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Tampa Native Among Best Doctors In America
At the University of Arkansas for Medical Sci- ences (UAMS), we are hon- ored that more than half — almost 200 of 308 — of the Best Doctors in Arkansas are UAMS College of Medicine physicians who practice at the UAMS Medical Center, Children’s Hospital and the Central Arkansas Veteran’s Healthcare System.
This list is compiled by Best Doctors Inc. and pub- lished by the weekly newspa- per Arkansas Times.
One of those included on the list is Dr. Nancy R. An- drews Collins, who special- izes in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Andrews Collins, is the daughter of Mrs. Glo- ria Adams Andrews and the late C. Blythe An- drews, Jr. She graduated from King High School. She continued her education at Fisk University. After gradu- ating, she attended Meharry Medical School.
Best Doctors’ team of re- searchers conducts a biennial poll using the methodology
A federal judge has sen- tenced a 36-year-old woman to prison for her role in selling patient information. She en- tered a guilty plea to the charges of conspiracy and ag- gravated identity theft on March 29, 2017.
Judge Charlene Ed- wards Honeywell sen- tenced Ms. Sharmekia Young to 3 years in federal prison. She is the third person sentenced in a scam involving medical records.
According to court docu- ments, Ms. Young worked at Rotech Healthcare Center, in Lakeland in the company’s billing center. As an employee of the company, she had pass- word-protected access to the company’s secure computer- ized databases, which con- tained medical records and the personal information of its customers and patients, in- cluding names, dates of birth, and social security numbers.
Ms. Young agreed with another employee, Ms. Fontella James, 37, to steal hundreds of patients’ records, to sell to another co-conspira- tor, Vickie Lorenzo Bryant.
Ms. Young and Ms. James provided the informa- tion to Bryant so that
that mimics the informal peer-to-peer process doctors themselves use to identify the right specialists for their pa- tients.
Using a polling method and balloting software that Gallup® has audited and certified, they gather the in- sight and experience of tens of thousands of leading spe- cialists all over the country, while confirming their cre- dentials and specific areas of expertise.
The result is the Best Doc- tors in America List, which includes the nation’s most re- spected specialists and out- standing primary care physicians in the nation. These are the doctors that other doctors recognize as the best in their fields. They cannot pay a fee and are not paid to be listed and cannot nominate or vote for them- selves. It is a list which is truly unbiased and respected by the medical profession and patients alike as the source of top quality medical information.”
Gallup has audited and
DR. NANCY ANDREWS COLLINS
certified Best Doctors, Inc.’s database of physicians, and its companion The Best Doc- tors in America® List, as using the highest industry standards survey methodol- ogy and processes.
These lists are excerpted from The Best Doctors in America® 2017-2018 data- base, which includes close to 40,000 U. S. doctors in more than 40 medical specialties and 400 subspecialties. The
Best Doctors in America® database is compiled and maintained by Best Doctors, Inc.
Some of the doctors and their specialties are:
Allergy and Immunity
Terry O. Harville
Anesthesiology
Indranil Chakraborty W. Brooks Gentry Victor Mandoff Charles A. Napolitano Cardiovascular Disease James D. Marsh Hakan Paydak David L. Rutlen
Asif A. Sewani Allison M. Shaw-Devine Barry F. Uretsky Colon and Rectal Surgery J. Ralph Broadwater, Jr. Critical Care Medicine John B. Cone Dermatology Henry Keung Wong Endocrinology and Metabolism Donald L. Bodenner Stavros C. Manolagas Robert S. Weinstein Geriatric Medicine Ann T. Riggs Jeanne Y. Wei
HandSurgery
G. Thomas Frazier, Jr.
Infectious Disease
Michael Saccente
Internal Medicine
Robert T. Cheek William E. Golden Robert Howard Hopkins, Jr. Robert Charles Laven- der
Michael Saccente Sara Ghori Tariq Medical Oncology and Hematology
Peter D. Emanuel Isaam Makhoul Nephrology
John M. Arthur Michelle W. Krause Neurological Surgery John Diaz Day
T. Glenn Pait Neurology
Rohit Dhall Nuclear Medicine James E. McDonald Obstetrics and Gynecology Nancy R. Andrews Collins Alexander F. Burnett Everett F. Magann Paul J. Wendel
Woman Sentenced To 3 Years For ID Theft
SHARMEKIA YOUNG Sentenced to 3 years in prison
VICKIE LORENZO BRYANT Sentenced to 4 years in prison in December
Bryant could sell the infor- mation to another individual. That person then used the in- formation to manufacture, and sell it to be used to create counterfeit credit cards and counterfeit State of Florida Drivers Licenses.
On or about June 9, 2016, and again on June 16, 2016, Bryant met with the individ- ual and sold him the personal information of 957 different victims.
In December 2016, Bryant was sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment for ac- cess device (credit card) fraud and aggravated identity theft. Ms. James was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months’ impris- onment for conspiracy and ag- gravated identity theft in June 2017.
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