
NEUROLOGY
Stuart Black
Erwin Cruz
Elliot Frohman
Steven P. Herzog
Richard Hinton
Daniel Hopson
Paul W. Hurd
Bruce N. Jenevein
Lise A. Labiche
Herbert Leiman
Ellen Marder
Alan W. Martin
Norma Melamed
Pedro Nosnik
Malcolm Stewart
Duc Tran
Anna Tseng
Gary L. Tunell
Worthy Warnack
Gil Wolfe
William Woodfin
NEUROSURGERY
David Barnett
J. Michael Desaloms
Bala K. Giri
William Hudgins
Richard H. Jackson
Jon A. Krumerman
Martin Lazar
Jerry Marlin
Chris Michael
Bruce Mickey
Luis A. Mignucci
James A. Moody
Brent C. Morgan
Howard Morgan
Duke Samson
John R. Tompkins
Richard L. Weiner
Jonathan White
OPHTHALMOLOGY/LASIK
William Boothe
Wayne Bowman
Dwight Cavanagh
Ronald L. Fellman
Dwain Fuller
Henry Gelender
W. Stephen Ku
James McCulley
James H. Merritt
Michael Milner
Gordon H. Newman
Karen Bassichis Saland
Norman Slusher
Craig Smith
Larry R. Taub
Robert Tenery
Gary R. Tylock
Barry Uhr
Jeffrey Whitman
Shelby A. Wyll
ORGAN TRANSPLANT SURGERY
Stephen S. Cheng
Ingemar Davidson
Richard M. Dickerman
Robert Goldstein
Goran Klintmalm
Marlon Levy
William Ring
ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
Antonio Arazoza
F. Alan Barber
Phil Berry
James W. Brodsky
Wayne Burkhead
Michael Champine
Daniel E. Cooper
Richard Guyer
Carl L. Highgenboten
Shelton G. Hopkins
Richard E. Jones
Michael M. Katz
Gerhard Maale
Joseph W. McNutt
James Montgomery
Scott Paschal
Paul Peters
John Racanelli
Kurt Rathjen
Charles Reinert
Charles S. Rutherford
Robert Scheinberg
Richard Schubert
Michael M. Taba
Roger Z. Taylor
Randal L. Troop
Douglas R. Turgeon
OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Ford Albritton IV
Evan S. Bates
Robert Bonham
Gretchen Champion
William Cobb
Daniel Dansby
Bradford A. Gamble
John R. Gilmore
Gary Goldsmith
Mark Hardin
Wayne R. Kirkham
Michael Kronenberger
Stephen Landers
Brad Marple
Presley M. Mock
Rajiv Pandit
Robert Peters
Gregory R. Rohn
Peter Roland
Barbara Schultz
Timothy Trone
John Truelson
Ewen Tseng
Lawrence Weprin
PAIN MANAGEMENT
Neil J. Atlin
Robert Bulger
Howard Cohen
Carl Noe
Kenneth Reed
Renaud Rodrigue
Edward T. Shin
Kelly Will
PHYSICAL MEDICINE
Mary Carlile
Ana Freed-Sigurdsson
James Garrison
Karen Kowalske
Nayan Patel
Arvind Peddada
Radie F. Perry
Amy Wilson
PODIATRY
Roy W. Ashton
Leon R. Brill
Joel W. Brook
Carl Solomon
Peter B. Wood
PSYCHIATRY
Trina Bivens
Michael Brennan
David Crumpacker
Joel Holiner
David I. Kabel
Edgar Nace
Daniel Pearson
Michael Rosenthal
Gerald Schneider
Leslie Secrest
David Tyler
Stephen Vobach
PULMONARY DISEASE
Kenneth Ausloos
Arturo Aviles
Robert D. Black
Julye Carew
Timothy Chappell
John E. Fitzgerald
Carlos Girod
John Hughes
David Luterman
Mark Millard
Howard Mintz
Randall Rosenblatt
Wyatt Rousseau
Allan Shulkin
Joseph Viroslav
Juliette Wait
Kenney Weinmeister
Gary Weinstein
RADIOLOGY
Joseph Chan
Evan Cohn
William Dittman
Paul Ellenbogen
Mark Fulmer
Murray Gordon
Joseph Hise
Lisa Martinez
Herschel S. Peake Jr.
Tom Postma
Cynthia Sherry
Michael Smerud
Crys Sory
William Waters
RHEUMATOLOGY
Alan L. Brodsky
Don Cheatum
Stanley B. Cohen
John Cush
Eric Hurd
Alex Limanni
Richard Merriman
Dianne Petrone
Jessica Procter
Guillermo Andres Quiceno
Jack Vine
Scott Zashin
SLEEP MEDICINE
Phillip Becker
John Debus
J.H. Harvey
Andrew Jamieson
Margaret E. Mike
Leon Rosenthal
Wolfgang Schmidt-Nowara
SPINAL SURGERY
Charles Banta
Scott Blumenthal
Craig C. Callewart
Andrew Dossett
Kevin Gill
John Peloza
Robert G. Viere
UROLOGY
Mark L. Allen
Jeffrey Cadeddu
James Cochran
Brian A. Feagins
Joshua Fine
Steve M. Frost
Pat Fulgham
Michael Goldstein
Michael Gross
Michael Gruber
Keith Kadesky
Gary Lemack
Stephen J. Lieman
Meredith Lightfoot
R. Carrington Mason
John McConnell
Donald McKay
Mitchell Moskowitz
William Mulchin
Mark Norris
Margaret Pearle
Claus Roehrborn
Arthur Sagalowsky
Robert C. Schoenvogel
Nabeel Syed
Matthew Wilner
VASCULAR SURGERY
Patrick Clagett
Dennis Gable
Wilson Garrett
Brad Grimsley
Humam Kakish
Andres Katz
Kenneth R. Kollmeyer
Ward Lane
Gregory Pearl
Todd Spencer
William Shutze
Bertram Smith
Edic Stephanian
James Valentine
Jay Vasquez Jr.
The Dallas Medical Hall of FameLast year, D Magazine selected five legends of the medical community as charter member of the Dallas Medical Hall of Fame. Drs. Charles M. Rosser, Edgar H. Cary, William Beall Carrell, Donald W. Seldin, and Charles C. Sprague were catalysts of greatness, the people who founded and advanced the medical facilities and provided the essential opportunities for education and experimentation. Their works helped pave the way for the world-class medical services in Dallas that we count on today.
This year we induct three more eminent representatives from the medical community of Dallas’ past, each of whom Wts Wrmly into the mold of greatness. These doctors introduced specialties and techniques that we now take for granted. Without them, medical care in Dallas would not be where it is today.
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Robert L. Moore, M.D.
It was a difficult time to become a pediatrician. When Dr. Moore joined his father, Dr. Hugh Leslie Moore, in pediatric practice in Dallas in 1934, the city was in the throes of the Great Depression. Medical services for the poor were limited, and most of the people were poor. Public attitudes were affected by displays such as one Moore remembered in 1936, when the Texas Centennial Exposition presented an “Incubator Baby Exhibit” featuring premature babies volunteered for public display by local parents who could not otherwise afford the expense of such care. He did what he could to bring changes; he was one of the first physicians in Texas to use sulfa drugs in the late 1930s and penicillin in the early 1940s, offering these life-saving drugs to rich and poor alike.
Moore grew up in Van Alstyne, Texas. He inherited his calling in life from his father, who was the first doctor in Texas to specialize in children’s diseases. The younger Moore graduated from Yale University and then earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. After serving residencies at Johns Hopkins and at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, he returned to Dallas to join his father, who had moved here from Van Alstyne, in pediatric practice. He had a propensity for absorbing a vast amount of knowledge in his profession and a natural inclination to share it with others. He joined the teaching staff at Baylor School of Medicine and later at the predecessor to UT Southwestern.
During World War II, Moore served as officer in charge of the pediatric unit at Fort Worth Air Base and was later named chief of staff at Bradford Memorial Hospital for Babies, which merged with two other such operations to become Children’s Medical Center. He was a driving force behind the construction and development of Children’s Medical Center, which has since grown to become one the nation’s premier providers of medical services for children. A visionary, Moore has been called the dean of Dallas pediatrics.
“He was the paradigm of what a physician should be,” says Dr. Charles Ginsburg, who for years was chairman of the pediatrics department at UT Southwestern and chief of staff at Children’s Medical Center. “He was totally committed to the melding of private practice with academics.” Ginsburg remembers Moore as friendly and positive, somewhat laconic, with a subtle sense of humor—not the back-slapper type. “He was just a fabulous man.” He died in 1993.
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Harry Metcalfe Spence, M.D.
Dr. Donald W. Seldin, a charter member of the Dallas Medical Hall of Fame and chairman of the UT Southwestern Department of Internal Medicine for many years, calls Dr. Spence “a towering figure,” referring to his standing and reputation in the annals of Dallas medicine. Spence played a leading role in the founding and development of the specialty of urology in Texas.
Born in San Angelo in 1905 and later moving to Fort Worth with his family, he attended the University of Illinois and then graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School. After serving a residency in urology at Massachusetts General Hospital, he returned to Texas by way of a stopover in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and in 1936 joined a urology practice at the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic. He served in the Navy during WWII, seeing action in the South Pacific. When he returned to Dallas, he was instrumental in organizing the Society of Pediatric Urology for the purpose of blending the expertise of the overworked older specialists who had remained on the home front with the energetic but inexperienced contingent of would-be specialists returning from the war.
Spence, who had taught at Baylor College of Medicine before it moved to Houston during the war, joined the urology department at UT Southwestern Medical School in 1946. In the 1950s, he was appointed the first chairman of the division of urology, where he developed one of the nation’s best balanced programs of clinical training and research. Dr. John McConnell, himself later chairman of urology at UT Southwestern, remembers Spence as both a stern taskmaster and a nurturing mentor who became world-renowned for his expertise in the development and presentation of educational conferences. His approach, which included putting physicians on the spot in front of their colleagues, became known as the “Spence technique.” McConnell says that Spence was also one of the founding fathers of the field of pediatric urology and that several operational procedures that he developed are still referred to as the “Spence procedure.”
All this time, Spence continued his full-time practice at Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic, also serving a five-year stint as chief of urology at Baylor University Medical Center. He regularly would be seen making the rounds at Parkland Hospital at 4:30 in the morning before going to work for the day. He retired in 1985 at the age of 80 and died in 1994.
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Marion Thomas Jenkins, M.D.
But that’s not what people called him. A boyhood nickname stuck with him, and throughout his professional career he was commonly known as Dr. “Pepper” Jenkins. He was born in 1917 into a family of physicians in the East Texas town of Hughes Springs; his father and seven uncles were all doctors. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1936 and from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston four years later. After interning in Kansas and at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Jenkins served as a Navy doctor and then in 1946 as a resident surgeon at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He might have stayed in surgery, but a senior surgeon at Parkland said what the hospital really needed were anesthesiologists, and after studying in Boston, Jenkins returned to Parkland as chief of anesthesiology.
It was 1948, and Dallas had only one physician specializing in anesthesiology and one resident at Baylor. It was almost all handled by nurses. “There was no recovery room,” Jenkins later recalled. “In fact, there were no recovery rooms in any hospital west of the Mississippi River.” At Parkland in those days, there were separate waiting rooms just outside the suite of operating rooms for “white” and “colored.” So to make room for a recovery area, Jenkins and his head nurse removed the partition and set aside enough space for a five-bed recovery area. Soon after that, Jenkins established oxygen therapy treatment at Parkland.
Jenkins had an even greater impact on the field of anesthesiology with a revolutionary discovery. It was well-accepted all over the world that fluids could not be given to a patient during surgery. But in 1950, working with his colleagues at Southwestern Medical School treating Parkland patients, Jenkins proved this notion wrong. He found that surgical patients could be given fluids and electrolytes because it improved blood pressure and pulse rates and lessened the likelihood of the patient needing a transfusion. It took years for the idea to sink in, but the procedure is now used every day in operating rooms all over the world.
“He was first-rate,” says Dr. Seldin. Jenkins established anesthesiology as a separate department at UT Southwestern, served as president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and was the first anesthesiologist to win the American Medical Association’s Distinguished Service Award. He died in 1994.
