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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2025: Orthopedics

Dr. Romney Christian Andersen
Riverside Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Specialists
Newport News

Dr. Steven C. Blasdell
Virginia Orthopaedic and Spine Specialists
Portsmouth

Dr. Kevin F. Bonner
Jordan-Young Institute
Virginia Beach

Dr. Anthony T. Carter
Hampton Roads Orthopaedics Spine & Sports Medicine
Newport News

Dr. Stephen H. Cummings
TPMG Orthopedics
Newport News

Dr. David Randall Diduch
UVA Health – Sports Medicine Clinic
Charlottesville

Dr. Lawrence E. Donato Jr.
Atlantic Orthopaedic Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. James E. Dowd
Jordan-Young Institute
Virginia Beach

Dr. Gregory J. Golladay
VCU Health – Stony Point 9000
Richmond

Dr. Justin W. Griffin
Justin W. Griffin, M.D.
Virginia Beach

Dr. Boyd W. Haynes III
Orthopaedic and Spine Center of Newport News
Newport News

Dr. Daniel T. Huttman
Virginia Orthopaedic and Spine Specialists
Suffolk

Dr. Mark M. Jones
OrthoVirginia
Richmond

Dr. Subir S. Jossan
The Centers for Advanced Orthopaedics
Manassas

Dr. Stephen L. Kates
VCU Health – Adult Outpatient Pavilion
Richmond

Dr. Ernesto Luciano-Perez
Virginia Orthopaedic and Spine Specialists
Suffolk

Dr. Aaron L. Marlow
Virginia Orthopaedic & Spine Specialists
Portsmouth

Dr. Joseph T. Moskal
Carilion Clinic Orthopaedic Surgery –
Roanoke

Dr. William E. Nordt III
OrthoVirginia
Richmond

Dr. Derek H. Ochiai
Nirschl Orthopaedic Center
Arlington County

Dr. Joseph S. Park
UVA Health – Foot and Ankle Clinic
Charlottesville

Dr. David W. Romness
OrthoVirginia
Arlington County

Dr. Seth J. Schweitzer
Orthopaedics at Southpark Medical Center
Colonial Heights

Dr. Scott Vantre
Virginia Foot & Ankle Center
Richmond

Dr. Emily Wehman
VCU Health – Adult Outpatient Pavilion
Richmond

Dr. Clay Wellborn
Nirschl Orthopaedic Center
Arlington County

Dr. Wilhelm A. Zuelzer
VCU Health – Stony Point 9000
Richmond

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2025: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Deborah Jeannean Carver
UVA Health
Charlottesville

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Michael Miller
Pediatric Critical Care of Virginia
Richmond

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

Dr. Michael Campbell Spaeder
UVA Health
Charlottesville

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

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2025: Pediatric Infectious Disease

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
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

Dr. Suzanne R. Lavoie
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

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 2025: Spine Surgery

Dr. Jonathan J. Carmouche
Carilion Clinic Orthopaedic Surgery –
Roanoke

Dr. James Chadduck
Augusta Health Spine Clinic
Fishersville

Dr. Prakasam Kalluri
Spine Care Specialists – HCA Physicians
Hopewell

Dr. Jonathan R. Mason
Tidewater Orthopaedics
Hampton

Dr. Bruce E. Mathern
VCU Health – Ambulatory Care Center
Richmond

Dr. Tom Mazahery
OrthoVirginia
Fairfax

Dr. Dhruv Pateder
Town Center Orthopaedics
Reston

Dr. Tushar Ch. Patel
Washington Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Ricky J. Placide
VCU Health – Adult Outpatient Pavilion
Richmond

Dr. Abilio A. Reis
OrthoVirginia
Mechanicsville

Dr. Jed S. Vanichkachorn
Bon Secours – Tuckahoe Orthopedics
Henrico County

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Tiny Cargo gets big local support

In a bid to keep the startup local, the Regional Partnership found a 10,800-square-foot warehouse to renovate and looped in Roanoke Valley Development Corp. and Greater Roanoke Valley Development Foundation, which jointly purchased the building and offered favorable leasing terms.

“If a place has the real estate solution to offer a business, it is in the running for opportunities,” says the partnership’s executive director, John Hull, emphasizing the importance of biomedical in diversifying the regional economy.

Tiny Cargo is the first commercial manufacturing concern to emerge from Virginia Tech’s , where the company’s founder and president, Robert Gourdie, is a professor and leader of Fralin’s Gourdie Lab and director of the institute’s Center for Vascular and Heart Research.

Tiny Cargo’s new facility, the first clean room for commercial manufacturing in the region, will produce exosomes — nano-sized vesicles that carry nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and metabolites among cells. Using proprietary methods, Tiny Cargo will be the first company to produce exosomes at scale from cow’s milk, which they will sell for preclinical research and to develop Xolacta, a drug to treat the side effects of radiation.

With FDA approval, these efforts could eventually provide a better way to deliver drugs to the body’s cells — and potentially spark a revolution in pharmaceutical production.

“These exosomes are effectively orally administered, bypass the gut-blood barrier, navigate through internal barriers and are not removed by the liver,” says Spencer Marsh, Tiny Cargo’s chief scientific officer. “This could potentially replace engineered, plastic-based delivery systems.”

Having an FDA-approved manufacturing facility is key to moving both Tiny Cargo’s exosome production process and Xolacta toward clinical trials. To cover the buildout, Tiny Cargo has secured $925,000 from venture funders, angel investors and local donors.

“I’ve been astounded by the support from the city, various business development entities in the area and the network of high-profile businesspeople,” says Alan Gourdie, Tiny Cargo’s New Zealand-based CEO and Robert Gourdie’s brother. “They all share a common vision for the future of Roanoke and that is to rejuvenate its manufacturing and employment base through high-technology capabilities.”

Virginia’s Top Doctors 2025: Pediatric Otolaryngology (ENT)

Dr. Robert S. Bahadori
Otolaryngology Associates
Fairfax

Dr. Cristina Baldassari
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. William T. Brand
UVA Health – Pediatric Otolaryngology
Charlottesville

Dr. David Darrow
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Craig Derkay
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Norfolk

Dr. Kelley M. Dodson
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

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

Dr. Erin S. Hamersley
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
Portsmouth

Dr. Rajanya Shah Petersson
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2025: Sleep Medicine

Dr. Frank H. Biscardi
Carilion Clinic Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine

Dr. Eric M. Davis
UVA Health
Charlottesville

Dr. Fernando B. Maglaya
Sentara Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. Richard A. Parisi
TPMG Lung & Sleep Specialists at Williamsburg
Williamsburg

Dr. Amit V. Patel
Virginia Heart
Leesburg

Dr. Douglas W. Puryear
Pulmonary Associates of Richmond
Midlothian

Dr. Cecilia L. Santos
Bon Secours Sleep Disorders Center
Richmond

Dr. Lawrence M. Stein
Pulmonary & Medical Associates of Northern Virginia
Arlington County

Dr. Samuel Taylor
VCU Health – Stony Point 9105
Richmond

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Virginia’s Top Doctors 2025: Colon and Rectal Surgery

Dr. Farrell C. Adkins
Carilion Clinic General Surgery –
Roanoke

Dr. Brian Joseph Billings
Riverside Surgical Specialists – Newport News
Newport News

Dr. Jaime L. Bohl
VCU Health – Adult Outpatient Pavilion
Richmond

Dr. Christine Bouchard
Virginia Surgical Institute
Richmond

Dr. Brian Buchberg
Bayview Digestive Health & Colorectal Surgery
Chesapeake

Dr. Lisa A. Coleman
TPMG Center for Colorectal Surgery
Newport News

Dr. Joseph J. Coury
Colon and Rectal Specialists
Mechanicsville

Dr. Gregory P. Fitzharris
Sentara Surgery Specialists
Hampton

Dr. Joseph L. Frenkel
Bon Secours Surgical Specialists
Suffolk

Dr. Cary L. Gentry
Colon and Rectal Specialists
Mechanicsville

Dr. Paul A. Ghaemmaghami
Paul A. Ghaemmaghami, M.D.
Richmond

Dr. Traci L. Hedrick
UVA Health – Digestive Health Center
Charlottesville

Dr. Matthew Huk
Surgical Associates of Richmond
Richmond

Dr. Peter Miller
Colon and Rectal Specialists
Mechanicsville

Dr. Rodolfo Pigalarga
VHC Health Physicians – Colorectal Surgery Tysons
McLean

Dr. Ray Ramirez
Bayview Digestive Health & Colorectal Surgery
Suffolk

Dr. Craig Rezac
VHC Health Physicians – Colorectal Surgery Arlington
Arlington County

Dr. Emily Rivet
VCU Health – Stony Point 9105
Richmond

Dr. Irfan A. Rizvi
Kaiser Permanente
McLean

Dr. William G. Rudolph
Sentara Surgery Specialists
Virginia Beach

Dr. Paul E. Savoca
Paul E. Savoca, M.D., FACS, FASCRS – Virginia Surgery Associates
Fairfax

Dr. John M. Sayles
Sentara Surgery Specialists
Norfolk

Dr. Stephen Sharp
VCU Health – Stony Point 9000
Richmond

Dr. Arthur J. Vayer Jr.
Sentara Surgery Specialists
Woodbridge

Dr. Andrew J. Vorenberg
Colon and Rectal Specialists
Mechanicsville

Dr. Nicole Wieghard
VCU Health – Stony Point 9109
Richmond

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