Top Doctors

Summa Health physicians are regularly featured in Akron Life Magazine’s annual list of Top Doctors in the Akron area.

2026 Akron Life Magazine Top Doctor Awards

At Summa Health, we are proud of all of our doctors. Each and every one of them works tirelessly to deliver clinical excellence every day and improve the overall health of our community. The excellence of our physicians comes through publicly on an annual basis when Akron Life Magazine publishes its list of “Top Doctors” in the Akron area.

Summa Health has 42 physicians, representing primary care and 25 of Summa Health's specialty services, included on the list this year.

The Akron Life Top Doctors list is created by DataJoe Research, a national research company specializing in data collection and verification. DataJoe conducts various nominations across the United States on behalf of publishers such as Akron Life Magazine.

Congratulations to the members of our Summa Health team who are honored this year.

Cardiology

Roger B Chaffee, MD

Specialty: Cardiology

Top Doctors

2026 Akron Life Magazine Top Doctor Awards

Cardiology

Roger B Chaffee, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Eric A Espinal, MD

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Truong D Ma, MD

Dermatology

Emergency Medicine

Vishnu Mudrakola, MD

Endocrinology

James Salem, MD

Omar Zmeili, MD

Family Medicine

Verlaine Blaser, DO

Rebecca Teagarden, DO

General Surgery

Victoria L Van Fossen, MD

Arthur Dalton, MD

Aleksander Geube, MD

Gynecologic Oncology

Stephen J Andrews, MD

Robin Laskey-Jobkar, MD

Hand Surgery

Derek Klaus, MD

Hematology & Oncology

Greg Manson, MD

Infectious Disease

Michael Tan, MD

Internal Medicine

Michael Dentler, MD

Bryan O'Connell, MD

Interventional Cardiology

Peter Bittenbender, MD

Neurological Surgery

Dane Donich, MD

Paul Hartzfeld, MD

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Cheryl Johnson, MD

Christine Arnold, MD

Orthopedic Surgery

Jeffery Junko, MD

Ryan Combs, MD

Ryan Urchek, MD

Orthopedics

Scott Weiner, MD

Otolaryngology

Phillip Khalil, DO

Pathology

Steven Thompson, MD

Psychiatry

Todd Ivan, MD

Radiation Oncology

Anand Desai, MD

Desiree Doncals, MD

Spine Surgery

Matthew Jaykel, MD

Sports Medicine

Mark Cipriani, MD

Robert Crawford, MD

Blossom Heindel, DO

Nilesh Shah, MD

Rohini Tandon, MD

Urology

Joshua Nething, MD

Kevin Spear, MD

Vascular Surgery

Drazen Petrinec, MD

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