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They may have been practicing for a decade or less, but these doctors are physicians-to-watch, according to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.

On Sept. 21, the magazine released the inaugural edition of Twin Cities’ Top Doctors—Rising Stars, which recognizes 64 University of Minnesota Health physicians in 28 specialty areas. To be selected for inclusion the list, the doctors must have been practicing for 10 years or less. Each physician named to the list was chosen by their peers in the field.

University of Minnesota Health physicians make up 26 percent of the 238 Twin Cities physicians chosen for the list this year. In total, 71 physicians representing University of Minnesota Physicians in 29 specialty areas were recognized. University of Minnesota Physicians is the multi-specialty group practice for the University of Minnesota Medical School faculty.

Scroll down for a complete list of M Health and UMPhysicians doctors recognized as “Rising Stars.”

Pediatric physicians are noted with * following their names.

Anesthesiology

• Chandra Castro*
• Megan Clinton
• Megan Nolan Norman*

Cardiac Surgery

• Gabriel Loor

Cardiology

• Rebecca Ameduri*
• Rebecca Cogswell
• Charles Shepard*
• Thenappan Thenappan

Colon & Rectal Surgery

• Wolfgang Gaertner
• Mary Kwaan

Critical Care Medicine

• Gwenyth Fischer*

Dermatology

• Kristen Hook*
• Ingrid Polcari*

Endocrinology

• Melena Bellin*
• Amir Moheet

Family Medicine

• Benjamin Baechler
• Michael Broton
• Carrie Link
• Andrew Slattengren

Gastroenterology

• Mustafa Arain
• Jose Vega-Peralta

Gynecologic Oncology

• Deanna Teoh
• Boris Winterhoff

Hematology/Oncology

• Anne Blaes
• Craig Eckfeldt
• Milena Elimelakh
• Peter Gordon*
• Emily Greengard*
• Karim Sadak*
• Lucie Turcotte*

Infectious Disease

• Meghan Rothenberger

Internal Medicine

• Lynne Fiscus

Maternal/Fetal Medicine

• Jessica Nyholm

Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine

• Anne Hall*
• Erin Osterholm*
• Sara Ramel*

Neurology

• Jeffrey Allen
• Georgios Manousakis

Nephrology

• Christian Hanna*
• Priya Verghese*

Obstetrics/Gynecology

• Suzanne Darnell
• Samantha Hoffman
• Sarah Hutto

Neurology

• Jeffrey Allen
• Georgios Manousakis

Orthopaedic Surgery

• Sarah Anderson
• Patrick Morgan
• Marc Tompkins
• Christina Ward

Otolaryngology

• Meredith E. Adams
• Seth Janus
• Samir Khariwala
• Amy Lassig
• Stephanie Misono
• William Walsh

Pediatrics

• Emily Borman-Shoap
• Patricia Hobday*
• Pui-Ying Iroh Tam*
• Andrew Olson*
• Michael Pitt*

Psychiatry

• Andrew Barnes

Pulmonary Medicine

• Abbie Begnaud
• Wajahat Khalil
• Felix Zamora

Radiology

• Eric Hoggard*
• David Nascene

Rheumatology

• Colleen Correll*

Sleep Medicine

• Michael Howell

Sports Medicine

• Alicia Harrison
• Jeffrey Macalena

Thoracic Surgery

• Eitan Podgaetz

Urology

• Nissrine Nakib
• Christopher Weight