2018-2022 News Highlights

Nearly half of the physicians recognized in Atlanta magazine's July 2020 "Top Doctors" issue are physicians within Emory Healthcare, Emory Healthcare Network, Emory medical staff, or faculty of Emory University School of Medicine.

The annual listing — compiled by the New York-based research firm Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. — includes five faculty of the Emory Department of Urology: Viraj Master, Kenneth Ogan, John Pattaras, Chad Ritenour, and Martin Sanda.

This year, 483 Emory doctors out of 1,002 were included in the list, which is more than any other health system in metro Atlanta. Patients can find these doctors practicing at more than 200 Emory Healthcare provider locations.

Castle Connolly compiles the annual "Top Doctors" list it has been publishing for the past 25 year using a survey, research, screening, and selection process involving hundreds of thousands of physicians, along with academic medical centers, specialty hospitals, and community hospitals across the nation to nominate top doctors. Castle Connolly's physician-led team of researchers follows a rigorous screening process to select top doctors on both the national and regional levels. Doctors do not and cannot pay to be selected and profiled as Castle Connolly Top Doctors.

In 2018, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. was acquired by Everyday Health Group, one of the world's most prominent digital health care companies.