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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Deborah J. Carver
UVA Health University Center
Charlottesville

Dr. Thomas Cholis
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Meaghan Dominy
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Linette Ewing
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Nikki Miller Ferguson
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Christopher Foley
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Kara D. Greenfield
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. William G. Harmon Jr.
UVA Health University Medical Center
Charlottesville

Dr. Jordan Lull
UVA Health University Medical Center
Charlottesville

Dr. Mark Marinello
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Michael Miller
Pediatrix Critical Care of Virginia
Richmond

Dr. Michelle Olson
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Alia Marie Iqbal O’Meara
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Christopher Ray
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Melissa Jerdonek Sacco
UVA Health University Medical Center
Charlottesville

Dr. Chie-Youn Shih
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Heather Slusser
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Clyde Smith III
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Michael Campbell Spaeder
UVA Health University Medical Center
Charlottesville

Dr. Duane Williams
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Vascular Surgery

Dr. Francisco Albuquerque
VCU Health Pauley Heart Center
Richmond

Dr. Vishnu Ambur
Vascular Surgery Associates
Mechanicsville

Dr. Jeffrey Brown
Vascular Surgery Associates
Mechanicsville

Dr. David J. Dexter II
Sentara Vascular Specialists
Norfolk

Dr. Robert A. Larson
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Andrew E. Leake
Vascular Surgery Associates
Mechanicsville

Dr. Mark Levy
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Avik Mukherjee
Vascular Surgery Associates
Richmond

Dr. Daniel H. Newton
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Animesh Rathore
Sentara Vascular Specialists
Norfolk

Dr. Mark Scaife
Vascular Surgery Associates
Henrico County

Dr. Rasesh Shah
Sentara Vascular Specialists
Chesapeake

Dr. Samuel N. Steerman
Sentara Vascular Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. W. Andrew Tierney
Vascular Surgery Associates
Mechanicsville

Dr. Priyam K. Vyas
Sentara Vascular Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. Marc T. Warner
Vascular Surgery Associates
Midlothian

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Pediatric Infectious Disease

Dr. Jeffrey Donowitz
UVA Health Pediatric Infectious Disease
Charlottesville

Dr. Randall Fisher
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. David Friedel
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. William C. Koch
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Suzanne R. Lavoie
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. James Paul Nataro
UVA Health Pediatric Infectious Disease
Charlottesville

Dr. Laura Sass
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Linda A. Waggoner-Fountain
UVA Health Pediatric Infectious Disease
Charlottesville

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Sports Medicine

Dr. Jessalynn Adam
OrthoVirginia
Alexandria

Dr. Christopher C. Annunziata
OrthoVirginia
Arlington County

Dr. Michael S. Antonis
OrthoVirginia
Ashburn

Dr. Joel Brenner
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Mary E. Caldwell
VCU Health System
Henrico County

Dr. Seth A. Cheatham
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Douglas Cutter
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Aaron S. Ferro
OrthoVirginia
Richmond

Dr. Garry W.K. Ho
OrthoVirginia
Fairfax

Dr. Anand Kapur
Harbour View Family Practice
Suffolk

Dr. Jason M. McHugh
Virginia Orthopaedic and Spine Specialists
Suffolk

Dr. William E. Nordt III
OrthoVirginia
Richmond

Dr. David J. Novak
OrthoVirginia
Fairfax

Dr. Devesh A. Patel
Sentara Sports Medicine Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. Saunora Prom
TPMG Tidewater Sports and Osteopathic Medicine
Chesapeake

Dr. Steven G. Reece
OrthoVirginia
Richmond

Dr. Jocelyn C. Ricasa
Bon Secours Maryview Acute Rehab Unit
Portsmouth

Dr. Kinjal B. Sohagia
Hampton Roads Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
Newport News

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Pediatrics (General)

Dr. Sarah R. Boggs
UVA Health Pediatrics
Charlottesville

Dr. Michelle Brenner
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Melani de Silva
RVA Pediatrics
Richmond

Dr. Scott Eichelberger
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters – Chesapeake Pediatrics
Chesapeake

Dr. Robert Fink
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Mark Grabill
Pediatric Associates of Richmond
Richmond

Dr. Gauri Gulati
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Peter W. Heymann
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville

Dr. Kristin Hutchinson
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Virginia Beach

Dr. Tiffany N. Kimbrough
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Jeffrey Mapp
Pediatric Associates of Richmond
Richmond

Dr. Sean O. McKenna
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Linda D. Meloy
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Douglas Mitchell
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Bergen B. Nelson
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Heather R. Quillian
Northridge Pediatrics
Charlottesville

Dr. Anne M. Ranney
Northridge Pediatrics
Charlottesville

Dr. Leah Rowland
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Latonya D. Russell
Sentara Family Medicine & Pediatrics
Chesapeake

Dr. Elizabeth Catherine Schinstock
Orange Pediatrics
Orange County

Dr. Glenn C. Snyders
Sentara Pediatric Physicians
Virginia Beach

Dr. Tamara Sutherland
Pediatric Partners of Virginia
Glen Allen

Dr. Anne Marie M. Tuohy
Bon Secours Pediatrics of Mechanicsville
Mechanicsville

Dr. Niran Romesh Wijesooriya
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Elizabeth R. Wolf
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Amy L. Wrentmore
UVA Health Pediatric Primary Care Clinic
Charlottesville

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Interventional Cardiology

Dr. Nayef Antar Abouzaki
Virginia Cardiovascular Specialists – Stony Point Office
Richmond

Dr. David H. Adler
Sentara Cardiology Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. John Agola
Medical Center Radiologists
Norfolk

Dr. Ramin Alimard
Sentara Cardiology Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. Darryn L. Appleton
Virginia Cardiovascular Specialists – St. Mary’s Hospital
Henrico County

Dr. Jeremy Seth Bock
Virginia Heart
Leesburg

Dr. Arijit Chanda
Cardiology Associates of Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg

Dr. Mohsin Chowdhury
Bayview Cardiovascular Associates
Chesapeake

Dr. Richard H. Cooke
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Christopher Dobzyniak
Medical Center Radiologists
Norfolk

Dr. Zachary Gertz
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Venkat R. Iyer
Sentara Cardiology Specialists
Chesapeake

Dr. Manu Kaushik
Bon Secours – Cardiology Reynolds Crossing
Henrico County

Dr. Barbara D. Lawson
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Robert H. Levitt
Henrico Cardiology Associates
Henrico County

Dr. Ryan D. Melchior
Virginia Cardiovascular Specialists
Midlothian

Dr. George H. Mueller III
Virginia Cardiovascular Specialists
Mechanicsville

Dr. John T. Owens
Bon Secours – Cardiology St. Francis
Midlothian

Dr. Sanjay G. Shah
Sentara Cardiology Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. Harlan Vingan
Medical Center Radiologists
Norfolk

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Centra’s $600M+ capital upgrades include new hospital tower

What’s expected to be a three-year, $400 million construction project is underway at Centra General Hospital (LGH).

A new six-story tower will add 266,200 square feet to the hospital and marks the biggest portion of more than $600 million in recent capital investments by , a regional nonprofit health system serving more than 500,000 patients in Central and Southern Virginia.

“This investment will serve the region for the long term,” Centra President and CEO Richard Tugman said in a statement about the tower’s September 2025 groundbreaking.

Patient care at LGH will not be interrupted by construction of the tower, which is expected to be completed in fall 2028, Centra Health spokesperson Lauren Byrum stated via email. It’s too early to announce whether Centra will hire new providers due to the addition, according to Byrum.

Designed by Kahler Slater, a Wisconsin architecture firm with an office in Richmond, the tower will feature a new emergency department with more than 70 treatment spaces and an EmPATH Unit, a space for treating patients experiencing psychiatric crises. The tower will also offer 12 operating rooms and postsurgery patient recovery rooms.

In 2023, Centra Health launched a modernization plan that led to Lynchburg-based health system embarking on the biggest slate of capital investments in its nearly 40-year history.

Based on priorities identified during Centra’s 2021 and 2024 community health needs assessments, the plan also spawned the $100 million Centra Langhorne Center, a five-story, 130,000-square-foot medical office building that opened in December 2025. Located in Lynchburg, the center houses outpatient specialties such as pulmonology and neurosurgery.

Additionally, the modernization plan called for the creation of the $106 million Centra Simons Run Medical Campus, expected to open this spring. Located across the border of Lynchburg and Campbell County, the campus will house behavioral health and rehabilitation care services currently provided at Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital. Affiliates of Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health will manage the campus’ day-to-day operations.

Marjette Upshur, Lynchburg’s director of economic development, called Centra Health’s modernization plan “a transformational investment in Lynchburg’s health and economy.”

The new and expanded facilities “not only expand access to world-class care,” Upshur wrote in an email. “They also create hundreds of construction and health care jobs, drive local spending and [will] strengthen our city’s fiscal base for years to come.”

Associate Editor Beth JoJack contributed to this article.

Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Orthopedic Surgery

Dr. George Aguiar
OrthoVirginia
Reston

Dr. Vignesh Alamanda
OrthoVirginia
Reston

Dr. Elshaday S. Belay
OrthoVirginia
Fairfax

Dr. R. Brick Campbell
OrthoVirginia
Virginia Beach

Dr. Matthew A. Dobzyniak
Bon Secours – Tuckahoe Orthopedics
Richmond

Dr. Gregory F. Domson
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. Dustin Chase Dyer
Bon Secours Tuckahoe Orthopedics
Richmond

Dr. Gregory H. Hale
Bon Secours – Tuckahoe Orthopedics
Henrico County

Dr. Emanuel C. Haug
Sentara Martha Jefferson Orthopedics
Charlottesville

Dr. Jason R. Hull
Bon Secours – Tuckahoe Orthopedics
Richmond

Dr. Edward Lambert
OrthoVirginia
Virginia Beach

Dr. Daniel Layon
VCU Health System
Richmond

Dr. David W. Lee
OrthoVirginia
McLean

Dr. Behrang Thomas “Tom” Mazahery
OrthoVirginia
Reston

Dr. Harry J. Molligan IV
Sentara Orthopaedic Trauma Specialists
Norfolk

Dr. William Randolph Mook
OrthoVirginia
Reston

Dr. Colin A. Mudrick
Bon Secours – Tuckahoe Orthopedics
Richmond

Dr. Kevin A. Pinkos
OrthoVirginia
Chesapeake

Dr. Ryan Nexsen Robertson
OrthoVirginia
Richmond

Dr. Jeremy A. Ross
VCU Health System
Henrico County

Dr. Jibanananda Satpathy
VCU Health System
Henrico County

Dr. Julious Perry Smith III
OrthoVirginia
Richmond

Dr. Joel Stewart
Jordan-Young Institute
Virginia Beach

Dr. Kevin David Sumida
OrthoVirginia
Arlington County

Dr. Jennifer L. Vanderbeck
VCU Health Short Pump Pavilion
Henrico County

Dr. David Zuelzer
VCU Health System
Richmond

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2026: Pediatric Developmental Behavioral

Dr. Jennifer Accardo
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Kaitlin Blackard
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Beth E. Davis
UVA Health Developmental Pediatrics Clinic
Charlottesville

Dr. Christine Houlihan
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters – Health Center at Fort Norfolk
Norfolk

Dr. Anson John Koshy
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Michelle Naomi Kuperminc
Naval Center Portsmouth
Portsmouth

Dr. Rebecca J. Scharf
UVA Health Developmental Pediatrics Clinic
Charlottesville

Dr. Richard Donald Stevenson
UVA Health Developmental Pediatrics Clinic
Charlottesville

Dr. Elizabeth Myers White
Ivy Developmental Pediatrics
Charlottesville

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