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Tips for Choosing a Cosmetic Provider

With the start of a new year, you may also be thinking about new ways to care for yourself. If cosmetic treatments such as Botox, filler, lasers, or tightening treatments are on your list, choosing the right provider will be a critical first step. The board-certified team at Mona Dermatology shares their top tips for what to look for when choosing a provider, whether you are getting treated at their Kenwood-based office or elsewhere.

The No. 1 thing to remember is that cosmetic treatments are still medical procedures. Oftentimes, we perceive popular treatments as easy to perform and risk-free. Serious side effects, including infections, compromised veins or arteries, tissue damage, scars, burns, pigmentation disorders, and more can occur.

These side effects are always a possibility with any cosmetic treatment, but are much more likely when consumers visit untrained, unqualiﬁed practitioners. Just as you would for any other medical procedure, we recommend choosing an experienced and qualiﬁed provider to perform your cosmetic treatments.

Adapted from the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS)

What To Look For

Credentials Start by looking for a credentialed provider with extensive experience and training in the cosmetic field. The office you are visiting should be led by a boardcertified physician who is trained in facial anatomy, such as a dermatologist or plastic surgeon. This directing physician will ensure that proper safety protocols are being followed within the office, and even if they are not the one performing your treatment, they are on-site in the rare case that something may go wrong. At Mona Dermatology, all providers hold advanced medical degrees: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.), Nurse Practitioner (N.P.), or Physician Assistant (P.A.). Not only do they receive months of extensive cosmetic training prior to treating patients, they also receive ongoing education in the medical aesthetics field.

Experience Look for a provider with experience in the treatment you are seeking. How many treatments of this kind have they given? What kind of training have they received? At Mona Dermatology, our providers see over 8,500 skin exams, 5,000 Botox appointments, 1,000 ﬁller appointments and 2,500 laser/light appointments combined in any given year.

Results As the saying goes, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and the same is true for cosmetic treatments. It can be helpful to select a provider who specializes in giving

the type of results you seek to achieve. Some ways to research this would include asking to see before and after photos, following the office or provider on social media, or even seeing what the staff and providers’ results look like. At Mona Dermatology, we specialize in creating naturallooking results.

Price If the cost of a treatment seems too good to be true, it probably is! Often, heavily discounted procedures are being performed by non-medical personnel or less experienced providers. Cosmetic treatments require extensive training and experience to achieve safe and optimal results. Saving money on a treatment in the short term could end up costing you more if a complication occurs.

Questions to Ask Before having a procedure, it’s important to get to know your provider and ask them questions to learn more about it. Consider asking why you are a good candidate for this treatment, what you should expect during the treatment, what results may be, what the risks are, who will perform your treatment, and what will happen if complications arise. On the other hand, your provider should also be asking what you are hoping to achieve to make sure you are both on the same page. Don’t forget that they should also be asking you for your medical history, medications you are on, and allergies you may have.

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12 / LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

15 / DISPATCH

Why couldn’t Cory Bowman ﬂip the Nati?

16 / SPEAK EASY

Roebling’s new artisan market in Dayton, Kentucky

16 / HISTORY

The legacy of the Fisk Jubilee Singers

18 / STYLE COUNSEL

Maria Johnson of Disco Tits Vintage

20 / STOREFRONT

Connecting Black and brown communities with nature

22 / THE FIND

The Sign Museum’s new coffee table book

24 / REAL ESTATE

A new development in Liberty Township

26 / DR. KNOW

Your QC questions answered

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Art isn’t just for kids BY JUDI KETTELER

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Getting ﬁt in a centuryold bank vault BY CLAIRE LEFTON

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Italian-Argentinian fare at Noche, Covington

124 / LUNCHBOX

Brunch at Kanak India, Montgomery

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Leigh Barnhart Ochs of the Cooking School at Jungle Jim’s

126 / REVISIT

Kiki has reopened its doors in Clifton

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Greater Cincinnati restaurants: A selective list

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Decoding our civic DNA, from history to politics to personalities.

Tracking what’s new in local real estate, artisans, and storefronts.

Insight and analysis as the Bengals’ season wraps up.

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TTHE INSPIRATION FOR THIS MONTH’S COVER SECTION THEME CAME, AS IT OFTEN does, from one of our writers. Contributing Editor Laurie Pike pitched me a ﬁrst-person story about the use of testosterone treatments by menopausal women and the skepticism—both among medical professionals and from friends—she faced while pursuing it. Like a lot of people, I identify testosterone with males and estrogen with females and didn’t realize everyone has all three hormones present in their body (progesterone is the third).

I asked Laurie to rework the story idea for our annual Top Doctors issue and reached out to other writers and contacts at area medical groups and hospitals to see if we could ﬁnd additional stories to ﬁt a theme of alternative treatments and creative approaches for persistent medical conditions. Spoiler alert: We did. The result is “Top Doctors Think Outside of the Box” (page 33).

It’s no surprise that Cincinnati is a hotbed for medical research and creative thinking, given Cincinnati Children’s ranking as one of the nation’s top pediatric hospitals and the impact of UC’s College of Medicine across the region. Millions of dollars in research grants ﬂow into the city from government and private sources, bringing top doctors and scientists here from all over the world. More talent is on the way, with Xavier University opening a brand-new College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Kentucky building a medical school in Covington in the next few years.

I’m fascinated by these stories of creative breakthroughs, from using spinal cord stimulation to treat Restless Leg Syndrome to embracing nature walks as anxiety and depression relief. A Children’s doctor is studying oxygen delivery to the bloodstream via “butt breathing,” and a next-generation exoskeleton is helping a paralyzed woman walk again. And these professionals are just the tip of Cincinnati’s research iceberg.

Like in any ﬁeld, smart doctors want to work in a community that values creativity and pushes new therapies to the forefront. And all of us—sick, healthy, and in between—beneﬁt from that mindset.

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In “Touch Grass” (page 20), contributing writer Pieper Buckley explores the new storefront of local Black-owned adventure brand We Outside and owner Sierra Hayden’s mission to reconnect people of color with the outdoors. “Cincinnati is a cultural hotspot,” says Buckley of the importance of uplifting different communities within the Queen City.

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Based in Rome, artist Carlotta Notaro illustrates Tom Turcich and his dog Savannah, who walked around the world together (page 48). Drawn to Turcich’s idea of clearing the “weeds in his head” and moved by his need for companionship on the road, Notaro creates a scene of shadowed ﬁgures against a bright and expansive landscape. “We’re built for [connection], it’s in our DNA—and in little Savannah’s wolf genes,” she says.

After President Donald Trump falsely accused the Haitian immigrant population in Springﬁeld of eating dogs and cats, a glaring spotlight was put on the central Ohio town. Four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Patrick Tehan knows it all too well— Springﬁeld is his hometown. The contributing photographer’s images capture how a city—and its residents—are continuing to attempt to survive such a scandal in “Fake News” (page 52).

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TO FLIP, OR NOT TO FLIP

When the vice president’s brother runs for local office, how does his campaign fall so ﬂat? BY

EMMA BALCOM

CINCINNATI’S RECENT MAYORAL ELECTION GRABBED THE NAtional spotlight, and it’s no question why: Republican Cory Bowman, 37, half-brother of JD Vance, the vice president of the United States, challenged incumbent Democrat Aftab Pureval in the nonpartisan race.

On paper, Bowman ticked many boxes—a young entrepreneur, pastor, and business owner from College Hill, a family man with potentially signiﬁcant ties to players in the federal government through his relation to the VP. Yet, Bowman garnered only about 22 percent of the vote. How did it go so wrong?

Strategically, Bowman didn’t rely on Vance to further his campaign. He rarely spoke about their connection publicly, except to say that watching his brother’s inauguration inspired him to join the mayoral race. “When I saw the need for a candidate for mayor, I stepped in,” he said in an August interview.

Running on a platform that prioritized public safety, improved infrastructure, and a balanced budget, Bowman sought to convince voters that he was the ideal candidate to reduce crime and repair streets. “City issues,” he

calls them.

And city issues they are. Pureval was under ﬁre for the same issues, chastised for pothole-ridden roads and slow snow-plowing over the winter, then scrutinized for crime in the city’s urban core in the summer. Despite taking countermeasures to end the violence, including a youth curfew and increased drone surveillance, City Manager Sheryl Long placed Police Chief Teresa Theetge on paid administrative leave, where she remains at press time, while the city launched an investigation into her leadership. The move was admonished by the Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed the Bowman campaign.

Bowman, who owns Kings Arms Coffee, said officers stopping by his shop “are overwhelmingly disapproving of, administratively, how things are being run. They don’t believe City Hall has their back.” He added that he would put pressure on city administration to back the police force and put pressure on judges and prosecutors to give appropriate sentences to violent criminals. While the FOP gave a vote of conﬁ dence to Bowman’s public safety plan, downtown and Over-the-Rhine residents didn’t, voting overwhelmingly in favor of Pureval.

Bowman was open about being a neophyte and sought to use that to his advantage. His campaign slogan, “Flip the Nati,” was a reference to ﬂ ip “to common sense” and to stop sen-

sationalizing issues that don’t aff ect residents. “A lot of people are trying to jump on board national politics and issues, but at the core of the city government is administration,” he said, adding that working closely with the community through his church and coffee shop gave him a good read on the pulse of the city.

Residents soon discovered that his limited involvement in city politics didn’t just have to do with campaigning, though. Despite living in Cincinnati since 2020, Bowman had never voted in a city election, aside from a vote for Trump/ Vance in 2024. He attributed his lack of voting history to a larger trend of low voter turnout across the city. “A lot of people haven’t seen a reason to get out and vote,” he said. He hoped his campaign would motivate more people to get involved in the city.

Those efforts fell ﬂat; only about 31 percent of registered voters showed up at the polls. While Bowman may have “Flipped the Nati” in four of Cincinnati’s 190 precincts, Pureval claimed the other 186. The Associated Press called the race less than an hour after polls closed.

With Pureval beginning his second term this month, it’s unclear what’s next for Bowman. Will he ﬂip himself further into the political sphere or return to a quiet life as a neighborhood pastor and coffee shop owner? We’ll have to wait to see his next move.

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The Freedom Center’s newest exhibition, Jubilation!Ambassadors on a Secret Journey , traces the history and legacy of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who introduced AfricanAmerican spirituals to the U.S. in the late 19th century. freedomcenter.org

SHOWCASING QUEER CREATIVES

When the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge closed its southbound lanes following a 2024 ﬁre, Roebling Books & Coffee’s Dayton, Kentucky, location experienced a signiﬁcant drop in traffic and had to shut its doors. That is, until it reopened in November as Outsiders Artisan Makers Market, under the direction of owner Richard Hunt and onsite manager Jaiden. The reimagined space still offers Roebling’s beloved coffee bar and reading room, but now includes a market featuring predominantly LGBTQ+ vendors.

When did the idea come about to turn this space into a market?

RH: Maybe four months ago. We didn’t want to give up on this [Dayton] community, and when we came in we didn’t want to step on other coffee shops. Everybody is an independent here, everybody is trying really hard. From the way we want to be community-centered, it wasn’t a big change. It was just a slight broadening of what we do.

Why was it important to give Jaiden creative direction of this space?

J: I grew up in this area. I’m Black and I’m queer, I didn’t have a safe space to go to when I

was a kid, and I really, really needed that. A big part of working at this location was meeting queer youth and queer people in general in this area who were so happy to walk into a space where they were accepted. It made me feel really fulﬁlled.

The majority of the makers here are queer. What’s the signiﬁcance of having a space for queer artists in Northern Kentucky?

RH: Just like authors, they often get overlooked. The last year has been a very scary time. I don’t want to call this shelter—it’s more than that. It’s a place where they’re not only welcome, but they’re celebrated.

You also have a makerspace up front near the café.

J: It was easy to sort of honeycomb this, but up there, we had the most latitude with taking advantage. When it was just a bookstore, we had a booth and smaller tables, and for events we would move stuff around. We thought, why don’t we just make it and let it stay there, and then it advertises itself. —EMMA BALCOM

READ A LONGER INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD AND JAIDEN AT CINCINNATI MAGAZINE.COM.

SPEAK EASY

Who is Cory? Bowman is founder of The River Church and Kings Arms Coffee. He grew up in Greater Cincinnati and moved back from Tampa in 2020.

Maria Johnson

OCCUPATION: Owner of Disco Tits Vintage

STYLE: Eclectic, colorful, and fun statement pieces

How has selling vintage pieces inspired your own style? I really love to watch people come in and try different things together. It’s made me start to pay attention to how things are made, whether it’s handmade or sewn together with a machine. Can you describe the relationship between your personal style and your vintage store? I have moved on to wearing different time periods and silhouettes. I want to represent my business when I go in, I want to dress up and hopefully inspire other people to wear funky, silly outﬁts. When sourcing for inventory, what tells you that a piece is right for the store? I am very much about colors. Also materials, like cotton or materials that won’t fall apart. When I put something in my shop, I want it to be something that somebody can hold on to, hopefully forever. Do you source pieces that ﬁt your personal style, or do you look beyond your own taste? I do a little bit of both. It’s always something that catches my eye. Even if I wouldn’t wear it, if I saw someone else wear it, I would think, “Oh, that is such a cute top.” Who are your fashion icons or inspirations? This is really silly, but I love Miss Piggy, I love [her] costume design. I also like to look like ’90s movies. I love The Fifth Element, Clueless, and Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. What are your favorite brands? I’ve gotten really into Japanese brands like Angel Blue and Hysteric Glamour. I also really love Juju & Christine. What’s your biggest tip when shopping vintage fashion? Make sure you’re comfortable in it. I always tell people that if they’re unsure about a vintage piece, then don’t get it. A huge part of loving vintage and being a part of this community is to not overconsume it.

—CLAIRE REMPE

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TOUCH GRASS

WE OUTSIDE CONNECTS BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES TO THE OUTDOORS WITH GUIDED EVENTS, EXCURSIONS, AND GEAR. —PIEPER BUCKLEY

For Sierra Hayden (left), We Outside isn’t just a store—it’s a culture shift. Although her Over-the-Rhine shop sells a variety of outdoor gear and clothing, the real heart of the business lies in Hayden’s mission to reconnect Black and brown communities to the outdoors, each other, and themselves.

“Historically, Black and brown communities were excluded from green spaces,” she says. “Park systems and swimming pools were segregated, and when that ended, there was a lack of an intentional invitation back into those spaces. There was a lot of damage that happened from the segregation era. People didn’t feel safe in these environments. We Outside is an entry point to establish a relationship with the outdoors.”

The business uses a hybrid approach: It’s a retail store, a community space, and an adventure club, which Hayden says allows curious minds to discover what level of outdoorsy-ness speaks loudest to them.

“Non-intentionally, outdoor culture can be very exclusive. Sometimes it can feel like if you can’t hike Mt. Everest, you shouldn’t be out here,” she says. “We just want to open the doors up for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never hiked, skied, or done archery before. You can still experience these things and have a blast doing it.”

We Outside was started in January 2025 and it opened the storefront the following July. Since then, the business has focused primarily on hosting community events and excursions, like hiking, ﬁshing, horseback riding, or After Dark parties with soundscapes from local DJs.

This year, Hayden says, more energy will be put toward the store’s physical space, which currently serves as a starting point for whichever excursion is being promoted (if the store is hosting a series of hikes, you may ﬁnd rain gear, water

bottles, and books about backpacking in its inventory).

“We want to extend our outdoor gear supply and materials you need to be able to get outdoors,” she says. “I want to make sure the space shows up for the community the way that it needs to. We always want to evolve, similar to the rhythms of the seasons.”

Making the community feel welcome in We Outside’s retail space is important for Hayden, who says the store’s Over-theRhine neighbors have welcomed her business with open arms.

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Photography by Jenny Walters

TEAM UP Project manager Ioanna Paraskevopoulos assembled an experienced team to facilitate the book’s creation, including local photographer Natalie Grilli, designer Kathy Kikkert, and author Sam Roberts, the editor and publisher of sign-painting publication Better Letters Magazine

PAGE BY PAGE The book has several sections: an in-depth examination of the ASM’s history, a closer look at 55 individual signs from the museum’s collection, and a “Signs 101” chapter that breaks down technical language.

BOOK SIGNING

THE ASM CELEBRATES ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW COFFEE TABLE BOOK.

—MAX NEWMAN

The American Sign Museum is adding a new, curated piece to its collection: a coffee table book, featuring illustrations, images, and information about the museum’s signs and attractions. Available for purchase on the ASM website, the book celebrates its 25th anniversary by recounting the renowned history of the museum itself, its major turning points, and the people who founded the institution. But it also tells a more overarching tale: the story of sign-making in America.

PICK AND CHOOSE The book’s development took about a year. The creative team narrowed down a comprehensive list of the ASM’s entire sign collection to a select bunch. Roberts says he was inﬂuenced during this process by his own book, Ghost Signs, which examines faded brick wall signage in London.

LOTS TO LEARN

The book’s creators describe it as a companion piece to the ASM itself. They hope it can introduce a worldwide audience to the signs of America.

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A RECENTLY COMPLETED RESIDENTIAL COMplex in Liberty Township is ready to kick off the new year by welcoming residents into its stylish digs. Relay 129, the latest development by Hills Properties, is a sprawling community that offers both apartments and townhomes in a rapidly growing area. Just off I-75 and Liberty Way, the booming corridor bustles with new construction. It’s only 30 minutes to Cincinnati, providing a quieter life in the suburbs but with all the amenities of the city remaining within reach.

“We’ve diversified the building offerings with this community, which will appeal to a wider group of people,” says Hills Properties VP of Property Management Sara Hendricks. Apartment floorplans come in one-, two-, or three-bedroom configura-

—JEANA HARRIS

tions, while the townhomes offer three bedrooms. Regardless of the room count, renters will enjoy an elevated experience across the board.

“The product we’re bringing right now is very much focused on the renter by choice,” Hendricks says,“which means larger floorplans, sensible style, higherend finishes, quality, and location.” Noteworthy features include walk-in closets, plush carpeting, soft-close cabinetry, designer fixtures, and even quartz bathroom countertops. The layouts are open concept, with high ceilings that accentuate bright, airy interiors.

Outside, the amount of green space is refreshing. There’s no sense of being trapped in a concrete jungle because the units don’t tower overhead. Instead, they’re laid out as pleasant, garden-style, walk-up buildings. Warm evenings can be enjoyed on the rooftop terrace of the luxe clubhouse. Residents will enjoy a swimming pool with sun deck, ﬁtness center with private workout pods, a lounge with shuffleboard and billiards, a golf simulator with entertainment bar, and more.

For Hendricks, Relay 129’s location sets it apart from other apartment communities. Its neighbors include the Voice of America MetroPark, Liberty Center, and Four Bridges Country Club, while restaurants and shopping options await nearby.

When I drive on Victory Parkway, I wonder why it’s called that. Who did we defeat? Confederate soldiers? American Indians? Was there some long march from Paddock Hills through Avondale and Evanston to Walnut Hills and Eden Park? Seriously, what was the victory?

—DO IT IN THE ROAD

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cinnati parks with one long picturesque road. The origin of the Bloody Run name is disputed; it’s either because it was close to the runoff from slaughterhouses or it had experienced nasty battles with American Indians.

Two things influenced the name change. First was the loudly expressed opinion that a tree-lined roadway of tranquility should maybe not be called Bloody Run. Second, our city government—and this may sound familiar—took forever to ﬁnish the project. It wasn’t completed until the 1920s, when our recent triumph in World War I suggested the improved name. Like Central Parkway and Columbia Parkway, Victory Parkway was originally planned to be at least as much “park” as “way,” with scenic surroundings and pristine areas. Feel free to tell yourself that this actually happened; just drive with your eyes closed.

In Northside where I walk, I found a small brass plaque embedded in the sidewalk on Apple Street that says “Spanish War Veterans, 1898–1902.” It’s strange, because there’s just a vacant lot there. Does it commemorate something that’s gone? What’s it doing there? —THANKS FOR NO MEMORY

DEAR THANKS:

After more hours of research than this job could ever justify, the Doctor can report that the United Spanish War Veterans (USWV) was a real group. They often used a meeting hall on Apple Street in Northside, but the hall was several blocks away from the plaque you found embedded in a lonely sidewalk. Hmm. Did the plaque land there after being shot out of a cannon during a drunken USWV ceremony?

DEAR DO IT:

By far, Victory Parkway’s greatest victory is this: being called Victory Parkway. Otherwise you would be gagging while asking, “Why is it called Bloody Run Boulevard?” That was the name when the street was ﬁrst proposed around 1907 as part of a plan to connect all Cin-

The Doctor burrowed further and conﬁrms that a house belonging to one Walter F. Kuhlmann stood at 4123 Apple Street, just off Palm Avenue. He’d served in the Spanish-American War (oh, we’re getting warm) and his wife Florence had been president of the Northside USWV (warmer). In

1953, the intersection at Apple and Palm was converted to a dead end, which required a new sidewalk to be poured along the front of the Kuhlmann house. Bullseye!

The Kuhlmanns obviously took the opportunity to get their USWV plaque embedded right there. The house is now gone, so readers who prefer the Doctor’s initial drunken cannon theory are free to go with that.

Now that Forest Fair Mall has been demolished, can you tell me why it was such a huge failure? I wasn’t around when it opened, and all I ever hear is that it was the worst disaster in the history of malls. But why? Did nobody go for some reason, or was there a scandal or something?

—YOU’VE GOT MALL

DEAR GOT:

Perhaps the answer is that it was the only U.S. shopping center to never use the slogan, “Forest Fair Mall: We’ve Got It All!” That’s ironic, because the entire concept was that this would be a place with absolutely everything. Its slogan was “Bigger Than Life,” and people called it “a supermarket and Disneyland under one roof.” Forest Fair Mall was basically a Walmart with entertainment centers, rides, waterways, and endless sensory overload. Everything there truly was bigger than life—especially its crushing debt.

Forest Fair Mall opened in March 1989, its owner went bankrupt that October, and three major stores had liquidation sales the following September (“Forest Fair Mall: No Faster Fall!”). Blame whatever you want: the distant location, oversized ambition, monstrous traffic backups, an already over-malled region, etc.

After several unsuccessful makeovers, the place has been put out of its bigger-than-life misery. Let’s just be thankful that Tri-County Mall wasn’t alive to see this debacle.

BY JUDI KETTELER

Art for Grownups

THE THRILL OF CREATING IS LIKE CHILDHOOD, BUT NOW WE’RE ALSO HEALING THE SCARS.

TTHERE’S BEEN A CREATIVE THREAD RUNNING THROUGH MY LIFE, A NEED TO SET MY HANDS on making pretty things. As a child, I was enamored of pens, markers, paper, and stickers. I used them to write letters, to illustrate my “books,” and to make cards with chunky, uneven letters. I wasn’t one of the art kids who actually knew how to draw and whose work would get entered in contests at school. I just liked to play around.

In high school, my mom taught me how to sew, and fabric became my new artistic expression. I sewed my own clothes and embraced the crafts craze of the 1990s, which involved a lot of bubble paint and Wonder-Under. I taught myself applique and hand embroidery when my kids were little, making them quilts to capture their changing in-

terests. (Nothing will ever top the Clifford quilt I made for my son when he turned 2.)

I still like to have some kind of artsy project going at all times. I’ve been learning how to hand letter, creating colorful spreads in an art journal. I’ve also been working on making a gallery of needlework for an empty hallway wall in my house. I have six pieces ﬁnished, waiting patiently in their hoops. One more—odd numbers are always better—and it will be ready to hang.

So am I an artist? Yes, but not in the way some people are. For me, art is less of an identity and more of a practice that weaves its way into my life. It’s something I personally need, but I’m not looking to change the world with it.

As far as I’ve been able to ﬁgure out, I come from a line of people like that: practical, list-making, routine-oriented people who no one will read about in an art history textbook but for whom creativity remains essential. My mom, now 90, still quilts and embroiders.

My dad has been gone for 12 years, but his life was full of creative pursuits. He spent his boyhood doodling and sketching cars—I have a bunch of his old school notes to prove it—and he took evening classes as an adult to learn things like woodworking, stained glass, and model ship building.

I guess you could say I learned by watching my parents that artistic pursuits can be whatever you want them to be, and at any season of life.

LATELY, I’VE FOUND MYSELF THINKING about my paternal grandmother, Vivien Donnelly Ketteler, who took up painting late in life. We grandchildren have many of her framed pieces. As I sit in my home office writing this, I’m staring at her painting of a spartan desk in front of a narrow attic window, a scene from her own home. Compared to her other, more cheerful work, it’s an outlier—a study in perspective and shadow, the glass looking haunted, either because that was the mood or because she was still learning the subtlety of shading.

Vivien was born in 1905 and, from what I’ve been able to piece together, grew up comfortably in a nice home on Scott Street in Covington, one of four children. The

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family owned Donnelly Funeral Home on Madison Avenue. Vivien was just a teenager when both her father and grandfather died of the Spanish Flu. At some point, they had to sell the funeral home and move to a smaller home, although I’m not sure where.

I’ve seen pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s, and she had this fantastic androgynous style. My grandfather, whom she married in the late 1920s, kept a photo album, and I’ve made copies of several of the pages. It’s full of images of her looking carefree, wearing pants and houndstooth while her ﬂapper friends wore dresses and wrapped boho-looking scarves around their heads.

In my favorite photograph, she’s leaning against the driver’s side door of a big, boxy automobile (which describes every car of that era), her head cocked, a hand in her pocket, and one foot resting on the oversized running board. She looks wildly stylish, with pants tucked into knee-high

I try to imagine these conversations: Just dump your kids and look out for yourself. Was it because we were at war, and in wartime the most brutal of survival instincts kick in?

Instead of heeding that advice, she cobbled together a childcare arrangement and went back to work full-time after giving birth to my Aunt Mary. She also took in boarders in their small Park Hills home. The coy girl with the argyle socks turned out to be more resourceful than anyone ever thought she could be.

She sewed and embroidered and kept her hands busy, but it wasn’t until she retired around 1970 that she started painting, taking art classes at Baker Hunt in Covington. Growing up (I was born in 1974) I knew her as a petite, no-nonsense woman with white hair who produced the art for our walls. Her paintings were mostly bucolic scenes of farm life. A mother and her children feeding chickens. A water wheel next to a rocky stream.

LATE-IN-LIFE ART CAN STILL BE FULL OF ASPIRATION, BUT YOU’RE BATTLE-TESTED. THEN YOU GIVE YOUR BRAIN A LITTLE VACATION WITH SOMETHING

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argyle socks and a loose-ﬁt sweater with a pointed collar. My grandfather captioned it, “My Baby.”

It’s the look in her eye that gets me every time. I imagine she must have felt like she had rounded the corner on tragedy, her coming-of-age interrupted and resumed, their little rat pack before there was a Rat Pack.

My grandfather clearly had some artistic sensibilities of his own. I can tell by the expressions he captured with the camera, which I imagine wouldn’t have been nearly as easy in 1928. I know little about him, because he died in 1942 of kidney failure related to high blood pressure. My dad was 11, my Aunt Sally was 7, and my grandmother, just 37, was pregnant. Everyone told her to put her kids in an orphanage and just focus on the baby she was about to have.

A russet barn on a golden hill.

She usually painted from photographs, often images from wall calendars. I seem to recall her having at least one art show, though I don’t think she was motivated to try to sell her work. Or maybe she was? I don’t know.

I don’t think I ever had any conversations with her about art. She died when I was 20, long before I knew everything I would someday want to ask. Like: Did you amass canvases, flooding them with burnt orange and muddy brown and spring green, to help heal the scars? When you saturated the sky with cheerful cerulean, was it because that’s how the sky felt to you or because it’s how you wanted it to feel? Did you choose scenes to paint that you thought would bring other people comfort or did they bring you comfort?

EXPANDING YOUR CREATIVE HORIZONS later in life makes perfect sense. Toddlers aren’t nipping at your heels. You have a moment to actually think. My Aunt Sally actually went to college in her late thirties once her ﬁve children were all in school, earning a degree in fine art from NKU. My sister, Laura, now 60, has been taking drawing classes at Baker Hunt, and she’s learning to sketch and paint—things she never thought she was good at until she took the time to learn.

Now that I’m in my 50s I see autumn coming, the season that will lead to the ﬁnal season. I still have so much more I want to create. I want to learn to make altered books, like my Aunt Sally used to make. I want to junk journal, to make something interesting with all those old college notes my dad saved and I plucked from a ﬁle cabinet after he died.

Several months ago, I discovered a sticker and nostalgic art supply store in Wyoming called The Sticker Shop, and every time I walk in there I’m 10 years old again, needing to touch everything, and wanting to test out the pens, buy all the stickers, and lose myself in the possibility of making. It’s the same impulse from childhood, but what’s different are the scars.

Late-in-life-art can still be full of aspiration, but you’re battle-tested and beaten up. Life has sucked you up and shit you back out a few times. It can all feel so unfair until your brain gets a little vacation while your hands spin up something that feels beautiful to you.

I’ll let you in on a secret about the real reason I’m turning that wall into my personal art gallery. It’s because I need a new story to replace the old one. The day before we took my teenage son for inpatient treatment for substance use, he punched the wall and broke the cheap Van Gogh print that had been hanging there for almost 20 years. My husband spackled and repainted, and it’s been blank for a year.

I don’t have my grandmother’s exquisite 1920s style, but I have her instinct. Turn your sorrows into something else. Keep making art. And when you think you’re too old, make more.

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BY LAURIE PIKE

Amy Brenner, M.D. Obstetrics/ Gynecology

AMY BRENNER, M.D. & ASSOCIATES

nal dryness, and difficulty reaching orgasm. Hormone replacement therapy—chemical replicas of what the body makes naturally—became available in the early 1940s to combat the symptoms. Yet HRT remains maligned in some quarters due to decades of conﬂicting research and persistent misinformation. Even with the rise of bioidentical hormones, which mirror what the body produces naturally, outdated beliefs remain that HRT causes heart disease or even cancer. Prescribing guidelines continue to evolve.

A combination of synthetic estrogen and progesterone—in cream, patch, or pill form—is the traditional course of HRT treatment. Testosterone has also been available to women for decades but, despite conclusive evidence it enhances libido, has been much more rarely prescribed and still hasn’t received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. Its use for women remains off-label and isn’t covered by health insurance in the U.S., as it is in Australia, the U.K., and other countries. Meanwhile, erectile dysfunction meds like Viagra as well as testosterone therapy for men are common and usually covered by insurance.

Testosterone is not a “male” hormone; men simply have more of it. Both men and women produce all three hormones. Estrogen is a chemical trigger for changes in a woman’s body, especially during puberty and adulthood. Progesterone prepares the body for pregnancy and helps regulate periods. In men, estrogen and progesterone help regulate fertility, bone health, and brain function.

Daisy Camden figured it was an inevitable drawback to a longtime marriage. “I’d lost all interest in sex,” she says. “Like 100 percent.” Conﬂict ensued between the Hyde Park mother of two (whose name has been changed for privacy) and her husband—the two wanted to restore her libido, but didn’t know where to start. Commiserating with a friend, also middleaged, Camden came to understand that menopause was likely the buzzkill—not a lack of romantic interest. “No one had ever told me about that before,” she says.

In menopause, plunging levels of the hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone can lead to a host of unpleasant, sometime debilitating conditions: hot flashes, low libido, insomnia, brain fog, moodiness, general aches and pains, vagi-

Testosterone, produced in women’s ovaries and adrenal glands, promotes energy, builds muscle, sharpens focus, and, yes, boosts sex drive. “When women are younger they make way more testosterone than estrogen,” says Amy Brenner, M.D., an OB/GYN whose practice in Mason does such a booming HRT business, including testosterone therapy, that it opened second and third locations last year in Kenwood and Centerville. The amount of testosterone women produce falls precipitously over time.

“There’s been a big movement toward testosterone therapy in the last couple of years,” says Kacey Kersting, a nurse practitioner. Of her HRT patients, 75 percent are on testosterone. Kate Winslet and Halle Berry have lauded the hormone in recent

therapy helps women reclaim their libido.

podcast interviews. Inﬂuencers, including doctors on TikTok and Instagram, are informing their followers about it. Even as the FDA drags its heels, more medical practices are offering it to meet the increase in demand.

Camden had to have her natural level of testosterone tested as part of her treatment, and it was at 0 percent. She opted for the hormone in pellet form (implanted into the backside) over creams or injections. It was a revelation. “It got my libido to where I wanted it to be but also had added beneﬁts, like a boost in energy and completely eliminating my hot ﬂashes, that I wasn’t expecting,” she says. “I was up and moving more and felt upbeat. It’s a mood lift.”

Testosterone’s “feel-good” reputation has proven to be a double-edged sword; anecdotally, many women swear by the perky, happy factor, but the medical community isn’t so sure. Two studies in 2019 concluded the therapy has no effect on mood or cognition. Meanwhile, the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health advises against the pellets, many of which are made in compounding pharmacies not regulated by the FDA.

The problem is not with the hormone itself or necessarily its delivery method, Brenner counters, but with the dosage, which must be carefully calibrated. “Testosterone has been viliﬁed because a lot of providers think, If some is good, more is better,” she says. “A lot of practitioners overdose patients, and there are unwanted side effects. You have to ﬁnd the Goldilocks spot.”

Kersting concurs, saying, “Medispas are giving women too much. But if you keep women in the goal zone, there are pretty much zero cons, except cost.”

As for Camden, she trusts Kersting, her science-obsessed provider. “Kacey started me on a very low dose and then increased it once,” says Camden. “It’s worked out perfectly. There’s a slow decrease over that 14-week period. I don’t lose desire any more, but if I went another couple of weeks [without another dose] I probably would.”

The professionals listed here (active physicians in Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties in Ohio; Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn County in Indiana) were selected by their peers in a survey asking them which physicians they’d turn to for care conducted by Professional Research Services Company of Troy, Michigan. Professionals may be screened and selected through the verification of licensing and review of any infractions through various applicable boards, agencies, and rating services. For further information visit prscom.com or e-mail PRS at sshevin@ hour-media.com. This list does not, of course, include every caring, knowledgeable, and responsible physician in Greater Cincinnati. Unless indicated, physicians on the list are M.D.s. Some physicians appear in more than one specialty. Not all listed physicians are accepting new patients.

Doctors whose names appear in red are alumni of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, which has sponsored this recognition.

Addiction Medicine

MOHAMED AZIZ

Professional Psychiatric Services, 9117 Cincinnati Columbus Rd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 229-7585

DAN BEBO

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 3200, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-7001

OLIVER BENES

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Journey Recovery Center, 20 W. 18th St., Suite 300, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 757-0717

MICHAEL BINDER

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

CAROLYN CHAN

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

CHRISTINE COLLINS Lindner Center of Hope, 4075 Old

Western Row Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 536-4673

NABIL GHOBRIL

Sunrise Treatment Center, 6460 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 941-4999

JENNIE HAHN

UC Health, 3131 Harvey Ave., Suite 202, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 585-8227

MINA KALFAS

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Covington Journey Recovery Center, 20 W. 18th St., Suite 300, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 757-0717

TERESA KOELLERBRUEGGEMANN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Covington Journey Recovery Center, 20 W. 18th St., Suite 300, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 757-0717

RYAN RICHARD

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

Adolescent Medicine

EMMANUEL L. CHANDLER

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

LISA M. JOHNSON

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

KRISTIN L. KALTENSTADLER

Cincinnati Children’s - Mason Primary Care, 9600 Children’s Dr., Bldg. D, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 336-6700

CORINNE LEHMANN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

LAURIE A. MITAN

TANYA L. KOWALCZYK MULLINS

Cincinnati Children’s - Fairﬁeld 3050 Mack Rd., Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 636-8259

RACHEL D. SNEDECOR

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

DARCEY THORNTON

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

GISELLE WELLER

UC Health, 2751 O’Varsity Way, Floor 3, Cincinnati, OH 45221, (513) 556-2564

LEA A. WIDDICE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

WALK THIS WAY

A car accident left her paralyzed, but a new exoskeleton is helping restore mobility.

BY ALEXANDRA FROST

In April 2020, Kaitlyn Reynolds of Franklin, Ohio, then 19, lost her boyfriend and the future she’d had planned in a split second. The car she was riding in crashed, and she sustained a spinal cord injury paralyzing her from the waist down—a devastating discovery to wake up to after a week in a coma. Her mother informed her that her boyfriend died in the crash and she’d never feel her legs again.

Reynolds spent years in the hospital, stuck at home, and in therapy to recover. She recalls she couldn’t even pick up a fork at ﬁrst, but she eventually got a license and a modiﬁed vehicle so she could get out and about.

Today, thanks to miraculous new technology, you’ll see Reynolds, now 24, not only driving but also standing and “walking” with assistance from a device called an exoskeleton. Amazing, yes, but it’s not as straightforward as popping on robotic legs and going.

Reynolds isn’t alone. Around 1.7 percent of the U.S. population—more than 5 million people—live with some form of paralysis. Of those 5 million, more than 27 percent experience paralysis due to spinal cord injuries, according to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.

Reynolds’s exoskeleton technology, called the ReWalk 7, helps her stand and walk by propelling her forward. Medicare has recently begun covering the device, an important development since it can cost up to $100,000.

Using the exoskeleton might seem like futuristic robotic magic, but it’s actually a lot of work, says Reynolds. She does physical therapy with it twice a week at TriHealth Arrow Springs in Lebanon, spending 90 minutes per session in the device.

“It isn’t something you just put on

Beth Hahne Physical Therapist TRIHEALTH ARROW SPRINGS

says she was excited to try the technology with Reynolds. Though she’d helped patients with other exoskeletons or standing frames, this was the ﬁrst time she’d encountered one as advanced as the ReWalk. The device attaches to the waist and legs and works with “smart crutches” to propel the user forward.

Michael Kachmann, M.D. Neurosurgeon MAYFIELD BRAIN & SPINE

“Keeping mobility is the key,” says Michael Kachmann, M.D., a neurosurgeon and spine specialist at Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine. He’s not Reynolds’s doctor, but he works with patients experiencing similar challenges. “When people sit in a wheelchair for a long time, their muscles atrophy, joints get stiff, and they lose mobility.”

For Reynolds, increased mobility widens her chances at the life she had before and the future she dreamed of. She’d been living on her own, working at Bob Evans, and hoped to become a marine biologist. The exoskeleton helps reopen many of those doors.

Allergy and Immunology

J. PABLO ABONIA

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

MASOOD AHMAD

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

DAVID I. BERNSTEIN

Advanced Allergy Services, 4665 E. Galbraith Rd., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 931-0775

JONATHAN A. BERNSTEIN

Advanced Allergy Services, 4665 E. Galbraith Rd., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 931-0775

ASHLEY L. DEVONSHIRE

Suite 24, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 791-6006

YASMIN HASSOUN

Cincinnati Children’s - Liberty Campus, 7777 Yankee Rd., Liberty Township, OH 45044, (513) 636-3200

DUANE KEITEL

Allergy Partners, PLLC, 517 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-5030

NAJEEB KHAN ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900

GURJIT “NEERU” KHURANA KHURANA HERSHEY Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

STANDING TALL

Kaitlyn Reynolds and Beth Hahne

and then walk out of the clinic,” says Emily Roessler, area sales director at Massachusetts-based Lifeward, makers of the ReWalk. “You’re trying to walk in a really hard way, because you don’t have feeling and things like that that you normally have. So you’re relearning how to balance weight, shift, stand, turn, and walk. Eventually, if Kaitlyn wants, she can go up and down curves and steps.”

Roessler says the company has placed about 800 ReWalk personal exoskeletons with patients so far. Besides helping with patients’ mental health challenges, the device also offers deeply physical beneﬁts, she says, including improved spasticity, circulation, pain management, and bowel function. The company reports that 84 percent of patients were still using it after 12 months.

TriHealth physical therapist Beth Hahne

“I really feel like the exoskeleton is going to give her more opportunities,” says Hahne. “The long-term goal is independence, including working again, so once she’s able to stand for periods of time it’s going to open up a lot more opportunities.”

Eventually, if she completes all of the necessary steps required by insurance, Reynolds will be able to keep the ReWalk and make it part of her daily life. Roessler says most patients used it one to ﬁve times per week in the company’s clinical research studies.

“I have high hopes in our ability to continue to move forward in this ﬁeld,” Kachmann says. “Exoskeletons are probably the ﬁrst evolution in dealing with this type of paralysis. I can see a future with implantable electrodes that tell the muscle to move, helping people regain important functions.”

In addition to a promising future, Reynolds knows the exoskeleton holds the potential for an everyday privilege we take for granted. “I just wanted to be able to walk again, see people at my eye level, and hug people without them having to break their back,” she says.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

YASHU DHAMIJA

UC Health, 3590

Lucille Dr. Suite 1000, Allergy & Sinus, Cincinnati, OH 45213, (513) 475-8000

JOHN A. ECKMAN

Allergy & Asthma Associates, Inc. 10597 Montgomery Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 793-6861

TIMOTHY J. FRANXMAN

Family Allergy & Asthma, 5001 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 980-7180

JUSTIN C. GREIWE

Advanced Allergy Services, 4665 E. Galbraith Rd., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 931-0775

HEATHER HARTMAN

Cincinnati Allergy Associates, 10495 Montgomery Rd.,

ASHISH MATHUR AllerVie HealthSpringdale, 422 Ray Norrish Dr. Suite 2, Springdale, OH 45246, (513) 671-6707

KELLY ALLRED METZ Medpace, Inc., 5375 Medpace Way, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 579-9911

GORDON E. MYERS Cincinnati Allergy & Asthma Center - Anderson Office, 7527 State Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 861-0222

HANS F. OTTO Family Allergy & Asthma, 5001 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 980-7180

JEFFREY RAUB AllerVie HealthAnderson, 8000 Five Mile Rd. Suite 310, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 624-6600

KIMBERLY A. RISMA Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincin-

GOING LOW TO TREAT OSTEOARTHRITIS

UC Health doctors are trying low-dose radiation as a noninvasive treatment alternative.

BY SARAH McCOSHAM

While we’ve all woken up with an inexplicably sore neck or back pain, osteoarthritis is something completely different. It’s the most common form of arthritis, or joint pain, in adults, resulting from the chronic breakdown of cartilage between bones and leading to inﬂammation. In severe cases, the cartilage erodes away completely, resulting in “bone on bone” pain in a joint.

Osteoarthritis is usually diagnosed by a primary care physician and often involves X-ray imaging to zoom in on joint space narrowing and bone spurs in order to diagnose and develop a treatment plan. That’s historically included weight loss and physical therapy, with other common treatments (anti-inﬂammatories, pain relievers, and steroid injections) targeting symptoms

rather than the underlying cause, says Timothy Struve, M.D., UC Cancer Center radiation oncologist and associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. “Eventually, joint replacement surgery may be needed,” he says.

Struve claims the reasons for the different approaches are complex and might relate to U.S. insurance coverage, but he also says, “Germans don’t seem to share the same ‘radiophobia’ that Americans do. Over time we’ve learned that high exposure to radiation is potentially very harmful, which, combined with the arrival of atomic weapons, understandably caused radiotherapy to fall out of favor with the American public.”

Bailey Nelson, M.D.

Radiation Oncology Physician and Assistant Clinical Professor

Struve says that radiotherapy has been used to treat osteoarthritis since just after the discovery of X-rays in the late 1800s, but it hasn’t been common practice in the U.S. until recently. In Europe, meanwhile, Low-Dose Radiation Therapy (LDRT) for conditions like osteoarthritis constitute about a third of patients in radiotherapy departments.

UC HEALTH

Timothy Struve, M.D.

Radiation Oncology Physician and Associate Clinical Professor

UC HEALTH

Americans are becoming more open to unconventional medical treatments these days, says Bailey Nelson, M.D., UC Cancer Center radiation oncologist and assistant professor of radiation oncology at UC’s College of Medicine. She and Struve are leading a new program at UC Health to study LDRT’s impact as a noninvasive treatment for osteoarthritis symptoms that’s more robust than oral anti-inﬂammatories but less invasive than steroid injections and surgery.

LDRT isn’t a ﬁrst-line treatment, says Nelson. “We meet patients in consultation to make sure they’re appropriate candidates for LDRT,

nati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

MARC E. ROTHENBERG

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JOHN SEYERLE

AllerVie HealthAnderson, 8000 Five Mile Rd. Suite 310, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 624-6600

MELISSA K. SKUPIN

Family Allergy & Asthma, 209 Rivers Edge Dr., Milford, OH 45150, (513) 274-2230

STEVEN A. SUTTON

Allergy & Asthma Associates, Inc. 10597 Montgomery Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 793-6861

DAVID E. TAPKE

Cincinnati Allergy & Asthma Center -

Mason Office, 9313

Mason Montgomery Rd., Suite 100, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 861-0222

Anesthesiology

MASROOR ALAM

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

SUZANNE BENNETT

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

STUART BERTSCH

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

MICHAEL CARDOSI

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

SHAWN M. CARSON

Anesthesia Associates Of Cincinnati - The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Level A - Anesthesia Dept., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2482

BRENDA J.

CHRISTOPHER

Anesthesia Associates Of Cincinnati - The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Level A - Anesthesia Dept., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2482

THOMAS ELSASS

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

RUSSELL GRAF

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

ERIN GRAWE

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

SAI M. GUNDAVARPU

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

JOHN A. HEROLD III

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

SHAKA P. JAMES

Northstar Anesthesia LLC, 7500 State Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 624-4500

AHMED KHALIL

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

RENEE KREEGER

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave.,

Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

STEVEN KUESTER

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

JUSTIN D. LITTLE, D.O.

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

MOHAMED A. MAHMOUD

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

MARK D. MANLEY

Anesthesia Associates Of Cincinnati - The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Level A - Anesthesia Dept., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2482

PRASHANT NAYAK

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

ERIC PHILLIPS, D.O.

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

STEPHEN M. POWELL

Anesthesia Associates Of Cincinnati - The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Level A - Anesthesia Dept., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2482

BIMAL SHAH

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

THOMAS SOBOLEWSKI

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr.,

and if it’s recommended the patient will then have a CT simulation, or planning CT scan, where we create a personalized immobilization device for the affected joint to ensure limited movement and reproducibility during the radiation treatments.”

Once the treatment plan is designed and approved, the patient will receive six radiation treatments delivered twice weekly on non-consecutive days. “Door-to-door, the patient is in the Radiation Oncology department for about 20 to 30 minutes, but the treatment itself is quick and painless,” says Nelson.

There’s still skepticism surrounding LDRT, of course, but the groundwork has been laid, especially as patients see positive results. From missed work to chronic pain, osteoarthritis can have a profoundly negative mental and physical effect on quality of life. “One of the primary missions of any physician is to reduce the suffering of our community members,” says Struve. “Osteoarthritis causes a great amount of unnecessary suffering, and patients are looking for alternatives to medical therapies and surgery. I hope low-dose radiotherapy can help ﬁll that gap here in Cincinnati.”

Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

MICHAEL D. STEIN, D.O.

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

SID SWAMINATHAN

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

JAMES F. WELLER

Seven Hills Anesthesia, 10191 Evendale Commons Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 817-1150

Bariatric Surgery

MOHAMED I. DAHMAN

Mercy Health - Weight Management Solutions, Fairﬁeld, 3050 Mack Rd., Suite 205, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 682-6980

GEORGE M. KERLAKIAN

TriHealth Group Health - General SurgeryAnderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

STEPHANIE KERLAKIAN

TriHealth Group Health - General SurgeryAnderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

YASIR KHAN, D.O.

Mercy Health - Weight Management Solutions, Kenwood, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 207, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 682-6980

KATHERINE M. MEISTER

TriHealth Group Health - Good Samaritan Campus

- General Surgery, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000

RYAN MOON

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Weight Management, 4900 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 212-4625

HARISH NIRUJOGI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence General Surgery, 4900 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 212-4625

JONATHAN THOMPSON

UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 5400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 939-2263

Breast Surgery

PATRICIA A. ABELLO

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood General Surgery, 20 Medical Village Dr.,

Suite 271, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 578-5880

JOSEPH M. GUENTHER

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood General Surgery, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite 254, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 344-1600

ALICIA HEELAN

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Surgical Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-8900

LYDIA HERNANDEZ

Cincinnati Breast Surgeons, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-2544

ETHAN J. HOPPE

OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, Suite 2300, Main Entrance, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800

ANNE KURITZKY

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion - Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-1300

JAIME LEWIS

UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 440, Surgical Oncology, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 584-8900

JENNIFER B. MANDERS

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 108, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 564-5000

KELLY M. MCLEAN

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 108, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 564-5000

JACQUELYN A.V. PALMER

Mercy HealthFairﬁeld Breast Surgery, 3050 Mack Rd., Suite 202, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 924-8535

KATHLEEN M. RAQUE

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion - Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-1300

DIANNE RUNK

Cincinnati Breast Surgeons, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-2544

BE T. SAITO

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 108, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 564-5000

ADDRESSING PAIN AT THE BRAIN

Spinal cord stimulation shows promise for relieving nerve pain associated with Restless Legs Syndrome.

AS TOLD TO SARAH McCOSHAM

Marc Orlando, M.D., is an interventional pain management specialist at Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, an internationally recognized leader in neurological surgery known for patient-centered care. He’s researching spinal cord stimulation to help relieve pain for those with Restless Legs Syndrome and possibly other medical conditions such as Parkinson’s.

I started my career as a physical therapist and, while doing my med school rotations, became intrigued by physical medicine and rehabilitation. At the time, interventional pain medicine was still in its infancy, with few established procedures or specialists, so I’m selftaught. I’ve been doing this for 30 years, the last 12 with Mayﬁeld, and to date I’ve conducted 1,500 spinal cord stimulator trials.

The brain and the spinal cord are what make us who we are as individuals, athletes, and humans. Simply put, if something is off with the spinal cord, it affects everything. Nerve ﬁbers travel through the body and to the brain.

We discovered that all of those nerves come to the top of the spine, the dorsal, and we’ve been able to pinpoint the spine’s “sweet spot” where a minimal amount of stimulation through an electrode can provide a sensation to the brain that provides signiﬁcant pain relief.

It’s not dissimilar to a pacemaker. We implant a very small battery that’s rechargeable and able to be controlled remotely by the patient. It’s customizable based on different activities and situations and can deliver varying levels of electrodes via a small remote.

We are über-conservative when it

comes to spinal cord stimulation. The main indication for it is “failed back syndrome,” which is when all other options, treatments, and therapies have been exhausted.

It’s estimated that 5 to 15 percent of the population is affected by Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), which can appear spontaneously with no underlying causes. That’s frustrating for patients. The majority of people with RLS have it mostly in their legs, but it can affect other parts of the body. Despite being individualized and subjective, RLS can have an official FDA approval for treatment, and that’s when we can help.

We are currently conducting a small study where we insert a small spinal cord implant in ﬁve patients with an official FDA approval for diagnosis. While the group was small, each experienced great pain relief. This study is the ﬁrst of its kind in developing an off-label indication for RLS. Other conditions we’re considering treating include deep brain stimulation for patients with Parkinson’s, gastroparesis, chronic visceral pain, chronic abdominal pain, and pelvic pain. In Europe, it’s not uncommon to be used for vascular problems, either.

People living in chronic pain can be depressed. As a medical provider, I feel for them and I want to help. Sometimes a patient will run into my wife at an event or just while out and about, and they’ll tell her, Dr. Orlando changed my life. That’s what fuels my ﬁre.

ANNA P.

SOBOLEWSKI

OHC, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 104, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (888) 649-4800

ABIGAIL M. TREMELLING

OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, Suite 2300, Main Entrance, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800

BARBARA A. WEXELMAN

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion - Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-1300

Cardiac Surgery

ROBERT DOUGLAS

ADAMS

TriHealth Heart & Vascular InstituteCT Surgery - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120

GEOFFREY A. ANSWINI

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 201, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

LOUIS ALBERT BRUNSTING III

TriHealth Heart & Vascular InstituteCT Surgery - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120

MARIO CASTILLOSANG

St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Cardiac Surgery - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-9010

GEORGE CHRISTENSEN, D.O.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Cardiac Surgery - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edge-

wood, KY 41017, (859) 301-9010

ROBERT D. DOWLING

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 201, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

JEFFREY M. GRIFFIN

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 201, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

JULIAN GUITRONROIG

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 201, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

SAAD M. HASAN

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 201, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

MICKEY S. ISING

St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Cardiac Surgery - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-9010

MICHAEL J. JAVORSKI

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 201, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

MICHAEL KASTEN

St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Cardiac Surgery - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-9010

LOUIS LOUIS

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

KATHRYN LYNNE O’KEEFE

TriHealth Heart & Vascular InstituteCT Surgery - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120

ERIC J. OKUM

TriHealth Heart & Vascular InstituteCT Surgery - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120

ANTONIO PANZA

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

STEVEN E. PARK

TriHealth Heart & Vascular InstituteCT Surgery - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120

MANISHA A. PATEL

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2139 Auburn Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

J. MICHAEL SMITH

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 201, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170

SAMUEL VESTER

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

Cardiology

ASIMUL HAQ ANSARI

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Arrow Springs, 100 Arrow Springs Blvd., Suite 2500, Lebanon, OH 45036, (513) 246-2400

NAJAMUL ANSARI

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Arrow Springs, 100 Arrow Springs Blvd., Suite 2500, Lebanon, OH 45036, (513) 246-2400

IMRAN ARIF

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

MARK D. BERLACHER

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 7545 Beechmont Ave., Suite D, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 206-1320

MOHANJIT BRAR

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

EUGENE S. CHUNG

The Christ Hospital, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 138, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1180

DARRYL D. DIAS

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

SAADEDDINE

DUGHMAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

GREGORY F. EGNACZYK

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 138, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1180

GAURANG D. GANDHI

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Anderson, 7777 Beechmont Ave., Suite 220, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 246-2400

KONSTANTIN S. GERMAN

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Anderson, 7777 Beechmont Ave., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 246-2400

FREIDOON GHAZI

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 400, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-2400

AMANINDERAPAL

GHOTRA

St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Advanced Heart Failure Management Center - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr.,

Marc Orlando, M.D. Interventional Pain Management Specialist

MAYFIELD BRAIN & SPINE

Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-0124

SAI K. HANUMANTHU

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Anderson, 7777

Beechmont Ave., Suite 220, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 246-2400

DAVID HARRIS

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

JONATHAN L. HASSEL

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Hillsboro, 1275 N. High St., Hillsboro, OH 45133, (513) 246-2400

CHARLES HATTEMER

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

PAUL HOULIHAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

TRAVIS HUFFMAN, D.O.

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Heart & Vascular - Greendale, 1640 Flossie Dr., Greendale, IN 47025, (812) 496-4910

SATEESH KESARI

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 200, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 246-2343

SAEB KHOURY

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

STEPHEN J. LEWIS

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Hillsboro, 1275 N. High St., Hillsboro, OH 45133, (513) 246-2400

PRASANTH LINGAM

Kettering Health Medical Group

Cardiovascular, 1010 Cereal Ave., Suite 207, Cardiovascular,

Hamilton, OH 45013, (513) 867-3331

WILLIAM A. MARTIN

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Anderson, 7777 Beechmont Ave., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 246-2400

KEVIN MILLER

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

ERICA PIVATO, D.O.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

JONATHAN A. RAPP

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 400, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-2400

DAREK SANFORD

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Heart & Vascular - Newport/ Ft. Thomas, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 287-3045

STEPHEN SCHUTZMAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

PUVI N. SESHIAH

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 428, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1222

ANUSHA SHANBHAG

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Heart & Vascular - Lawrenceburg, 606 Wilson Creek Rd., Lawrenceburg, IN 47025, (812) 496-4910

KAMAL SHEMISA

TriHealth Heart & Vascular InstituteCardiology Oncology Clinic, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 400, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-2400

DAMODHAR SURESH

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 287-3045

ANIL VERMA

Mercy Health - The Heart Institute, West, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 125, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 215-9200

HAREEPRASAD

VONGOORU

St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Advanced Heart Failure Management Center - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-0124

MARSHALL W. WINNER

TriHealth Heart & Vascular Institute - Anderson, 7777 Beechmont Ave., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 246-2400

SENAN J. YASAR

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 320, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1120

Colon and Rectal Surgery

CORY D. BARRAT

Mercy HealthKenwood Colon and Rectal Surgery, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 207, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 686-5392

JAI BIKHCHANDANI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Colorectal Surgery, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite 271, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 578-5880

KRISTEN LEIGH

COLEMAN, D.O.

TriHealth Surgical Institute - Bethesda Butler Campus, 3145 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 200B, Fairﬁeld Township, OH 45011, (513) 853-9000

JOHN P. CULLEN

Mercy Health - General and Laparoscopic Surgery, Kenwood, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd.,

Suite 207, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 686-5392

JOHN H. FRANKEL

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 524, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2888

HAMZA GUEND

TriHealth Group

Health - Good Samaritan Campus - General Surgery, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000

RAMESH KUMAR

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Colorectal Surgery, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite 271, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 578-5880

GENNARO D. LABELLA TriHealth Surgical Institute - Bethesda North Campus, 10506B Montgomery Rd., Suite 304, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-9000

IAN PAQUETTE

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 2011, Perioperative Care, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 584-1000

JANICE F. RAFFERTY

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 524, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2888

JONATHAN SNYDER

UC Health, 7690 Discovery Dr., Suite 2300, Colon & Rectal Surgery, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 929-0104

EARL V. THOMPSON IV

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Gynecologic Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-6373

Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease

MUNEER M. AL ZOBY

Mercy HealthClermont Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 200, Batavia, OH 45103, (513) 735-1701

SAMIR ATAYA

Mercy HealthClermont Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 200, Batavia, OH 45103, (513) 735-1701

HUTHAYFA A. ATEELI

Mercy HealthAnderson Hospital Pulmonology and Critical Care, 7500 State Rd., Suite 3310, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 233-6480

IRFAN BUDHANI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Pulmonology, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 912-7193

CHRISTOPHER R. BUTLER, D.O.

Mercy Health - West Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 559-7025

OMAR HASAN, D.O.

TriHealth Pulmonary Medicine - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Bldg. B, Suite 220, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 793-2654

CHRISTOPHER E. HAYNER

TriHealth Group

Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 793-2654

VISHAL D. JIVAN

The Christ Hospital, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 401, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 241-5489

SAI KONDURI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Pulmonology, 651 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-2927

KIRANMAYEE LANKA

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 401, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 241-5489

SHAHLA MALLICK

TriHealth Group

Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 793-2654

CHAITANYA

MANDAPAKALA

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Pulmonology, 651 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-2927

SCOTT MCCARDLE

TriHealth Chief of Critical Care Medicine, 625 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 569-1000

OLUSEUN MEDEYINLO

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Pulmonology, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 757-2927

DANIEL E. MURPHY

Mercy HealthKenwood Pulmonary and Critical Care, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 206, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 791-4490

CHRISTOPHER M. ORABELLA

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 401, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 241-5489

MOHAMMAD SHEATT

TriHealth - Bethesda Butler - Sleep Center, 3055 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 300, Fairﬁeld Township, OH 45011, (513) 865-1690

ANDREW RYAN VOGEL, D.O. TriHealth Pulmonary Lung Nodule Clinic, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 104, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-1145

WILLIAM WILLMOTT St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Pulmonology, 651 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-2927

Dermatology

SABRA MARIE ABNER

TriHealth Group Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7546

BRIAN ADAMS

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite G100, Dermatology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4644

BREATHING THROUGH YOUR BUTT?

Children’s Hospital is researching an alternative form of delivering oxygen to the body.

BY ALEXANDRA FROST

It’s something you might expect to see on a sci-fi TV episode, but the latest advancements in medical breathing support might surprise you…with help from your butt. Enteral ventilation (a.k.a. “butt breathing”) is one of the newest forms of support a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital researcher is studying, and it’s gaining traction.

The process utilizes oxygenated ﬂuids that are inserted into the body through an enema-style approach. The body absorbs the liquid into the bloodstream through the colon, a potentially helpful option for medical situations, like inﬂamed or damaged airways, where breathing tube placement isn’t possible.

Those who saw the struggles of intubating patients in the pandemic might have welcomed such a supplementary approach. Children, including preemies who might not do well or could have permanent damage from intubation, might also see it as a welcome alternative, according to lead researcher Takanori Takebe, M.D.

The process had seen positive results in previous studies involving pigs, and initial small studies with humans are equally promising, says Takebe, whose research was inspired by his father’s own lung problems. “We are so excited about intestinal breathing capacities, because

we know that the intestinal surface is actually even longer than the lung surface area,” he says. “The GI tract has much more surface and vasculature is quite abundant there.”

Researchers looked to nature as further inspiration for the concept, speciﬁcally a ﬁsh commonly eaten in Japan called the loach, says Takebe, which can swallow air from the surface and absorb oxygen in its gut to help it survive in difficult conditions.

New research shows that this type of breathing might be able to work for between 30 minutes and two hours, but Takebe says in the future that support might be repeatable a few hours later. In his new study, 27 healthy men in Japan were able to butt breathe for an hour and didn’t have any serious issues, with only minor side effects like bloating and discomfort. Takebe and his team are working on narrowing down how much liquid is needed to improve blood oxygen levels, among other questions.

Takanori Takebe, M.D. Endowed Chair of Organoid Medicine

CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Should you expect to be offered an enema if you head to the ER with a damaged airway? Not any time soon, says Takebe, since multiple phases of human research remain before the treatment becomes a reality. With more research and funding, he hopes that eventually it will be a popular secondary way to support breathing, with less damage, for those who need it most.

ASMA ANSARI

TriHealth Group Health - Mason, 6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-7546

JENNIFER A. CAFARDI

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 4440 Red Bank Expwy., Suite 220, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 564-1325

MOHAMMAD DIAB DOCS Dermatology - Dermatologists of Southwest Ohio, Inc., 4900 Wunnenberg Way, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 864-3700

DRORE EISEN Dermatologists of Southwest Ohio - Anderson, 7691 Five Mile Rd., Suite 312, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 232-3332

MOLLY GRUNENWALD EISNER Dermatology Associates Of Northern Kentucky, 7766 Ewing Blvd., Suite 100, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 283-1033

DENA ELKEEB Dermatology & Skin Care Associates, 7249 Liberty Way, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 770-3263

JACQUELINE FISHER, D.O. CincySkin Medical & Cosmetic Dermatology 8300 Kenwood Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 393-9122

MONA S. FOAD

MONA Dermatology, 7730 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-4800

RACHEL E. GUSTIN

Mercy Health - Kenwood Dermatology, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd.,

NATURE CALLS

Sanjay Shewakramani, M.D., and Sian Cotton, Ph.D, at Ault Park

TAKE TWO WALKS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING

UC Health and Cincinnati Parks partner on a new “nature as medicine” program.

BY CARRIE BLACKMORE

Standing atop the pavilion in Ault Park, Sian Cotton and Sanjay Shewakramani, M.D., each take a deep breath and survey the surrounding landscape, rich in the oranges, yellows, and reds of peak fall. “The science is strong, particularly as it relates to anxiety and depression,” says Cotton, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Cincinnati. “Both the psychological markers, like mood and quality of sleep, and the physiological markers, like blood pressure and immune response, tell us it’s a good thing to be outside.”

Research shows that as little as 20 minutes a day outdoors can have lasting effects on our health, Cotton says, and that’s why she and Shewakramani, an emergency physician at UC Health, are thrilled to participate in a new Osher program called Nature As Medicine, which allows UC physicians to prescribe time outside.

To date, more than 100 referrals have been made from UC departments including oncology, family medicine, neurology, psychiatry, the Lindner Center of Hope, and the

emergency department, where Shewakramani has personally made several referrals. He’s one of the program’s “nature champions” and says he learned the power of nature ﬁrst-hand about eight years ago. “I wasn’t actually a healthy person before,” Shewakramani says of a difficult period of his life. “As an emergency physician, our jobs are pretty stressful, as people might imagine, and we have weird hours. I found that in my offtime walking was good for me.”

Frequent hikes in Alms Park, near his home, helped Shewakramani feel better and

Sanjay Shewakramani, M.D.

Emergency Physician and Clinical Professor

UC HEALTH

we must lean in. Food is medicine. Exercise is medicine. Nature is medicine. Arts and movement are medicine. Mindfulness is medicine.”

Sian Cotton, Ph.D.

Director and Research Professor

UC OSHER CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH

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More than one-third of Cincinnati residents live with obesity or hypertension and one-third report doing little to no physical activity, according to the most recent Cincinnati Public Health Department Community Health Needs Assessment. Cincinnatians have higher rates of poor mental health compared to other parts of Ohio and the U.S., according to the same report.

“Nationally, we spend 17.6 percent of our GDP on healthcare, and we get some of the worst health outcomes,” says Cotton. “If we’re going to transform a system,

The parks foundation built upon its existing calendar of free programing, mainly April through October, including yoga, Tai Chi, line dancing, guided hikes, and other activities. More than 12,000 people participated in the program’s ﬁrst year, and Cincinnati Parks was able to remove barriers by providing complimentary bus passes, recreation center passes, and connection to Findlay Market’s Food Rx program where needed for patients.

“It’s connection that this partnership creates,” says Shewakramani. “It will sound a little bit fluffy, but it’s a connection to Earth, a connection to other people, a connection to ourselves.”

UC Health CEO and President Cory Shaw has said he’s committed to making Cincinnati the healthiest city in the U.S. With this program, maybe more of that work can happen outdoors, says Cotton. “We want to use the power of the healthcare provider to say, In addition to the medicine you take for your sleep or for your anxiety, we really encourage you to get outside,” she says. “We’ve built connections that I haven’t actually seen in any other health system.”

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Researchers use a massive database called the Library of Integrated NetworkBased Cellular Signatures to show what happens inside cells when certain genes are turned off or when drugs are added. By comparing these data sets, they can ﬁnd compounds that cause the same effects as blocking a speciﬁc gene. So ceSAR spots drugs that might act on the same biological pathway, helping scientists quickly identify promising treatments.

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T o m T u r c i c h w a l k e d Tom Turcich walked a r o u n d t h e w o r l d around the world

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smalL boy rode sidesadDle on a braying donkey nonchalantly eating grapes as he slowly made his way down the dusty street of a remote Turkish village.

Tom Turcich didn’t know the boy. He didn’t know anyone. It was just an ordinary sun-splashed day, but the moment struck him like a thunderbolt.

“I remember thinking, after all these miles, This is what life is,” Turcich recalls. “I thought about all the generations of people who have lived and died there, lived very rich lives, and never knew anything else. They never saw what I’ve seen or experienced what I have. And it just calmed me. It taught me to live with what I am and where you are.”

By this point in his journey around the world, Turcich had seen and experienced thousands of miles of pavement, thickets, woods, deserts, and dirt paths on six continents. He was on the ﬁnal leg of a seven-year, 28,000-mile walk. He’d faced strength-sapping heat and bone-numbing cold. He’d been attacked by vicious dogs. He’d been robbed at knifepoint in Panama and held up at gunpoint in Turkey. He had visa issues that turned borders into barriers. COVID would strand him in Azerbaijan and cut short his planned route. He’d fall seriously ill and wonder if that was how his life would end. And he’d ﬁnd a dog and best friend.

His 2024 autobiographical book, The World Walk (Skyhorse

Tom Turcich’s WORLD WALK W O R L D W A L K at a Glance

More than 28,000 miles More than 28,000 miles (Earth at the equator is 24,900 miles) (Earth at the equator is 24,900 miles)

Six continents but and 38 countries and 38 countries

Six continents (all but Australia)

Walked between 21 and 24 miles a

Walked between 21 and 24 miles a day

Went through 45 pairs of shoes Went 45 pairs shoes

Ate around 5,000 calories and Ate around 5,000 calories and drank 2.5 to 3.5 liters of water per day drank 2.5 to 3.5 liters water per

Walk started on April 2,2015, Walk started on 2,2015, and ended on May 21,2022 and ended on 21,2022

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE TOM AND SAVANNAH?

Tom Turcich’s world adventure took him to orange groves in Valencia, Spain; waters around Antarctica; valley pastures in Arslanbob,Kyrgyzstan; and balloon rides in Cappadocia,Turkey.

ﬁ lm Dead Poets Society, and Robin Williams’s uplifting line grabbed him: “Carpe diem! Seize the day!” It felt like a personal admonishment to leave his uncomfortable comfort zone and embrace life…out there somewhere.

“I REMEMBER THINKING, AFTER ALL THESE MILES,

Publishing), tells the remarkable story of his journey with his trusted companion, Savannah, who became the ﬁrst dog ever to walk around the world. Turcich was the 10th human to accomplish the feat.

Turcich, 36, now lives in Newport with his soon-to-be wife, Bonnie, whom he met late in his odyssey. They’re planning a May wedding, two weeks shy of the fourth anniversary of his walkabout’s ﬁnal steps.

with a loving family. “No divorces, no drama, and family meals with a lot of laughter,” he recalls with a wry smile. “I was a product of an idyllic environment, so I was pretty naive and trusting.”

Somewhere turned out to be everywhere. “It was in that same speech and communications class when I gave a talk my senior year about walking around the world,” he says. “I’d been thinking about doing it for a while, but once I said it aloud I knew I couldn’t back out, even though I knew no one in my class was going to remember it.”

His promise, he concluded, wasn’t to his high school classmates—it was to himself. “I guess I couldn’t imagine anything worse than someone who talks about all the things they’re going to do and then does none of them,” he says.

The first sentence of Turcich’s book will, undoubtedly, surprise any reader anticipating a modern-day Travels With Charlie. “If you’re considering travel, I would advise against it,” he warns. “The longer it goes on, the more ruined you become.”

If it sounds like Turcich regrets his roughly 60 million steps and seven years of pushing a modiﬁed baby carriage around the globe, you’d be wrong. What he “ruined” was the overgrown garden he was desperate to plow under—a fear of death and a life without purpose and, as he puts it, “a head full of weeds that needed to be pulled.”

Those weeds weren’t easily explainable. He grew up in a Leave It to Beaver neighborhood in suburban New Jersey

But there was also a silent partner at the dinner table. A persistent Grim Reaper was always hanging around, ﬂooding Turcich’s thoughts with both a fear of and fascination with death. He remembers going to bed at night and intentionally working to cut off contact with his senses: Placing a pillow over his head and ﬁngers in his ears, he’d imagine drifting off to the great beyond. But that search for nothingness always failed because his mind kept racing. “And, in death,” he writes,“there are no thoughts.”

Death did come suddenly to a close friend, and, when it did, Turcich’s thoughts of death became obsessive. He remembers being in a stupor, neither crying nor caring. He was 17 and lost. He attributes his rescue to a speech class where he watched a few clips from the 1989 classic

Turcich went to college and spent a few years saving for the journey while meticulously plotting his route. He found a patron who constructed a cart where he could store his belongings, picked up a local sponsor, fell in love, and then broke it off because, as he says, “we would have settled down, bought furniture, had kids, and I’d never do the walk.”

Life is about choices, and Turcich’s choice found him on his parents’ porch in spring 2015 marveling at the beautiful early April morning, surrounded by a couple dozen well-wishers and a tearful mother. He was off to see the world and, with that ﬁrst step, knew his life would never be the same.

The best-laid plans often fall by the wayside when tested in real-life situations. It wasn’t long before blisters, aches

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THIS IS WHAT LIFE IS."

FAKE NEWS

JANUARY 2026

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO

IN A SEPTEMBER 2024 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, DONALD TRUMP FALSELY ACCUSED HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS OF EATING SPRINGFIELD, OHIO’S DOGS AND CATS. TODAY, RESIDENTS ARE FOCUSED ON BUILDING A NEW NORMAL.

By Mary McCarty

Photographs by Patrick Tehan

MAGDALA SINGS

with joyful abandon every Sunday morning at the Haitian Creole service in Springﬁeld, Ohio, praising God in the same gorgeous mezzo soprano voice that fueled her career as a gospel singer in her native country. Her 3-year-old son toddles up to her in the middle of her solo, wrapping his arms around her leg like human Velcro. It’s as if he can’t bear to be parted from his mama for even a few minutes.

Magdala feels the same way. “I am so close to my family, I couldn’t bear to be separated from them,” says the stay-at-home mother who spends her days chasing her “trois petits”—three young boys, two of whom were born in the U.S. She speaks French to me through a translator. (Like other Haitians I spoke to, Magdala asked me not to use her last name.)

Yet the threat of deportation and family separation looms over Magdala’s family and the estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Haitian immigrants who have moved to Springfield in recent years, reviving the city’s faltering economy and inadvertently igniting a political firestorm. “If we put out an ad looking for people to move to Springfield, the Haitian people would fit the bill perfectly,” says Springfield native Sally Edgington. “They are hard workers. They’re family people.”

When Haitians first arrived in Springfield, a town of 60,000 northeast of Dayton, many businesses, city leaders, and residents welcomed them like an answered prayer; they filled vacant jobs and spruced up abandoned homes. That was before neo-Nazi groups marched down Main Street brandishing rifles and swastika banners. Before Donald Trump infamously declared during a 2024 presidential debate, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats.”

The controversy stirred the city’s better angels as well, mobilizing hundreds of volunteers to ﬁght on behalf of their Haitian neighbors. “It was gut-

FED UP The Haitian population of Springfield, Ohio, and their supporters are trying to maintain a sense of normalcy after being attacked by President Trump. (Opposite page) Magdala sings at the Creole service at Central Christian Church, where Pastor Carl Ruby welcomes everyone of faith. (From top) Springfield residents came out in August for a “Love Thy Neighbor” rally, while Haitian residents try to focus on daily life and stay out of the public glare.

wrenching to drive through my hometown and to see Nazis marching down the street,” says Edgington, a retired nurse who volunteers with Springﬁeld Neighbors United, which works with the local St. Vincent de Paul Society. “I felt like I needed to do something.”

Few Haitians have been deported to date from Springﬁeld, but immigration attorneys and advocates for the community say the danger of family separation is real. The Trump administration ended temporary protection status for Haitian immigrants in the U.S. in December, two months earlier than the scheduled 18-month window that was supposed to end February 3.

Family separation policies from the first Trump administration are now

being enforced everywhere, says Katie Kersh, a managing attorney in the Dayton office of Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE). Her office has ﬁelded numerous calls about children being thrown into local foster care systems when their immigrant parents are detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), even for such minor offenses as a traffic infraction.

“In general during the ﬁrst Trump administration, law enforcement in the interior of the U.S. was hesitant to separate children from their parents,” says Kersh. “They would usually leave one parent there to care for the children, but that isn’t happening now. The federal government has demonstrated that it’s absolutely willing to separate children

from their parents. I have heard of few coordinated efforts from the federal government to promote family unity or the rights of children and the well-being of children who are being affected.”

In other words, she says, “If ICE knocks on your door or pulls you over after you drop off your kid at school, there is no opportunity any more for you to be reunited with your kid.”

A handful of the town’s Haitian residents have self-deported to other countries or more immigrant-friendly states. Some have attempted to selfdeport and apply for asylum in other countries but were forced to return because they cannot do so while under pending asylum in the U.S. Most have opted to stay and to pray for a change in

A LEGACY OF HOPE Many Springfield residents are frustrated that their town has been used by politicians to project anti-immigrant messages. Central Christian Church (above) and the Heritage Center Museum (right) are beacons of hope, while a large public mural celebrates local Civil Rights hero Hattie Moseley.

the national climate. Since the temporary protection status ended, Springﬁeld has become a Rorschach test for the soul of America, a referendum on the question of whether we’ll continue to live up to the motto etched onto the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

AS SHE CRADLES A

3-month-old baby in her arms, Edgington asks quietly, “What is going to happen to you?”

Edgington shakes off her tears like raindrops off an umbrella. She needs to get back to work, assisting the parents with a passport application for their newborn. “We are prone to crying around here,” she acknowledges sheepishly. “But I need to stay positive for these families. They have been through so much already.”

The infant is one of an estimated 1,200 Haitian children in the Springfield area born in the U.S. The local St. Vincent de Paul Society offers the so-called “baby passport” program as a way of making it easier for these children to follow their parents if they’re deported—ideally to a third country— and less likely they’ll become lost in the U.S. foster care system.

From the beginning, Springfield’s Haitian immigrants ﬂocked to SVDP, a familiar charity in their heavily Catholic native country. In the past, they lined up by the dozens outside the front door every morning, looking for translation services and help with housing and immigration paperwork. As work permits are revoked and jobs lost, they now come in greater numbers seeking food assistance. The charity is busier than ever, with the food pantry alone serving an additional 300 additional families per month. But they arrive in staggered numbers, afraid of being picked up by ICE agents.

targeted and doxxed on neo-Nazi websites, which have posted personal information about her as well as photos of her home and her friends. “There are a lot of Americans who are very angry with us for helping immigrants,” says Rollins. “But I have to live with myself. I can’t answer to angry Americans. I’m going to answer to my maker.”

Even the decor of the SVDP community center illustrates how smoothly the two cultures have blended, showcasing classic Catholic statuettes side by side with Haitian art. A Haitian rendering of the Last Supper overlooks a 1950s-era statue of the Virgin Mary.

Rollins stops to chat with one of her employees, Joseph, whose strong English language skills landed him a job helping his fellow Haitians navigate local services and the legal system. On a busy October morning, he’s assisting a young father with paperwork for an upcoming court date.

The young man proudly shows off photos of his daughters, ages 5 and 18 months, before describing his dueling fears of being torn from his family by ICE or being returned to potential violence in his native country. “Haiti isn’t safe or stable right now, and if I went back I might be a target because they would think I had money,” he tells Joseph.

He doesn’t let his little girls know how worried he is, wanting them instead to enjoy a carefree childhood. “My biggest fear is being separated from my family,” he says.

It’s a pain that Joseph understands only too well. “We all would rather be in our home country, but we’re here looking for a better life,” says the father of two children who live in Haiti with his wife.

At first, that better life seemed elusive. Upon arriving in Springﬁ eld in 2021, Joseph shared a two-bedroom apartment with 15 people. “I wanted to cry living like that,” he recalls, “after leaving my beautiful home in Haiti.”

are working so hard.”

While on the job, Joseph never feels lonely. During the weekend, he confesses, he counts the hours until he can return to work and serve the poor. “When I am here, it is like coming to my second family,” he says. “When I am here I am always happy. When I am home, I feel alone. I can’t wait to come to work to see my other family.”

When they talk over the phone, Joseph’s 14-year-old son asks, “When will you be home, Daddy?”

“I am coming, my son, don’t worry,” he replies. “But I need to be working here now to take care of you.”

“I miss you,” the boy says.

“I miss you more,” the father says.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security promises a $1,000 exit bonus and a free plane ticket to their home countries if immigrants will selfdeport. But Joseph has not forgotten the many times he woke up in Haiti to the sight of bodies lying in the street, gunned down by roving gangs. “You could be self-deporting to your death,” he says.

Joseph’s immigration attorney assures him that his pending asylum application will protect him from deportation, but he isn’t alone in worrying whether past precedent will hold. “With Donald Trump, we just don’t know,” he says. “I’ve heard that you can have pending asylum status and ICE can still pick you up.”

Several local advocates, speaking off the record, say they’ve been warned by Homeland Security officials that immigrants with asylum status will not be spared. Department officials did not return requests for comment.

Like many of the volunteers and activists working with her city’s immigrants, Casey Rollins has learned to deal with her own brand of fear. As executive director of Springﬁeld’s St. Vincent de Paul Society, she’s been

But his wife encouraged him to stay strong and to remember he was in the U.S. to support his family back home in Haiti. “We came here to work,” Joseph says. “And we grew Springﬁeld. We rent homes, we work, and we are strong. We

Such threats, if they’re being made, are scare tactics that aren’t legally enforceable, Kersh says. She informs her clients at ABLE that they generally can’t be deported if their asylum application has been approved, but she recommends carrying proof of their asylum approval at all times. The big problem, she says, is that very few if any Haitians have actually been approved for asylum; she hasn’t met a single Haitian in Springﬁeld who’s been approved yet.

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JASON P. CONTE, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5072

MONICA L. GEARDING, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

JESSE R. LIPCIUS, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5032

JEREMIAH R. SEEBOHM, City of Cincinnati Law Department, Cincinnati

J. MICHAEL (MIKE) HURST, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 562-1401

CORPORATE LAW

MAXWELL LOUIS BERG, MB Law LLC, Cincinnati

ANDREW R. BERGER, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

ROSS J. BEXTERMUELLER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 562-1433

KAI BITTER, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

CALVIN D. BUFORD, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

HARVEY J. COHEN, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

ADAM D. COLVIN, Squire Patton Boggs, Cincinnati

THOMAS L. CUNI, Thomas Downing Law Firm, Cincinnati

W. STUART DORNETTE, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

MARTINÉ “MARTY” R. DUNN, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

MARIANNE SCOTT EMMERT, Marianne Scott Emmert, Attorney at Law, Cincinnati

ALAN S. FERSHTMAN, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6961

JACK GATLIN, Gatlin Voelker, Covington

ANN W. GERWIN, Strauss Troy Co., LPA, 150 E. Fourth St., Floor 4, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 629-9483

JOHN R. GIERL, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

BRADLEY G. HAAS, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

W. ASHLEY HESS, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Cincinnati

DUSTIN R. HURLEY, Hurley Law, Middletown

MICHAEL B. HURLEY, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, 255 E. Fifth St., 2800 First Financial Center, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 693-4829

Scott A. Sollmann Partner

Warren J. Ritchie Of Counsel

Lawrence E. Barbiere Of Counsel

Jay D. Patton Partner

James J. Barbiere Partner

Megan Ahrens Sullivan Of Counsel

Connor J. Haller Associate

Thomas T. Keating Of Counsel

Brian E. Hurley Of Counsel

Matthew J. Byrnes Associate

William P. Schroeder Of Counsel

Katherine L. Barbiere Partner

Jacob R. Conners Associate

Kurt M. Irey Partner

Bruce A. McGary Of Counsel

Todd M. Powers Of Counsel

Christopher L. Moore Partner

JAMES (JIM) M. JANSING, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6439

THOMAS KILCOYNE, Cors & Bassett, LLC, Cincinnati

MATTHEW A. KITCHEN, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

RICHARD E. LAMPING, Santen & Hughes, Cincinnati

ROGER E. LAUTZENHISER JR., Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

ROBERT C. LESAN III, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796939

2026 TOP LAWYERS

PAUL R. MATTINGLY, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JAMES (JIM) J. MCGRAW JR., Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 639-3968

GEORGE D. MOLINSKY, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

JULIE T. MUETHING, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 6393870

JERAD T. WHITT, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796965

EMPLOYEE

BENEFITS LAW

JOSEPH BORCHELT, Reminger, Cincinnati

ROBERT E. BRANT, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

THOMAS A. BREITENBACH, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

TIMOTHY R. BROWN, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6800

CLAIRE W. BUSHORN

DANZL, The Bushorn Firm, LLC, Cincinnati

HELANA A. DARROW, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

DAVID D. KAMMER, Niehaus Law Office, LLC, Cincinnati

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STEPHEN C. KISLING, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

MELISSA D. KURZHALS, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

MICHAEL A. LAING, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

KELLY E. MACDONALD, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6409

JOHN F. MEISENHELDER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6914

LISA WINTERSHEIMER

MICHEL, Keating

Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6462

RACHEL M. PAPPENFUS, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6492

ROBERT R. SAELINGER, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

ANTOINETTE L. SCHINDEL, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6473

MARK A. STIEBEL, Stiebel Law Firm, Cincinnati

MANLEY BURKE

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

E. CHASE

DRESSMAN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

DAVID M. EDELSTEIN, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

CHRISTOPHER S. HABEL, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

STEPHEN N. HAUGHEY, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

WILLIAM D. HAYES, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

JAMES C. KEZELE, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796598

ANDREW L. KOLESAR, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6545

BOZANA L. LUNDBERG, Keating

Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6509

KEVIN N. MCMURRAY, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

KRISTOPHER T. MILNER, Keating

Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 639-3877

JILL A. WELLER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796980

FAMILY LAW

GREGORY L. ADAMS, Croswell & Adams Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

2026 TOP LAWYERS

MARISA MOORE APEL, Pivotal Housing Partners,

MANISHA BANSAL KOTIAN, MBK, Cincinnati

PHYLLIS G. BOSSIN, Phyllis G. Bossin & Associates, Cincinnati

MICHAEL W. BOULDIN, Bouldin Law Firm, Covington

KAREN RIESTENBERG BRINKMAN, Brinkman & Associates, Cincinnati

COURTNEY

CAPARELLAKRAEMER, CaparellaKraemer & Associates, LLC, 4841-A Rialto Rd., West Chester, OH, 45069, (513) 942-7222

TRACI COMBSVALERIO, Law Office of Traci Combs-Valerio, LLC, Fairﬁeld

CATHY R. COOK, Cathy R. Cook, Attorneys at Law, Cincinnati

CHRISSY DUNN DUTTON, Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co., LPA, Cincinnati

ELLEN ESSIG, The Family Law & Fertility Law Group, Cincinnati

SHAWN M. EVANS, Goldberg Evans LLC, 1205 Pendleton St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 9279759

RALPH P. GINOCCHIO, Schimpf, Ginocchio, Kehres & Clark Co., LLC, Cincinnati

JEFFREY S. GOODMAN, Goodman & Morrisroe, Cincinnati

MICKENZIE R. GRUBB, SM Law, West Chester

GUY M. HILD, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

JOSEPH S. HONERLAW, The Honerlaw Firm, LLC, Cincinnati

BARBARA J. HOWARD, Barbara J. Howard Co., LPA, Cincinnati

BRUCE HUNTER, Bruce Hunter, LLC, Cincinnati

WIJDAN JREISAT, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

AIMEE L. KELLER, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

LYNN LAMPE, The Lampe Law Office, LLC, 9277 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 100, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 8890400

JIMMY J. LEFTON, Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer, Co. LPA, Cincinnati

MARY ELLEN MALAS, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796542

VIVIAN MARTIN, Law Office of Vivian L. Martin, LLC, Batavia

MICHAEL D. MCNEIL, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

DEBORAH L. MCPARTLIN, Wagner & Bloch, 9000 Plainﬁeld Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 902-1872

ROBERT J. MEYERS, Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co., LPA, Cincinnati

MELISSA THOMPSON MILLARD, Barbara J. Howard Co., LPA, Cincinnati

BETH MURRAY, Murray Law, Cincinnati

MAGGIE M. NESTHEIDE, Link Nestheide Family Law, Cincinnati

ADRIENNE J. ROACH, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796487

CRAIG SAMS, Kirkland & Sommers Co. LPA, Mason

BETH SILVERMAN, Beth Silverman & Associates LLC, Cincinnati

LAURA THUDIUM, Thudium Law, LLC, Cincinnati

KRYSTINA GEORGE UNDERWOOD, George & Underwood, LLP, Lebanon

GAYLE M. WARM, Wagner & Bloch, 9000 Plainﬁeld Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 902-1872

SAMANTHA WICKTORA, Wicktora & Miller, LLC, Montgomery

FRANCHISE LAW

ALEXANDER (ALEX) N. BECK, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6912

JAMES B. HARRISON, Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

CHRISTOPHER KUHNHEIN, Cors & Bassett, LLC, Cincinnati

HEALTH CARE LAW

GREGORY W. BEE, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

JEFFREY M. HINES, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely and Dennis LLP, 600 Vine St., Suite 2650, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 3819218

DEBORAH R. LYDON, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

RICK MORGAN, Rick Morgan Law, New Richmond

MELVIN S. SHOTTEN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

IMMIGRATION LAW

BAHJAT “BILL” ABDALLAH, Abdallah Law Offices, Centerville

MATTHEW L. BENSON, Bartlett & Weigle Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

MICHAEL “MIKE” BRANDABUR, Brandabur Law, LLC, Hamilton

NEIL FLEISCHER, The Fleischer Law Firm, Cincinnati

TOM GEYGAN, Geygan & Geygan, Ltd., Cincinnati

ANNA A. KORNEEVA, The Law Firm of Anna Korneeva, Cincinnati

NAZLY MAMEDOVA, Law Office of Nazly Mamedova, 11260 Chester Rd., Suite 310, Cincinnati, OH, 45246, (513) 837-9714

CAROLYN A. MARKS, MarksVerde Law, LLC, Mason

LARISA SCHNEIDER, Larisa Schneider Attorney At Law, Florence

BLAKE P. SOMERS, Blake P. Somers LLC, Cincinnati

NICOLE TOMKO, Musillo Unkenholt, LLC, Cincinnati

DOUGLAS S. WEIGLE, Bartlett & Weigle Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

INSURANCE LAW

ALAN H. ABES, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

THOMAS B. BRUNS, Bruns, Connell, Vollmar & Armstrong, LLC, Cincinnati

ROBERT CETRULO, Cetrulo Law, Edgewood

MEGAN B. GRAMKE, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5146

GREGORY A. HARRISON, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

KIMBERLY ANN KYLE, Flagel & Papakirk LLC, Cincinnati

JAMES (JIM) R. MATTHEWS, Keating

Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6507

C. JOSEPH MCCULLOUGH, White, Getgey & Meyer, Cincinnati

JOHN F. MCLAUGHLIN, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely and Dennis LLP, 600 Vine St., Suite 2650, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 3819368

JENNIFER K. NORDSTROM, Garvey, Shearer, Nordstrom, PSC, Cincinnati

CARMEN C. SARGE, Rolfes Henry Co., LPA, Cincinnati

ANTHONY (TONY) M. VERTICCHIO, Keating

Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 639-3878

2026 TOP LAWYERS

JOHN M. WILLIAMS, The Law Office of John M. Williams, LLC, Cincinnati

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND

PATENT LAW

APRIL L. BESL, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

DAVID H. BRINKMAN, Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati

STACY A. COLE, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796463

KENNETH B. GERMAIN, Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati

STEPHEN E. GILLEN, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

SARAH OTTE GRABER, Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati

LUCAS “DUKE” V. HAUGH, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

THOMAS W. HUMPHREY, Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati

STEPHEN R. JENEI, Jenei LLC, Cincinnati

HOLLY D. KOZLOWSKI, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, Cincinnati

MARGARET AVRIL LAWSON, Taft

Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

PAUL J. LINDEN, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

MICHAEL A. MARRERO, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5078

MARK E. MUSEKAMP, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796590

SEAN K. OWENS, Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati

KATHRYN E. SMITH, Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati

TOM STACHLER, Pinales Stachler Young Burrell, Cincinnati

WILLIAM “BILL” S. WYLER, Flagel & Papakirk LLC, Cincinnati

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

COLE D. BOND, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796558

DEBORAH S. BRENNEMAN, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6638

JULIE M. BRUNS, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

DANIEL E. BURKE, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

PETER BURRELL, Pinales Stachler Young Burrell, Cincinnati

ERIC S. CLARK, Jackson Lewis P.C., Cincinnati

JENNIFER WALWYN COLVIN, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, 255 E. Fifth St., 2800 First Financial Center, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 693-4870

CURTIS CORNETT, Cors & Bassett, LLC, Cincinnati

BRIAN G. DERSHAW, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

LEE P. GEIGER, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

FELIX J. GORA, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely and Dennis LLP, 600 Vine St., Suite 2650, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 3819278

KERRY P. HASTINGS, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

MICHAEL W. HAWKINS, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

ALISON M. HUENEFELD, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6545

AUGUST T. JANSZEN, The Janszen Law Firm, Cincinnati

CHRISTOPHER (CHRIS) M. JONES, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6911

ANDREW R. KAAKE, Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

ROBERT A. KLINGLER, Robert A. Klingler Co., LPA, Cincinnati

DAVID S. MANN, Mann and Mann Law, Cincinnati

MARTIN MCHENRY, Martin McHenry Law, Cincinnati

JOHN M. MILLIGAN, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796532

SHANE C. SIDEBOTTOM, Ziegler & Schneider, P.S.C., Covington

TOM STACHLER, Pinales Stachler Young Burrell, Cincinnati

TOD J. THOMPSON, Tod J. Thompson, Attorney at Law, Ltd., Cincinnati

DAVID G. TORCHIA, Tobias, Torchia & Simon, Cincinnati

ELIZABETH (LISA) S. TUCK, The Tuck Firm, LLC, Cincinnati

LINDA L. WOEBER, Montgomery Jonson LLP, Cincinnati

LAND USE & ZONING

EMILY T. SUPINGER, Strauss Troy Co., LPA, 150 E. Fourth St., Floor 4, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 768-9782

THOMAS M. TEPE JR., Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 6393947

RICHARD B. TRANTER, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JOSEPH (JOE) L. TRAUTH JR., Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6515

LEGAL MALPRACTICE LAW

VINCENT P. ANTAKI, Reminger, Cincinnati

GEORGE D. JONSON, Montgomery Jonson LLP, Cincinnati

LITIGATIONANTITRUST

MATTHEW C. BLICKENSDERFER, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

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JEFFREY S. GOLDENBERG, Goldenberg Schneider, LPA, Cincinnati

BILL MARKOVITS, Markovits, Stock & DeMarco LLC, Cincinnati

WILLIAM J. SEITZ III, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

LITIGATIONCOMMERCIAL

AMANDA STUBBLEFIELD

BURTON, Keating

Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6430

MICHAEL L. CIOFFI, Blank Rome LLP, 201 E. Fifth St., 1700 PNC Center, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 362-8701

TERENCE R. COATES, Markovits, Stock & DeMarco LLC, Cincinnati

W. STUART

DORNETTE, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

SARAH VONDERBRINK

GEIGER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6495

JOHN C. “JACK” GREINER, Faruki PLL, Cincinnati

ADAM P. HALL, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

STEVEN D. HENGEHOLD, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely and Dennis LLP, 600 Vine St., Suite 2650, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 381-9221

2026 TOP LAWYERS

AARON M. HERZIG, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

DAVID F. HINE, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

JEFFREY P. HINEBAUGH, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

TIMOTHY J. HURLEY, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

NANCY A. LAWSON, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JACOB D. RHODE, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796580

MICHAEL L. SCHEIER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796952

LITIGATIONCONSTRUCTION

KENT A. BRITT, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

KEVIN FEAZELL, Cors & Bassett, LLC, Cincinnati

HEATHER M. HAWKINS, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

JOHN S. HIGGINS, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

DANIEL (DAN) E. IZENSON, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6480

SCOTT A. KANE, Squire Patton Boggs, Cincinnati

JESSE R. LIPCIUS, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5032

ROBERT A. MCMAHON, Eberly McMahon Copetas LLC, Cincinnati

FREDERIC “FRITZ” X. SHADLEY, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5014

DALE A. STALF, Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

TAYLOR V. TROUT, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796948

LITIGATIONINSURANCE

ROBERT GEHRING, Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co., LPA, Cincinnati

LITIGATIONINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

GLENN D. BELLAMY, Wood Herron & Evans LLP, Cincinnati

JOHN F. BENNETT, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

BARBARA BISON JACOBSON, Bison Jacobson Law Office, Dublin

STEPHEN J. BUTLER, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6587

STEVEN C. COFFARO, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796489

KAREN K. GAUNT, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JESSE L. JENIKEGODSHALK, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6702

JOSHUA A. LORENTZ, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JOHN D. LUKEN, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

LITIGATIONLABOR EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

JON B. ALLISON, Freking Myers & Reul LLC, Cincinnati

KASEY L. BOND, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6491

ANTHONY J. CARUSO, Kohnen & Patton, LLP, 201 E. Fifth St., Suite 800, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 3810656

CAROLINE M. DIMAURO, Jackson Lewis P.C., Cincinnati

DAVID A. EBERLY, Eberly McMahon Copetas LLC, Cincinnati

JUSTIN D. FLAMM, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

BRADLEY L. GIBSON, Gibson Law, LLC, Cincinnati

STEPHEN E. IMM, Finney Law Firm, Cincinnati

RYAN M. MARTIN, Jackson Lewis P.C., Cincinnati

ROBERT (BOB) W. MAXWELL II, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6594

LISA L. PATTERSON, LL Patterson LLC, Miamisburg

PETER A. SABA, SSP Law Co., LPA, 2623 Erie Ave., , Cincinnati, OH, 45208, (513) 533-2701

LISA M. ZARING, Montgomery Jonson LLP, Cincinnati

LITIGATIONREAL ESTATE

KEVIN HOSKINS, DBL Law, Cincinnati

MEDIATION

RALPH P. GINOCCHIO, Schimpf, Ginocchio, Kehres & Clark Co., LLC, Cincinnati

TRISTA GOLDBERG, Goldberg Evans LLC, 1205 Pendleton St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 9279759

ERINN MCKEE HANNIGAN, Stagnaro Hannigan Koop Co., LPA, Cincinnati

JOHN L. HEILBRUN, The Law Office of John Heilbrun, 9403 Kenwood Rd., Suite B-110, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 548-5606

ANDREA N. HICKS, Andrea N. Hicks Law, Mason

J. MICHAEL KAUFMAN, Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer, Co. LPA, Cincinnati

CHAD G. KOOP, Stagnaro Hannigan Koop Co., LPA, Cincinnati

KIMBERLY V. THOMAS, Kimberly Varney Thomas, Cincinnati

DARYLE C. TIBBS, Tibbs Law Office, Cincinnati

REBECCA

ZEMMELMAN, The Family Law & Fertility Law Group, Cincinnati

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAW

THOMAS M. EVANS, Rendigs,Fry, Kiely and Dennis LLP, 600 Vine St., Suite 2650, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 3819289

MICHAEL P. FOLEY

RENDIGS, Fry, Kiely and Dennis LLP, 600 Vine St., Suite 2650, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 3819309

ANNE L. GILDAY, The Lawrence Firm,PSC, 535 Madison Ave., Suite 500, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 898-2472

THOMAS F. GLASSMAN, Bonezzi Switzer Polito & Perry Co.,LPA, Cincinnati

BRIAN D. GOLDWASSER

2026 TOP LAWYERS

RENDIGS, Fry, Kiely and Dennis LLP, 600 Vine St., Suite 2650, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 3819270

KARA M. HARP, The Lawrence Firm,PSC, 535 Madison Ave., Suite 500, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 898-2472

THOMAS C. KORBEE, The Lawrence Firm,PSC, 535 Madison Ave., Suite 500, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 898-2472

JENNIFER L. LAWRENCE, The Lawrence Firm,PSC, 535 Madison Ave., Suite 500, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 898-2472

LINDSAY A. LAWRENCE, Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima, Cincinnati

ROBERT D. LEWIS, The Lawrence Firm,PSC, 535 Madison Ave., Suite 500, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 898-2472

MICHAEL F. LYON, Lindhorst & Dreidame Co., L.P.A., 312 Walnut St., Suite 3100, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 223-3967

PAUL W.

MCCARTNEY, Mediator at McCartney Mediation Services, Cincinnati

SCOTT MULLINS, Beckman Weil Shepardson LLC, Cincinnati

MARC PERA, Crandall & Pera Law,LLC, Cincinnati

JOEL L. PESCHKE, Calderhead, Lockemeyer & Peschke Law Office, Loveland

ROBERT A. SCHUERGER II, Schuerger Shunnarah Trial Attorneys, Cincinnati

FRANK C. WOODSIDE III, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS LAW

JOSEPH (JAY) BEECH LLL, Kohnen & Patton, LLP, Cincinnati

LAURIE A. BRIGGS, Briggs Law & Consulting, LLC, Cincinnati

JEFFREY A. BURD, Jeffrey A. Burd, Attorney at Law, Cincinnati

FRANK D. CHAIKEN, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6550

JOHN D. COTTINGHAM, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6674

NICK EUSANIO, DBL Law, Cincinnati

CHRISTIAN D. GATESKILL, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6476

THEODORE D. GROSSER, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

BENJAMIN HAGER, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

DANIEL C. HEYD, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

It’s not what we do, it’s how we do it.

Congratulations to the 67 KMK Law attorneys recognized on the Top Lawyers 2026 list.

JONATHAN (JON) M. HILTZ, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 562-1423

MICHAEL A. HIRSCHFELD, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

MARK J. JAHNKE, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

CHRISTOPHER KUHNHEIN, Cors & Bassett, LLC, Cincinnati

ROBERT C. LESAN III, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796939

MICHAEL J. MOEDDEL, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

2026 TOP LAWYERS

JULIE T. MUETHING, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 6393870

ZACHARY K. PETERSON, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6503

RICHARD (RICK) D. SIEGEL, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6413

JAMES M. ZIMMERMAN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

MUNICIPAL LAW

LAWRENCE E. BARBIERE, SMBP Law, 5300 Socialville-Foster Rd., Suite 200, Mason, OH, 45040, (513) 5834210

TIMOTHY M. BURKE, Manley Burke, 225 W. Court St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 763-6447

CHRISTOPHER L. MOORE, SMBP Law, 5300 Socialville-Foster Rd., Suite 200, Mason, OH, 45040, (513) 5834217

EMILY T. SUPINGER, Strauss Troy Co., LPA, 150 E. Fourth St., Floor 4, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 768-9782

NON WHITECOLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE

JUSTIN W. BARTLETT, Bartlett & Weigle Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

MATTHEW L. BENSON, Bartlett & Weigle Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

JAMES BOGEN, James F. Bogen, Attorney at Law, 917 Main St., Floor 3, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 503-7251

RAVERT J. CLARK, Law Offices of Ravert J. Clark, Cincinnati

R. SCOTT CROSWELL III, Croswell & Adams Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

JODIE DREES

GANOTE, Ganote Law, LLC, Cincinnati

THOMAS W. KIDD JR., Kidd & Urling, LLC, Cincinnati

PAUL M. LAUFMAN, Laufman & Napolitano, LLC, Cincinnati

FRANK M. MUNGO, Frank M. Mungo, Attorney at Law, Cincinnati

ERIC W. RICHARDSON, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

SCOTT A. RUBENSTEIN, The Law Offices of Scott A. Rubenstein, Cincinnati

MERLYN D. SHIVERDECKER, Carr & Shiverdecker, Cincinnati

JOE SUHRE, Suhre & Associates, LLC, Cincinnati

We Work to Win

It is not a slogan. It is our business model and the foundation for our new litigation ﬁrm. Sometimes winning means going to trial. Sometimes winning means a strategically timed settlement. Sometimes winning means avoiding litigation altogether. We bring together 70+ years of trial experience and litigation perspective to protect and advance our clients’ litigation interests.

At Callow + Utter Law Group, we focus on the details while keeping an eye on the big picture. We pride ourselves on communication. We litigate with purpose and conviction.

We work to win.

DEREK S. WELT, Funkhouser Law, Cincinnati

NONPROFIT/ CHARITIES LAW

RONALD C. CHRISTIAN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

JOHN E. CHRISTOPHER, Manley Burke, 225 W. Court St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 763-6750

EDWARD D. DILLER, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

PERSONAL INJURY

HENRY D. ACCIANI, O’Connor Acciani & Levy, Cincinnati

2026 TOP LAWYERS

DAVID S. ALBRECHT, Law Office of David S. Albrecht, Hamilton

WILLIAM P. ALLEN, Casper & Casper, Middletown

LAURA BACHMAN, Hamilton County Public Defender, Cincinnati

DEAN A. BACOVIN, Bacovin Law Offices, Cincinnati

KATHERINE L. BARBIERE, SMBP Law, 5300 Socialville-Foster Rd., Suite 200, Mason, OH, 45040, (513) 7074252

PATRICK J. BEIRNE, The Lawrence Firm,PSC, 535 Madison Ave., Suite 500, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 898-2472

RANDY J. BLANKENSHIP, Ziegler & Schneider, P.S.C., Covington

ROGER N. BRADEN, Braden & Associates, Florence

CORY D. BRITT, Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, LPA, Cincinnati

JAMES F. BROCKMAN, Lindhorst & Dreidame Co.,L.P.A., Cincinnati

NICHOLAS E. BUNCH, White, Getgey & Meyer, Cincinnati

BRIAN J. BUTLER, The Butler Trial Firm, Cincinnati

MARK BYRNE, Jacobs Kleinman Siebel & McNally Co. L.P.A., Cincinnati

STEVEN C. DAVIS, Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer,Co. LPA, Cincinnati

ALISON DE VILLIERS, Beckman Weil Shepardson LLC, Cincinnati

BARRY F. FAGEL, Lindhorst & Dreidame Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

MICHAEL F. GEHRIG, Michael F. Gehrig, Attorney at Law, Cincinnati

LOUIS (LOU) F. GILLIGAN, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6523

MICHAEL S. HALL, Law Offices of Michael S. Hall, LPA, Cincinnati

MARK T. HAYDEN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

CHARLES F. HOLLIS, The Hollis Law Firm, Cincinnati

JUSTIN LEE LAWRENCE, Lawrence & Associates Accident and Injury Lawyers, LLC, Ft. Mitchell

BARRY D. LEVY, O’Connor Acciani & Levy, Cincinnati

AUSTIN H. LIPUMA, Freking Myers & Reul LLC, 600 Vine St., Suite 900, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 721-1975

DENNIS C. MAHONEY, O’Connor Acciani & Levy, Cincinnati

DAVID S. MANN, Mann and Mann Law, Cincinnati

MATTHEW METZGER, Wolterman Law Office, 434 W. Loveland Ave., Loveland, OH 45140, (513) 488-1135

JARROD M. MOHLER, Robbins,Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, LPA, Cincinnati

DANIEL N. MOORE, The Moore Law Firm, Cincinnati

MATT NAKAJIMA, Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima, Cincinnati

STUART W. PENROSE, Minnillo Law Group Co., LPA, Cincinnati

WILLIAM A. POSEY, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796535

2026 TOP LAWYERS

CHARLES M. RITTGERS, Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima, Cincinnati

JUSTIN SANDERS, Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima, Cincinnati

JOHN C. SCOTT, Gatlin Voelker, Cincinnati

MARK B. SMITH, Mark B. Smith, LPA, 1095 Nimitzview Dr., Suite 403, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 287-7447

SCOTT A. SOLLMANN, SMBP Law, 5300 SocialvilleFoster Rd., Suite 200, Mason, OH, 45040, (513) 707-4249

ROBB STOKAR, Stokar Law, LLC, Cincinnati

BARBARA L. STRADY, Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima, Cincinnati

KORY A. VELETEAN, O’Connor Acciani & Levy, Cincinnati

RICH G. WENDEL LL, Law Offices of Richard G. Wendel, II, Cincinnati

MICHAEL WOLOSHIN, Woloshin Law Offices, Newport

PRODUCT LIABILITY

PATRICK W. ALLEN, Casper & Casper, Middletown

CHRISTOPHER M. BECHHOLD, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6790

GARY E. BECKER, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JAMES F. BROCKMAN, Lindhorst & Dreidame Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

PAUL “PJ” J. COSGROVE, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5034

RYAN C. EDWARDS, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

FREDERICK M. ERNY, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5144

JEFFREY D. GEOPPINGER, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5038

K.C. GREEN, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5008

JENNIFER SNYDER HEIS, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5058

D. ARTHUR RABOURN, D. Arthur Rabourn, LLC, Cincinnati

JEROME L. SKINNER, Aviation Law Offices, Cincinnati

CAROLYN A. TAGGART, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, Cincinnati

PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAW

SHAWN YOUNG, Pinales Stachler Young Burrell, Cincinnati

PUBLIC FINANCE LAW

DOLORIS F. LEARMONTH, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JAMES “JIM” A. SINGLER, Singler Law, Cincinnati

REAL ESTATE LAW

WILLIAM D.G. BALDWIN, Vorys,Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

2026 TOP LAWYERS

ANTHONY M. BARLOW, Strauss Troy Co., LPA, 150 E. Fourth St., Floor 4, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 6299457

DANIEL M. BENNIE, Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer, Co. LPA, Cincinnati

JOSEPH L. BEYKE, Beyke Law, Mason

CHARLES C.

BISSINGER JR., Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

SEAN P. CALLAN, Manley Burke, 225 W. Court St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 763-6751

MEGAN L. EBENSCHWEIGER SCHULTZ, Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, LPA, Cincinnati

DREW EMMERT, DBL Law, Cincinnati

CHRISTOPHER P. FINNEY, Finney Law Firm, Cincinnati

TODD J. FLAGEL, Flagel & Papakirk LLC, Cincinnati

ANDREW P. GEORGE, George & Underwood, LLP, Lebanon

ANDREW D. GRAF, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

STEPHEN M. GRIFFITH JR., Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

DAVID A. GROENKE, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cincinnati

JAMES G. HELDMAN,

Strauss Troy Co.,LPA, 150 E. Fourth St., Floor 4, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 629-9421

RICHARD D. HERNDON, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

STEPHEN B. HOFFSIS, Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co., LPA, Cincinnati

STEPHEN (STEVE) R. HUNT, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6905

SCOTT P. KADISH, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5050

ANDREW (ANDY) J. KAMINSKI, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 639-3898

STEPHEN M. KING, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6746

JODY T. KLEKAMP, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796954

MONICA DONATH KOHNEN, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

KENNETH (KEN) P. KREIDER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6579

GEOFFREY (GEOFF) G. LEDER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 562-1403

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CINCINNATI TOP LAWYERS AWARD WINNERS!

For 80 years, Rendigs lawyers have been celebrated for their remarkable work and client service, and this year is no exception.

TOMEVANS

MIKEFOLEYFELIXGORA

JASON M. LINK, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

HENRY E. MENNINGER JR., Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

JEFFREY M. NYE, SSP Law Co., LPA, 2623 Erie Ave., , Cincinnati, OH, 45208, (513) 533-6714

WILLIAM J. PATTERSON, SSP Law Co., LPA, 2623 Erie Ave., , Cincinnati, OH, 45208, (513) 533-2982

CHARLES “CHUCK” E. RUST, Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, LPA, Cincinnati

P. ANDREW SPOOR, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6481

2026 TOP LAWYERS

CHARLES L. TATE, Tate & Tate Attorneys LLC, Mason

BARRETT P. TULLIS, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 562-1445

DANIEL “DAN” P. UTT, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796564

HERBERT B. WEISS, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796432

SECURITIES

LAW

JAMES R. CUMMINS, Cummins Law LLC, Cincinnati

NEIL GANULIN, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

DYLAN GOULD, Markovits, Stock & DeMarco LLC, Cincinnati

CHARLES F. HERTLEIN JR., Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

F. MARK REUTER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796469

EDWARD E. STEINER, Squire Patton Boggs, Cincinnati

ALLISON A. WESTFALL, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6987

TAX LAW

RONALD A. BELL, Coats Rose, PC, Cincinnati

JOEL S. BRANT, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

ROBERT E. BRANT, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

LAWRENCE J. BROKAMP, Law Offices of Lawrence J. Brokamp LLC, Cincinnati

ROBERT W. BUECHNER, Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co., LPA, Cincinnati

BONNIE G. CAMDEN, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

RONALD C. CHRISTIAN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

TODD L. COOPER, Troutman Pepper Locke, Cincinnati

GARY J. DAVIS, Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

WILLIAM M. FREEDMAN, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

BENJAMIN HAGER, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

JANET L. HOUSTON, Strauss Troy Co., LPA, 150 E. Fourth St., Floor 4, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 629-9413

THOMAS (TW) W. LANGEVIN, Keating

Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6501

MARTIN E. MOONEY, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

Christopher M. Bechhold, Deborah S. Brenneman, Timothy R. Brown, Stephen J. Butler, Frank D. Chaiken, John D. Cottingham, Jesse L. Jenike-Godshalk, Stephen M. King, Andrew L. Kolesar, J. Shane Starkey

HOWARD L. RICHSHAFER, Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

STEPHEN L. ROBISON, The Robison Law Firm, Cincinnati

MARK E. SIMS, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6966

SCOTT M. SLOVIN, Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

J. SHANE STARKEY, Thompson Hine LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 352-6737

NOAH J. STERN, Manley Burke, 225 W. Court St., Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 763-6744

2026 TOP LAWYERS

STUART R. SUSSKIND, UB Greensfelder LLP, 312 Walnut St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 698-5044

TRADE SECRETS

BRIAN R. REDDEN, Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co., LPA, Cincinnati

TRUSTS AND ESTATES

MARCIA ANDREW, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

MICHAEL S. BARRON, Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer, Co. LPA, Cincinnati

JAMES “JIM”

H. BRUN, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 579-6585

ASHLEY SHANNON BURKE, The Law Offices of Burke & Pecquet, LLC, Cincinnati

CHRISTINE A. BUTTRESS, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

ADAM J. CENTNER, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796488

JAMES J. CHALFIE, Cohen, Todd, Kite & Sanford, LLC, Cincinnati

KENNETH P. COYNE, Graf Coyne Co., LPA, Cincinnati

CHRISTOPHER DIEDLING, Cornetet, Meyer, Rush & Spillane, Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

KATRINA Z. FARLEY, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

JAN M. FRANKEL, Wood + Lamping LLP, Cincinnati

GREGORY S. FRENCH, Law Office of Gregory S. French, Cincinnati

MARK EDWARD GODBEY, Godbey Law, LLC, Cincinnati

JOSHUA GOODE, Joshua Goode, LLC, Cincinnati

WILLIAM R. GRAF, Graf Coyne Co., LPA, Cincinnati

TABITHA M. HOCHSCHEID, Hochscheid Law LLC, Cincinnati

JOSEPH S. HONERLAW, The Honerlaw Firm, LLC, Cincinnati

JANET L. HOUSTON, Strauss Troy Co., LPA, 150 E. Fourth St., Floor 4, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, (513) 629-9413

AARON H. KAPLAN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

BRENDA M. KLOOS, Beckman Weil Shepardson LLC, Cincinnati

MARGARET GERI KUBICKI, Katz Teller, Cincinnati

JASON M. LINK, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

Megan Gramke

KC Green

WILLIAM J. LISS, Bricker Graydon LLP, Cincinnati

DAN MCCARTHY, McCarthy Law Office, Cincinnati

KEITH D. MEYER, Kohnen & Patton, LLP, Cincinnati

CLAIRE V. PARRISH, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, 1 E. Fourth St., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 5796936

JAN T. RIKER, JT Riker Co., LPA, Cincinnati

WILLIAM “BILL” D. SHERMAN, Robbins, Kelly, Patterson & Tucker, LPA, Cincinnati

ELLIOTT STAPLETON, Elliott Stapleton, LLC, Cincinnati

2026 TOP LAWYERS

MICHAEL J. STEGMAN, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

WHITECOLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE

G. LUKE BURTON, Squire Patton Boggs, Cincinnati

R. SCOTT CROSWELL III, Croswell & Adams Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

WILLIAM R. GALLAGHER, Arenstein & Gallagher, Cincinnati

LINDSAY K. GERDES, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

RICHARD J. GOLDBERG, Schuh & Goldberg, LLP, Cincinnati

RALPH W. KOHNEN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

FRANK M. MUNGO, Frank M. Mungo, Attorney at Law, Cincinnati

JOHN L. O’SHEA, Cohen, Todd, Kite & Sanford, LLC, Cincinnati

EDWARD C. PERRY, Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima, Cincinnati

H. LOUIS SIRKIN, Santen & Hughes, Cincinnati

WORKERS COMPENSATION LAW

CHRISTOPHER A. BENINTENDI, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

ERIC G. BRUESTLE, Roetzel & Andress, LPA, West Chester

EDWARD COHEN, Clements, Taylor, Butkovich & Cohen LPA, Co., Cincinnati

TREVOR R.C. DAVIS, Nager Romaine Schneiberg Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati

SAMUEL M. DURAN, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati

JOANNE WISSMAN GLASS, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Cincinnati

MARK L. NEWMAN, Barron Peck Bennie & Schlemmer, Co. LPA, Cincinnati

LISA L. PATTERSON, LL Patterson LLC, Miamisburg

WILLIAM E. SANTEN JR., Santen & Hughes, Cincinnati

JOAN M. VERCHOT, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

MARK B. WEISSER, The Law Firm of Weisser & Wolf, Cincinnati

GEORGE B. WILKINSON, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

SCOTT A. WOLF, The Law Firm of Weisser & Wolf, Cincinnati

SSP Law congratulates Jeffrey Nye, William Patterson and Peter Saba who have been recognized as Top Lawyers!

EXPERIENCED ATTORNEYS OF INTEGRITY

JAMES BOGEN

JAMES F. BOGEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW

NON WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE

James Bogen works to give clients top-quality representation in their criminal matters. He has handled a wide variety of cases, from misdemeanors and DUI/OVIs to capital murder, sex offenses, and more. Bogen completed his undergraduate studies and JD at the University of Cincinnati. As an undergraduate, he honed his competitive drive as a member of the swim team. Bogen is also a legal analyst and commentator on 700WLW.

917 MAIN ST., FLOOR 3 CINCINNATI, OH 45202 • (513) 503-7251

WWW.ATTORNEYJAMESBOGEN.COM ATTORNEYBOGEN@YAHOO.COM

JOE CALLOW

CALLOW + UTTER LAW GROUP

LITIGATION - ANTITRUST

Joe Callow leads litigation matters on a national, regional, and local basis. He has experience as a ﬁrst chair lawyer in antitrust litigation as well as environmental, data privacy/cybersecurity, IP, and other complex and commercial litigation, including class/collective actions and MDL matters. Joe was one of the lead litigation counsel for the State of Ohio in its litigation against opioid distributors that resulted in an $808 million statewide settlement.

8044 MONTGOMERY RD., SUITE 170, CINCINNATI, OH 45236 • (513) 930-0741 WWW.CULAWGROUP.COM/PROFILE/JOSEPHCALLOW • JCALLOW@CULAWGROUP.COM

COURTNEY N. CAPARELLA-KRAEMER

CAPARELLA-KRAEMER & ASSOCIATES, LLC

FAMILY LAW

I have been a practicing attorney for 22 years. In the earlier part of my career, I practiced general civil litigation, family law, and misdemeanor level criminal offenses. For the last 15 years, I have practiced almost exclusively in the area of Family Law.

4841 RIALTO RD., A WEST CHESTER, OH 45069 (513) 942-7222 • WWW.CKLAWOH.COM COURTNEY@CKLAWOH.COM

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MICHAEL B. HURLEY

CALFEE, HALTER & GRISWOLD LLP

CORPORATE LAW

Michael Hurley, Partner, counsels privately held and public clients and private equity ﬁrms and their portfolio companies on a wide range of business and legal concerns, with a focus on representing both buyers and sellers from a broad cross-section of industries in the merger, acquisition, or sales process.

2800 FIRST FINANCIAL CENTER

255 E. FIFTH ST. CINCINNATI, OH 45202 (513) 693-4880 • WWW.CALFEE.COM INFO@CALFEE.COM

2026 TOP LAWYERS

JENNIFER WALWYN COLVIN

CALFEE, HALTER & GRISWOLD LLP

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

Jennifer Walwyn Colvin, Partner, is an Ohio State Bar Association Certiﬁed Specialist in Labor and Employment law who partners with a variety of clients to attain their goals in all areas of employment law and personnel management, including a focus on supporting clients during corporate transactions.

2800 FIRST FINANCIAL CENTER 255 E. FIFTH ST. CINCINNATI, OH 45202 (513) 693-4880 • WWW.CALFEE.COM INFO@CALFEE.COM

MICHAEL F. LYON LINDHORST & DREIDAME CO., L.P.A.

LYNN LAMPE

LAMPE LAW OFFICE

FAMILY LAW

Lynn has primarily focused her 33 years of practice on family law. She is a skilled negotiator and strongly believes that achieving an outcome that meets a client’s goals far outweighs costly litigation. If negotiation fails, Lynn possesses the expertise to litigate successfully.

9277 CENTRE POINTE DR., SUITE 100 WEST CHESTER, OH 45069 (513) 889-0400 • WWW.LYNNLAMPELAW.COM LLAMPE@LLAMPELAW.COM

Austin LiPuma is a Partner and the Personal Injury Department Director at Freking Myers & Reul. Since its beginning, Austin’s career has been exclusively focused on representing injured people. From dog bites to catastrophic trucking cases, he has recovered millions on behalf of his clients.

Michael F. Lyon has been named as a Super Lawyer since 2004 and has been representing medical professionals for 45 years. He has taken more than 220 medical malpractice trials to verdict in Ohio and Kentucky and represented physicians in the Ohio District Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court of Ohio. 312 WALNUT ST., SUITE 3100 CINCINNATI, OH 45202 (513) 421-6630

Mark Smith has represented hundreds of individuals, families and businesses in matters involving medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, vehicle accidents, products liability, dangerous premises, and other civil litigation. He now practices with his son Brian as the Smith Law Firm.

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Each day, our learners experience a range of dynamic, exciting activities designed to engage the heart, the mind, and the community. Over time, students explore every aspect of passionate, and engaged young people.

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Faith, compassion, integrity, service. These Whether it’s on the field, on stage, in the our students explore multiple passions, purpose, build lasting connections, and Learn with purpose. College preparatory courses, including options for college credit engineering and IT, support their interests and potential. Block scheduling encourages formation.

We’re closer than you think acre campus is conveniently located near students from 32 zip codes.

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1952 GRADES SERVED: 9–12 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 420+ STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 13:1 GRADUATION RATE: 100% UNIFORMS REQUIRED: Yes TUITION: $13,800 for the 2025–26 School Year TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: $18 million in college scholarships received by graduates • 65% of our faculty have at least one master’s degree

4855 State Route 122, Franklin, OH 45005 • (513) 428-0525 • www.fenwickfalcons.org/admissions

Children’s Meeting House Montessori School

Open House: Thursday, January 25, 10 a.m.–noon

Nestled on more than seven acres just outside historic Loveland, Children’s Meeting House seeks to foster the development of the practices, and curriculum of Dr. Maria instinctive love of discovery. From preschool through eighth grade, students are guided, challenged, and prepared for their futures using authentic Montessori lessons and materials.

Experience Children’s Meeting House for

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1972 GRADES SERVED: Preschool–grade 8 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 180 STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 12:1 UNIFORMS REQUIRED? No TUITION: $9,000–$14,500 TOP AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: Member of the American Montessori Society and the Cincinnati Montessori Society • Voted Best Preschool by the readers of Cincinnati Family Magazine • Voted Hulafrog’s Most Loved K–8 Private School • Voted Favorite Preschool Program for 2025 by Cincinnati Family • 927 O’Bannonville Rd., Loveland, OH 45140 • (513) 683-4757 • www.cmhschool.com

Cincinnati Country Day School

Apply for admission and tuition aid/scholarship consideration by February 15. Call today to arrange a personalized tour and meeting with our admission staff.

academically and personally. Whether in through innovate learning, independent

We are one community united to help future leaders of the next generation. We the next phase of their lives and bettering a adventures, opportunities, friendships, and successes.

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1926 GRADES SERVED: Early childhood (18 months)–grade 12 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 850 STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 9:1 GRADUATION RATE: 100% UNIFORMS REQUIRED? Yes, K–grade 4; dress code grades 5–12 TUITION: $9,560–$33,540 TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: A Top Private High School, K–12 School, and High School for STEM by Niche for 2026 • $6.3 million awarded in grants and scholarships to 58 members of the class of 2025 • Award-winning 2024 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam • “Platinum with Access” 2024 AP School Honor Roll by College Board • National Merit Recipients, Scholars, and Scholarship winners • Scholastic Art and Writing Award winners • Students matriculate to top colleges nationally and internationally • $6.5 million awarded in need– and merit–based assistance to students in kindergarden through grade 12 6905 Given Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45243 • (513) 979-0220 • www.countryday.net

Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy

Open House: Saturday, February 7, 2026, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

In-person tours and shadow visits are also available. Learn more at chca-oh.org/ admissions/schedule-a-visit

centered focus offers more opportunities their passions so they can make an impact learners to seek excellence in all things:

From preschool to senior year, students experience high levels of engagement learning, and unique academic environments that nurture hearts and challenge minds. graduate young adults ready to be a beacon

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1989 GRADES SERVED: Pre-K 2–Grade 12 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 1,275 STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 12:1 GRADUATION RATE: 100% UNIFORMS REQUIRED? Yes, through Grade 6 TUITION: $4,275–$22,575 TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: • National Merit Scholarship Corporation in 2025 • 14 MVC Team Championship titles in 2024–25, including Football, Golf, Swim, and Lacrosse • Only school in the city offering an Entrepreneurship & Sustainability program with student-run businesses, multiple learning gardens, a 4,000-square-foot greenhouse, and a nationally recognized teaching kitchen.

Pre-K 2–Grade 3: Edyth B. Lindner Campus, 11312 Snider Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45249 • Grades 4–8: Founders’ Campus, 11300 Snider Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45249 • Grades 9–12: Martha S. Lindner Campus, 11525 Snider Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45249 • Downtown Cincinnati Pre-K 3/4–Grade 6: Otto Armleder Memorial Education Campus, 140 W. Ninth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 • (513) 247-0900 • chca-oh.org

Cincinnati Waldorf School

enrollment@cincinnatiwaldorfschool.org

Waldorf School has been nurturing curiosity, creativity, and a love of learning in students of all ages.

deep understanding of the developmental childhood through high school. Founded in 1919, Waldorf education feels more relevant

scheduling, teaching to multiple learning

to Waldorf classrooms from the beginning.

infusing art, music, and movement into daily learning, Waldorf education offers a holistic, to teaching.

initiative, creativity, strong moral grounding,

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1973 GRADES SERVED: Preschool–Grade 12 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 285 STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 10:1 GRADUATION RATE: 100% UNIFORMS REQUIRED? No TUITION: Varies by program TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Voted “Best Private School” in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, and 2020 by CityBeat readers 6743 Chestnut St., Cincinnati, OH 45227 • (513) 541-0220 • www.cincinnatiwaldorfschool.org

Great Oaks Career Campuses

school district serving 36 school districts

Each year, thousands of area high school students prepare for a career at Oaks in Dent, Laurel Oaks in Wilmington, Live Oaks in Milford, or Scarlet Oaks in Sharonville.

to cybersecurity to construction trades, culinary arts, agriculture, cosmetology, Career training, ESOL, HSE, and personal enrichment programs are also available for adults.

education, and community agencies help shape the programs offered.

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1970 GRADES SERVED: 11–12 and adults on campus; middle and high school satellite programs in partner schools CURRENT ENROLLMENT: Around 3,000 students on campus; over 18,000 in 100+ satellite programs throughout 36 school districts UNIFORMS REQUIRED? Yes TUITION: Tuition is free for high school students; adult program tuition varies TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: exceeding state standards • 2025 Teacher Educator of the Year Award • 2025 Ohio ACTE Outstanding School Board Member Award • 2025 Carl Perkins Community Service Award • Ohio ACTE 2025 Business Image Award • Students consistently place in national skills competitions 110 Great Oaks Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45241 • (513) 771-8840 • www.greatoaks.com

Guardian Angels School

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a Catholic education to students in is on individualized education, preparing each student to be a faithful disciple of Christ through service and leadership. Character development is a top

related to each of these character traits are directly taught by staff and modeled by all. The combination approach of guiding students spiritually, academically, and socially leads students to graduate from successful in high school and beyond.

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1895 GRADES SERVED: Preschool-Grade 8 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 566 STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 12:1 UNIFORMS REQUIRED? Yes TUITION: $6,750 parishioners, $8,200 non-parishioners for K–8, $7,300 parishioners, $8,400 non-parishioners for preschool TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Blue Ribbon School of Excellence • All students participate in community service • Leader in technology with a 1:1 tablet program and STEM Makerspace • K–8 students attend Art, Music, Spanish, and Gym classes • Extracurricular activities include Athletics, Music, Drama, Chess, plus much more 6539 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45230 • (513) 624-3141 • www.gaschool.org

Archbishop Moeller High School

Man of Moeller Day: Friday, January 9, 2026

Parents’ Last Look: Monday, January 26, 2026, 7 p.m.

Registration Day: Friday, January 30, 2026

Catholic school in the Marianist tradition, challenges our students to think critically, in the community, Moeller prepares young biology research, entrepreneurship, enrich students’ understanding and the leader in educating young men.

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1960 GRADES SERVED: 9–12 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 915 ST UDENT/ FACULTY RATIO: 12:1 GRADUATION RATE: 100% UNIFORMS REQUIRED? No TUITION: $18,900 TOP AWARDS/ RECOGNITIONS: 2024 Advanced Placement ® Program (AP ®) School Honor Roll Platinum Distinction • Member of the International Boys’ School Coalition • 40 State Championships 9001 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242 • (513) 791-1680 • www.moeller.org

The New School Montessori

Virtual Open House: February 3, 2026 / Zoom Meeting begins at noon / Sign up at: https://newschoolmontessori.com/admissions/open-house

teachers prepare students to succeed in the innate love of learning and by helping them

in active spaces in both positions of leadership

Montessori principles and philosophy to create an atmosphere of respect for one another. Students’ social and emotional health is fostered daily through intentional lessons, reflective

and courtesy. Our Montessori kitchen provides

in shaded, natural surroundings. In addition to more traditional climbing equipment, children

logs in search of interesting insects, climbing on

children also enjoy tetherball, outdoor ping pong, and the gaga pit.

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1970 GRADES SERVED: 3-year-olds to grade 6 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: 155 STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO: 6:1-12:1 pre primary, 10:1–15:1 elementary UNIFORMS REQUIRED? No TUITION: Visit website for current tuition information. TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: The only Ohio State chartered Montessori school in Cincinnati with dual accreditation: AMS and ISACS • • Recognized by Cincinnati Magazine for our innovative lunch program. We are the only school in Cincinnati making homemade, healthy lunches for all students and staff every day—and it’s covered in tuition. No pre-made meals. Nothing merely warmed up.

3 Burton Woods Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45229 • (513) 281-7999 • www.newschoolmontessori.com

Springer School and Center

and executive function challenges learn skills and strategies to achieve their goals. Students tackle rigorous academics in our supportive environment staffed by differences.

High School learn in small classes

extracurriculars in the arts, sciences, and athletics. In our community, student trajectories change as our young people build an academic and social foundation. Building on strengths and tackling establish a roadmap to a successful adulthood.

for college, career and life beyond.

THE STATS YEAR FOUNDED: 1971 GRADES SERVED: 1–11 CURRENT ENROLLMENT: About 235 STUDENT/ FACULTY RATIO: 6:1 UNIFORMS REQUIRED? No TUITION:

admissions to learn more. TOP AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Accredited by Independent Schools Association of the Central States, Springer is a Jon Peterson Scholarship provider • Educators are trained in the Wilson Reading Program • International Dyslexia Association Accreditation Plus 2121 Madison Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45208 • (513) 871-6080 • www.springer-LD.org

ANN BEERS

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Regional Diabetes Center, 7388 Turfway Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 655-8910

COLIN CARRACHER

UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 6300, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7400

JASPREET CHAHAL

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Covington Regional Diabetes Center, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 655-8910

AMANDA M. DENNEY

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 4440 Red Bank Expwy., Suite 210, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 272-0313

WAEL EID

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Covington Regional Diabetes Center, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 655-8910

BRADLEY EILERMAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Regional Diabetes Center, 7388 Turfway Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 655-8910

MERCEDES

FALCIGLIA

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

AILEEN HERASHERZIG

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Covington Regional Diabetes Center, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way,

Covington, KY 41011, (859) 655-8910

LINDA HERMILLER

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Covington Regional Diabetes Center, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 655-8910

ALLISON JOHNS

Precision Diabetes & Endocrinology, 9050 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 960-5360

JYOTHI JOSEPHHAYES

Concierge Medicine of Cincinnati - Kenwood, 5050 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite B, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 760-5511

ELIE KLAM

TriHealth Group

Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-1900

PADMA MANGU

TriHealth Group Health - Mason, 6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-1900

SHAWN D. PEAVIE, D.O.

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 4440 Red Bank Expressway, Suite 210, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 272-0313

ABID YAQUB

UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 6300, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7400

NADIA YAQUB

Mercy HealthFairﬁeld Endocrinology, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 200, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 603-8352

Family Medicine

WAFA AKKAD

TriHealth Physician Partners - Heritage Butler Family Physicians, 3145 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 300, Fairﬁeld Township, OH 45011, (513) 863-6222

LAURA BARCZEWSKI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Primary Care, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 912-7193

ELIZABETH A. BEITER

TriHealth - Bethesda Family Practice Center, 1775 W. Lexington Ave., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 977-6700

KIMBERLY BROOKE

BETHEA

TriHealth Health First Physicians - Loveland, 10675A Loveland Madeira Rd., Loveland, OH 45140, (513) 774-8220

STACEY BISHOP

YEATMAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Highland Heights Primary Care, 2626 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 781-4111

TYLER BROWNING

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Primary Care, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 912-7193

VICKIE CHAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Highland Heights Primary Care, 2626 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 781-4111

AMANDA CHANEY,

D.O.

TriHealth Group Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7000

KARA CIANI

UC Health, 175 W. Galbraith Rd., Family Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45216, (513) 821-0275

MOHAMMAD FATTAL

TriHealth Bethesda Group Practice - Milford, 5861 Cinema Dr., Milford, OH 45150, (513) 248-8800

JESSE MORRIS

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Finneytown, 740 W. Galbraith Rd.,

Cincinnati, OH 45231, (513) 354-3700

HILLARY R. MOUNT

The Christ Hospital, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 340, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 588-5630

ROBERT PETTIT

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine

- Beacon East, 463 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 354-3700

SARAH PICKLE

UC Health, 175 W. Galbraith Rd., Family Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45216, (513) 821-0275

ESHWAR

HOLENARSIPUR

RAMADAS

TriHealth Queen City Physicians - Madeira, 7825 Laurel Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45243, (513) 561-4811

KATHERYNE R. RUCK, D.O.

Mercy Health - Anderson Hospital Family & Community Medicine Residency Practice, 8000 Five Mile Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 233-6980

HEIDI SHARP

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Highland Heights Primary Care, 2626 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 781-4111

KEVIN J. SHAW

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Montgomery, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700

LAUREN WANG

UC Health, 3120 Burnet Ave., Suite 406, Family Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-8600

STEPHEN M. ZITELLI

TriHealth - Bethesda Family Practice Center, 1775 W. Lexington Ave., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 977-6700

Foot and Ankle Surgery

SAMEH M. AREBI

Mercy Health - West Orthopaedics and Spine, 3301

Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 347-9999

TONYA DIXON

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 2011, Perioperative Care, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 584-1000

RYAN P. FINNAN

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

NICHOLAS T. GATES

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Highland Heights, 2626 Alexandria Pike, NKU Campus, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 301-2663

ROBERT L. KULWIN

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 221-5500

JOHN LINZ

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Eastgate, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663

ADAM G. MILLER

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Western Hills (Beacon West), 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700

ROBERT A. RAINES

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Beacon East, 463 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 354-3700

VINCENT J. SAMMARCO

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Montgomery, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700

JEFFREY K. WU

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 271-3222

AYESHA YAHYA, D.O. OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - West Chester, 8734 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 232-2663

Gastroenterology

CHIKE ANUSIONWU

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Gastroenterology, 4900 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 331-6466

MATTHEW R. ATKINSON

Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301

Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

KHURRAM BARI

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 3200, Liver Transplant, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-9999

PRADEEP K. BEKAL Gastro HealthClifton, 2925 Vernon Pl., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 751-6667

SUMA

CHENNUBHOTLA St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Gastroenterology, 4900 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 331-6466

ANGELI CHOPRA Gastro HealthAnderson, 7502 State Rd., Suite 2290, Anderson, OH 45255, (513) 751-6667

ANDREW B. CHUN

Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301

Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

KEVIN M. CRONLEY Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301

Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincin-

nati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

PETER D. DRYER

Gastro Health - Blue Ash, 11333 Cornell Park Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 751-6667

DANIEL G. FAGEL

Tri-State Gastroenterology, 425 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-3575

AMIT R. GAJERA

Gastro Health -

Clifton, 2925 Vernon Pl., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 751-6667

STEVEN R. GAY

Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301

Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

MICHEL P. GHASTINE

Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301

Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

NAV K. GRANDHI

Gastro Health - Blue Ash, 11333 Cornell Park Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 751-6667

CHADWICK HATFIELD

Tri-State Gastroenterology, 425 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-3575

ROBERT W. ISFORT

Gastro Health - Blue Ash 11333 Cornell Park Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 751-6667

MICHAEL E. JONES

Tri-State Gastroenterology, 425 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-3575

RAVI JULURI

Gastro HealthLiberty, 7372 Liberty One Dr., Liberty Township, OH 45044, (513) 751-6667

ROBERT M. KINDEL

Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

VIDHYA KUNNATHUR

UC Health, 3590 Lucille Dr., Suite 2700, Gastroenterology, Cincinnati, OH 45213, (513) 475-7505

STEPHEN MARTIN

Gastro HealthLiberty, 7372 Liberty One Dr., Liberty Township, OH 45044, (513) 751-6667

JOSHUA B. MAX

Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

CARMEN B. MEIER

Gastro Health - Blue Ash, 11333 Cornell Park Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 751-6667

VENKATA N. MUDDANA

TriHealth Physician

Partners Gastroenterology - Bethesda North Campus, 10600 Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-9250

TERRANCE M. O’TOOLE JR., D.O. Gastro HealthWest Side, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 751-6667

JOSHUA R. PECK

Gastro HealthClifton, 2925 Vernon Pl., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 751-6667

AISHWARYA SHYAMRAJ

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Gastroenterology, 4900 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 331-6466

MANOJKUMAR S. SINGH

Gastro Health - Blue Ash, 11333 Cornell Park Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 751-6667

CHRISTOPHER D. SOUTH

Gastro HealthNorwood, 4746 Montgomery Rd., Suite 200,

Norwood, OH 45212, (513) 751-6667

RASHMI A.

TADIPARTHI

Gastro Health - Blue Ash, 11333 Cornell Park Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 751-6667

JOEL M. WARREN

Tri-State Gastroenterology, 425 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-3575

General Surgery

PATRICIA A. ABELLO

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood

General Surgery, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite 271, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 578-5880

LAWRENCE A. BARTISH

TriHealth Group

Health - Good Samaritan CampusGeneral Surgery, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000

MOHAMED I. DAHMAN

Mercy Health - Weight Management Solutions, Fairﬁeld, 3050 Mack Rd., Suite 205, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 682-6980

STUART L. DONOVAN

TriHealth Group

Health - General Surgery - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

BRYAN J. ELLIS, D.O.

TriHealth - Advanced Wound Healing Center - Good Samaritan Hospital, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-5050

ANTHONY ENGLAND

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood General Surgery, 1 Medical Village Dr., Suite 271, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 578-5880

AUDREY ERTEL

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas General Surgery,

1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 578-5880

DAVID R. FISCHER

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 308, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2062

LEONARDO GERACI, D.O.

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood General Surgery, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite 271, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 578-5880

ZACHARY GLENN, D.O.

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood General Surgery, 20 Medical Village Dr. Suite 271, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 578-5880

SCOTT C. HOBLER

Mercy Health - General and Laparoscopic Surgery, Kenwood, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 207, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 686-5392

CHRISTOPHER W. JUERGENS

Mercy HealthGeneral and Laparoscopic Surgery, Fairﬁeld, 3050 Mack Rd., Suite 310, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 924-8895

KSHITIJ KAKAR

TriHealth Group Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

AMY MAKLEY

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

KATHERINE M. MEISTER

TriHealth Group

Health - Good Samaritan CampusGeneral Surgery, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000

RYAN MOON

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence General Surgery, 4900 Houston Rd.,

Florence, KY 41042, (859) 212-4625

AMY ELIZABETH

MURPHY, D.O.

TriHealth Surgical Institute - Bethesda North Campus, 10506B Montgomery Rd., Suite 304, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-9000

HARISH NIRUJOGI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence General Surgery, 4900 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 212-4625

TIMOTHY PRITTS

UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 7000, Trauma Surgery, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 584-6048

ALEXANDER K. SABA

TriHealth Group Health - Good Samaritan CampusGeneral Surgery, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000

JONATHAN W. SCHILLING

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 242, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2062

KEVIN VINCENT SCHRAND

TriHealth - Advanced Wound Healing Center - Good Samaritan Hospital, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-5050

ASHLEY MICHELLE TAMERON

TriHealth Surgical Institute - Bethesda North Campus, 10506B Montgomery Rd., Suite 304, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-9000

LOUIS C. THIBODEAUX

TriHealth Surgical Institute - Bethesda North Campus, 10506B Montgomery Rd., Suite 304, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-9000

Geriatric Medicine

DOUGLAS H. BAUMAN

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2139 Auburn Ave., Room 6166, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2000

KARA CIANI UC Health, 7798 Discovery Dr., Suite A, Family Medicine, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8264

ANNA R. GORONCY

The Christ Hospital, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 340, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 588-5630

HUSAM E. HAMED

Allied Senior Care, 6730 Roosevelt Ave., Suite 303, Middletown, OH 45005, (513) 518-4224

MARAM KHABBAZ

Allied Senior Care, 6730 Roosevelt Ave., Suite 303, Middletown, OH 45005, (513) 886-2475

SYED A. MOQEETH Hospice of Cincinnati Navigators, 4310 Cooper Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 891-7700

MARIA PAVLOU

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Geriatics, 85 N. Grand Ave., Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 912-7211

JEFFREY D. SCHLAUDECKER

UC Health, 3235 Eden Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229 (513) 558-1452

LATOYA SMITH

UC Health, 3120 Burnet Ave., Suite 406, Family Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-8600

Gynecologic Oncology

JACK BROADWATER

BASIL

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion - Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgom-

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BRAMBLET, D.O.

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion - Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-1300

AJIT GUBBI, D.O.

OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, South Entrance, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800

AMANDA L. JACKSON

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

JAMES C. PAVELKA

TriHealth Tristate Gynecologic Oncology - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-1888

Hand Surgery

JAMES D. BAKER

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

CHRISTOPHER CHEN

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Western Hills (Beacon West), 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700

THOMAS M. DUE

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

SAFI R. FARUQUI, D.O.

MOHAB FOAD

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Summit Woods (Sharonville), 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700

BENJAMIN P. KLEINHENZ

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Montgomery, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700

SAM B.H. KOO

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Erlanger, 600 Rodeo Dr., Erlanger, KY 41018, (513) 354-3700

PATRICK J. MESSERSCHMITT

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Eastgate, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663

MICHAEL R. PACZAS Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports MedicineLiberty, 8020 Liberty Way, West Chester Township, OH 45069, (513) 354-3700

DANIEL G. REILLY Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Western Hills (Beacon West), 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700

ROBERT RHOAD

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Eastgate, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663

JONATHAN B. SLAUGHTER

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Highland Heights, 2626 Alexandria Pike, NKU Campus, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 301-2663

JEFFREY WERA

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Kenwood, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Flor-

ence, 8726 US 42, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 301-2663

MICHAEL D. WIGTON

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Beacon East, 463 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 354-3700

CRAIG B. WILLIS

Mercy Health - West Orthopaedics and Spine, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 347-9999

MARK YUHAS

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - West Chester, 8734 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 232-2663

WENJING ZENG

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Montgomery, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700

Hematology and Oncology

MARK T. ANDOLINA

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion

- Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-1300

MAHMOUD CHARIF

UC Health, 3151

Bellevue Ave., Blood Cancer & Bone

Marrow Transplant, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-8222

REKHA CHAUDHARY

UC Health, 3151

Bellevue Ave., Blood Cancer & Bone

Marrow Transplant, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-8222

EDWARD J. CRANE

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-1300

DAVID JAMES

DRAPER

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion

Center - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-1300

D. RANDOLPH

DROSICK

OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, South Entrance, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800

ERIN KATHLEEN

ESPINOZA, D.O.

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion Center - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-1300

DANIEL FLORA

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Yung Cancer Center - Edgewood, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-4000

DOUGLAS FLORA

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Yung Cancer Center- Edgewood, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-4000

ABDUL RAHMAN

JAZIEH

Cincinnati Cancer Advisors, 4805 Montgomery Rd., Suite 130, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 731-2273

PRASAD R.

KUDALKAR

OHC, 3050 Mack Rd., Suite 300, Fairfield, OH 45014, (888) 649-4800

TAHIR LATIF

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

KURT P.

LEUENBERGER JR.

OHC, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Medical Office Bldg., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (888) 649-4800

GINA MATACIA

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion - Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 853-1300

JOSHUA NECAMP

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Yung Cancer Center - Edgewood, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-4000

ANDREW J. PARCHMAN

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infusion Center - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-1300

SUZANNE M. PARTRIDGE

OHC, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Medical Office Bldg., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (888) 649-4800

PATRICK J. PRASAD OHC, 4350 Malsbary Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (888) 649-4800

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

REID A. HARTMANN

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2139 Auburn Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-4157

LISA L. KISER

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

SARA KLEINSCHMIDT

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Primary Care, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-8222

SARA MARIE MAPLES

TriHealth Heart & Vascular InstituteCT Surgery - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 200, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 246-2343

MANISH SRIVASTAVA Hospice of Cincinnati Navigators, 4310 Cooper Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 891-7700

PUJA KESARI SRIVASTAVA TriHealth Bethesda North Hospital Palliative Care, 10500 Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-5167

FIZA WARSI

UC Health, 7700 University Dr., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 298-3000

Hospital Medicine

JANEE BEY

TriHealth Hospital

Medicine, 625 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 569-1900

MATTHEW BRODERICK

TriHealth Hospital

Medicine, 625 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 569-1900

SARAH CAHILL

TriHealth Hospital

Medicine, 625 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 569-1900

CHRISTOPHER L. CHADWELL

The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Room 6162, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2410

ALI ELAZAB

Medicine Inpatient Group, LLC, 6730 Roosevelt Ave., Suite 303, Middletown, OH 45044, (513) 618-7430

THOMAS GETREU

TriHealth Hospital

Medicine, 625 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 569-1900

KENNETH T. HEBERLING

The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Suite 6162, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2000

AMANDA HEMMER

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Hospitalists, 1

Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-8074

ANDREW WEI

PETERSEN

TriHealth - Bethesda

North Hospital, 10500 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 862-1400

TARIQ SULTAN

TriHealth Hospital Medicine, 625 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202, (513) 569-1900

Infectious Disease

STEPHEN P. BLATT

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infectious Disease - Clifton - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 225, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 624-0999

JOHNSON BRITTO

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Infectious Disease, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 912-7193

JOHN M. CAFARDI

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite A44, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2791

VIDYA DEVARAJAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Infectious Diseases, 20 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 344-1512

SCOTT R. FRIEDSTROM

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infectious Disease - Montgomery, 10506B Montgomery Rd., Suite 403, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 984-2775

MARTIN LEONARDO

GNONI

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infectious Disease - Montgomery, 10506B Montgomery Rd.,

Suite 403, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 984-2775

RICHARD P. GOODMAN

Mercy Health - Kenwood Infectious Disease, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 735-1529

DHEERAJ GOYAL

Mercy HealthFairﬁeld Infectious Disease, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 200, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 735-1529

THOMAS D. LAMARRE JR.

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite A44, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2791

KEITH LUCKETT

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 3200, Liver Transplant, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-9999

ANAR SHASHANK

PATEL

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Infectious Disease - Clifton - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 225, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 624-0999

JOHN PETERSON

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Infectious Diseases, 20 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 757-4446

DORA SAVANIBLACKHAM

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Infectious Diseases, 20 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 344-1512

GEORGE SMULIAN

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 1300, Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 475-8585

RAVINDHAR VODELA Mercy Health - West Infectious Disease, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 735-1529

PATRICIA G. YOUNG

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite A44, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2791

Internal Medicine

AHMAD ANJAK

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

CHARLES BURGHER

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

JESSICA CASSADY

TriHealth Queen City PhysiciansHyde Park, 2753 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208, (513) 246-8000

NAMRATA

CHOUDHARY

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-0288

G. STEPHEN CLEVES

TriHealth Queen City PhysiciansHyde Park, 2753 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208, (513) 246-8000

LEANN COBERLY

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4503

JENNIFER ERNSTPIERSON

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

NEHA G. GANDHI

TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-7555

MICHAEL J. GEIGER

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

JULIE GOMEZ

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

CHRISTOPHER HEEB

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-0288

NATALIE JACOBS

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, General Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-7425

NIHARIKA

JOOLUKUNTLA

TriHealth Group Health - Primary Care - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 3000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-7000

LISA LARKIN

Concierge Medicine of Cincinnati - Mariemont, 3908 Miami Rd., Mariemont, OH 45227, (513) 760-5511

MICHELLE Y. LOUIS

TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-7555

LOTFI F. MAMLOUK

Medicine Inpatient Group, LLC, 6730 Roosevelt Ave., Suite 303, Middletown, OH 45044, (513) 874-0486

BRADLEY MATHIS

UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 8000, Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7880

YVETTE A. NEIROUZ

TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-7555

DONALD PRICE

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

KATHERINE SCHMIDT

UC Health, 3130

Highland Ave., Floor 2, Internal Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4503

MATTHEW G. WITSKEN

Mercy HealthWestside Internal Medicine, 5525 Marie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 981-5463

Maternal and Fetal Medicine

KRISTIN H. COPPAGE

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

BRAXTON FORDE

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 1400, Maternal & Fetal Care, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-5239

MOUNIRA A. HABLI

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates

- Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

MALLORY M. HOFFMAN

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates

- Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

KARA BETH MARKHAM

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-5239

SAMANTHA H. MAST

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

DAVID MCKINNEY

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

ELIZABETH A. MOORE, D.O.

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 120, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-1980

SAMANTHA MULLAN

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

ROBERT ROSSI

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

WILLIAM T. SCHNETTLER

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

KATHLEEN L. SMITH

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

DEWARD H. VOSS

TriHealth Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates - Good Samaritan Campus, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200

Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine

MARIA E. BARNESDAVIS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JENNIFER M. BRADY

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

MORGAN HILL

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

RAGHEED KATKHUDA

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

EMILY R. MILLER

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

VIVEK NARENDRAN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

AMY T. NATHAN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

DANNA M. PREMER

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

STEFANIE RIDDLE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

AMY E. ROUSE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

PRASOON VERMA

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave.,

Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

Nephrology

AHMAD ANJAK

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

FARHAN ARIF

Mt. Auburn Nephrology, Inc., 8260 Pine Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 841-0222

SHARAD GOEL

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Fairﬁeld, 1210 Hicks Blvd., Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 939-3975

AMIR IZHAR

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800

EMILY KENNER

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Edgewood, 830 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 202, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 341-6281

MUHAMMAD A. KHAN

Mt. Auburn Nephrology, Inc., 8260 Pine Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 841-0222

R. “GEOFF” GEOFFREY MOTZ

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Edgewood, 830 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 202, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 341-6281

AMR N. MOUSSA

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800

MINA PATELCHAMBERLIN

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Fairﬁeld, 1210 Hicks Blvd., Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 939-3975

BRIAN REVIS

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Montgomery, 11135

Montgomery Rd., Ground Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 791-7572

SHAHZAD SAFDAR

Mt. Auburn Nephrology, Inc., 8260 Pine Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 841-0222

TAHIR SAJJAD

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800

ANTOINE L. SAMAHA

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800

SILVI SHAH

UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 3200, Kidney Transplant, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-7001

BHARGAVI TANGIRALA

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Edgewood, 830 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 202, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 341-6281

ISAAC P. THOMAS

The Kidney & Hypertension Center - Covington, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way, Suite 301, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 341-6281

ARSHDEEP TINDNI

Nephrology Associates of Greater Cincinnati, 4665 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 101, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-3500

Neurology

TAMER Y. ABOUELSAAD

Mercy Health - Fairﬁeld Neurology, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 200, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 829-1700

MICHELLE BOWMAN

Riverhills Neuroscience, 4805 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 241-2370

TY BROWN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Neurology, 2670

Chancellor Dr., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 957-0052

KYLE DARPEL

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Neurology, 2670

Chancellor Dr., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 957-0052

JASON WILLIAM HEIL

TriHealth Group Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7027

VINOD KRISHNAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Neurology, 2670

Chancellor Dr., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 957-0052

HEATHER MCKEE

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 3300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8730

OMAR MULLA

OSSMANN

TriHealth Group Health - West Chester, 8040 Princeton Glendale Rd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 246-7027

ROBERT NEEL

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 3300, Neurology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8730

BASSEL SALEM

TriHealth Group

Health - Mason, 6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-7027

JOHN WEBB

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Neurology, 2670 Chancellor Dr., Suite 100, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 957-0052

Neurosurgery

NORBERTO ANDALUZ

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Radiation Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8990

ROBERT J. BOHINSKI

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825

Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

JOSEPH CHENG

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4100, Neurosurgery, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8990

BRADFORD A. CURT

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Floor 2, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100

VINCENT A. DINAPOLI

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825

Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

JONATHAN FORBES

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Radiation Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494

YAIR M. GOZAL

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825

Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

RANDALL J. HLUBEK

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825

Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

MICHAEL C. KACHMANN

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825

Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

CHRISTOPHER

MCPHERSON

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 6130 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 221-1100

JUAN C. MEJIA MUNNE

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 7661 Beechmont Ave., Suite 240, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 221-1100

RANI NASSER

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 2400, Back, Neck and Spine, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 418-2225

LAUREN R. OSTLING

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 6130 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 221-1100

ANDREW J. RINGER

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825

Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

BRADBURY SKIDMORE

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 544 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (513) 221-1100

ZACHARY J. TEMPEL

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 6130 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 221-1100

RONALD E. WARNICK

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Floor2, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100

Nuclear Medicine

BRUCE MAHONEY

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

JENNIFER SCHELER UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

Obstetrics and Gynecology

JACQUELINE CARPENTER, D.O.

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Burlington Women’s Health, 6105 First Financial Dr., Burlington, KY 41005, (859) 525-1846

SANDY LYNN GARDNER

TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan OB-GYN - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave.,

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St. Elizabeth Physicians - Burlington Women’s Health, 6105 First Financial Dr., Burlington, KY 41005, (859) 781-6222

MEGAN L. KESSLER

TriHealth Women’s Services - For Women - Evendale, 10475 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 563-2202

TARA D. KNIPPER

TriHealth Group Health - Anderson, 7810 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7008

RACHEL A. LANGENDERFER

TriHealth Women’s Services - Associates in OB-GYN - Bethesda North Campus, 10496 Montgomery Rd., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 671-7700

ELIZABETH LEROY

TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan OB-GYN - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411

ABBY LOFTUS-SMITH

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Women’s Health, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 781-6222

SARA W. LYONS

TriHealth Women’s Services - Comprehensive OB-GYN - Bethesda North Campus, 10550 Montgomery Rd., Suite 22, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 793-2229

SHWETHA

MANOHARAN, D.O.

TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan OB-GYN - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411

CAITLIN E. MCCARTHY

TriHealth Women’s Services - Seven Hills Women’s Health Center - Brookside, 8899 Brookside Ave., Suite 101, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 481-5100

MAMATA V. NARENDRAN

TriHealth Women’s Services - Cincy OB-GYN - Liberty, 8020 Liberty Way, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-3800

MICHAEL PLATTFAULKNER, D.O. St. Elizabeth Physicians - Burlington Women’s Health, 6105 First Financial Dr., Burlington, KY 41005, (859) 525-1846

GERARD REILLY

TriHealth Women’s Services - Seven Hills Women’s Health Center - Five Mile, 7495 State Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 231-3447

DEBORAH ROUSERAINES

Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3200 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-3100

STEPHEN J. SCHUERMANN

TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan OB-GYN - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411

CAITLYN K. ZINN, D.O.

TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan OB-GYN - Good Samaritan Campus, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411

Ophthalmology

MARYAM AHMEDNAQVI

MidWest Eye Center - Kenwood, 8270 Pine Rd., Cincin-

nati, OH 45236, (513) 791-5999

ZEGARY ALLEN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Covington Ophthalmology, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 655-3111

HISHAM H. ARAR

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Red Bank, 4760 Red Bank Expy., Suite 108, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 296-8332

CHARLES BREEN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Ophthalmology, 7370 Turfway Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 746-1990

HAROON A. CHAUDHRY

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Fairﬁeld, 563 Wessel Dr., Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 858-6500

ALISON DZWONCZYK EARLY

Signature Cataract & Laser Consultants, 8231 Cornell Rd. Suite 320, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 815-5900

JULIA T. ELPERS

MidWest Eye Center - Kenwood, 8270 Pine Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 791-5999

LAURA L. HANSON

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Blue Ash, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 296-8332

GINGER HENSON

AestheticEye, 10 Remick Blvd., Springboro, OH 45066, (937) 907-9009

DONALD HUDAK

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Batesville Ophthalmology, 374 Northside Dr., Batesville, IN 47006, (812) 496-8782

SAIF JAWEED

MidWest Eye Center - Kenwood, 8270 Pine Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 791-5999

ADAM H. KAUFMAN

Cincinnati Eye Institute - University Medical Arts Building, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 4000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 296-8332

FAIZ M. KHAJA

MidWest Eye Center - Crestview Hills, 2865 Chancellor Dr., Suite 215, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-5600

ANUP K. KHATANA

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Blue Ash, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 296-8332

ALEXANDER KULEY

Sifri Eye Center, 2745 Anderson Ferry Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45238, (513) 922-1550

RADHIKA KUMAR

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Montgomery, 10615 Montgomery Rd., Suite 202, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 561-5655

LUKE B. LINDSELL

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Blue Ash Retina Clinic, 9997 Carver Rd., Level 2, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 296-8332

KRISTEN ANN V. MENDOZA

MidWest Eye Center - Anderson, 1060 Nimitzview Dr., Suite 105, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 232-2500

AARON R. NOLL

MidWest Eye Center - Thomas More Parkway, 500 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-4525

JAMES OSHER

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Blue Ash Retina Clinic, 9997 Carver Rd., Level 2, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 296-8332

JONATHAN

PARGAMENT

AestheticEye, 10 Remick Blvd., Springboro, OH 45066, (937) 907-9009

APARNA A. SHAH

Bennet & Bloom Eye Centers, 6905-B

Burlington Pike, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 282-9999

ROBERT A. SISK

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Blue Ash Retina Clinic, 9997 Carver Rd., Level 2, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 296-8332

KAVITHA SIVARAMAN

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Blue Ash, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 296-8332

MICHAEL E. SNYDER

Cincinnati Eye Institute - Blue Ash, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 296-8332

TRISHA VOLMERING

MidWest Eye Center - Hamilton, 1017 Main St., Hamilton, OH 45013, (513) 868-2181

MICHAEL WEHMANN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Ft. Thomas Ophthalmology, 1400 Grand Ave., Newport, KY 41071, (859) 781-3110

Orthopedic Surgery

MAHMOUD ALMASRI

Mercy HealthOrthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute, Kenwood, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 300A, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 347-9999

MICHAEL ARCHDEACON

UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 2200, Orthopaedic Surgery, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8690

SAMEH M. AREBI

Mercy Health - West Orthopaedics and Spine, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 347-9999

FERHAN ASGHAR

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

RONALD T. AUER

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Greendale, 1600 Flossie Dr., Greendale, IN 47025, (859) 301-2663

ANKIT BANSAL

Mercy Health - Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute, Anderson, 7575 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 347-9999

JEFFREY CHAPEK, D.O.

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

HALEEM CHAUDHARY Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Summit Woods (Sharonville), 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700

PAUL J. FAVORITO

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 7545 Beechmont Ave., Suite J, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 221-5500

JOHN FRITCH

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

BRIAN GRAWE

UC Health, 7690 Discovery Dr., Suite 1000, Orthopaedic Surgery, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8690

MATTHEW S. GRUNKEMEYER

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

JACOB M. GUNZENHAEUSER

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 4460 Red Bank Expwy., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 791-5200

STEVE HAMILTON Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports

TOP DOCTORS

Medicine - Western Hills (Beacon West), 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700

SAMER S. HASAN

Mercy Health - Cincinnati SportsMedicine and Orthopaedic Center, Crestview Hills, 328 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (513) 347-9999

RICHARD M. HOBLITZELL

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

MATTHEW T. HUMMEL

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

MATTHEW A. JOHANSEN

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Western Hills (Beacon West), 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700

TODD C. KELLEY

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 4460 Red Bank Expwy., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 791-5200

MATTHEW A. LANGENDERFER

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Montgomery, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700

ARTHUR LEE

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Eastgate, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663

ADAM V. METZLER

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

KRISTA MIGLIORE, D.O.

Orthopedic Associates of SW Ohio, 601

N. B St., Suite 110, Hamilton, OH 45013, (800) 824-9861

JOSHUA M. MURPHY

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Fairﬁeld, 5900 Boymel Dr., Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 354-3700

SHANKAR

NARAYANAN

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - West Chester, 8734 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 232-2663

SURESH NAYAK

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Eastgate, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 221-2663

MICHAEL P. PALMER

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 6939 Cox Rd., Suite 370, Liberty Township, OH 45069, (513) 791-5200

ROBERT ROLF

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Western Hills (Beacon West), 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700

KEVIN J. SHAW

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Lebanon (Arrow Springs), 100 Arrow Springs Blvd., Suite 2600, Lebanon, OH 45036, (513) 354-3700

JOEL I. SORGER

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Beacon East, 463 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 354-3700

JONATHON M. SPANYER

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Highland Heights, 2626 Alexandria Pike, NKU Campus, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 301-2663

J. TREVOR

STEFANSKI

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - West

Chester, 8734 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 232-2663

MELISSA SUMMERS

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 2011, Perioperative Care, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 584-1000

MICHAEL L. SWANK

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Summit Woods (Sharonville), 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700

DINESH THAWRANI

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 5885 Harrison Ave., Suite 2300, Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 791-5200

M. SCOTT TRUE

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports MedicineWest Chester, 9100 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 150, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 354-3700

BRIAN A. WISSEL

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Lawrenceburg, 605 Wilson Creek Rd., Suite 101, Lawrenceburg, IN 47025, (859) 301-2663

JOHN WYRICK

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Montgomery, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700

Otolaryngology

ZACHARY W. BEAR

Mercy Health - West Ear, Nose and Throat, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 500, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 215-5930

COLLIN M. BURKART

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 5885 Harrison Ave., Suite 3700, Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 421-5558

ESTHER A. CHENG

The Christ Hospital, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 209, Cincin-

nati, OH 45219, (513) 421-5558

MARK D. DEUTSCH

TriHealth Group

Health - ENTKenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000

NICHOLAS A. EBERLY, D.O.

Mercy HealthFairﬁeld Ear, Nose and Throat, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 200, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 860-5200

AARON D. FRIEDMAN

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8400

MARK W. GELPI

Mercy Health - West Ear, Nose and Throat, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 500, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 215-5930

BRIAN D. GOICO

TriHealth Group

Health - ENTKenwood, 8240

Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000

STEVEN GORDON

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Radiation Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494

PATRICK J. HAAS

ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900

BRIAN LEE

HENDRICKS

TriHealth Group Health - ENTKenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000

MATTHEW S. HENSLER

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 7691 Five Mile Rd., Suite 214, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 421-5558

REBECCA J. HOWELL

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite

4400, Otolaryngology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8400

SETH JOSEPH ISAACS

TriHealth Group

Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

BRYAN J. KROL

ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900

SEAN LEWIS

TriHealth Group

Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7000

ERNEST C. MANDERS

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 2200, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 421-5558

UMESH SURESH MARATHE

TriHealth Group

Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

ANNA MARCINOW

TriHealth Group

Health - ENTKenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000

KATIE M. PHILLIPS

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 2011, Perioperative Care, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 584-1000

PERRY POTEET ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900

ERIC L. SCHWETSCHENAU

TriHealth Group

Health - ENTKenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000

AHMAD SEDAGHAT

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 2011, Perioperative Care, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 584-1000

DUSTIN A. SILVERMAN

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3274

DAVID STEWARD

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Otolaryngology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8400

ALICE L. TANG

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

JAMIE LEA WELSHHANS

TriHealth Group Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

NATHAN WIEBRACHT

ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900

KEITH M. WILSON

TriHealth Group

Health - ENTKenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000

CHAD A. ZENDER UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

LEE A. ZIMMER

Mercy HealthKenwood Ear, Nose and Throat, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 108, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 936-0500

Pain Medicine

HUMAM AKBIK

American Pain Consortium, 2818 Mack Rd., Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (513) 900-0750

JAMES R. BRUNS

TriHealth Group Health - Western

TOP DOCTORS

Ridge, 6909 Good Samaritan Dr., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 246-2300

DONALD P. CARRUTHERS

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

JAMES K. FORTMAN

TriHealthGeneral Surgery

- McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, 110 N. Poplar St., Oxford, OH 45056, (513) 524-5330

SHUCHITA GARG

UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 3200, Pain Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8282

JUSTIN J. KRUER

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Erlanger, 600 Rodeo Dr., Erlanger, KY 41018, (513) 354-3700

VIC MANOCHA

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports MedicineMason (South), 7423 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Suite A, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 354-3700

SARA E. NASHI

TriHealth - Bethesda North Interventional Pain Center, 10550 Montgomery Rd., Suite 14, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 246-2300

MARC P. ORLANDO

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

HARSH SACHDEVA

UC Health, 7759 University Dr., Suite C, Pain Medicine, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8282

AARTI A. SINGLA

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports MedicineWest Chester, 9100 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 150, West

Chester, OH 45069, (513) 354-3700

DONALD STAGGS

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Floor 2, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100

GURURAU

SUDARSHAN

Cincinnati Pain Physicians, 8261 Cornell Rd., Suite 630, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 891-0022

MICHAEL J. WALLS

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Crestview Hills, 2845 Chancellor Dr., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

Pathology

MATTHEW BRAMLAGE

Southern Ohio Pathology Consultants, Inc. - TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 817-1170

SAJINI MATHEW

Southern Ohio Pathology Consultants, Inc. - TriHealth

Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 817-1170

PAMELA B. SEQUEIRA

Southern Ohio Pathology Consultants, Inc. - TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 817-1170

MEGAN C. SMITH

Southern Ohio Pathology Consultants, Inc. - TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 817-1170

Pediatric Cardiology

NICOLE BROWN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ALLISON A. DIVANOVIC

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

SAMUEL P. HANKE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

RUSSEL HIRSCH

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ANGELA LORTS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ELISA MARCUCCIO

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

THOMAS D. RYAN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CHRISTOPHER J.

STATILE

Cincinnati Children’s - Eastgate, 4315 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

RANJIT CHIMA

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

MAYA DEWAN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

CARLIE MYERS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

SUE POYNTER

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave.,

Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

ERIKA STALETS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

NATALJA STANSKI

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Dermatology

CHERYL BAYART

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

KALYANI S. MARATHE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Endocrinology

SARAH D. CORATHERS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

NANCY A. CRIMMINS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

IRIS GUTMARKLITTLE

Cincinnati Children’s - Mason Campus, 9560 Children’s Dr., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 636-3200

NANA-HAWA YAYAH JONES

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Gastroenterology

ANA CATALINA “CATA” ARCECLACHAR

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus,

3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JENNIFER HELLMANN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4415

AJAY KAUL

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4415

DANIEL MALLON

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

VINCENT A. MUKKADA

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

KEVIN MURRAY

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

SCOTT P. PENTIUK

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

PHILIP E. PUTNAM

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

ALLISON L. BARTLETT

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

STELLA DAVIES

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JOHN P. PERENTESIS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CHRISTINE L. PHILLIPS

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

BRIAN K. TURPIN, D.O.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

Pediatric Infectious Disease

REBECCA C. BRADY

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

LARA A. DANZIGERISAKOV

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ROBERT W. FRENCK JR.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

DAVID B. HASLAM

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

GRANT C. PAULSEN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ELIZABETH P. SCHLAUDECKER

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Nephrology

STUART L. GOLDSTEIN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4531

MEREDITH P. SCHUH

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3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CHARLES D. VARNELL

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Cincinnati Children’s - Eastgate, 4315 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Neurology

DONALD L. GILBERT

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4222

BARBARA E. HALLINAN

Cincinnati Children’s - Eastgate, 4315 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 636-3200

CAMERON W. THOMAS

Cincinnati Children’sCrestview Hills, 2765 Chapel Pl., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (513) 636-3200

MARISSA M.

VAWTER-LEE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4222

STEVE W. WU

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Neurosurgery

FRANCESCO T.

MANGANO, D.O.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

SMRUTI K. PATEL

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JESSE SKOCH

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

SUDHAKAR

VADIVELU, D.O.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery

JAIME RICE DENNING

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ALVIN C. JONES

Cincinnati Children’sGreen Township, 5899 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 636-3200

KEVIN J. LITTLE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JAMES J. MCCARTHY

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CHARLES T. MEHLMAN, D.O.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

SHITAL N. PARIKH

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

WENDY RAMALINGAM

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JUNICHI TAMAI

Cincinnati Children’s - Eastgate, 4315 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Otolaryngology

DANIEL I. CHOO

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ALESSANDRO DE

ALARCON

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CATHERINE K. HART

Cincinnati Children’s - Eastgate, 4315 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 636-3200

CHRISTINE H. HEUBI

Cincinnati Children’s - Eastgate, 4315 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 636-3200

CHARLES M. MYER IV

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

MICHAEL J. RUTTER

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

DOUGLAS VON ALLMEN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

Pediatric Psychiatry

HEATHER CHOUTEAU, D.O.

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

TRACY CUMMINGS

Lindner Center of Hope 4075 Old Western Row Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 536-4673

MELISSA DELBELLO

UC Health, 3120 Burnet Ave., Suite 404, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 585-6663

MARTINE LAMY

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

SUZANNE J. SAMPANG

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200

JEFFREY R. STRAWN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4124

ANKITA ZUTSHI

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4124

Pediatric Pulmonology

DAN BENSCOTER, D.O.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

GREGORY T. BURG

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

BARBARA CHINI

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CHERIE TORRESSILVA

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CHRISTOPHER TOWE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

SARA M. ZAK

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Rheumatology

ALEXEI A. GROM

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

GRANT SCHULERT

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

TRACY V. TING

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Sleep Medicine

THOMAS J. DYE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

CHRISTINE H. HEUBI

Cincinnati Children’s - Eastgate, 4315 Ivy Pointe Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 636-3200

NARONG

SIMAKAJORNBOON

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-6771

Pediatric Surgery

ALEXANDER BONDOC

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

LAURA GALGANSKI

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

AARON P. GARRISON

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

MEERA KOTAGAL

Cincinnati Children’s

- Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

BETH RYMESKI, D.O.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

GREG M. TIAO

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatric Urology

MICHAEL R. DAUGHERTY

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

WILLIAM R. DEFOOR JR.

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

PRAMOD P. REDDY

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

ANDREW C. STRINE

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

BRIAN A. VANDERBRINK

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

Pediatrics (General)

JOSEPH BAILEY

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

NICOLE R. BALDWIN

Northeast Cincinnati Pediatric Associates, Inc., 11643 Solzman Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 530-0200

BASHAR BOUSO

Kids Care PC, 202 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg, IN 47025, (812) 539-2142

KATHERINE LIVESAY BROERING

TriHealth Group Health Mason,

Our team of fellowship trained Oculofacial and Reconstructive Surgeons and Medical Aesthetician specialize in:

Dr. Ginger Henson and Dr. Jonathan Pargament have distinguished backgrounds, with extensive training and experience in oculoplastic surgery. Whether you're looking to rejuvenate your appearance or require reconstructive surgery, their commitment to patient-centered care and use of the latest surgical techniques ensure that you'll receive exceptional, natural results - never overdone!

•Upper & Lower Blepharoplasty

•Brow and Forehead Lifts

•Non-Surgical Eyelid Lift

•Laser Resurfacing

•Sofwave Skin Tightening

•Dark Circle Treatments

•Fillers & Injectables

•Microneedling

•Chemical Peels

•Dermaplane

•HydraFacial

•Brow & Lash Enhancements

•Professional Skin Care Products

TOP DOCTORS

6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-7000

BRANDIE CHAN

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Pediatrics, 7300 Turfway Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 212-5025

LIZ DANIELS, D.O.

Northeast Cincinnati Pediatric Associates, Inc., 8185 Corporate Way, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 398-7171

KRISTEN M. DEMARCO

TriHealth Queen City Physicians - Madeira Pediatrics, 7829 Laurel Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45243, (513) 936-2150

FIROZA (TASHA)

ZAMAN FARUQUI, D.O.

TriHealth Group

Health - Pediatrics - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 3000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-7000

MICHAEL J. GEIGER

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 344 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400

DAWN MARIE

KOTOWSKI-MANFROY

TriHealth Physician

Partners - Pediatrics - Anderson, 7810 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7000

PIERRE P. MANFROY

Northeast Cincinnati Pediatric Associates, Inc., 11643 Solzman Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 530-0200

JOHN C. MARKOVICH

TriHealth Physician

Partners - Pediatrics - Anderson, 7810 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7000

JULIE WIGTON

Montgomery Pediatrics, Inc., 9157 Montgomery Rd., Suite 100, Cincin-

nati, OH 45242, (513) 984-5552

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

ADAM ABRAHAM

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine

- Mason (North), 4859 Nixon Park Dr., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 354-3700

JOHN BARTSCH

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Beacon East, 463 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 354-3700

JOHN BRANNAN

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Summit Woods (Sharonville), 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700

TIMOTHY M. BURNS, D.O.

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Edgewood, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663

JENNIFER Y. CHUNG

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 792-7441

ALBERTO

MALDONADO

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Summit Woods (Sharonville), 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700

GEORGE MATIC Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Summit Woods (Sharonville), 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700

TRAVIS MCCLAIN, D.O.

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 6400 E. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 791-5521

MARC P. ORLANDO

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

JORDAN PERLMAN

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine

- Crestview Hills, 2900 Chancellor Dr., Building 40, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (513) 354-3700

CHRISTINE N. SMITH

TriHealth Orthopedic & Sports Institute

- Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-2300

F. CLIFFORD VALENTIN

OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine - Eastgate, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

BIANCA CHIN

RestoreMD Plastic Surgery, 2055 Reading Rd., Suite 480, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (888) 372-2446

RYAN M. COLLAR

UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Otolaryngology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8400

ALEXANDER S. DONATH

Donath Facial Plastic Surgery, 7763 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 891-5438

JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER

EASTON

TriHealth Group Health - Finneytown, 740 W. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45231, (513) 853-9000

JEFFREY HARMON

Harmon Facial Plastic Surgery, 2752 Erie Ave., Suite 3, Cincinnati, OH 45208, (567) 749-5346

ALLISON M. HOLZAPFEL

Holzapfel + Lied Plastic Surgery Center + Skin Care, 8044 Montgomery Rd., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-3223

NEILENDU KUNDU

Mercy HealthKenwood Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 207, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 686-5392

LAWRENCE KURTZMAN

Kurtzman Plastic Surgery, 5050 E. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 891-4440

ALLISON E. LIED

Holzapfel + Lied Plastic Surgery Center + Skin Care, 8044 Montgomery Rd., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-3223

GINA MACCARONE

The Surgeonista

Cosmetic Surgery, 4012 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 400-4750

MARK MANDELLBROWN

Mandell-Brown Plastic Surgery Center, 10735 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 986-0720

BINH NGUYEN

TriHealth Group Health - Good Samaritan Campus, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Floor 8, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000

BRIAN S. PAN

Cincinnati Children’s - Burnet Campus, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200

JONATHAN PARGAMENT

AestheticEye, 10 Remick Blvd., Springboro, OH 45066, (937) 907-9009

CHRISTOPHER M. SHUMRICK

TriHealth Group

Health - ENTKenwood, 8240

Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000

KAYLA SMITH

TriHealth Group

Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7657

NICOLE C. STARR

Holzapfel + Lied Plastic Surgery Center + Skin Care, 8044 Montgomery Rd., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-3223

WILLIAM D. TOBLER

JR.

TriHealth Pavilion, 6200 Pfeiffer Rd., Suite 350, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 246-5454

SHAHRYAR TORK

Tork Plastic Surgery + Aesthetics, 9549 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) (513) 0460

JAMIE LEA

WELSHHANS

TriHealth Group

Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000

RICHARD WILLIAMS

The Plastic Surgery Group, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 350, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 791-4440

RYAN M. WILSON

The Plastic Surgery Group, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 350, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 791-4440

Psychiatry

EMAD ALSHAMI

Emad Alshami, M.D., 1060 Summit Dr., Suite B, Middletown, OH 45042, (513) 423-4546

DALLAS G. AUVIL

TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital - Psychiatry, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Floor 10, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-2692

DANIELLE JOHNSON

Lindner Center of Hope, 4075 Old Western Row Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 536-4673

CHARLA JONES TrustCare Physicians, 9380 Montgomery Rd., Suite 206, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 216-2725

DAVID E. KAROL

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Infectious Diseases, Suite 1300, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 475-8585

DAVID LEONARD Cincinnati Center for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, Inc., 3001 Highland Ave., Suite E, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 961-8861

MARTA PISARSKA

TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital - Psychiatry, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Floor 10, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-2692

JYOTI SACHDEVA

UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Suite 105, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 585-7700

PIOTR ZIEBA

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Hospital Behavioral Health, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 301-5901

Radiation Oncology

WILLIAM BARRETT UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

MATTHEW H. BERTKE OHC, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Medical Office Bldg., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (888) 649-4800

LAUREN CASTELLINI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Yung Cancer Center Radiation Oncology, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edge-

At Precision Diabetes & Endocrinology, every patient receives care as unique as their own health journey. Under the leadership of Dr. based care.

philosophy centers on preventive healthcare

and thrive.

At the heart of Precision Diabetes &

Dr. Allison Johns

TOP DOCTORS

wood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2238

IMRAN H.

CHOWDHURY

OHC, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 105, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (888) 649-4800

EMILY DAUGHERTY

UC Health, 3151

Bellevue Ave., Radiation Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494

CHRISTOPHER M.

FREESE

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2139 Auburn Ave., D-Level, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2940

NATALIE B. GEIER

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2139 Auburn Ave., D-Level, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2940

OLSI GJYSHI

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Yung Cancer

Center Radiation Oncology, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2238

JEFFREY GRASS

OHC, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 105, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (888) 649-4800

COURTNEY L. HENTZ

OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, South Entrance, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800

COREY HOBBS

TriHealth Cancer & Blood Institute - Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-1300

BRADLEY HUTH

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Yung Cancer Center Radiation Oncology, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2238

JORDAN KHAROFA

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

ANTON KHOURI

TriHealth Cancer & Blood Institute - Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-1300

DAVID E. LONG

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2139 Auburn Ave., D-Level, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2940

SARA MEDEK

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Radiation Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 584-3494

RAHUL N. PRASAD

OHC, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 105, Fairﬁeld, OH 45014, (888) 649-4800

BRYAN RABATIC

TriHealth - Bethesda Radiation Oncology - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite LL100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-1300

PRATISH SHAH

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Edgewood Radiology Oncology, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2238

JOSEPH N.

SHAUGHNESSY

OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, South Entrance, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800

SARAH SITTENFELD

UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Radiation Oncology, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494

Radiology

ANGELA BECKES

Tristate Imaging Medical Group 375

Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331

ERIC BRANDSER

Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky, 375 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 209, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-4369

KIMBERLY DRAUD

Tristate Imaging Medical Group 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331

MICHAEL KREEGER

Tristate Imaging Medical Group 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331

JIM MERANUS

Tristate Imaging Medical Group 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331

SUNIL MISRA

Tristate Imaging Medical Group 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331

AMAR PATEL

Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky, 375 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 209, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-4369

AMIT RATTAN

Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky, 375 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 209, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-4369

JAMES SCHAFER

Tristate Imaging Medical Group 375

Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331

RYAN SIEVE

Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky, 375 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 209, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-4369

SCOTT TYSON

Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky, 375 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 209, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-4369

Reproductive Endocrinology / Infertility

MICHAEL AWADALLA

Institute for Reproductive Health, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 924-5550

SHERIF G. AWADALLA

Institute for Reproductive Health, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 924-5550

EMILY HURLEY

UC Health, 7700 University Dr., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 298-3000

KASEY REYNOLDS MARELI SpringCreek Fertility - Cincinnati, 9313 Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 935-0423

ISELA MOLINA ROBERTSHAW

Institute for Reproductive Health, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 924-5550

MICHAEL D. SCHEIBER

Institute for Reproductive Health, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 924-5550

MICHAEL THOMAS

UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 315, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-7600

Rheumatology

TARA J. ADHIKARI

Cincy Arthritis, 9403 Kenwood Rd., Kenwood Professional Bldg., Suite C, Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 991-9990

WILLIAM BEERS

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Florence Rheumatology, 7370 Turfway Rd.,

Florence, KY 41042, (859) 344-1900

SONAL BHALLA

Riverhills Neuroscience, 4805 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 241-2370

EMILY BOWERS

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Rheumatology - Western Ridge, 6949 Good Samaritan Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 246-7016

LEE COLGLAZIER

Tristate Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2616 Legends Way, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-3100

PAIGE ANN H. DE BUYS

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Rheumatology - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Mont-

gomery, OH 45242, (513) 246-7016

GREGORY J.

DELORENZO

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Rheumatology - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7016

ROBERT E. HILTZ

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Rheumatology - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7016

DEEPA PRASAD

KUDALKAR

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Rheumatology - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 246-7016

MICHELLE R. LAUGLE

TriHealth Group Health - Liberty, 8020 Liberty Way, Liberty Township, OH 45069, (513) 246-7016

SOHA MOUSA Arthritis & Rheumatology of Southwest Ohio, 7116 Sennet Pl., Liberty Township, OH 45069, (513) 779-0777

KIM YEN THI NGUYEN

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Rheumatology - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7016

MAHNAZ SAOUDIAN

TriHealth - Good Samaritan Rheumatology - Thomas Comprehensive Care Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 246-7016

YOUR UROLOGY TOP DOCS!

Paurush Babbar, M.D.

Stephen Bennett, M.D.

Cooper R. Benson, M.D.

Aaron Bey, M.D.

Gregory Broughton, M.D.

Philip J. Bu ngton, M.D.

Kevin Campbell, M.D.

Christopher Cirulli, M.D.

Mark G. Delworth, M.D.

Christian Dewan, M.D.

Michael W. Dusing, M.D.

Brooke B. Edwards, M.D.

Doug Feeney, M.D.

Ryan M. Flynn, M.D.

Matthew R. Fulton, M.D.

Kevin Hartwig, MD

Alero Fregene Inyang, MD

Stephen Kappa, M.D.

Gary M. Kirsh, M.D.

Eric Kuhn, M.D.

Robert J. Larke, M.D.

Matthew A. Love, M.D.

Brian J. Minnillo, M.D.

Brandon B. Mudd, M.D.

Benjamin E. Niver, M.D.

Aroh M. Pandit, M.D.

Marc Pliskin, D.O.

Daniel F. Robertshaw, M.D.

Rebecca Roedersheimer, M.D.

Michael B. Rousseau, M.D.

B. Robert Schwartz, M.D.

Anne Scott, M.D.

Brian Shay, M.D.

Caitlin Shepherd, M.D.

Glenn J. Suntay, M.D.

Daniel Szabo, M.D.

Martin John Walsh II, M.D.

Vinson Wang, M.D.

J.D. Williams, M.D.

Patrick Wirtz, M.D.

TOP DOCTORS

NABEELA SIDDIQI

UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000

LIZA R. VARGHESE

Tristate Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2616 Legends Way, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-3100

MAGDALENA

WINIARSKA

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Crestview Hills Rheumatology, 651 Centre View Blvd., Suite 201, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 344-1900

Sleep Medicine

SAMIR ATAYA

Mercy Health -

Clermont Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 200, Batavia, OH 45103, (513) 735-1701

BASHAR BRIJAWI

Mercy HealthLiberty Falls Sleep Center & West, 6770 Cincinnati Dayton Rd., Suite 105, Liberty Township, OH 45044, (513) 559-7025

BRUCE CORSER

Sleep Management Institute, 5240 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 721-7533

SUNIL K. DAMA

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 440, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 648-8980

KARTHIKEYAN

KANAGARAJAN

The Christ Hospital Physicians, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 440, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 648-8980

SANJIV P. PATEL

Mercy HealthKenwood Sleep Medicine, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 203, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 774-2870

SHAYLA LAU’REN

PULLEN

TriHealth Physician Partners Sleep Medicine - Glenway, 6350 Glenway Ave., Suite 204, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 865-1690

ANN ROMAKER

UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 3041, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 475-7500

ANTHONY JOSEPH

SUCHOSKI

TriHealth Physician Partners Sleep Medicine - Butler, 3055 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 300, Fairﬁeld

Twp., OH 45011, (513) 865-1690

WILLIAM WILLMOTT

St. Elizabeth Physicians - Sleep Medicine, 651 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 301-9140

Spine Surgery

ROBERT J. BOHINSKI

Mayﬁeld Brain & Spine, 3825

Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100

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and pains, torrential downpours, searing heat, and struggles ﬁnding places to sleep became issues. He had too much stuff, he says, so he began jettisoning items, starting with a camp table and chairs. He traded his cart for a jogging stroller and became proficient in using Google Maps to find out-of-the-way campsites.

Turcich’s training had been more hitand-miss than manically dedicated. He’d been loyal to the stair-stepper and organized several weekend hiking trips with friends that were vigorous, but nothing like what he’d face on a day-to-day basis. “I ﬁgured I was an athlete and could adjust easily, since it was just walking,” he says with a laugh. “My ﬁrst month, I lived on Advil PM.”

eyes intently on Turcich.

Turcich had been raised to be polite and looking for the good in everyone. “I was on a slippery slope and knew it, but all my stuff was back at his place and I didn’t know where I was or where we were going,” he recalls.

They eventually returned to the ramshackle home and Turcich made a quick exit, politely rebuffing Rob’s pleas to stay. It was one of the many adventures he would have in his tour of the planet, highlighted by a chance stop at a Texas animal shelter several months later. That’s where he found a sandy-colored puppy with white paws and a bad case of mange, Savannah.

As anyone who’s ever travelled with a pet knows, logistics can be challenging. Turcich now had two mouths to feed and an undisciplined and sometimes frightened dog to train. There would be veterinarian visits, visa issues, and overnight complications when he wanted to sleep with a roof over his head. Could she keep up, or would her pace crash a carefully-curated walking timetable?

Savannah quickly provided Turcich with what he wanted most: Better secu-

“WHEN YOU’RE OUT THERE, SOMETHING IS ALWAYS GOING WRONG, YOU’RE OFTEN UNCOMFORTABLE AND TIRED, AND IT’S EASY TO LOSE YOUR FRICKING MIND,” SAYS TOM TURCICH.

He uses the word naive often to describe his early days on the road. He instinctively trusted people, he admits, and it almost got him into trouble as he walked the back roads of central Georgia. A stranger, seemingly a Good Samaritan, offered him a hot meal and a place to sleep. He lived just down the road, the stranger named Rob said, and an uncertain but dog-tired Turcich fought the nagging warning light pulsating in his brain. He took Rob up on the meal.

Sometimes those weeds that Turcich wanted to pull weren’t weeds at all. Rob took Turcich on a late-night ride along the back woods, continually commenting on how “good looking” he was. He talked about how he used to cook meth. His car would drift left and then right as he focused his

rity, especially as he slept. He had also reasoned he wanted companionship, but that didn’t come easily. As they trudged through the unbearably hot landscape in Costa Rica, he knew she was there and was keeping up. “But I was too lost in the sauce just trying to cope with the heat,” he says. “It wasn’t until we made it into Panama that I began to emotionally appreciate that she was with me.”

Over time, Savannah became an experienced and disciplined companion. She might have been as trusting as Turcich was when he set out on his journey. She didn’t instinctively attack, for example, when a large man wielding a machete in Nicaragua surprised Turcich in the middle of the night. It turned out OK, both for Turcich and

Savannah. Weighing in at around 35 pounds, she wasn’t imposing, but Turcich believes her mere presence at his side was a deterrent. And it gave him peace.

“She was a working dog,” Turcich says of Savannah, who died in 2024. “She wouldn’t cuddle. If you tried, she’d break away.” He remembers her as a “pro and a natural” who would follow his commands all day and then, after walking 21 to 24 miles, would beg him to play after he pitched his tent.

Her only fear, once she conquered her phobia of cars and trucks, was other dogs. We’re used to well-behaved dogs on a leash or at least behind a fence. But dogs in many developing countries, often abused or neglected, are ﬁercely territorial and aggressive. Turcich was attacked several times, and Savannah, in terms of temperament and size, was no match.

By the end of Turcich’s ﬁrst leg, which took him from New Jersey to Panama City, Savannah was thoroughly convinced the entire canine world was against her. A three-month break in the walk was planned after the second leg while Turcich waited to get Savannah’s paperwork to get her into Europe. So it was back home for a few weeks and a little home cooking.

“I remember taking her to the dog park when we were home and she just sat there in the corner on edge,” Turcich remembers. “It took a while, but it was a healing experience for her when she learned not all dogs were out to get her.”

TO QUALIFY FOR GUINNESS WORLD REcords as a circumnavigating pedestrian, you need to walk at least 18,000 miles and set foot on four continents. You can stop and take breaks, and there’s no overall time limit. Records have to be measurable, veriﬁable, and breakable, so Turcich and Savannah were smart about how they circled the globe. They took their time and had planned and unplanned breaks. They’d settle down for a few weeks with new-found friends, relatives, or just out of necessity. Then they’d pick up the walk near where they left off, but not necessarily exactly at the same point.

Turcich started his second leg in Colombia in 2016, for example, and ended in Uruguay, then hopped a ﬂight to southern

Argentina to board a ship to Antarctica. There, on the planet’s southernmost continent, he says, “I took a few steps, but it was more an experience than a walk. I’m not that adventurous.”

In early 2017, Turcich was reading quietly by his tent as he scanned the volcanic ﬂats in Iceland and suddenly felt a stomach spasm. He had left Savannah behind in New Jersey while he and his sister hiked the rocky island. The pain was nagging at ﬁrst, and he didn’t think much about it.

By the summer in Ireland, the spasms were knocking the breath out of him. One morning, standing shirtless in front a mirror, he noticed his protruding ribs. In Scotland, he was struggling to cover just six miles a day and, when he arrived at his cousin’s doorstep in London, he was spent and suffering nearly constant pain. His cousin persuaded him to return to the U.S. for treatment for what turned out to be colitis and a bacterial infection.

Turcich says he recognized his old friend, the Grim Reaper, who was standing over his shoulder again as his weight dropped to 118 pounds. (Turcich is 6-foot2 and today weights about 165.) As his health deteriorated, so did his natural optimism. Doctors in Philadelphia prescribed the right antibiotic but nothing for the weeds that had regrown in his head.

It was all he could do, he remembers, to get back in shape and return to the road. But he did, returning to Europe in spring 2018.

“I’d lost the resilience I’d built up through the Americas, and that’s important to have,” he says of his miserable journey through Denmark, Germany, and France. “When you’re out there, something is always going wrong, you’re often uncomfortable and tired, and it’s easy to lose your fricking mind.”

As Turcich trudged through western Europe on his way to the Rock of Gibraltar, he played the “I give up” scenario in his head. A loving family, warm bed, good food, and familiar life was just across the pond. But so was an apartment, furniture, commutes to a 9-to-5 job, a car, bills, and a life in his comfort zone. “And then it hit me,” he says with a laugh. “I realized, God, that would be terrible.”

He and Savannah would have many more adventures in Europe, Africa, and

Asia before COVID slammed a door in their faces in March 2020. Plans to walk all the way to Mongolia and ﬂy to Australia for a cross-continental stroll were shelved as borders closed. Stuck in Azerbaijan for months, he decided that neighboring Kyrgyzstan would be the end of the line.

“I had been walking for six years and just decided, You know, that’s enough,” says Turcich. “It was time to go home.”

Before heading for the U.S. west coast, though, there would be one more meeting with the Grim Reaper.

As Turcich and Savannah, along with a local guide named Husnidin, traversed a snow-covered, boulder-strewn glacier high above a Kyrgyz village, the path narrowed. Turcich’s worn-down shoes didn’t hug the snow, and he felt unsteady as he glanced to his left and the sheer drop that led to the abyss. He panicked and fell to his knees. The snow began to give away and, as he puts it, he “felt the icy hand of death on my shoulder.”

His guide rescued him, and they exchanged footwear—Turcich donning Husnidin’s boots and making it to the other side, where he collapsed in mental and physical exhaustion. It was spring 2021, and the journey on foreign soil was ﬁnished. It was time for the last leg: Seattle to his parents’ New Jersey front porch.

AFTER MEETING HUNDREDS, IF NOT thousands, of people from the Andes to the deserts of Algeria and the rugged mountains of the Caucuses, Turcich would ﬁnd his true love, Bonnie, on social media. A native Alaskan, she’s currently doing her emergency medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati. I don’t ask Turcich where they’re planning to honeymoon, but I’m betting on Turkey—where that young boy riding the donkey was eating grapes. Or perhaps Australia, the only continent his feet have yet to touch.

After 2,068 days on the road, Turcich stepped onto his parents’ porch on May 21, 2022. Cheering crowds gathered along the last few miles, many of them walking with him or behind him as he strolled his hometown’s familiar streets. Some people had come from hundreds of miles away, drawn by loyally following his Instagram account. It was a spectacle Turcich says he hadn’t

expected, and he was grateful. Most of all, he was glad it was over.

He says he’s at peace today, and the weeds are gone. The Grim Reaper has been banished. “I needed to walk around the world. I found that sense of clarity and authenticity I was looking for.”

Turcich thinks back to that boy on the donkey, the Chilean teens who whisked a very ill Savannah from the desert to a veterinarian, the Algerian police who befriended him as they shadowed him through a lawless land, the herdsman who pulled him off the Gora Babash-Ata glacier, the rat-faced man who pulled a knife on him in Panama, and even Rob in Georgia.

All of them, and the countless others he met on the road, are now a piece of him. When you travel, says Turcich, especially off the beaten path, your growth is relentless. You’re always being challenged and tested. The dizzying experience isn’t for everyone. Many of the people he met would, in their lifetimes, never travel more than 50 miles from where they were born.

“But they were no less worthwhile,” he says. “There’s something to be said about staying in the same place with your family and friends, all of them having the same experiences. Ignorance is bliss in this way, and life can be satisfactory and content.”

That clearly was not Turcich’s path. He and Bonnie love Newport and are happily making the repairs and maintenance that all homes need. He enjoys the nearby restaurants, coffee shops, and parks. Savannah is gone, but now he has Pastrami, an almost-year-old mixed breed. “He isn’t the walker Savannah was, but we still go out almost every day for an hour or so,” he says. “Newport is a very walkable place, so I love it.”

Turcich has developed a successful career as a motivational speaker, traveling across the U.S. to deliver his “get out there and live” message. In 2023, he published a children’s book, Savannah’s World of Adventure, detailing their journey across the Andes Mountains; he says a second book in the series is coming soon. And he’s writing another book, The Unbreakable Self, to explore seven truths he learned on his walk and how to apply them to everyday life.

His relaxed smile tells it all: There’s no place like home. Even a new one.

Those with pending asylum applications can be detained, Kersh says, but the law says they’re entitled to a hearing determining whether it’s safe to return to their home countries. “That’s what the law says, but that’s not what is always happening,” she adds. “I’m aware of people being moved to third countries that have had their asylum hearing and didn’t get approved. They are moved to countries like Mexico, and then Mexico sends them back to [their home country].... Right now, it’s an open legal question as to whether or not that is a violation of our legal obligations. The government is gearing up to remove asylum

thesiologist from Port au Prince that they may have to go to jail after they entered the country lawfully, haven’t broken any laws, have worked, and own a house. It’s like someone came to me and said, You might go to jail tomorrow. This isn’t what our country is supposed to stand for.”

HAITIANS BEGAN ARRIVING IN SPRINGﬁeld in 2017, drawn by word of mouth as well its designation as a welcoming town and the familiarity of having a St. Vincent de Paul in their home country. At ﬁrst, the problems seemed mostly logistical; Rollins was proud of how her community organized to meet the needs of the Haitian newcomers, from translation services to transportation to healthcare to housing. “We have discovered that we really know how to come together in the face of an emergency,” she says.

After the ﬁrst wave arrived, local nonproﬁts and faith groups, led by the United Way and the local Health Department, banded together to create the Haitian Coalition to connect them with community

“THIS IS WHAT MY FAITH IS ALL ABOUT, FOLLOWING

JESUS’S COMMAND TO LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF,” SAYS

PASTOR CARL RUBY OF CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

seekers to third countries before their hearings. They have used the Illegal Alien Enemies Act to remove Venezuelans who have pending asylum cases. I haven’t heard of that happening to Haitians, but they could use it in the future.” For Kersh, treatment of the Haitians immigrants seems like a string of broken promises. The U.S. government revoked the humanitarian parole many had been granted through 2026.

“I work with folks every day who come to this country without permission, and being separated from their kids is something they know in the back of their minds is a possibility because they know they don’t have status here,” says Kersh. “But the Haitians came here legally and were promised this status, and now I have to talk to them about making a plan if they’re detained. And the look of sheer horror and shock on their face is hard to describe. You’re telling an anes-

resources. Over time, new Haitian residents formed another service agency, the Haitian Support Center. The agency’s executive director, Viles Dorsainvil, ﬂed Haiti in 2020 when kidnapping cases started to escalate. “The Haitians have been through a lot, from the social chaos back home to starting a new life in America,” he says. “They are tired, and they want to be in a place where they can peacefully go to work and send their kids to school and live their lives and become part of the community.”

There were growing pains, of course, and concerns about language barriers, cultural differences, and strained resources. Tensions started to escalate after an unlicensed Haitian driver caused a tragic school bus accident that claimed the life of 11-yearold Aiden Clark and injured dozens of others. Members of the Haitian community became more wary and more mindful of

where they went or what they did, fearful of becoming scapegoats for the tragedy.

After the accident, Rollins recalls, Springfield City Commission meetings turned into inquisitions—anyone serving the immigrant community was viewed by some as anti-American, probably warranting prosecution. Aiden’s father, Nathan Clark, pleaded with politicians and the public not to invoke his son’s name to persecute immigrants.

Pastor Carl Ruby was getting ready for bed one night when a congregation member called and told him to tune in to the live broadcast of the Springﬁeld City Commission. “I was appalled by what was being said about Haitians, and I felt that I had to go downtown and say something,” recalls Ruby, lead pastor for Central Christian Church. He made what he considered a mild, well-reasoned statement, noting, “I understand there are some costs to assimilating a large group of people to a different culture, but there are some beneﬁts as well, and these are good people.”

He hadn’t intended to be provocative, but the pushback was ﬁerce and immediate. Someone posted on the City Commission website, “Carl Ruby is a POS coyote...he needs to be run out of town.”

The simmering unease went full Chernobyl during the second presidential debate on September 10, 2024, when Trump parroted baseless claims about Haitian immigrants. “In Springﬁeld, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” he said. “They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”

Denise Goode-Williams, president of the Springﬁeld chapter of the NAACP, says she almost fell out of bed and demanded, “Did he just say that?”

The spurious rumor about Haitians killing and eating their neighbors’ pets— an all-too-common anti-immigrant stereotype—originated with a local Facebook post that was quickly deleted. Local officials denounced the rumors as false and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine decried them as “garbage from the Internet,” but the hoax went viral, amplified by right-wing influencers and then-Ohio Senator JD Vance. After Trump’s debate remarks, more than 30 bomb threats forced the evacuation of Springfield schools and government build-

ings and the deployment of state troopers to sweep school buildings for weapons every morning and evening.

Williams began fielding calls from panicked locals as well as journalists from around the world. “I can’t begin to tell you how bad it was,” she says. “The community was in an uproar, and the Haitians were fearful. They were afraid to come out for church services, afraid to go shopping.”

Williams needed extra security around her home and hesitated to invite her grandchildren over for fear of putting them in harm’s way. “I wasn’t fearful, because I had a job to do,” she says. “I take all my direction from God.”

The harassment grew so intense that the city of Springfield filed a lawsuit, joined by multiple city leaders including Rollins, in federal court alleging that the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe “engaged in a monthslong campaign of harassment and intimidation against the city of Springfield and its officials and residents who rebuffed the group’s persistent racist attacks against the local community.”

Yet for every instance of hateful rhetoric and for every threatening note pinned to a church door, the community found moments of grace. The NAACP was ﬂooded with donations and messages of support from around the world. After Ruby appeared on CNN, Central Christian Church was showered with gifts and cards from church youth groups. New members were attracted to the church, telling the pastor, “This is what my faith is all about, following Jesus’s command to love thy neighbor as thyself.”

Throughout the turmoil, Rollins says she’s found new fellowship with both her Haitian neighbors and longtime Springﬁeld residents. “I can’t believe the number of friendships and phenomenal loving relationships we have developed here, born out of this trauma and this tragic situation.”

LIKE MANY IN HER COMMUNITY, JEN Casto is heartbroken and frightened by all the hateful rhetoric. The scenes in her city remind her of the dystopian novels she devoured as a kid.

Casto fears for her safety every time she speaks at City Commission meetings, but she refuses to back down. She wants to

set a good example for her young children. “Whenever I set foot in City Hall, I feel like I’m putting myself at risk,” says Casto, a leader of Indivisible Springﬁeld, the local chapter of the national progressive movement. “I do it because if I don’t stand up and the next person doesn’t stand up, our democracy is gone.”

She views the Haitian immigrant debate as a humanitarian issue, not a political one. “This is a failure of our shared humanity,” she says. “If even one mother is taken from her babies, if even one man is treated like a criminal just for trying to survive, then none of us are truly free. Their humanity doesn’t stop at a border.”

In early August, hundreds throng Springﬁeld’s City Hall Plaza for a “Love Thy Neighbor” rally sponsored by Springﬁeld G92, a broad-based coalition of churches “committed to the safety and dignity of our Haitian neighbors and friends.” The plaza is a sea of protest posters declaring, “We are the caring majority” and “No human is illegal” and “All of our neighbors are made in God’s image.”

Casto once again summons her courage to address the crowd. “Our Haitian and immigrant neighbors didn’t come here to take,” she says. “They came here to live. To contribute. To belong. Many of them ﬂed political violence, instability, and natural disasters most of us can’t even imagine living through. They came here with faith in a promise this country was built on.”

Many attend the rally because their faith compels them to be there, Ruby tells the crowd. “The Bible is very clear that one cannot honor God and dishonor immigrants and refugees,” he says. “Some claim to be Christians but then espouse immigration policies that dishonor the Christ they claim to follow. Cruelty and dehumanization are always wrong.”

It is not merely the city’s minority residents who will suffer in the aftermath of mass deportation, Ruby warns. “All of Springﬁeld will be hurt by the removal of our Haitian and many of our Latino neighbors, people who are helping to repopulate and rebuild this city. Our entire nation will be devastated if Homeland Security deports millions of our most ambitious workers.”

Community leaders harbor few hopes that the Trump administration has moved

on from Springﬁeld. On a recent Truth Social post, the president wrote, “They have stolen American jobs, consumed billions of dollars in free welfare, and turned once idyllic communities, like Springﬁeld, Ohio, into Third World nightmares.”

“When he keeps saying things like that, it makes me fear he could seek to make an example of us,” says Ruby. “The president has spent a great deal of energy seeking to enhance his reputation as a peacemaker. There’s a wonderful opportunity for him to demonstrate his commitment to peace by changing the rhetoric on immigration and coming up with a policy that welcomes immigrants and protects the border, focusing on people who have committed violent crimes.”

Ruby devotes the majority of his time as pastor working with Haitian immigrants, a priority supported by the board of elders because it ﬁts the mission of Central Christian Church. “It is all-consuming,” he says. “I have so much to do I don’t have time to be depressed. It helps me not to despair when I have the chance to do something to change the tide so that Haitians are embraced and kept in Springﬁeld.”

Trump campaigned on a promise to deport “the worst of the worst,” but that isn’t what Edgington sees when she looks around her hometown. “I wish people could see how [Haitian parents are] so attentive to their kids,” she says. “They go places together as a family more than we do as Americans.”

After a recent service, Magdala greets visitors with an irrepressible smile and a warmth usually reserved for childhood friends. Longtime church members greet her as one of their own, and the message is clear: She belongs to the kind of family everyone would want for a neighbor, a friend, and members of their congregation.

Magdala is too preoccupied with the day-to-day tasks of raising children to worry much about the future. “It’s so much safer here than in Haiti,” she says. “I am leaving it up to God.”

She is sustained by her deep Christian faith, and she hopes the American people will come to understand one simple truth: “The Haitian people may have a different culture and speak a different language, but we are the same people in God’s eyes.”

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TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK

Chef/Owner Alﬁo Gulisano (far left) and his crew—Nate Crawford, chef; Sky Cooper, chef; Scott Sargent, mixologist; and Darren Mickens, sous chef—make magic at Noche, offering Italian favorites with an Argentinian twist.

FORK LORE

NOCHE delivers Italian food with an Argentinian twist.

—TIFFANY LUCKEY

WHEN YOU STEP INTO NOCHE, THE ITALIAN-ARGENTINIAN RESTAUrant on the corner of Madison Avenue and Seventh Street in Covington, you’re met with a vibe that lives up to its name. “Noche” means “night” in Spanish, and the space radiates warmth, with deep green and gold tones, soft lighting, and a full bar that’s both sophisticated and intimate. It has a nightcap feeling, even in the middle of the day. It’s a setting that embodies what Chef Alﬁo Gulisano—the driving force behind Hyde Park’s Alﬁo’s Buon Cibo— set out to achieve: An elegant but approachable restaurant where pasta, cocktails, and conversation blend with ease.

Its opening last summer marks Gulisano’s evolution as a chef and restaurateur. Where Alﬁo’s is expansive, with a broad menu and family-style sensibility, Noche is curated, with a collection of concise dishes that celebrate heritage with elevated comfort. The concept was born from a desire to simplify and focus on pasta with layered ﬂavors. Yes, it’s Italian at its core, but traces of Gulisano’s Argentinian roots weave their way throughout every aspect of its menu, from hearty appetizers to carefully crafted cocktails. Gulisano was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a country whose food identity is tied to Italy’s in inextricable ways. Beginning in the late 19th century, waves of Italians immigrated to Argentina and helped shaped the South American country’s cuisine. This mingling of cultures guides many of the dishes Gulisano creates at Noche, embracing the simplicity of Italian techniques while adding the comfort and soul of Argentinian cooking.

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701 Madison Ave., Covington, (859) 2616900, las-noches.com

Hours

Dinner Sun–Thurs 4–8:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 4–9:30 p.m.

Prices

$10 (bread service)–$39 (chicken pancetta caprese)

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The Takeaway Noche offers ItalianArgentinian cuisine in a casual yet sophisticated environment.

Noche’s menu opens with shareable appetizers that lean toward Argentinian fare. The bourbon wagyu brisket burrata is decadent yet disciplined. The hand-pulled mozzarella is filled with slow-braised wagyu brisket and arrives warm, ready to spread across charred crostini, and topped off with a drizzle of hot honey. But the standout dish is the short rib sliders. The meat is braised for five hours after a quick grill that locks in flavor, then packed within soft buns with provolone and garlic aioli, making sandwiches both familiar and refined.

While Gulisano plays up creativity with the appetizers, pasta dishes stay closer to classic Italian roots. The prime tenderloin gnocchi is tossed in a hand-cut ragù and finished with fresh Parmesan cheese. The pillowy texture of the gnocchi clings to the sauce, making the straightforward familiarity of the dish feel cozy. Next to this, the cacio e pepe might seem simple, but it offers bold, almost theatrical, flavors. The dish is flamed in a Parmesan wheel and finished with white truffle oil for a flavor that’s rich without being too heavy.

The pulled brisket BBQ ravioli is tossed in a creamy cheddar alfredo sauce and topped with a slightly crunchy truffle slaw, adding texture and depth. When it comes to the braised short rib penne— which layers the rib with mushrooms and a truffle spinach sauce— Gulisano shows how such a rich dish can remain light on its feet. It’s no surprise that he calls it one of the restaurant’s deﬁning dishes, the one the staff most often recommend to ﬁrst-time visitors.

And then there’s the pan-seared lasagna, perhaps Noche’s most unique creation. Instead of baking in a casserole, the lasagna is cut

into a single serving, seared on both sides to develop a golden crust, then ﬁnished in the oven. The technique gives the dish a crisp edge and smoky aroma while cutting the usual 30-minute bake time down to just 10. The layers of ricotta and smoked Bolognese offer the familiar comfort of regular lasagna, which speaks to the creativity of a chef who respects tradition but won’t be conﬁned by it.

Desserts at Noche walk the same line between tradition and playfulness. The peanut butter and mascarpone cheesecake is lush, with the mascarpone adding tang to the rich peanut butter. A ﬁg semifreddo whipped cream completes the indulgent dish. The bourbon blueberry chocolate chip bread pudding is just as decadent, and is everything you could want in a cozy dessert. A strawberryrum glaze gives it a brightness that keeps its sweetness in check.

Noche’s cocktail menu, curated by co-owner Michelle O’Brien, mirrors the kitchen’s philosophy. Some drinks rotate with the seasons, often drawing from the same ﬂavors and ingredients as the dishes, such as bourbon, honey, and citrus. They’re designed to complement the dishes rather than compete. Its summer signature Midnight in Jalisco is a spicy, modern take on the Old Fashioned— using reposado tequila, honeydew jalapeño shrub, lime, and Tajin— that works well with many of the pasta dishes.

While there are many Italian American restaurants in the city, Noche sets itself apart with conﬁdence and simplicity in every aspect. It’s the kind of place where you linger after you clear your plate, ordering another round of cocktails and conversing well into the evening. It’s the artistry of a chef who knows exactly who he is and what his food represents on full display. Gulisano’s cooking has always been rooted in heart and tradition, but at Noche the ﬂavors of Argentina and Italy, once parallels in his life, now meet on the same plate.

NIGHT MOVES (From left)

Pan-seared housemade lasagna; the original Rich’s Gruen Watches sign graces Noche’s exterior; peanut butter and mascarpone cheesecake and bread pudding; Chef/Owner Alﬁo Gulisano.

Daytime Delights

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU COMBINE THE EARTHY BOUQUET OF FLAVORS THAT DEFINE Indian cuisine with the traditional mid-day weekend items at most restaurants? You get the brunch options at Kanak India. The eatery—which specializes in dishes from northern India, home of those tasty tandoori oven favorites—has created a weekends-only menu that weaves sweet and savory for a meal worth getting up early for.

Start with the French toast to set the brunch mood. It’s topped with blueberries and gulab jamuns (deep-fried spongy dough balls drenched in a syrup made of sugar, cardamom, and rose water), each bite bursting with a sappy heap of that liquid gold. Next, balance out the sweetness of the French toast with the Kanak masala omelette. The dense egg and paratha (Indian ﬂatbread) presents more like a frittata, stuffed with beef, chicken, cheese, or mushroom. The signature egg shakshuka is a poached egg in tomato sauce with peppers and onion and a side of garlic buttered pav, a puffy bun similar to a dinner roll. Traditionally, it’s served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, so whether you’re in a brunch mood or a lunch mood, you can’t go wrong.

If you’re craving something a little lighter for the ﬁrst meal of the day, try out one of Kanak’s breakfast sandwiches. With sunny side up eggs on sourdough bread, the toasties (available with minced chicken, paneer, or marsala avocado) are a little messy, but don’t let that stop you. —AIESHA D. LITTLE

OCHS

THE DIRECTOR OF THE Cooking School at Jungle Jim’s wants to help you make your best home-cooked meal.

What is it about cooking that made you want to make a career out of it? I have enjoyed cooking since I was very young. The opportunity to make it a career was too good to pass up. The combination of cooking and teaching is perfect.

What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned in the last 15 years? Learning to pivot. Classes have changed a lot since We changed focus from demonstration classes to hands-on as demand changed. Then during COVID, we switched to virtual classes to keep things going.

What makes Jungle Jim’s classes special? Our team of instructors and classroom staff have so much to give our students. We are a one-stop experience—you can take a class, then buy all the ingredients and even the kitchen equipment before going home and cooking.

What’s your favorite class at The Cooking School? I love teaching pizza!

What advice would you give to someone who wants to get into cooking? Immerse yourself as much as possible. Take classes, read cookbooks, and consider working in the industry to learn. – AIESHA D . LITTLE

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Kanak India, 10040 Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, (513) 793-6800, kanakindiacincy.com

Read a longer interview with Leigh at cincinnatimagazine.com

NEW DIGS

W HEN KIKI OWNER AND chef Hideki Harada announced the beloved Japanese restaurant would close its doors in College Hill in March, local foodies were devastated. Turns out, the devastation was short lived: The eatery reopened on Ludlow Avenue in Clifton just a few months later.

The menu mixes old favorites with new features. One major addition is a new sushi bar menu featuring nigiri, sashimi, and sushi rolls, made using fresh seafood from Sen by Kiki. The College Hill roll (salmon, cucumber, radish, yuzu crema, salmon roe) is a delicious ode to its former location, and the chicken karaage (a Japanese version

of fried chicken) has the perfect crunch without being too heavy, making it a great starter. Treat yourself to the wagyu kushiyaki (skewer) and enjoy melt-in-your-mouth beef with wasabi and green onion.

Many fans of Kiki know and love the shio ramen and kimchi ramen, but the bao buns should not be overlooked. Four ﬂuffy buns are served with cabbage slaw and your choice of pork belly or shredded jackfruit in a sweet soy glaze. If you still have room, order the miso caramel gelato. We won’t judge you if you want to eat the two heaping scoops of this Dojo Gelato creation all by yourself.

—BRIANNA CONNOCK

AMERICAN 128

BARBECUE 128

CAJUN/CARIBBEAN 129

CHINESE 129

ECLECTIC 130

FRENCH 132

INDIAN 132

ITALIAN 132

JAPANESE 134

KOREAN 134

MEDITERRANEAN 134

MEXICAN 134

SEAFOOD 135

STEAKS 135

THAI 135

VIETNAMESE 135

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AMERICAN

ALARA

Alara’s dim lighting, hanging plants, purple drapes, and muted music all create an atmosphere of subdued sophistication to accompany its New American menu. Like lots of local restaurants at this price point, this place takes farm-totable dining seriously. Local and regional producers play a large role in shaping the restaurant’s seasonal offerings (which are on glorious display in the spiced oil, fried chickpeas, black garlic molasses, Fresno chiles, pickled carrots, and dill of the smoked carrot hummus) while larger dishes lend a certain “family style” air to the dining experience. The lobster and pea carbonara offers generous enough portions of both the seafood and the pasta to make sharing an option, but like with the chicken Milanese—a light, rustic, and lemony dish that ate like a biergarten schnitzel—you might want to keep it all to yourself.

5410 Medpace Way, Madisonville, (513) 2725315, alaracincinnati.com. Dinner seven days. MCC. $$$

BROWN DOG CAFÉ

If you haven’t had a plate of Shawn McCoy’s design set in front of you, it’s about time. Many of the menu’s dishes show his knack for the plate as a palette. A trio of duck breast, lamb chop, and demi haute chocolate boar is a standout. The eye for detail and contrasts of colors and textures belongs to someone who cares for food.

1000 Summit Place, Blue Ash, (513) 794-1610, thebrowndogcafe.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat, brunch Sat. MCC, DS. $$$

EMBERS

The menu here is built for celebration: poshly priced steak and sushi selections are meant to suit every special occasion. Appetizers are both classic (shrimp cocktail) and Asian-inspired (shrimp tempura); fashionable ingredients are name-checked (micro-greens and truffles); a prominent sushi section (nigiri, sashimi, and rolls) precedes a list of archetypal salads; Kobe beef on sushi rolls sidles up to steaks of prime; non-steak entrées (Chilean sea bass or Dover sole with haricots verts

HOWLING GOOD

Upscale Italian restaurant Al Lupo Ristorante recently opened in the historic Rookwood Pottery building at 1077 Celestial St. in Mt. Adams. The menu features classic Italian fare, such as lasagna, pappardelle Bolognese, bucatini carbonara, and more. Al Lupo (which means “the wolf” in Italian) is the latest eatery to open in the space after Rookwood Pottery Food & Beverage Co. permanently closed in 2022. lupocincy.com

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and almondine) make for high-style alternative selections. Talk about a party.

8170 Montgomery Rd., Madeira, (513) 9848090, embersrestaurant.com. Dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$$$

QUATMAN CAFÉ

The quintessential neighborhood dive, Quatman’s sits in the shadow of the Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, serving up a classic bar burger. Look elsewhere if you like your burger with exotic toppings: This half-pound of grilled beef is served with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickle. Sometimes cheese. The no-frills theme is straightforward and appealing. A menu of standard sandwich fare and smooth mock turtle soup; beer on tap or soda in cans (no wine or liquor); and plenty of kitsch is served daily. Peppered with regulars, families, and political discussions, Quatman’s is far from fancy, but it’s fun, fast, and delicious.

2434 Quatman Ave., Norwood, (513) 7314370; 224 W. Main St., Mason, (513) 229-0222, quatmancafe.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DS. $

THE SCHOOLHOUSE RESTAURANT

The daily menu at this Civil War–era schoolhouseturned-restaurant is familiar Midwestern comfort fare is written on the original chalkboard. Once you order from a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to your high school lunch lady, the elevated lazy Susan in the center of the table begins to ﬁll up with individual bowls and baskets of cornbread, slaw, salad, mashed potatoes, chicken gravy, and vegetables. The deal here is quantity. More mashed potatoes with your fried chicken? More cornbread with your baked ham? You don’t even have to raise your hand.

8031 Glendale-Milford Rd., Camp Dennison, (513) 831-5753, theschoolhousecincinnati.com. Lunch Thurs, Fri & Sun, dinner Thurs–Sun. MCC, DS. $$

SUGAR N’ SPICE

This Paddock Hills diner, with other locations in Over-the-Rhine and Blue Ash, has been dishing up wispy-thin pancakes and football-sized omelettes to Cincinnatians since FDR was signing new deals. Breakfast and lunch offerings mix old-hat classics like corned beef hash and basic burgers with

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funky iterations that draw on ethnic ingredients such as chorizo. Get here early if you don’t want to stand in line.

4381 Reading Rd., Paddock Hills, (513) 2423521; 1203 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 762-0390; 10275 Summit Pkwy., Blue Ash, (513) 447-6453, eatsugarnspice.com. Breakfast and lunch seven days. MCC. $

BARBECUE

BEE’S BARBEQUE

You’ll want to get to Bee’s early if you want to avoid the line of friendly regulars. The restaurant’s smoker churns out a variety of meats—including brisket, pulled pork, rib tips, turkey breast, and two kinds of sausage—so it’s easy to see why they keep coming back. If you enjoy the spicy grease that oozes out of a good chorizo, you’ll love the Cincinnati Hot Link, which tastes like the delicious love child of a chorizo and a hot mett. Word to the wise: Bee’s opens at 11 a.m. and closes when they run out of meat. Understandably, this doesn’t take long.

5910 Chandler St., Madisonville, (513) 5612337. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sat; 1403 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 721-2337, beesbarbecue. com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sun. MCC. $

ELI’S BBQ

Elias Leisring started building his pulled pork reputation under canopies at Findlay Market and Fountain Square in 2011. His shack along the river serves up ribs that are speaking-intongues good, some of the zazziest jalapeño cheese grits north of the Mason-Dixon line, and browned mashed potatoes that would make any short-order cook diner-proud. The small no-frills restaurant—which is often packed cheek-byjowl—feels like it’s been there a lifetime, with customers dropping vinyl on the turntable, dogs romping in the side yard, and picnic tables crowded with diners. The hooch is bring-yourown, and the barbecue is bona ﬁde.

3313 Riverside Dr., East End, (513) 533-1957; 133 West Elder St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 5331957, ext. 2, elisbarbeque.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC. $

WALT’S HITCHING POST

Roughly 750 pounds of ribs per week are pit-ﬁred in a small building in front of the restaurant, with a smaller dedicated smoker out back for brisket and chicken. Walt’s ribs begin with several hours in the smokehouse and then are quick-seared at the time of service. This hybrid method takes advantage of the leaner nature of the baby-back ribs they prefer to use. Each rib had a justright tooth to it where soft ﬂesh peeled away from the bone. One hidden treasure: Walt’s homemade tomato and garlic dressing. Slightly thicker than a vinaigrette yet unwilling to overwhelm a plate of greens, the two key elements play well together.

3300 Madison Pke., Ft. Wright, (859) 360-2222, waltshitchingpost.com. Dinner seven days. MCC. $$$

CAJUN/ CARIBBEAN

BREWRIVER CREOLE

More than 800 miles from New Orleans, this may be as close as you can get to the real deal here in your own backyard. The menu fully leans into Chef Michael Shields’s penchant for cuisine from the Crescent City. His six years of training under NOLA’s own Emeril Lagasse comes through in a scratch kitchen menu that spans a range of the city’s classics. The enormous shrimp and oyster po’boys—the former protein fried in a light and crispy beer batter and the latter in a hearty cornmeal breading—are served on ﬂuff y French bread loaves and dressed with lightly spicy rémoulades. The jambalaya packs all the heat of a late summer day in the French Quarter without masking a hint of its satisfying ﬂavors.

4632 Eastern Ave., Linwood, (513) 861-2484, brewrivercreolekitchen.com. Dinner Tues–Sun, brunch and lunch Sat & Sun. MCC. $

SWAMPWATER GRILL

At first blush, this place is a dive where homesick Cajuns can find a good pile of jambalaya. But thoughtful details like draft Abita beer and char-grilled Gulf Coast oysters on the half shell signal its ambition. Bayou standards like jambalaya, gumbo, and fried seafood also make an appearance. But the extensive menu also features amped-up pub-style items for those who may be squeamish about crawfish tails (which can be added to just about anything on the menu). You’ll also find a roundup of oyster, shrimp, catfish, and alligator po’boys, as well as a selection of hardwood-smoked meats. 3742 Kellogg Ave., East End, (513) 834-7067, swampwatergrill.com. Lunch and dinner Wed–Sun, brunch Sat & Sun. V, MC, DS, AMEX. $$

KNOTTY PINE ON THE BAYOU

The Pine serves some of the best Louisiana home-style food you’ll find this far north of New Orleans. Taste the fried catfish filets with their peppery crust, or the garlic sauteed shrimp with smoky greens on the side, and you’ll understand why it’s called soul food. Between March and June, it’s crawfish season. Get them boiled and heaped high on a platter or in a superb crawfish etouffee. But the rockin’ gumbo—a thick, murky brew of andouille sausage, chicken, and vegetables—serves the best roundhouse punch all year round. As soon as you inhale the bouquet and take that first bite, you realize why Cajun-style food is considered a high art form and a serious pleasure.

6302 Licking Pke., Cold Spring, (859) 781-2200, theknottypineonthebayou.com. Dinner Tues–Sun. MCC, DS. $$

AMERASIA

A sense of energetic fun deﬁnes this tiny Chinese spot with a robust beer list. The glossy paper menu depicts Master Chef Rich Chu as a “Kung Food” master ﬁghting

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Several local bars and restaurants were featured in a digital Travel + Leisure story on the Queen City in November. The article details Indianapolis-based writer Iona Brannon’s exploration of what makes our city great—including bars and restaurants like Kiki, Bridges Nepal Cuisine, King Pigeon, and Sotto—calling Cincinnati “the most underrated city in the Midwest.” travelandleisure. com/guide-to-cincinna ti-ohio-11840841

the evil fast-food villain with dishes like “fly rice,” “Brocco-Lee,” and “Big Bird’s Nest.” Freshness rules. Potstickers, dumplings, and wontons are hand shaped. The Dragon’s Breath wontons will invade your dreams. Seasoned ground pork, onion, and cilantro meatballs are wrapped in egg dough, wok simmered, and topped with thick, spicy red pepper sauce and fresh cilantro. Noodles are clearly Chef Chu’s specialty, with zonxon (a tangle of thin noodles, finely chopped pork, and mushrooms cloaked in spicy dark sauce and crowned with peanuts and cilantro) and Matt Chu’s Special (shaved rice noodles, fried chicken, and seasonal vegetables in gingery white sauce) topping the menu’s flavor charts.

521 Madison Ave., Covington, (859) 261-6121, kungfood.online. Lunch and dinner Mon–Fri, dinner Sat. MCC. $

ORIENTAL WOK

When Mike and Helen Wong opened Oriental Wok in 1977, the couple wanted to recreate the glamor and refinement of the Hong Kong-Cantonese cuisine they knew. Today, locals and expats alike enjoy authentic Chinese and Chinese-American dishes in dining rooms reminiscent of Beijing. Beyond the elephant tusk entryway and fish ponds and fountains is the warmth and hospitality of the Wong family, service on par with the finest establishments, and very, very good food. Best are the fresh fish: salmon, grouper and sea bass steamed, grilled or fried in a wok, needing little more than the ginger-green onion sauce that accompanies them. Oriental Wok is the tri-state’s longest-running family-owned Chinese restaurant for a reason.

317 Buttermilk Pke., Ft. Mitchell, (859) 331-3000; 2444 Madison Rd., Hyde Park, (513) 871-6888, orientalwok.com. Lunch Sun–Fri (Ft. Mitchell; buffet Sun 11–2:30), lunch Tues–Sat (Hyde Park), dinner seven days (Ft. Mitchell) dinner Tues–Sun (Hyde Park). MCC. $$

THE PACIFIC KITCHEN

The monster of a menu can be dizzying. Ease in with some top-notch Korean Wings. These slightly bubbly, shatter-crisp wings are painted with a thin gochujang chili sauce (a foil to the fat). It takes 24 hours to prep the Cantonese duck, between a honey-vinegar brine to dry the skin, a marinade of star anise, bean paste, and soy within the resealed cavity, and the crispy convection oven finish. Dolsot bibimbap had plenty of crispy rice at the bottom of the stone bowl, and the accompanying banchan were soothing yet flavorful. Even dishes like a Malaysian goat stew resonated with rich, original flavors.

8300 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, (513) 898-1833, thepaciﬁc.kitchen. Lunch and dinner Mon & Wed–Sun, dim sum lunch Sat & Sun. MCC. $$

SICHUAN BISTRO

Like many Chinese restaurants that cater to both mainstream American and Chinese palates, this strip mall gem uses two menus. The real story here is found in dishes of pungent multi-layered ﬂavors that set your mouth ablaze with fermented peppers and fresh chilies and then just as quickly cool it down with the devilish, numbing sensation of hua jiao, Sichuan pepper. Its numbing effect is subtle at ﬁrst: appetizers of cold sliced beef and tripe, as well as slices of pork belly with a profusion of minced garlic, lean toward the hot and sweet; mapo tofu freckled with tiny fermented black beans and scallions, and pork with pickled red peppers and strips of ginger root, progress from sweet to pungent to hot to salty—in that order. Alternated with cooling dishes—nibbles of rice, a verdant mound of baby bok choy stir-fried with a shovelful of garlic, a simply sensational tea-smoked duck—the effect is momentarily tempered.

7888 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, (513) 770-3123, sichuanbistro.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sun. MCC, DS. $$

UNCLE YIP’S

Long before sushi somehow un-disgusted itself to the Western World, China had houses of dim sum. Uncle Yip’s valiantly upholds that tradition in Evendale. This is a traditional dim sum house with all manner of exotic dumplings, including shark ﬁn or beef tripe with ginger and onion. As for the seafood part of the restaurant’s full name, Uncle Yip has most everything the sea has to offer. The menu has more than 160 items, so you’ll ﬁnd a range of favorites, from moo goo gai pan to rock salt frog legs.

10736 Reading Rd., Evendale, (513) 733-8484, uncleyips.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, discount for cash. $$

ECLECTIC

THE APERTURE

After several pandemic-related setbacks, Chef/ Owner Jordan Anthony-Brown opened his world fusion restaurant in Walnut Hills’s historic Paramount Square Building. And it was worth the wait. The seasonal menu draws on ﬂavors from across the globe with subtle touches, such as its scallop crudo. The sublime charred carrots are served with Middle Eastern spice blends like dukkah and ras el hanout as well as mint and crumbles of lamb merguez sausage. It’s a dish that perfectly encapsulates The Aperture’s commitment to serving substantial versions of traditionally lighter fare. At heart, The Aperture is a neighborhood restaurant, albeit one that’s bound to bring people in from all over.

900 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills, (513) 8721970, theaperturecinci.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$

CHÉ

This spot draws on authentic Argentine recipes, including the empanadas. Choose from a dozen different crispy, perfectly cinched dough pockets, with ﬁllings ranging from traditional (a mixture of cumin-spiced beef, hard-boiled egg, and olives) to experimental (mushrooms, feta, green onion, and mozzarella). There are also six different dipping sauces to choose from, but you need not stray from the house chimichurri.

1342 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine; 2038 Madison Rd., O’Bryonville, (513) 345-8838, checincinnati.com. Dinner seven days, brunch Sat & Sun. V, MCC, DC, AMEX. $$

THE GREEN LINE KITCHEN & COCKTAILS

Named after the historic trolley line that used to run between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, this restaurant combines quality American food with charm and history. Meals feel like homemade Sunday dinners, and with a menu bursting with steaks, seafood, and pasta, there’s something to make everyone’s weekend. The half-roasted chicken appears exactly as promised, with a breast, wing, thigh, and drumstick cooked as one large piece. On the cocktails side, even the designated driver has options beyond iced tea. Nonalcoholic choices range from beer and wine to original mocktails, like the Strawberry Ginger (strawberry puree, fresh strawberries, fresh basil, and ginger beer). 425 N. Ft. Thomas Ave., Ft. Thomas, (859) 757-4580, greenlinerestaurant.com. Dinner Tues-Sat, brunch Sun. MCC. $$

Top 10 MITA’S

It’s ﬁtting that Chef/Owner Jose Salazar named this restaurant after his grandmother, because there is something deeply homey about the food at Mita’s. With a focus on Spanish and Latin-American tapas, it always feels, in the best possible way, like elevated home cooking. Its sophistication is modestly concealed. The ﬂavors

are bold and direct, like the spicy freshness of the ceviche de camarones with poached gulf shrimp, sour orange, fava beans, and jalapeños. The tacos de lengua, which come in pairs, are made with beef tongue, watermelon pico de gallo, watermelon radish, salsa roja, and mint, and are served on housemade corn tortillas. But what mainly comes through is the warm-hearted affection a grandmother might have put into a meal for a beloved grandson. It’s the kind of big hug everyone needs from time to time.

501 Race St., downtown, (513) 421-6482, mitas.co. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC. $$$

PENNYFLOWER BISTRO & BAR

While Pennyflower Bistro & Bar celebrates Fountain Square’s past life as an open-air market with its name, the restaurant offers farmto-table goodness with its menu. Chef/Owner Jacob Benavides and his team butcher proteins in-house, make sauces from scratch, and even shred their own hash browns, but also work with local businesses to source bread (Sixteen Bricks), gin (Northern Row Distillery), and microgreens (Fort Thomas Microgreens). These and other details are showcased in dishes like the carbonara croquettes, the sweet house pickles on the hot Nashville chicken sandwich, and the Amish chicken pressade. But some of the best parts of the menu hide at the end of the meal, like the “deconstructed” s’mores dessert featuring Italian meringue, vanilla bean ice cream, chocolate ganache, graham racker crumbs, and dates.

701 Broadway St., downtown, (513) 904-4149, pennyﬂowerbistro.com. Lunch Mon–Fri, dinner seven days. MCC. $$$

SUDOVA

Sarah Dworak packed a lot into her latest venture. She began introducing fresh takes on eastern European cuisine to the dining scene via the now-defunct Wodka Bar, and while everyone loved its pierogi window, Dworak wanted to offer more. Sudova gives her the literal space to spread her wings with far more seating and a built-out kitchen. Recipes for the halushki (caramelized cabbage and onion, brown butter, and Linnea’s spaetzle), holubsti (stuffed cabbage rolls and tomato sauce), and rye varenyky (potato, sauerkraut, caramelized onion, and dill sour cream) come straight from Dworak’s baba and they are the jewels in the restaurant’s crown. Most small plates arrive dressed in herbs from Dark Wood Farm and culinary ﬂower petals, deepening the illusion that you’ve stopped for dinner at some grandmother’s cottage deep in the woods, and she’s just picked something fresh from the garden. You should feel grateful that you don’t have to go over the hills and through the woods to get it.

22 W. Court St., downtown, (513) 407-7974, sudovaoncourt.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$$

20 BRIX

This restaurant mixes Mediterranean influences with homespun choices, and he comes up with some marvelous food. Lamb meatballs with melted onions and romesco sauce are sweet and peppery, and their simplicity partners well with a lush Zinfandel. The excellent wine list, arranged by flavor profiles within the varietals, features dozens of varieties by the glass in five-ounce or twoounce pours, which makes it easy to try several.

101 Main St., Milford, (513) 831-2749, 20brix. com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DS. $$

WILDWEED

Before it opened as a restaurant, Wildweed developed a loyal fan base through the hundreds of pasta pop-ups that Chefs David and Lydia Jackman held around the city. Even today, it retains some of the freewheeling quality from its pop-up era with a palpable sense of restless-

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ness in the food. Part of the menu changes from week to week, based on what’s available in the woods and from local farms. What makes Wildweed a place to return is its sense of adventure. This place is always pushing itself to try something different.

1301 Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 246-4274, wildweed-restaurant.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$

YUCA

Yuca is in The Fairﬁeld’s former space, retaining much of the same modern, airy, and inviting café vibes with a neighborhood feel, but boasting a menu certainly worth a commute. In the mood for a hearty breakfast? Indulge in the Fat Zach, a heaping corn gordita packed to the brim with chicken, chorizo, and scrambled egg, served with avocado, pineapple pico, and sweet and spicy potatoes. There’s a full drink menu ranging from coffee to Bloody Marys—or a selection of margaritas and palomas if you’re looking to stick around.

700 Fairﬁeld Ave., Bellevue, (859) 360-0110, yucabycedar.com. Breakfast and lunch Tues–Sun. MCC. $$

FRENCH

CHEZ RENÉE FRENCH BISTROT

Based on American stereotypes of French food—that it’s elaborate, elitist, and expensive—one might expect Chez Renée to fall on the chichi side. Instead, it’s elegant in an everyday way, operating on the principle that it is better to excel at simplicity than to badly execute something complicated. The formula is not complex: Simple ingredients, generally fresh and from nearby, prepared without much fuss. Warmed brie is served with thyme, almonds, fruit, and bread, and the chicken risotto is served with creamy mushrooms. This is solid, tasty food, both approachable and well-executed. It’s well on its way to becoming, as a good bistrot should be, a neighborhood institution.

233 Main St., Milford, (513) 428-0454, chezreneefrenchbistrot.com. Lunch Fri & Sat, dinner Wed–Sat. MCC. $$

COLETTE

At this “mostly French” restaurant, which occupies the former Zula space across from Washington Park, Chef Danny Combs has built a more laid-back home for his focused, pristine cooking. While there is classic bistro fare, like steak frites, on the concentrated menu, there are also less familiar but equally classic French dishes, like the poulet frit a la moutarde (chicken with Dijon and crème fraîche) and the tagliolini aux champignons (egg yolk pasta with ragout and Parmesan). One can turn to the extensive drink menu (also “mostly French”) to ﬁnd a wine or cocktail to go with any dish on offer. Like Zula, Colette would function just ﬁne as a wine and cocktail bar, though we can’t imagine coming to a place this good and not eating something.

1400 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 381-1018, coletteotr.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC, DC. $$

LUCA BISTRO

This unabashedly French restaurant, with its French posters, bright red outer paneling, and chalkboard menu proclaiming its specials to passersby, fits into its Mt. Adams environs so perfectly that it’s hard to imagine Hatch Street without it. That, combined with warm service, timeless French fare, and relaxed joie de vivre makes this a true neighborhood establishment. Chef Frederic Maniet grew up in the south of France and has done an excellent job transporting his native cuisine to a quiet corner of Cincinnati. These are the dishes that culinary Francophiles often crave, prepared in a straightforward, time-honored way. The Bouchées à la Reine, a buttery, flaky puff pastry filled with chicken, mushrooms, peas, Gruyère cheese, and béchamel sauce, is so warm and comforting it makes chicken pot pie seem aloof by comparison. It’s a warm, gentle re-

minder that French food can be convivial and affordable. 934 Hatch St., Mt. Adams, (513) 621-5822, lucabistro. com. Breakfast and lunch Tues–Sun, dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$

INDIAN

AMMA’S KITCHEN

Muthu Kumar Muthiah serves traditional southern Indian and Indo-Chinese vegetarian cuisine, but with a sizable Orthodox Jewish community nearby, Muthiah saw an opportunity: If he was going to cook vegetarian, why not also make it kosher? Muthiah prepares every item—from the addictively crunchy gobhi Manchurian, a spicy Chinese cauliﬂower dish, to the lemon pickle, tamarind, and mint sauces—entirely from scratch under the careful eye of Rabbi Michoel Stern. Always 80 percent vegan, the daily lunch buffet is 100 percent animal-product-free on Wednesdays. Tuck into a warm and savory channa masala (spiced chickpeas) or malai kofta (vegetable dumplings in tomato sauce) from the curry menu. Or tear into a crispy, two-foot diameter dosa (chickpea ﬂour crepe) stuffed with spiced onions and potatoes.

7633 Reading Rd., Roselawn, (513) 821-2021, cincinnati. ammaskitchen.com. Lunch buffet (all vegan on Wed) and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $

BRIJ MOHAN

Order at the counter the way you might at a fast food joint, except the shakes come in mango and there’s no supersizing your mint lassi. The saag, full of cream in most northern Indian restaurants, is as intensely ﬂavored as collard greens in the Deep South—real Punjabi soul food. Tarka dal is spectacular here, the black lentils smoky from charred tomatoes and onions, and the pani puri, hollow fried shells into which you spoon a peppery cold broth, burst with tart cool crunch. Follow the spice with soothing ras malai, freshly made cheese simmered in thick almond-ﬂavored milk, cooled and sprinkled with crushed pistachios.

11259 Reading Rd., Sharonville, (513) 769-4549, brijmohancincinnati.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sun. MC, V, DC, AMEX. $

ITALIAN

A TAVOLA

In 2011, Jared Wayne opened A Tavola Pizza with two friends just as OTR was blowing up. A Ferrara pizza oven was ordered from Italy; Wayne, a skilled woodworker, built custom tables; and the menu was fleshed in with trendy crowd-pleasers like charcuterie and craft cocktails. Fast-forward a decade. The OTR outpost is closed but the second location is still going strong in the ’burbs: A Tavola Madeira capitalizes on the menu from the Vine Street location, including the fresh and zesty artichoke pizza on a Neapolitan crust; gooey mozzarella-filled arancini, or risotto fritters; and the zucchini mozzarella. Wash down your small plates with a glass of crisp and grassy Sannio falanghina or an ice-cold Rhinegeist. They’re definitely going to need a bigger parking lot.

7022 Miami Ave., Madeira, (513) 272-0192, atavolapizza.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. V, DC, MS, AMEX. $

FORNO

Cristian Pietoso’s second restaurant has all the bones of an upscale eatery, but the menu is infused with enough Italian soul to make nonna proud. In most instances, raving about a side of creamed corn wouldn’t bode well for the rest of the menu. Here, that side dish—kernels swimming in a pool of truffle-laced heavy cream that demands sopping up—is evidence that each component is purpose-driven. The “bone-in” pork chop Milanese, and the tagliatelle Bolognese with traditional beef and veal sauce are examples of the elevated, adventurous comfort food that Pietoso strives for. 3514 Erie Ave., East Hyde Park, (513) 818-8720, fornoosteriabar.com. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC. $$

Top 10 NICOLA’S Chef/Restaurateur Cristian Pietoso carries on the legacy of his father, Nicola, as the elder Pietoso’s Over-the-Rhine eatery celebrated 25 years in business in 2021. You can still get the old Italian classics, and they’ll be as good as ever, but the rest of the menu has blossomed into a freewheeling tour of modern American cuisine. Any establishment paying this level of attention to detail—from the aged balsamic and lavender honey on the Italian cheese board to the staff’s wine knowledge—is going to put out special meals. Order an old favorite, by all means, but make sure you try something new, too.

1420 Sycamore St., Pendleton, (513) 721-6200, nicolasotr.com. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DS. $$$

PADRINO

Billed as “Italian comfort food,” this sister restaurant to 20 Brix offers the classics (like lasagna and chicken carbonara) plus hoagies and meatball sliders, an impressive wine list, seasonal martinis, and a decadent signature appetizer—garlic knots, doughy buns smothered in olive oil and garlic. Best of all, Barraco’s pizza sauce, which is comprised of roasted tomatoes and basil, is so garden-fresh that one can’t help but wonder: If this is real pizza, what have we been eating all these years?

111 Main St., Milford, (513) 965-0100; 14 N. Grand Ave. Ft Thomas, (859) 957-4082, padrinoitalian.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$

PEPP & DOLORES

As with all of Thunderdome’s restaurants, you get a sense that they want to deliver a meal that satisfies many different kinds of people. The prices are reasonable, with pasta entrées about $15. The dishes are familiar in their flavors, but everything feels balanced, modulated and gradually perfected. There is lovely variety: the limone pasta is zippy with lemon and chili flakes, and just the right mixture of tart and creamy; and the heat in dishes like the eggplant involtini is just enough to wake up the sauce without overwhelming the flavor. The menu has a wealth of excellent vegetarian and pasta-alternative options.

1501 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 419-1820, peppanddolores.com. Lunch Fri–Sun, dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$

PRIMAVISTA

Besides offering the old-world ﬂavors of Italy, Primavista also serves up a specialty no other restaurant can match: a bird’s eye view of Cincinnati from the west side. The kitchen is equally comfortable with northern and southern regional specialties. Among the classics, nothing is more restorative than the pasta e fagioli, a hearty soup of cannellini, ditali pasta, and bacon. Most of the pastas are cooked just a degree more mellow than al dente so that they soak up the fragrant tomato basil or satiny cream sauces. On the desserts side, you’ll be hard-pressed to decide between the housemade tiramisu or bread pudding with caramel sauce, marsala-soaked raisins, and cream.

810 Matson Pl., Price Hill, (513) 251-6467, pvista.com. Dinner Wed–Sun. MCC, DS. $$$

Top 10

SOTTO

There are certain books and movies that you can read or watch over and over. Eating at Sotto is a similar experience: familiar, but so profound and satisfying that there is no reason to ever stop. Unlike other restaurants, where the techniques are often elaborate and unfamiliar, the magic at Sotto happens right in front of you, using ordinary elements and methods. When you taste the results, though, you realize that some mysterious transmutation has taken place. The wood-ﬁred branzino with broccolini, matched with the warm, smoky taste of the Calabrian pepper, offers a ﬂavor that you could go on eating forever. From the texture of the chicken liver mousse to the citrusy lemon aioli on the tartare di fassone, most of the food has some added element of soulfulness.

118 E. Sixth St., downtown, (513) 822-5154, sottocincinnati.com. Lunch Mon–Fri, dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$$

SUBITO

Focusing on Northern Italian cuisine, Subito carves out its own worthwhile place in the landscape. Most of the items on the menu—from pizza to various pastas—will be familiar, but there are delightful surprises, like the smoked grape

crostini. This zingy dish is served with herb whipped goat cheese, apple, pecan, and maple agrodolce. Everything at Subito is done with intelligence and a light touch.

311 Pike St., downtown, (513) 579-3860, thelytleparkhotel.com/dining/subito. Breakfast and lunch seven days, dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DS. $$

VIA VITE

Via Vite serves up crowd-pleasing entrées—including the Pietoso family Bolognese, over tagliatelle—right on Fountain Square. This is where small touches add sophistication. Golf-ball-sized veal meatballs are heavy with lemon zest, an over-the-top comfort dish. The same applies to the risotto frutti di mare, its soffritto, shrimp, lobster, mussels, and Boston bay clams creates a nice back-and-forth between vegetal and briny ﬂavors. Braised lamb shank over polenta is a workhorse, and the ﬂavorful Faroe Island salmon with roasted carrot puree, caramelized Brussel sprouts, and truffled brown butter balsamic vinaigrette is a delight.

520 Vine St., downtown, (513) 721-8483, viaviterestaurant.com. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DS. $$$

JAPANESE

ANDO

You don’t go just anywhere to dine on uni sashimi (sea urchin) or tanshio (thinly sliced charcoal-grilled beef tongue). And when it’s on the menu, don’t overlook the buttery amberjack collar marinated in a Japanese citrus infused soy sauce and grilled over charcoal. Noodles are also well represented, with udon, soba, or ramen options available. Owners Ken and Keiko Ando always have something new, be it kamo negi maki (grilled duck breast stuffed with organic green onions) or a chocolate crepe and matcha parfait, delicacies that you’ll be hard-pressed to ﬁnd in anywhere else, so dont’ forget to check out the specials. 11255 Reed Hartman Hwy., Blue Ash, (513) 954-0041, andojapaneserestaurant.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC, DS. $$$

BARU

Baru, the sleek izakaya in the former MidiCi space, prioritizes bar dining, which is meant to be enjoyed alongside its eclectic drinks list. The menu is broken down into sushi, “small plates,” “plates,” sides, and ishiyaki. Baru’s sushi offerings are varied but concise, featuring a trio of ahi tuna, spicy tuna, and escolar, as well as a lobster nigiri. If sushi gets the party going, the theatrical ishiyaki kicks it into high gear. The term refers to dishes that diners grill tableside on a hot stone, such as the Wagyu New York strip. For all its convivial buzz, Baru is also a spot where solo diners can enjoy a few peaceful bar-side bites. The Crispy Rice Spicy Tuna from the small plates section brought the same level of freshness and quality as the rest of the menu. Sometimes it pays to dine alone. 595 Race St., downtown, (513) 246-0150, barusushi. com. Dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$$

KIKI

Your best bet here is to share plates or simply order too much. Start with the edamame and the chicken karaage. The selection of sauces (from tare to ponzu to chili oil) makes each dish better. And, of course, the ramen is the main reason for visiting. The shio features pork belly and tea-marinated soft-boiled egg, but the kimchi subs in tofu and its namesake cabbage for the meat. Be sure to try something from the sushi bar which offers nigiri, sashimi, and roll options. 358 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, (513) 706-8902, kikicincinnati. com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$

KYOTO

Owner Jason Shi seems to know everybody’s name as he chats up diners, guiding them through the extensive sushi

and sashimi menu. Four young sushi chefs, all part of Shi’s family, work at light speed behind the bar, a choreography backlit by rows of gleaming liquor bottles. Dinner proceeds with glorious chaos as a feisty Carla Tortelli–like server delivers one dish after another—combination of crab, ﬁsh, shrimp, scallop, and vegetable tempuras, a volcanic tower of chopped fatty tuna hidden inside overlapping layers of thin avocado slices, crispy chicken katsu with a mayo sauce,, and delicate slices of a samurai roll—all between shots of chilled sake.

12082 Montgomery Rd., Symmes Twp., (513) 583-8897, kyotousa.m988.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$

ZUNDO RAMEN & DONBURI

A stark contrast to Styrofoam cup soup, chef Han Lin’s ramens are a deep and exciting branch of cuisine, capable of subtlety, variation, and depth. The simplicity of the dish’s name hides a world of complexity. Zundo uses the traditional Japanese building blocks of ﬂavor—soy sauce, miso, sake, mirin—to create something freewheeling and time-tested. Bowls of ramen come with a marinated softboiled egg half, roast pork, green onion, and a healthy serving of noodles. Each has a distinct identity, like the milky richness of the tonkotsu, the rich and buttery miso, or the light and faintly sweet shoyu ramen. A transformative add-in is the mayu, or black garlic oil. Dripped on top of one of the subtler broths, it adds a deep, mushroom-y richness, with the hint of burned ﬂavor that makes barbecue so good.

220 W. 12th St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 975-0706, zundootr.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sun. MCC. $$

KOREAN

RIVERSIDE KOREAN RESTAURANT

Come for the jham bong—a seafood soup with flour noodles in a spicy broth with pork, shrimp, squid, mussels, and vegetables. Revered for its medicinal properties, the dinnersized soup will leave your eyes glistening and your brow beaded with sweat. It’s a detox for your overindulgence, rejuvenation for when you’re feeling under the weather. Expect crowds on weekends. Expect too, that dozens of them have come for dolsot bibimbap, the hot stone pots filled with layers of rice, vegetables, meat or tofu, egg, and chili paste. Characterized by its electric color and addictive flavors, Riverside Korean’s version is a captivating bowl of heaven. 512 Madison Ave., Covington, (859) 291-1484, riversidekoreanrestaurant.com. Dinner Tues–Sun. MCC, DS. $$

MEDITERRANEAN

ANDY’S MEDITERRANEAN GRILLE

In this lively joint with a burnished summer lodge interior of wood and stone, the food is unrestrained. The chunks of charbroiled beef tenderloin are roughly cut, big slices of onion and green pepper are sweet and wet in the heat, and skewers of marinated charbroiled chicken perched on rice are too generous for their plate.

906 Nassau St., Walnut Hills, (513) 281-9791, andyskabob.com. Lunch Mon–Sat, dinner seven days. MCC. $$

CAFÉ MEDITERRANEAN

Chef-driven Middle Eastern cuisine leans heavily on Turkish tradition here. The baba ghanoush uses seared eggplant, which adds a pleasant smokiness to the ﬁnal product. Börek is described as a “Turkish Egg Roll,” wrapping feta and fresh and dried herbs into phyllo dough and frying it lightly to brittle ﬂakiness. While there is a smooth, simple hummus on the menu, you should go for the classic sucuklu hummus, which is spiked with sujuk, a common beef sausage popular all over the Middle East.

3520 Erie Ave., East Hyde Park, (513) 871-8714,

mediterranean-cafe.com. Lunch Mon–Sat, dinner seven days. MCC. $$

Top 10 PHOENICIAN TAVERNA

No matter how much restraint you go in with, meals at Phoenician Taverna quickly become feasts. There is just too much that’s good, and everything is meant to be shared. With fresh pita bread continuously arriving from the ovens, and a table of quickly multiplying meze (hummus, falafel, muhammara), there is a warmth and depth to the cooking that envelops you. With such traditional cuisine, you may think there isn’t much left to discover beyond simply executed classics prepared according to time-tested methods. But there are always new discoveries, like the tabbouleh with the hummus, mixed with a touch of harissa, or the smoky baba ghanoush spooned onto falafel. Phoenician Taverna keeps taking these classics a little further. 7944 Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, (513) 770-0027, phoeniciantaverna.com. Lunch Tues–Fri, dinner Tues–Sun. MCC. $$

SEBASTIAN’S

Watch the rotating wheels of beef and lamb, and you understand how Greek food has escaped the American tendency to appropriate foreign cuisines. Sebastian’s specializes in gyros, shaved off the stick, wrapped in thick griddle pita with onions and tomatoes, and served with cool tzatziki sauce. Whether you’re having a crisp Greek salad with house-made dressing, triangles of spanakopita, or simply the best walnut and honey baklava this side of the Atlantic, they never misses a beat, turning more covers in the tiny restaurant on one Saturday afternoon than some restaurants do in an entire weekend. 5209 Glenway Ave., Price Hill, (513) 471-2100, sebastiansgyros.com. Brunch, lunch and dinner Mon–Sat. MCC. DS. $

MEXICAN

MAZUNTE

Mazunte runs a culinary full-court press, switching up specials to keep both regulars and staff engaged. Pork tamales arrive swaddled in a banana leaf, the shredded pork filling steeped in a sauce fiery with guajillo and ancho chilies yet foiled by the calming sweetness of raisins. The fried fish tacos are finished with a citrusy red and white cabbage slaw that complements the accompanying mango-habañero salsa. With this level of authentic yet fast-paced execution, a slightly greasy pozole can be easily forgiven. Don’t miss the Mexican Coke, the margaritas, or the non-alcoholic horchata. 5207 Madison Rd., Madisonville, (513) 785-0000, mazuntetacos.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC. $

NADA

The brains behind Boca deliver authentic, contemporary, high-quality Mexican fare downtown. You’ll ﬁnd a concise menu, including tacos, salads and sides, large plates, and desserts. The Pork Al Pastor tacos, zesty with salsa verde and sweet with grilled pineapple, are deﬁnite crowd-pleasers. If you’re biased against Brussels sprouts, Nada just might convert you. The crispy sprouts, served with chipotle honey and candied ancho pepitas, are a deliciously intriguing starter.

600 Walnut St., downtown, (513) 721-6232, eatdrinknada.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$

TAQUERIA MERCADO

The Mercado’s strip mall interior, splashed with a large, colorful mural, is as energetic as its crowd on a Saturday night: the bustling semi-open kitchen; a busy counter that handles a constant stream of take-out orders; a clamorous, convivial chatter in Spanish and English. Try camarones a la plancha, 12 chubby grilled shrimp tangled with grilled onions (be sure to specify if you like your onions well done). The starchiness of the rice absorbs the caramelized onion juice, offset by the crunch of lettuce, buttery slices of avocado, and the cool-hot pico de gallo. A shrimp quesadilla paired with one of their cheap and potent margaritas is worth the drive alone.

6507 Dixie Hwy., Fairﬁeld, (513) 942-4943; 100 E. Eighth St., downtown, (513) 381-0678, taqueriamercado. com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $

SEAFOOD

MCCORMICK & SCHMICK’S

The daily rotation here reads like a ﬁsherman’s wish list: lobster tails from Australia and the North Atlantic, ahi tuna from Hawaii, clams from New England. But high-quality ingredients are only half the equation; preparation is the other. Herb-broth sea bass, served with roasted ﬁngerling potatoes, makes the taste buds dance. The spacious digs and attentive waitstaff bring a touch of class to Fountain Square and make it a sophisticated destination.

21 E. Fifth St., downtown, (513) 721-9339, mccormickandschmicks.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DC, DS. $$

STEAKS

CARLO & JOHNNY

The stars of the menu are 12 delectable steaks that could sway the vegi-curious to recommit. Not sure which to choose? If you prefer brawny ﬂavor over buttery texture, go for one of the three bone-in rib cuts. Or if it’s that melt-in-your-mouth experience that raises your serotonin levels, C&J features several tenderloin cuts, including the premium six-ounce Wagyu ﬁlet. There are the usual suspects of seafood, pork chops, et al, for non-beef alternatives.

9769 Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, (513) 936-8600, jeffruby.com/carlo-johnny. Dinner seven days. MCC. $$$$

JEFF RUBY’S

Filled most nights with local scenesters and power brokers (and those who think they are), everything in this urban steakhouse is generous—from the portions to the expert service. Waiters deliver two-ﬁsted martinis and mounds of greens dressed in thin vinaigrettes or thick, creamy emulsions. An occasional salmon or sea bass appears, and there’s a small but decent assortment of land fare. But most customers are there for the slabs of beef (dry aged USDA prime). The best of these is Jeff Ruby’s Cowboy, 22 ounces of 70-day dry-aged bone-in rib eye. This is steak tailor-made for movers and shakers. 505 Vine St., downtown, (513) 784-1200, jeffruby.com. Dinner seven days. MCC, DC. $$$$

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10 LOSANTI

A bit more upscale than its sister restaurant, Crown Republic Gastropub, Losanti is also more conservative in its offerings. Service is friendly and informal, and though the meal feels like a special occasion, prices and atmosphere are right for, say, a date, rather than a wedding anniversary. The ﬁlet mignon, rib eye, and New York strip are cut to order for each table (there are a few available weights for each). The steaks themselves are totally irreproachable, perfectly seasoned, cooked to precisely the right point. Losanti even makes the steakhouse sides a little special. Sweet and smoky caramelized onions are folded into the mashed potatoes, a nice dusting of truffles wakes up the mac and cheese, and the sweet corn is at least freshly cut off the cob and recalls elote with lime and chile. 1401 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 246-4213, losantiotr.com. Dinner seven days. MCC. $$$

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10 THE PRECINCT

Part of the appeal of the Ruby restaurants is their ability to deliver deep, comfort-food satisfaction. And the steaks. The meat is tender with a rich mineral ﬂavor, and the signature seasoning provided a nice crunch, not to mention blazing heat. The supporting cast is

strong—the basket of warm Sixteen Bricks bread with a mushroom truffle butter, the addictive baked macaroni and cheese, the creamy garlic mashed potatoes, the crisp-tender asparagus with roasted garlic and lemon vinaigrette—and dinner ends on a sweet note with a piece of Ruby family recipe cheesecake. Neither cloyingly sweet nor overwhelmingly creamy, it’s a lovely slice of restraint.

311 Delta Ave., Columbia-Tusculum, (513) 321-5454, jeffruby.com/precinct. Dinner seven days. MCC. $$$$

TONY’S

He is a captivating presence, Tony Ricci. Best known for his 30 years in ﬁne dining—including the Jeff Ruby empire while managing the venerable Precinct—Ricci has built a life in the hospitality industry. Much of Tony’s menu is right out of a steakhouse playbook: tiger shrimp and king crab legs from the raw bar; Greek and Caesar salads; sides of creamed spinach, mac-and-cheese, asparagus, and sautéed mushrooms; toppings of roasted garlic or Gorgonzola butters to accompany your center cut of ﬁlet mignon. There are boutique touches, though, that make it stand out—a garlic herb aioli with the calamari, steak tartare torch-kissed and topped with a poached egg, a superb rack of lamb with balsamic and lemon gastrique and served with traditional ratatouille.

12110 Montgomery Rd., Symmes Township, (513) 677-8669, tonysofcincinnati.com. Dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$$$

THAI

GREEN PAPAYA

Inside this simple dining room, replete with soothing browns and greens and handsome, dark wood furniture, it takes time to sort through the many curries and chef’s specialties, not to mention the wide variety of sushi on the somethingfor-everyone menu. Have the staff—friendly, attentive, and knowledgeable—help you. When the food arrives, you’ll need only a deep inhale to know you made the right choice. The Green Papaya sushi rolls are as delicious as they look, with a manic swirl of spicy mayo and bits of crabstick and crispy tempura batter scattered atop the spicy tuna, mango, cream cheese, and shrimp tempura sushi—all rolled in a vivid green soybean wrap.

2942 Wasson Rd., Oakley, (513) 731-0107; 4002 Plainville Rd., Mariemont, (513) 272-8424, greenpapayacincinnati.com. Lunch and dinner seven days (Oakley), Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat (Mariemont). MCC. $$

TEAK SUSHI & THAI

Owner Chanaka De Lanerolle has said that he decided to bring back Teak’s take on Thai food because of the renewed vibrancy in Over-theRhine, which he compared to the energy he felt in Mt. Adams during his time there. But for all of the hype around the restaurant’s re-emergence on the scene, it’s probably best to consider it a reimagining rather than a reopening. While longtime favorites show up on the menu, prepared by many of the same kitchen staff members from Mt. Adams, some adaptations have been made to better meet expectations of modern diners. Letting go of preconceived notions about Teak will serve you well. With a two-sided, standalone sushi menu and a wide variety of main plates ranging from small bites to signature dishes, you have plenty of room to craft your own dining experience.

1200 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 421-8325; 110 S. Second St., Loveland, (513) 583-8325, teakotr.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sun. MCC. $$

THAI NAMTIP

Classic Thai comfort food on the west side from chef/owner Tussanee Leach, who grew up with galangal on her tongue and sriracha sauce in her veins. Her curries reign: pale yellow sweetened with coconut milk and poured over tender chicken breast and chunks of boiled pineapple; red curry the color of new brick, tasting of earth at first bite, then the sharply verdant Thai basil leaves, followed by a distant heat. Tom Kha Gai soup defines the complex interplay of flavors in Thai food: astringent lemongrass gives way to pepper, then Makrut lime, shot through with the gingery, herbaceous galangal, all yielding to the taunting sweetness of coconut. Even the simple skewers of chicken satay with Thai peanut sauce are dulcified by honey and dirtied up by a smoky grill.

5461 North Bend Rd., Monfort Heights, (513) 481-3360, thainamtip.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MC, V. $

WILD GINGER

The ability to satisfy a deep desire for Vietnamese and Thai fusion cuisine is evident in Wild Ginger’s signature Hee Ma roll—a fortress of seaweed-wrapped rolls filled with shrimp tempura, asparagus, avocado, and topped with red tuna, pulled crab stick, tempura flakes, a bit of masago, scallions, and of course, spicy mayo. It’s tasty, even though the sweet fried floodwall of tempura and spicy mayo overpowered the tuna completely. The spicy pad char entrée was a solid seven out of 10: broccoli, carrots, cabbage, succulent red bell peppers, green beans, and beef, accented with basil and lime leaves in a peppercorn-and-chili brown sauce.

3655 Edwards Rd., Hyde Park, (513) 533-9500, wildgingeroh.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$

VIETNAMESE

PHO LANG THANG

Owners Duy and Bao Nguyen and David Le have created a greatest hits playlist of Vietnamese cuisine: elegant, brothy pho made from poultry, beef, or vegan stocks poured over rice noodles and adrift with slices of onions, meats, or vegetables (the vegan pho chay is by far the most ﬂavorful); fresh julienned vegetables, crunchy sprouts, and herbs served over vermicelli rice noodles (again, the vegan version, bun chay, is the standout); and bánh mì. Be sure to end with a cup of Vietnamese coffee, a devilish jolt of dark roast and sweetened condensed milk.

1828 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 376-9177, pholangthang.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS, DC. $$

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GOING (TO) HAM

In September, Jackelope Spirits opened its “Italianinspired” restaurant Carmagnola Trattoria in Hamilton with Jackson Rouse, formerly of Bauer Farm Kitchen and Fifty West Brewing, at the helm. Located at 24 S. Third St., the eatery is part of a $4 million mixed-use development in the city’s revamped business district, offering handmade pasta and wood-ﬁred meats with farm-totable charm. carmagnolaon3rd. com

Fitness Vault

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY YOU LIFT WEIGHTS IN A BANK VAULT THAT’S MORE THAN A CENTURY old, but that’s the typical workout for guests at the downtown Courtyard Marriott. The hotel opened in 2021, and the 16-story building itself dates back to 1903 when it was known as the Ingalls Building—the world’s first reinforced concrete skyscraper. Railroad magnate and financial investor Melville E. Ingalls had to lobby city officials for two years to approve construction, as the tallest concrete structure at the time was only six stories high. Eventually, Ingalls got the green light, and the 210-foot tower popularized concrete high-rise construction. In 1974, the American Society of Civil Engineers designated the building a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, and in 1975 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In the 2021 renovation, the Marriott’s architecture firms made sure to retain and restore many original historical features, including the bank vault, creating a one-of-a kind gym. —CLAIRE LEFTON

PAY $4,000 or $300,000 for a Face Lift?

ACCORDING TO RECENT SURVEYS, there is a huge variationin face lift costs. According to Dr. Mark Mandell-Brown, who has performed face lifts for 35 years on over 2,000 patients, the price does not equal quality. "Even in conservative Cincinnati, face lifts can range from $8,000 to $40,000.”

What? $40K for a Face Lift?

Dr. Mandell-Brown who performs "Natural Look" cosmetic surgery individualizes his face lift

procedure, Cincinnati's Top Voted Plastic Surgeon stated. "Currently, ‘Deep Plane Facelift’ is the social media darling,'' Dr. Mandell-Brown stated. “Patients requesting it,” says Sharon Sweitzer, manager at Mandell-Brown Plastic Surgery Center.

However, Dr. Mandell-Brown individualizes his approach for the patient needs. He performs a "Quick Face Lift" under local anesthesia, as well as "Mid Face Lift," a "Natural Lift" and a "Deep Plane Face Lift." The Mandell-Brown Plastic Surgery Center face lifts range from $6,500 to $20,000 including anesthesia, operating room and surgeon fees.

When asked why he doesn't charge the most in Cincinnati, Dr. Mandell-Brown replied, "I guess we could based on my experience, having taught face lift surgery at University of San Diego, Louisiana

“We want our patients to look

State University, St. Louis University, and Surgery Centers in Miami and Las Vegas to plastic surgeons." He just completed his second "Face Lift " book chapter for a textbook for plastic surgeons. “It is important to not make the fees cost prohibitive for the average consumer,” he added.

"I’ve performed face lift surgery on billionaires, teachers, homemakers, business leaders and I don’t overcharge for my services. I treat everyone the same and I want my fees to be fair," Dr Mandell-Brown concluded. “Just look at some of the outcomes of Hollywood stars who pay fortunes and turn out with facial distortion. That’s not what we are after--we