How many surgeries do you estimate you’ve performed in your career? Around 6,500 surgeries at this point.
Top Doctors2026 Top Doctors Milestones
Editorial StaffMarch 1, 2026
The complete list of 10- and 20-year Top Doctors honorees, spanning the full 30-year history (1995-2025) of the issue.
There’s nothing else I’d rather be doing. After all, I went to 29th grade before I got my first real job.
TravelGreat Escapes: Healdsburg Girls
Leah LeMoineMarch 1, 2026
The ladies of PHOENIX magazine are charmed by Sonoma County’s answer to Stars Hollow.
Like many people, I’ve experienced common ENT issues, which reinforces my focus on empathy, clear communication and minimizing disruption to patients’ daily lives while pursuing the safest, most effective surgical outcomes.
As a primary care doctor, I wanted real, sustainable solutions without just adding prescriptions. Treating weight allows patients to use fewer medications and improve their health after years of frustration. Watching people regain hope and health has been incredibly rewarding and career-changing.
I once had to reconstruct the thumb, index and ring finger of a patient with a table saw injury. Luckily, the patient was able to get his grip and pinch strength back. A motivated patient is very important in this scenario.
A roundup of health- and wellness-related products from across the Valley.
As a pre-med student, I walked with my grandfather through his journey with lung cancer. I shared several meaningful months with him before he passed away, and that stayed with me. Radiation oncology felt like the perfect blend of a visual, anatomy-based specialty and impactful patient relationships.
I think there’s a growing desire among surgeons to be “complete clinicians.” By being double-boarded in general surgery and surgical critical care, we don’t have to hand our patients off when they leave the OR. We have the expertise to manage their physiology in the ICU, which leads to better outcomes and deeper professional fulfillment. The other driver is technology. We’ve integrated robotic surgery into the emergency setting. This has made the field incredibly attractive to a new generation of surgeons who want to combine the intensity of trauma and emergency work with the precision of minimally invasive, robotic platforms.
Rheumatoid arthritis commonly causes morning stiffness that will last more than one hour but will improve with movement. [Sufferers will also experience] fatigue, joints swelling, soft-tissue inflammation, nerve symptoms like numbness and tingling, low-grade fever, skin changes and sometimes eye, heart and lung inflammation.
When Sara Peterson was a kid, she loved dressing for a theme and designing matching outfits for her and her friends.
The anesthesiologists I met in medical school were the happiest doctors in the hospital. While this sparked my initial interest in the specialty, I quickly realized that I loved the physiology, pharmacology, procedures and the team environment of the [operating room], and knew anesthesiology was the right fit.
Food ReviewsDining Review: Society Swan
Nikki BuchananMarch 1, 2026
Sam Fox continues his Franco-American hot streak with this winning Scottsdale brasserie.
OpinionSharpe to the Point: Candidate Down!
Jim SharpeMarch 1, 2026
In mid-February, Republican Karrin Taylor Robson announced that she had suspended her campaign for Arizona governor, leaving just Republican Congressmen David Schweikert and Andy Biggs, along with Democratic incumbent Katie Hobbs, on the field.