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Chapel Hill NC Surgeons

When searching for a surgeon in Chapel Hill, NC, precision is imperative. Precision, after all, is the very skill your surgeon will use when performing your surgery. It makes sense that you exercise the same caution and attention to detail when selecting the professional to do the job.

Chapel Hill is a leader in the medical field. Home to the University Hospitals, the town has a wide variety of competent surgeons from which to choose.

Recommendations for Chapel Hill, NC Surgeons
Even if you need a surgeon, you may already have a general practitioner or medical specialist who you feel comfortable with. Quite frequently, the best recommendations for surgeons come from other doctors. If you require surgery and want to be sure that you are getting the best, ask your general practitioner. Generally he/she will be a great source. But don't stop there.. Inquire with specialists in your particular type of surgery and get the names of the best surgeons in town specializing in your particular needs. Relying on online rating websites such as Angie's List is generally not the best source of good recommendations.

Having surgery of any kind is never much fun. But you can ease your fear considerably by hand-selecting your surgeon out of a group of highly recommended specialists.

Although they are not all surgeons, some of the best physicians in America work at UNC Hospitals. In 2004, there were 103 who were listed in the Best Doctors database at BestDoctors.com.

  • Anesthesiology – Dr. Philip Boysen
  • Cardiovascular Disease – Dr. Marschall S. Runge, Dr. Sidney C. Smith Jr.
  • Dermatology – Dr. Luis A. Diaz, Dr. Lowell Alan Goldsmith
  • Endocrinology and Metabolism – Dr. John B. Buse, Dr. David A. Ontjes
  • Family Medicine – Dr. Robert Gwyther
  • Gastroenterology – Dr. Eugene M. Bozymski, Dr. Douglas A. Drossman, Dr. William D. Heizer, Dr. Kim Isaacs, Dr. R. Balfour Sartor, Dr. Nicholas Shaheen
  • Geriatric Medicine – Dr. Nortin M. Hadler, Dr. Philip D. Sloane
  • Infectious Disease – Dr. Joseph J. Eron Jr., Dr. Charles M. van der Horst
  • Medical Oncology & Hematology – Dr. Stephen Alan Bernard, Dr. Richard Goldberg, Dr. Thomas C. Shea, Dr. Gilbert C. White II
  • Nephrology – Dr. Ronald J. Falk, Dr. Gerald Hladik
  • Neurology, Child – Dr. O’Neill D’Cruz, Dr. Robert S. Greenwood, Dr. Michael B. Tennison
  • Neurology – Dr. Colin D. Hall, Dr. James F. Howard Jr., Dr. Peter L. Jacobson
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology – Dr. Nancy C. Chescheir, Dr. William Droegemueller, Dr. Wesley C. Fowler Jr., Dr. Marc A. Fritz, Dr. David A. Grimes, Dr. William R. Meyer, Dr. Kenneth Joseph Moise Jr., Dr. Valerie M. Parisi, Dr. John M. Thorp Jr., Dr. Honor M. Wolfe
  • Ophthalmology – Dr. Kenneth L. Cohen, Dr. Jonathon J. Dutton, Dr. Travis A. Meredith
  • Orthopaedic Surgery – Dr. Donald K. Bynum, Dr. Edmund R. Campion, Dr. Laurence E. Dahners, Dr. Douglas R. Dirschl, Dr. Paul Lachiewicz, Dr. Timothy Taft
  • Otolaryngology – Dr. Amelia F. Drake, Dr. Harold C. Pillsbury III, Dr. Brent A. Senior, Dr. William W. Shockley, Dr. Mark C. Weissler
  • Pathology – Dr. J. Charles Jennette
  • Pediatrics (General) – Dr. R. Meade Christian, Jr., Dr. Harvey J. Hamrick, Dr. William C. Hubbard, Dr. Jacob Lohr, Dr. Joseph Muenzer, Dr. Desmond K. Runyan
  • Pediatric Specialist – Dr. Thomas N. Belhorn, Dr. Julie Blatt, Dr. A. Joseph D’Ercole, Dr. Margaret Leigh, Dr. Frederick W. Henderson, Dr. Melvin Levine, Dr. Steven N. Lichtman, Dr. Joseph Muenzer, Dr. Louis E. Underwood
  • Psychiatry – Dr. L. Jarrett Barnhill, Dr. Robert A. Bashford, Dr. Alan Beeber, Dr. Robert N. Golden, Dr. John Haggerty, Dr. Thomas M. Haizlip, Dr. David S. Janowsky, Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Dr. A. Jackson Naftel, Dr. Diana O. Perkins, Dr. Joseph Piven
  • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine – Dr. Brian A. Boehlecke, Dr. Richard C. Boucher, Dr. James Francis Donohue, Dr. Michael Ray Knowles, Dr. Linda Paradowski, Dr. Maria Patricia Rivera, Dr. James R. Yankaskas
  • Radiation Oncology – Dr. Julian G. Rosenman, Dr. Joel E. Tepper
  • Rheumatology – Dr. Mary Ann Dooley, Dr. Nortin M. Hadler
  • Surgery – Dr. Christopher C. Baker, Dr. Anthony A. Meyer, Dr. Jeffrey H. Fair
  • Surgical Oncology – Dr. Benjamin F. Calvo
  • Thoracic Surgery – Dr. Frank C. Detterbeck, Dr. Thomas M. Egan, Dr. Blair Keagy, Dr. Michael R. Mill, Dr. Peter Starek, Dr. Benson R. Wilcox
  • Urology – Dr. Culley C. Carson III, Dr. Raj S. Pruthi, Dr. Stephen Shaban

 

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