33 Platte Valley physicians make Top Docs list

Congrats to the 33 physicians on our medical staff who were included in 5280 magazine’s list of Top Docs for 2025!

Each year, the magazine surveys physicians up and down the Front Range, asking them whom they would choose to care for themselves or a loved one in dozens of specialties. The physicians with the most votes appear on the annual list.

The Platte Valley physicians on this year’s list are included below, alphabetically by specialty.

Cardiovascular Disease: Ankie Amos, Claudia Benedict, Glenn Hirsch, Minisha Kochar, Kristin Thanavaro

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: Kelly Kim, Christopher Stees

Critical Care Medicine: Kenneth Lyn-Kew

Dermatology: Thomas Gallagher

Diagnostic Radiology: Colin Strickland

Gastroenterology: Gareth Weiner

Interventional Cardiology: Jerry Miklin, Jeffrey Rubinstein

Medical Oncology: Samir Witta

Nephrology: Galo Garces, Stuart Senkfor, Michael Shomaker

Neuroradiology: Eric Lyders

Obstetrics & Gynecology: Robert Wester

Orthopedic Surgery: Daniel Hamman, Daniel Possley

Pulmonary Disease: Marjorie George, Tristan Huie, Gabriel Lockhart, Laurie Manka, Joshua Solomon, James Woodrow

Urology: Julio Chong, James Clark, John Kefer, John Paddack

Vascular Surgery: Brandon Garland, Alan Synn