Whether you're fighting the flu or facing a cancer diagnosis, your choice in a healthcare professional is essential to living a healthy life. That's why, every few years, Nashville Lifestyles enlists the help of Castle Connolly Ltd., an independent company, to provide us with a list of the region's top medical professionals. The doctors that appear in this peer-chosen compilation represent the best that our remarkable medical community has to offer.
The 2017 Top Doctors by Specialty:
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism :
Reproductive Endocrinology
Gastroenterology Geriatric Medicine
Maternal & Fetal Medicine Pain MedicineSleep MedicineSports Medicine
Neurology & Neurological Surgery
Gynecologic OncologyMedical Oncology Radiation Oncology Ophthalmology Orthopaedic Surgery Otolaryngology Pediatric Care: Pediatric Allergy & Immunology Pediatric Cardiology Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Gastroenterology Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Pediatric Infectious Disease Pediatric Nephrology Pediatric Otolaryngology Pediatric Pulmonology Pediatric Surgery Pediatric Urology
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Radiology: Diagnostic Radiology Vascular & Interventional Radiology Nuclear Medicine
Surgery :
Colon & Rectal SurgeryGeneral SurgeryHand Surgery Thoracic & Cardiac SurgeryVascular Surgery Urology
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. is a healthcare research and information company founded in 1991 by a former medical college board chairman and president to help guide consumers to America's top doctors and top hospitals. Castle Connolly's established survey and research process, under the direction of an MD, involves many tens of thousands of physicians as well as academic medical centers, specialty hospitals and regional and community hospitals all across the nation.
Castle Connolly's physician-led team of researchers follows a rigorous screening process to select top doctors on both the national and regional levels. Its online nominations process – located at castleconnolly.com/nominations – is open to all licensed physicians in America who are able to nominate physicians in any medical specialty and in any part of the country, as well as indicate whether the nominated physicians is, in their opinion, among the best in their region in their medical specialty or among the best in the nation in their medical specialty. Careful screening of doctors' educational and professional experience is essential before final selection is made among those physicians most highly regarded by their peers. The result - we identify the top doctors in America and provide you, the consumer, with detailed information about their education, training and special expertise in our paperback guides, national and regional magazine 'Top Doctors” features and online directories.
Doctors do not and cannot pay to be selected and profiled as Castle Connolly Top Doctors.
Physicians selected for inclusion in this magazine's 'Top Doctors” feature may also appear online at castleconnolly.com, or in conjunction with other Castle Connolly Top Doctors™ databases online and/or in print.