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Why Sudsy Malone’s still matters
Kyle Plush’s parents find purpose
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A generation of national rock bands, local musicians, and club kids came of age at the infamous Short Vine bar/laundromat. But its spirit of connecting people through live music isn’t all in the past.
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In 2018, following a series of mistakes by Cincinnati’s 911 system and police, 16-year-old Kyle Plush died. His parents, Jill and Ron Plush, now consult with emergency call centers here and around the U.S. to make sure that tragedy never happens again.
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A BUSINESS EXECUTIVE WHO WAS NEW TO TOWN ASKED ME RECENTLY HOW I’D describe Cincinnati Magazine in one word, and I answered with “engaging.” Our stories, design, social media presence, and events inform, entertain, and connect people across the region—engaging them with insight into the Cincinnati we know and love. We also try to entice people off of their couches and into the city’s restaurants, museums, bakeries, shops, parks, voting booths, and karaoke bars—to get them actively engaged in their community.
I don’t think I was picturing this month’s issue during that conversation, but I should have been. The January Top Doctors feature (page 37) is a huge undertaking that starts with a survey of every M.D. and D.O. in the region asking them who they’d turn to for medical services (other than themselves) and vetting the highest votegetters with medical boards in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. We then organize the top doctors into specialty care categories. Along with the final list of 869 doctors, Associate Editor Lauren Fisher curates a half dozen interviews with area medical professionals on trending topics like adolescent mental health and maternal care in the post-Roe world.
Top Doctors is one of our best-selling issues every year, partially because the list is updated every year. Maybe you’re a fresh arrival in Cincinnati, like my new business friend, or maybe you just had a baby and need pediatrician recommendations. Maybe you want a second (or fourth) opinion on your headaches. Maybe your health network changed because your employer switched insurance coverage. This section can connect you to doctors who will help you stay healthy and propel you off of the couch to seek the care you deserve.
Other stories in this issue explore the value of community connections, from the interview with Jill and Ron Plush, who are finding purpose in their son Kyle’s death by helping 911 dispatchers do a better job (page 52), to memories of the defunct Sudsy Malone’s (page 48), a tribute to neighborhood music venues everywhere. Make connections, and make a difference!
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Former Cincinnati Magazine senior editor Mary McCarty is also a mom, which made it all the more heartwrenching to tell the story of Jill and Ron Plush (“Answering the Call,” page 52), whose son, Kyle, was killed in a 2018 accident. The Plushes have turned their personal tragedy into a call to action. “People always wonder how you keep from becoming jaded or cynical because of the things you have to write about,” says McCarty. “Then you experience people with such nobility of spirit and such generosity of heart.”
In his tribute to a legendary live music venue (“Why Sudsy Malone’s Mattered, and Still Does,” page 48), contributing writer and librarian Cedric Rose shares his longing and appreciation, taking us back in time to an era rich in local music, community, and laundromat beers. To Rose, the bonds people form in bars around local bands are unmatched. “I love the music scene here,” he says. “There’s a lot of cross-pollination in our music, and you can feel it.”
For the cover of this year’s Top Doctors issue, Dayton, Ohio-based photographer Shon Curtis photographed Anisa Shomo, a UC Health physician and associate professor who champions historically underserved communities. She and Curtis are kindred spirits—he says he brings the experience of being a Black American into every one of his projects, no matter the subject. “We’re all connected in one way or another,” he says.
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The Freedom Center’s King Legacy Celebration is a springboard for inspiring positive social change.
STEVEN ROSENWHEN WOODROW “WOODY” KEown became president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in November 2019, he had much to look forward to. But he got only as far as the King Legacy Celebration breakfast, which honors Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and observes the national holiday on the third Monday in January. The event’s keynote speaker was Betty Daniels Rosemond, a freedom rider and civil rights activist in the segregated South of the 1960s. Soon after, as we know, the pandemic upended everything, forcing the Freedom Center to close for several months and then slowly put itself back together.
Keown is happy to greet January 2023 with big new plans after some difficult years. An indication that things are looking up is the return of the King Legacy programming, and this year’s speaker, Brittany Packnett Cunningham (pictured), represents a vision for a better future. (There will also be a stream- CONTINUED ON P. 18
ing option to hear her remarks.)
“We made it through the restrictions and risk situation pretty well,” says Keown, “but we’re looking to get people back into the museum.”
Cunningham is a millennial infl uencer with an impressive history of social justice activism, including serving on Missouri’s Ferguson Commission, formed in response to protests over the 2014 death of Michael Brown Jr. in suburban St. Louis, and on president Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing; being an MSNBC contributor; hosting the Undistracted news and justice podcast; and launching Love & Power Works LLC, described in her bio as “a fullservice social impact firm focused on creating justice and equity in every sector.”
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Looking beyond January, Keown says he wants the Freedom Center to host more traveling and special exhibitions, including those featuring artifacts. One arrives on March 18: Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, originated by the Smithsonian. The display comes here after visiting two of the nation’s most emotionally resonant “museums of conscience,” the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
The King Legacy Celebration is 8 a.m. January 16. freedomcenter.org
Keown says he sought her for this year’s program because, while the Freedom Center has always been about social justice, “We’re looking for fresh new voices to help us get that message out, and we’re trying to identify and inspire young social activists interested in positive social change that’s nonviolent. It struck me that Ms. Cunningham had a young, new voice and had been recognized by a number of people on a national scale, including president Obama. We’re trying to create this new generation of abolitionists in terms of how multicultural people in different phases of work and life can bond in unity.” (Cunningham was not available
The Poor People’s Campaign originated with an idea that Martin Luther King Jr. had in 1967 to expand on recent civil rights victories by asking the poor of all classes and races to come to Washington, D.C., and lobby for government help with employment and better housing. Plans continued after King’s assassination in April 1968; the campaign culminated with a march on June 19.
Keown also plans to expand use of the Freedom Center’s 300-seat Harriet Tubman Theater in 2023 and beyond. “We’re working on a more diverse range of performing arts programming related to social justice, and also some concerts,” he says. “We’re negotiating with artists and in collaboration with some other entities. These will help us drive home our focus on social justice in different ways than just having visitors come in to go through the museum.”
Anthony McGill, the New York Philharmonic’s principal clarinetist, performs
January 29 & 30 in the 44th Linton Chamber
Music Series, which continues through April. Sundays are at First Unitarian Church in Avondale; Monday encores at Congregation Beth Adam in Loveland. lintonmusic.org
One thing Laure Quinlivan found astonishing while making her new documentary film, Living With Landslides, is just how many parts of the region she and her crew visited. Her journey took her to Mt. Adams and along Columbia Parkway, of course, but also as far east as Milford, where they met a man who paid $50,000 for a backyard retaining wall and might have to install another for $100,000, and Mt. Washington, where a woman’s entire backyard has fallen down a hill and will cost more than the value of her home to fix. The problem is everywhere, says the former Channel 9 investigative reporter and Cincinnati city councilmember.
For those who don’t know, why is Cincinnati so prone to landslides? It comes down to geology, but human actions—like early settlers cutting down all the trees on our hillsides and mining them for rock—worsened the problem. With climate change, more rainfall is causing more landslides, and it’s only going to get worse.
What was the biggest surprise in your reporting? People can get in-
surance for everything, right? Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes. You can’t get landslide insurance.
What’s your advice to anyone buying property in this area?
If you’re at the top of a hill, the bottom of a hill, or near a hill, you really should hire a geotechnical engineer to come out and make sure that your property is stable. Know what’s under the house, too. For a few people in our story, their biggest issue is their house was built on fill dirt.
Can the problem be fixed? One major thing we could do is require developers to agree to a performance bond for any new developments on areas prone to landslides. We have pretty good hillside regulations, but too many times local governments grant variances that negate the whole purpose of having the regulations.
What else can local governments do? We should put up signage to explain the cost of these landslides. The city of Cincinnati has spent more than $113 million repairing landslidedamaged roads since 1989. The public needs to know more about how our tax dollars are fixing things.
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OCCUPATION: Writer, speaker, and content creator for Dressed for My Day
STYLE: Classic, but with a modern twist
What role does fashion play in your life? It’s important to look modern, to look contemporary. What you’re wearing says a lot about you. Not only does it communicate to other people, but it also changes how you feel about yourself and then how those interactions go with other people. I think it’s important to curate a wardrobe that reflects who you are [and] what you do in life. How did you get into fashion? When I was growing up, my mom and I would go every Saturday to the mall and go shopping. She instilled in me a love for nice clothing and getting dressed and looking nice. I still enjoy shopping with her. I passed that on to my daughter. The goal of your blog is for readers 50+ “to care for and dress our bodies in a way that helps us influence our world positively and with grace.” Tell me more about that. [Women] get to be about 50, and they begin to wrap up their career and their kids are leaving. That’s a huge time of change in a woman’s life. Plus, her body is changing. A lot of women find that they’ve lost their sense of self and their sense of style because they’ve been taking care of kids or because they’ve been so focused on their career. It’s a time to remind women that you still count, you still have a voice, you still have something to say and something to contribute, so you need to get dressed. And you need to get dressed in a way that makes people want to relate to you. Also, I really feel like the younger generation wants to hear from women of my generation, but if we can’t connect by looking a little modern and staying relevant with our clothing choices—and our makeup and our hair choices—then we kind of discount ourselves.
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WHEN CINCINNATI SOAP COMPANY MOGUL ANDREW JERGENS (YOU probably know him better for his lotion) constructed a Gothicstyle estate at the corner of Northside’s Hamilton and Bruce avenues, the intersection was home to the four wealthiest men in Cincinnati and dubbed, appropriately, “Millionaire’s Corner.” Catty-corner from Andrew’s house was company co-owner Charles Geilfus; across the street was his brother and vice president, Herman.
Andrew died in the 1920s, and four decades later his mansion (or castle, depending on who you ask—Andrew had a flair for the ultra-goth) was razed. The land went to Cincinnati Parks, and the home’s crown jewel, the Damascus Room brought back from Syria, was given to the Cincinnati Art Museum for safekeeping. There’s little on Millionaire’s Corner that looks the same today. But Herman’s more modest 5,700-square-foot home still stands, and features many of the same Aesthetic Movement finishes that made the intersection the envy
of its Northside neighbors.
Stained glass windows, six original fireplaces, and a classic butler’s pantry give the space historic charm, but the nearly 140-year-old house is still thoroughly modern and spectacularly maintained. Depending on what the future owners decide to do with all that space, the main house could have as many as nine bedrooms. And, thanks to a zoning variance, the property could be used for anything from single-family residence to business.
The not-so-hidden gem of this former estate is the carriage house, where a once-humble outbuilding has been reimagined as a chic accessory dwelling with marble waterfall countertops, spainspired bathrooms, Scandinavian-inspired finishes, and a modern matte black color scheme. Find your way from the main building to the carriage house by trailing through an English-inspired boxwood garden thoughtfully peppered with fountains and woven together by cobblestone pathways that may as well lead to another era.
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a few miles outside town to Cerulean Farm Bed and Breakfast, a working farm where sugar maples line the way to an 1860s farmhouse. Every room offers views of the property’s horses, and the hot breakfasts, heated wraparound porch, and rolling hills set the scene for a getaway full of blissful peace and quiet.
Fuel up for your adventure with coffee, smoothies, and breakfast treats at The Paddock Coffee, Eats + Gatherings (extra convenient if you’re staying upstairs at Saddlebred Suites). Lunch is a full sensory experience at Little Mount Lavender Company, a gem of a gift-shopslash-bakery-slash-café with comfort foods and lavender goods galore. Order the charcuterie for your table—and make sure to wash it down with a lavender lemonade (or a lavender lemon drop, if you’re feeling frisky).
bourbon country has turned the sleepy small town into a hotbed for a very particular type of tourism. We visited Jeptha Creed, a womanowned distillery that grows many of the ingredients in its blends—like the Bloody Butcher corn—right there on the property, and Bulleit, the bourbon powerhouse with tasting experiences that stimulate all your senses with the help of 21st century technology and good oldfashioned distilling methods.
to take a ride? Book a tour with Léttleiki Icelandics Horse Farm to get up close and personal with one of the world’s shaggiest (read: cutest) breeds without putting your boots in the stirrups. For an extra special look at Kentucky’s horse world, stop by Willow Hope Farm, the Kentucky Humane Society’s rescue facility that gives abused and neglected horses a second chance at life.
Time doesn’t quite stand still in Shelby County. But between the small-town charm, the smooth sips of Kentucky bourbon, and the sleepy mornings spent relaxing on B&B front porches, it sure does seem to move more slowly. And with all of that located an easy 90-minute drive from downtown Cincinnati, there’s really no excuse for you and your entourage not to make a weekend out of this hidden gem of the Bluegrass state.
Headquarter your crew at Saddlebred Suites, a historic but recently renovated building that’s been turned into a boutique hotel right in the center of the action in downtown Shelbyville. Suites—two-bedroom or studio-style—are equipped with kitchenettes, renovated bathrooms, and luxe furnishings, and it gets bonus points for being walkable to everything the town has to offer.
If you’re looking for a real escape, venture just
One of the best meals in town is the dinner service at the Red Lion at Science Hill, where old Kentucky charm mingles with New American cuisine and thoughtfully prepared courses, from the ahi tuna tartare to the center-cut tenderloin filets and the southern spicy chicken and dumplings. If you’re lucky, you might enjoy a cocktail prepared by the “Victorian Bartender” Brian Cushing, who teaches a cocktail class with enough absinthe to make even the bourbon drinker in you drool.
Shelbyville’s prime placement within Kentucky’s
You can’t make a trip to central Kentucky without jumping into the saddle. Trail rides for beginners and experts alike are easy to book at Red Fern Riding Center, a stable located within Shelby Trails Park, a 462-acre oasis just 40 minutes outside Louisville. Not quite ready
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Rabbit Hash
THE ROAD FROM CINCINNATI TO SHELBY COUNTY ISN’T A LONG ONE, WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE more than enough time to visit (or revisit) one of the Queen City’s favorite roadside attractions. Tucked into a hamlet along the Ohio River where the cell service is spotty and the roads are windy, the tiny town of Rabbit Hash is as wild and wonderful as you’ve heard. The iconic general store, which burned down in 2016, is back up and running again, peddling everything from old-timey candies to antique furniture. Venture next door for lunch at Chef Hip E’s Cocina Loca, a groovy riverside dive that specializes in “ChicanoQ,” a mind-bogglingly tasty blend of Mexican, American, and New Orleansstyle barbecue. Get there at the right time and you may even run into Wilbur Beast, the town’s mayor…who just happens to be a French bulldog. rabbithash.com
Does E SPN have something against the UC Bearcats? Several times during last football season, its web page listing the week’s college games didn’t list UC. I bookmark E SPN’s site because it shows game times and TV info for every type of sport. Why do they overlook the Bearcats?
DEAR NO GO:
You enjoy watching sports. Therefore, the Doctor assumes you have seen the insurance commercial where that nice, patient man helps keep young people “from becoming their parents.” You may want to consider, um, applying for the course.
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ESPN’s college football scoreboard webpage lists more than scores: It shows future dates, times, video channels, and more. That’s probably why you bookmark it. But note that there’s a drop-down menu near the top that says “Top 25.” Some weeks, UC’s win/loss stats and those of its opposing team combine to get the game bumped (please direct all anger toward ESPN, not UC). Last season the Bearcats got Top 25-listed only during weeks 1, 6, 8, 9, and 13. Other weeks, you should have clicked on that menu and flipped to the AAC conference page. UC games always appear there.
We trust this helpful information will keep you from becoming your parents. By the way, make sure you get comfortable using that drop-down menu, especially where it shows “Big 12.” You’ll find out why soon.
A super tiny house, about the size of a one-car garage, has been on LovelandMadeira Road in Symmes Township since forever. I’ve always wondered about it. A few months ago it disappeared, so now I really wonder about it. How old was it, and what happened to it? —THIS VERY OLD HOUSE
DEAR
The former structure at 9561 LovelandMadeira Road was, indeed, very small— just a front door with a small window on either side. It was also very old, but finding its date of birth at the Hamilton County Recorder’s office is above the Doctor’s pay grade. We’ll just share the owner’s guess that it could go as far back as the Civil War. Nearby Camp Dennison was in its prime back then, and the railroad tracks that still run along Loveland-Madeira Road were just a few feet away.
The cottage’s last steady occupant seems to have been in the 1990s: a tiny business called the Pottery Corner, which was far from any corner. Perhaps that explains its short run. The building’s recent buyer, who owns an adjacent property and
purchased the long-neglected site at a bargain, tried and failed to justify saving the sad little structure. It came down in March 2022. Now, as you travel that stretch of LovelandMadeira Road, you’ll just have to chuckle at the fact that you’re in neither Loveland nor Madeira.
I somehow missed hearing of the recent death of David Stull, known on local TV as David Manning and “Mr. Hop.” Actually, I worry that Cincinnati media overlooked the life and loss of this wonderful man who gave so much to our city. Am I wrong?
—OUT MEMORIAM
DEAR OUT:
Mr. Stull—a.k.a. Mr. Manning, a.k.a. Mr. Hop—had several vastly different careers, all worth noticing. Then again, all those careers were identical: engaging the youth of Cincinnati in entertaining ways while working a secondary agenda to help kids prepare for the real world.
His early 1960s TV show in a rabbit suit on WLWT, Mr. Hop, has been called Cincinnati’s best children’s show ever. His ’70s gig as host of the quiz show It’s Academic made heroes out of teens who did their homework. And his pivot to teaching stayed perfectly in character. Stull was among the founders of the School for Creative and Performing Arts, giving thousands of kids the skills and inspirations to live their dreams. Even after retirement he continued to mentor and teach.
The sad news of his passing did get an online homage from WVXU media critic John Kiesewetter, and the “I Worked for WLWT” Facebook group also quickly posted a tribute. SCPA undoubtedly sang his praises. But the Doctor agrees that a few more trumpets should have blown in his honor. Maybe by trumpeters in rabbit suits.
greener than it is now. He sounds like a tool, though, so maybe his judgment wasn’t the best.
I’ve always been attracted to the idea of places that aren’t what they seem, whether because of nuance or misunderstanding. It’s probably because I live in Ohio now but grew up in Northern Kentucky, which is Kentucky but isn’t, while it’s absolutely not Ohio but mostly is. As a child, I was told I was a Midwesterner, though I could have sworn, when I spotted my state on a map of the U.S., it looked like the East.
Hence, traveling to this misnamed country seemed like a wonderfully weird thing to do. Someday. Which probably meant never. Still, I randomly read articles about Iceland and found reasons to say aloud the name of its capital city, Reykjavík, the sultry consonance of the Ks calling to mind a sexy, starlit landscape: Raaaaykavickkk
Nothing happened for years. Decades. And then something did.
IN 2021, TWO OF MY FRIENDS RAN FOR our town’s city council, and I helped them campaign. I was at their meet-and-greet event, chatting with supporters, when I heard a man behind me introduce himself to someone. He said that he wrote travel books about Iceland and helped people plan trips.
I was suddenly a 6-year-old child, seeing a merry-go-round she wanted to ride. “I want to go to Iceland!” I heard myself exclaim as I turned around, bursting into his conversation. I think he probably said something like, “You should.”
University circa 1993: I got 100 percent on the test where we had to locate every country in the world on a map, and I learned that Iceland was misnamed. The first hasn’t helped me much, because I routinely get the answers wrong when my son uses his “Countries of the World” placemat to quiz me at dinner.
But the second thing? That was a keeper. I can still see the professor’s handsome thirtysomething face telling us that Iceland was the “green” land, whereas Greenland was actually the “ice” land.
Apparently, the Viking who named Iceland saw a fjord filled with ice and thought it made for a catchy name. Then about 100 years later, when Erik the Red got kicked out of Iceland for murdering people, he settled in a place he called Greenland, which likely was
Then, a few weeks later, a writer friend from Instagram—which is to say someone I didn’t know at all but who seemed really cool—posted that she was going on a yoga retreat in Iceland. I messaged her. What was this retreat? She sent me a link, fully expecting that we’d never speak of it again.
Instead, I signed up. The trip would be in September 2022, nearly a year away. I bought the best travel insurance available and figured there was a 50/50 chance of cancelation, because COVID taught me that life can just get canceled sometimes.
I dug through my purse to find the card of Eric Newman, the man I accosted at my friends’ campaign event. Turns out, he lived
a few streets over from me. I bought his book, Iceland With Kids (though I would definitely not be going with my kids), and hired him to help me plan days outside of the yoga retreat. Other than that, I did shockingly little research, though I did binge-watch Trapped on Amazon, a murder mystery series set in a small Icelandic town that becomes completely cut off because of a blizzard, a blackout, and an avalanche. It was terrific for hearing the language, but it did make me wonder what I’d gotten myself into.
Whenever I mentioned my upcoming trip to Iceland, which was frequently—because it’s a crackerjack way to start a conversation: “So I’m going to Iceland in a few months…”—the response I inevitably got was, “Why?” I tried out various answers, including the one about geography class. But was that really a reason to spend a chunk of change on a 10-day trip taking time away from my family and my writing income? A more acceptable reason seemed to be, “It
feels like a wild, beautiful place I need to see before I die.”
But no answer was the whole truth. Because I didn’t know why I was going. Not really.
September came, and I bought a pair of hiking shoes and read up on driving in Iceland. And then, a few days after my birthday and a night flight featuring zero hours of sleep, I landed in Reykjavík (actually Keflavik, because they have a CVG bait-andswitch situation too) hungry, bleary-eyed, and feeling like I was on a strange rock in the middle of nowhere. I chugged coffee and started driving. I had a full itinerary, thanks to Newman, who I simply called My Iceland Guy. Over the course of two days, I would make my way north to the artsy town of Akureyri, where I would meet my retreat group.
That first morning, everything seemed gray during my drive. It was raining. I had to pee. Signs were in kilometers. What was I doing here? Why had I been enamored with
a random comment from some baby-faced adjunct professor 30 years ago?
And then I sunk into my first geothermal spring just outside of the city. I plunked my credit card down without even trying to convert the Icelandic Krona, followed the confusing shower ritual required to get in, and finally glided through steaming waters in a state of complete bliss. I floated on my back in the delicious hot water, stared up at the brightening sky, and wondered, Is this why I’m here?
During that week, spending time both alone and with my group, I would visit two more geothermal springs. I would see waterfalls—so many waterfalls!—and volcanic craters. I would walk in a lava forest and smell boiling earth. I would sit under the Northern Lights, clear and green and spooky.
I would stand on a sharp cliff, the sky so piercing blue it seemed a mistake, and take in the North Atlantic, a sheet of aquamarine glass. I would do a cartwheel over the
continental divide and a handstand at what felt like the edge of the earth. Every time, every incredible thing, I would ask, Is this why I’m here?
BY THE TIME I PULLED INTO AKUREYRI after my solo driving adventure, an early winter storm was brewing. In Iceland, a storm (stormur) means wind. I’m talking wild-ass wind. It canceled our first day of activities. As we settled into our apartments, hunkering down against the gales, Andreas, our mild-mannered Swiss expat retreat leader who had moved to this enchanted land a dozen years before and was now raising his family here, gathered us around and said, “Þetta reddast—it will work out, but you have to let go of expectation.”
Pronounced something like THEHta RREH-dust and sounding like a magic incantation, it’s the unofficial motto of Iceland—one shaped by living in a country of volcanoes with months of either too
much light or too much dark and harsh, fast-changing weather. The saying wasn’t about giving up or sitting back and doing nothing. Rather, it was about rethinking, adapting, and trusting that the answer will present itself.
What I would finally understand is that I came to this land of elf magic, with its medieval language and snaking green sky, mostly to encounter this idea, which was at once completely familiar and completely foreign.
The wind died down eventually, of course, and the week’s activities shifted around in ways that turned out to be better; then the Northern Lights, which weren’t predicted to show themselves, suddenly burst through one evening. But I felt þetta reddast at a deeper level than getting to see tourist highlights.
Perhaps it landed so hard because I have teenagers at home and, on any given day, it feels like nothing will be all right and I won’t know what to do. There is so much
I’m afraid of losing: people I love, hard-won rights, democracy, the ability to do a handstand in whatever corner of Earth I find myself. But here was this Swiss man—from the land of precise timekeeping, no less!— reminding me to loosen my grip.
In truth, this idea that it will work out, maybe with an unexpected answer, was a huge part of my worldview in my twenties and thirties. But, like so many things, it had become harder to remember in midlife. I think that’s why Iceland used its sly name to grab my attention all those years ago. It never stopped calling to me, but it increased the volume as I got older. I need to show you the idea you’ve always flirted with. I need you to see where it comes from.
Or, as Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams like to say to each other in the preposterously funny movie Eurovision, about an Icelandic duo who accidentally make it into the European singing contest, “I see you. There you are.”
I see you, þetta reddast. There you are.
and without minutes for six months before issuing its recommendations in 2019. An appeals court ruled in favor of Wright and Mohr in April 2022, invalidating the committee’s recommendations and ordering all further meetings to be public and recorded. The outcome of the lawsuit never made the local news.
A new nonprofit local news initiative, however, has ambitious plans to utilize hundreds of watchdog citizens like Wright and Mohr across Ohio to fill media coverage gaps in underserved communities. The Ohio Local News Initiative recently launched Signal Cleveland with a staff of full-time digital journalists who won’t be insulated in a cyber-walled ivory tower but will engage directly with audiences through a community advisory board, weekly Zoom “office hours” open to readers, and regular town hall-style meetings. Lila Mills, a former Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter who established Cleveland Documenters, a team of 500 residents covering local government and school board meetings, was named editor in chief of Signal Cleveland. Her documenter program is being absorbed into the newsroom.
It’s just the first step for the initiative, says Dale Anglin of the Cleveland Foundation, a major financial backer of the journalism project that’s raised $7.5 million so far. To be effective “this has to be statewide,” says Anglin, who spent the first half of her 20-year career in journalism and the other half directing programs for children and youth. “Our goal from the very start was larger than Northeast Ohio. We’re really hoping we can convince Cincinnati and Columbus and some of our other friends to join us by raising money for their own local newsrooms as part of a statewide network. We know we’re all experiencing the same situation.”
YOU DON’T HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHAT A “NEWS DESERT” IS TO STEPHANIE WRIGHT. THE COMmunity activist lives in Colerain Township, the largest township in Hamilton County and perhaps the most parched area for local news coverage in Greater Cincinnati. She says the last reporter to show up at a township trustees meeting worked for Northwest Press, a free weekly distributed by The Cincinnati Enquirer. “And she hasn’t been here in seven years,” says Wright. The Enquirer discontinued its Community Press publications entirely in May. So where are Colerain’s nearly 60,000 residents getting their local news? “Probably my big mouth on Facebook,” Wright jokes, referring to the page “A Better Colerain…” that she and fellow activist Kathy Mohr run for 1,500 members. With no one in the local media performing watchdog duties, they sued township trustees for violations of the Open Meetings Act after a hand-picked comprehensive land use committee met privately
ACCORDING TO RESEARCH COMPILED BY the American Journalism Project (AJP), the U.S. has lost 2,100 newspapers since 2004 as well as 60 percent of its journalism jobs since 2008, leaving 1,800 communities without local news coverage. Although every county in Ohio had at least one newspaper back in 2018, including a daily and four weeklies in Hamilton County, hundreds of smaller communities across the state have become news deserts.
Michael Ouimette, AJP’s vice president of strategy and startups, says the Ohio Local News Initiative is in talks with potential partners in Cincinnati, although he wouldn’t identify them. The initiative has made deeper inroads in Columbus, where Tom Katzenmeyer, chief executive of the Columbus Arts Council, has agreed to chair a board of directors.
Interest in the initiative has indeed been piqued at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which has nearly $1 billion in assets to distribute among nonprofit organizations in eight counties. Rasheda Cromwell, GCF’s senior director of community strategies, says the cause of local journalism is one the foundation could certainly support. “We’re exploring how we can leverage our position and provide a light, if you will, on what is happening here in our community,” she says. The foundation is looking into providing funds to
when you don’t have that information, what takes its place." Misinformation, mistrust, all that.”
Surveys have consistently shown that most Americans trust their local news over national outlets. “When local journalism dried up, what happened?” asks Richard Campbell, who retired in 2019 as head of the media, journalism, and film department at Miami University. “People started listening to Hannity on talk radio or watching CNN. Their whole way of thinking about community has just been obliterated.”
Campbell was part of a group of concerned residents in Oxford who banded together to create their own local news website after Cox Media, owner of The Dayton Daily News and The Journal-News of Butler County, stopped publishing a separate weekly edition of The Oxford News. Cox tucked a four-page Oxford News insert into
ject to IRS 501(c)3 scrutiny. But then I have this other nonprofit piece that allows me to raise money [from donations and grants] for community interest journalism.”
To help LINK hit the ground running, Northern Kentucky’s Horizon Community Fund created a separate local journalism account for LINK’s operation with the stipulation that donor money be used only for the salaries of reporters and editors covering public interest news, including education, government, health care, and politics—but not opinion. The fund’s money “can’t be used for sports reporting or arts and entertainment coverage. We can’t even pay for coffee in the newsroom,” says Starling, bemoaning wryly that anyone in journalism knows that coffee fuels the profession’s endless deadlines. More than $400,000 has been raised so far for the Northern Kentucky Community Journalism Fund.
LINK Media of Northern Kentucky, a hybrid for-profit/nonprofit local news outlet launched in late 2021 in Boone, Campbell, and Kenton counties.
It was a tough decision for the Cleveland Foundation to pledge $2.65 million to Signal Cleveland over the next two years, Anglin says. The foundation’s board of directors and programming staff had to be persuaded that the investment was worth it even though it would mean taking money away from more established social causes such as homelessness and education. “What I said to the board and the programming staff, and they got it, is that information is a tool for helping residents understand their lives and what’s happening in the world,” she says. “If residents don’t have the right information, your strategy on trying to end homelessness, turn around climate change, and improve education is for naught. They’re not going to have the information to make informed decisions about [political] candidates. And
the Sunday Journal-News, where it was lost among the coverage of Middletown and Hamilton. To even get the Sunday insert, Oxford readers had to subscribe to The Journal-News
Campbell and other community members raised their own money and landed a grant from the Oxford Community Foundation to publish The Oxford Observer, a digital news site where Miami journalism students can get real-world experience writing local news stories under the guidance and editorship of Miami faculty.
Oxford isn’t the only community in the Cincinnati area to create its own oasis in the local news desert. LINK Media purchased River City News and Ft. Thomas Matters in 2021 and began a novel approach to covering Northern Kentucky with a hybrid forprofit/nonprofit model. Lacy Starling, chief executive of LINK, half-jokingly calls it a “for-break-even” model. “It’s the best of both worlds,” she says. “I can sell advertising and have sponsorships and not be sub-
Starling says advertising revenue pays the full cost of mailing a LINK print newsletter to all 160,000 households in Northern Kentucky. Meanwhile, its fund-raising efforts have enabled the organization to add four more full-time employees. Starling realizes, of course, that there’s still a long way to go to match the resources of the predigital age. At its peak in the 1990s, she says, The Kentucky Post had a staff of 175 employees before closing shop 15 years ago.
WHILE ANGLIN APPLAUDS THE MANY community efforts to fill the gaps in local journalism, she points out that the Ohio Local News Initiative is the first attempt to bring together smaller nonprofits into a statewide network of coverage for the underserved—from minorities in urban areas to suburban and rural residents who don’t have the spending power to attract for-profit media’s attention.
Both for-profit and nonprofit local news outlets face the same daunting challenge of breaking through the noise and competitive clutter on social media sites to bring audience traffic to their websites, says Cincinnati Enquirer Executive Editor Beryl Love, who has the corporate title of market leader. Over the summer, Facebook steepened that challenge by changing its distribution algorithm to prioritize videos from TikTok and Instagram over news sources. Within weeks, Love says, The En-
“INFORMATION IS A TOOL FOR HELPING RESIDENTS UNDER-
STAND WHAT’S HAPPENING,” SAYS DALE ANGLIN. “WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE THAT, MISINFORMATION TAKES ITS PLACE.”
quirer’s traffic from Facebook and Twitter dropped from about 30 percent “to as low as 18 to 20 percent on some days of the week.”
The Enquirer is owned by Gannett, by far the nation’s largest publisher of forprofit newspapers following its merger in 2019 with Gatehouse. Its target audiences reside in the key ZIP codes where higherincome households with young families generate the most interest and revenue from advertisers. “We’re not looking for a traditional print reader but someone who is sort of at that age of acquisition,” says Love. “They might be buying their first home. They’ve got school-age children. So they’re starting to care about issues like education and anything to do with real estate and their home values and their taxes and public safety.”
To stave off the death spiral of reduced revenue followed by reduced news staffing and content that’s killed so many other local newspapers, Love says, The Enquirer has a dual approach: free breaking and trending news to attract readers to their website and in-depth coverage of key topics to lure new subscribers inside its paywall. But with a dwindling staff, he says, “local, local, local” coverage of public meetings is no longer possible, even in the paper’s key zones.
Love says he welcomes the expansion of the Ohio Local News Initiative into the Cincinnati area, especially if its goal is to cover underserved areas. “It never hurts to have more journalists in your community, that’s for sure,” he says. “There’s more than the corporate model to do journalism, and I am certainly excited about other people trying to find ways to do it.”
Supporters of local nonprofi t journalism say the stakes are too high not to try. The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to block counting electoral votes and other disturbing events demonstrate that the “democracy we thought was not fragile is, in fact, incredibly fragile,” says Anglin of the Cleveland Foundation. Underlying that fragility and its divisive wounds is a lack of relevant, trustworthy local news. “We have to rebuild our local journalism ecosystem, or
we are in serious trouble.”
FROM LEFT: JOHN GOULD, ANNA KOHLEM, AND JANIE SHAFFER
John Gould: Financial Advisor. Certified Financial PlannerTM. Senior Portfolio Manager. Certified Private Wealth Advisor®. Workplace Advisor - Equity Compensation. Alternative Investments Director. 27+ years of experience. Anna Kohlem: Assistant Vice President. Wealth Management Associate. Financial Planning Associate. Complex CSA Coach. 25+ years of experience. Janie Shaffer: Business Development Director. Duke University graduate. Former attorney. 5+ years of experience.
They’re teachers, researchers, and practicing physicians.
If that sounds a bit extraordinary, it’s because it is. The doctors of UC Physicians also serve as faculty for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Meaning that our 1,250 clinical providers are not only discovering the latest therapies—they’re bringing those advancements directly to more than two million patients every year, and training the doctors who will care for you in the future.
It’s been said that “three” is a powerful combination. At the UC College of Medicine, it’s all in a day’s work.
We asked six local doctors to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing healthcare today. This is what they want you to know.
PLUS: OUR ANNUAL LIST OF 869 PHYSICIANS IN 68 SPECIALTIES.
MOHAMED ABDEL
AZIZ
Professional Psychiatric Services, 9117 Cincinnati Columbus Rd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 229-7585
JENNIE HAHN
UC Health, 3131 Harvey Ave., Suite 202, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 585-8227
MINA KALFAS
St. Elizabeth - Journey Recovery Center - Crestview Hills, 351 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-0717
TERESA KOELLER St. Elizabeth - Journey Recovery Center - Crestview Hills, 351 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-0717
AMIT PATEL
BrightView Health, 446 Morgan St., Cincinnati, OH 45206, (833) 510-4329
PARAG PATEL
BrightView Health, 446 Morgan St., Cincinnati, OH 45206, (833) 510-4329
SHAWN RYAN
BrightView Health, 446 Morgan St., Cincinnati, OH 45206, (833) 510-4329
ABDELRHMAN A. SOLIMAN
Individual Care Center, 8833 Chapel Square Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 774-9444
CHRISTINE WILDER
UC Health, 3131 Harvey Ave., Suite 202, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 585-8227
EMMANUEL CHANDLER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4681
LEE ANN CONARD, D.O.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
LISA JOHNSON
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
JESSICA KAHN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
he professionals listed herein—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 www.prscom.com or e-mail PRS at sshevin@hourmedia.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.
CORINNE LEHMANN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4681
LAURIE MITAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4681
TANYA MULLINS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3050 Mack Rd., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 636-4681
ELEANOR WIDDICE
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-7413
J. PABLO ABONIA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-2601
AMAL ASSA’AD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
DAVID BERNSTEIN
Bernstein Allergy Group, Inc., 4665 E. Galbraith
Rd., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 931-0775
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Bernstein Allergy Group, Inc., 4665 E. Galbraith Rd., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 931-0775
AMY CASTILANO Family Allergy & Asthma, 2194 Kings Mills Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 229-9090
JOHN ECKMAN
Allergy & Asthma Associates, Inc, 7144 Office Park Dr., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 793-6861
TIMOTHY FRANXMAN
Family Allergy & Asthma, 5001 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 980-7180
ANN C. GHORY
Cincinnati Allergy & Asthma Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 350, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 861-0222
PATRICIA K. GHORY Cincinnati Allergy & Asthma Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 350, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 861-0222
HEATHER HARTMAN Cincinnati Allergy Associates, 10495 Montgomery
Rd., Suite 24, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 791-6006
YASMIN HASSOUN Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-2601
DUANE KEITEL Allergy Partners of Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky, 517 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-5030
ASHISH MATHUR Allergy & Asthma Care/ AllerVie Health, 8250 Kenwood Rd., Suite B, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 791-1143
KELLY METZ Family Allergy & Asthma, 8250 Kenwood Crossing Way, Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45243, (513) 515-1665
HANS OTTO Family Allergy & Asthma, 8250 Kenwood Crossing Way, Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 275-0847
JEFF RAUB Allergy & Asthma Care/ AllerVie Health, 422 Ray Norrish Dr., Suite 2, Cincinnati, OH 45246, (513) 935-1218
KIMBERLY A. RISMA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-2601
MELISSA K. SKUPIN Family Allergy & Asthma, 5001 Houston Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 980-7180
STEVEN A. SUTTON Allergy & Asthma Associates, Inc, 10597 Montgomery Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 793-6861
MANUEL S. VILLAREAL ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900
MASROOR ALAM
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
KIRT BECKES
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
A blood test that can detect 50 types of cancer brings hope for discovering disease early. But genetic testing for cancer won’t replace routine screenings anytime soon—and the medical community is still learning about the implications of the technology.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare now offers the test for patients over age 50 who are thought to be cancer free but may be at risk. We asked Jaime Grund, director of St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s Precision Medicine & Breast Centers and a licensed genetic counselor, what we should know about when to pursue this promising new tool.
It’s a new application of the genetic testing that’s been used in prenatal care for more than a decade, Grund says. It looks at DNA circulating in the blood stream. Cancer cells have different markers from typical cells, so the test could flag potential disease before symptoms appear. But positive tests aren’t conclusive. If you have positive result, there’s about a four out of 10 chance you do have cancer and a six out of 10 chance that you don’t. “It means we need to take a closer look.” That means following up with CT scans or other screening procedures.
Is genetic testing the future for cancer detection?
“My gut says it’s the way we’re going to head. But we haven’t made that leap,” Grund says. “It’s meant to go hand-in-hand [with] or supplement more traditional tests. It does not replace a colonoscopy or mammogram.” Grund is particularly excited about the possibility to detect cancers that don’t have good screening options. “Let’s say someone has a family history that predisposes them to pancreatic cancer or ovarian cancer. This can be powerful.”
“This is new and it does come with a lot of emotional baggage,” Grund says. “We require extensive pre-test counseling. Patients consider questions such as What does this mean for you if it comes back positive? As this scales up, we can’t keep up that method of introduction. But at this point we’re breaking new ground. We want to make sure we support the patients not only medically but emotionally as well.” If a patient receives positive results, they are immediately enrolled in St. Elizabeth’s Cancer Prevention Clinic.
Are there other concerns about widespread testing?
Financial considerations are one factor. “If you’ve been screened as high risk, this warrants extra work ups,” Grund explains. “Would your insurance pay for this work up based on this new test? There’s a lot to think about.” The test alone costs about $1,000 and insurance companies are not covering it yet.
“Patients can think it’s a golden ticket. They think they can have a genetic test and know if they’re going to have cancer. It’s important that patients understand genetics is a powerful tool, and it can guide us in their care. But it’s certainly not the answer to all things medical.”
St. Elizabeth’s new blood test can detect cancer early in at-risk patients. —MICHELE DAYJAIME GRUND Director, St. Elizabeth Precision Medicine & Breast Centers
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, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
SHAWN CARSON
Anesthesia Associates of Cincinnati - The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Level A, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2422
THOMAS ELSASS
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
ANDREW FRIEDRICH
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
RUSSELL GRAF
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
ERIN GRAWE
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
SAI GUNDAVARPU
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
WILLIAM HARRIS
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
KEVIN HARTWIG
Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital Anesthesia Department, 3000 Mack Rd., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 870-7000
AHMED KHALIL
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
STEVEN KUESTER
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
JUSTIN LITTLE, D.O.
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-1400
MOHAMED MAHMOUD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4408
THOMAS SCHMIDT
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
THOMAS SOBOLEWSKI
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-1400
JAMES F. WELLER
Seven Hills Anesthesia, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 817-1150
JOSEPH GUENTHER
St. Elizabeth - General Surgery - Edgewood, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite 254, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 344-1600
ALICIA HEELAN
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-8900
LYDIA HERNANDEZ
Cincinnati Breast Surgeons, 4850 Red Bank Expy., Floor 3, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 221-2544
ANNE KURITZKY
TriHealth Cancer Institute - Good Samaritan Infusion Center - Thomas Center, 3035 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 206, Fairfield Twp., OH 45011, (513) 853-1300
JAIME LEWIS
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
JENNIFER MANDERS
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Surgical Oncology, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 108, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 564-5000
NICOLE M. MELCHIOR, D.O. OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, Suite 2300, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800
JACQUELYN A. V. PALMER
Mercy Health - Fairfield Breast Surgery, 3050 Mack Rd., Suite 202, Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 924-8535
KATHLEEN M. RAQUE
TriHealth Cancer Institute - Good Samaritan Infusion CenterThomas Center, 10506 Montgomery Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 853-1300
DIANNE RUNK
Cincinnati Breast Surgeons, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-2544
Ever since she was a child, Anisa Shomo knew that access to healthcare was an uphill battle. Now in her own family practice, she’s made it her mission to make care available for all.
When you think about the progress of racism, my father has a degree, but he graduated college in the ’70s, and there were not a lot of jobs for Black people, so he ended up cleaning at University Hospital in Cleveland. I grew up in the hospital and in a healthcare family where everybody was always like, You’re gonna be the doctor.
—AS TOLD TO LAUREN FISHERMost people feel comfortable with people they’re used to being around. That translates into the patient room. I grew up in a lot of Black communities, and a big thing for me is that patients feel more comfortable with me being their doctor. There’s been studies to show that when white doctors are taking care of Black patients, they don’t make as much eye contact with the patients. For me, as a family doctor, the most important thing in my job is how I communicate with people.
At a young age, I understood how the way that my family interacted with the health care system could be better. When my doctor moved out to the [Cleveland] suburbs, I had to catch three buses to get there. I often wondered why my doctor wasn’t in my community. There aren’t a lot of doctors in Black neighborhoods, or Latinx neighborhoods. So I think that’s a big thing—having doctor’s offices in those communities, but also having people from those communities in those places.
As a teen, Anisa Shomo had to take three buses to get to the doctor. Now, she’s the one wearing the white coat.
The biggest thing right now is gun violence. One of my nephews was murdered last year. I have counseled so many of my patients dealing with losing family members to gun violence. We deal with a lot. Being Black people living in Black neighborhoods is stressful. That’s why it’s important, though—because a lot of people don’t know what to say to people when they go through that experience. And I know exactly what to say to people. They say that Black people, our blood pressure is high whether we deal with poverty or not, because it’s just stressful, dealing with a lot of what we deal with. Even for me, as a Black doctor, I deal with a lot of systems that don’t understand how powerful I am and that don’t give me the time and the resources I need to help me take care of people. I just try to do what I can to advocate for my patients. I try to practice from a place of love.
ANISA SHOMO, M.D.
Family Medicine Physician, UC Health | Assistant Professor, UC Department of Family and Community Medicine
ELIZABETH SHAUGHNESSY
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-8900
ANNA P. SOBOLEWSKI
Mercy Health - West Breast Surgery, 3300 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 1140.5, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 924-8535
ABIGAIL M. TREMELLING
OHC, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 104, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (888) 649-4800
BARBARA WEXELMAN
TriHealth Cancer Institute - Good Samaritan Breast Care Center, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-5110
GEOFFREY ANSWINI
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 139, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170
LOUIS BRUNSTING
TriHealth Heart Institute - Montgomery, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120
MARIO CASTILLO-SANG
St. Elizabeth - Cardiac Surgeons - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-9010
JEFFREY M. GRIFFIN
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 139, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1172
LOUIS LOUIS
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
MOHI O. MITIEK
Mercy Health - Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Kenwood, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 215, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 421-3494
TriHealth Heart Institute - Montgomery, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120
ERIC J. OKUM
TriHealth Heart Institute - Montgomery, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120
ANTONIO PANZA
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 1000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8521
STEVEN E. PARK
TriHealth Heart Institute - Montgomery, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120
MANISHA A. PATEL
Mercy Health - Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Kenwood, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 215, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 421-3494
VICTOR SCHMELZER St. Elizabeth - Cardiac Surgeons - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-9010
J. MICHAEL SMITH
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 139, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170
KARL ULICNY St. Elizabeth - Cardiac Surgeons - Edgewood Heart & Vascular Institute, 711 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-9010
S. RUSSELL VESTER
Mercy Health - Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Kenwood, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 215, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 421-3494
SAAD AHMAD
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 1000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8521
ASIMUL ANSARI
TriHealth Heart Institute - Montgomery, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 246-2400
NAJAMUL ANSARI
TriHealth Heart Institute - Bethesda Arrow Springs, 100 Arrow Springs Blvd., Suite 2500, Lebanon, OH 45036, (513) 246-2400
IMRAN ARIF
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 1000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8521
TIMOTHY D. BRENNAN
Mercy Health - The Heart Institute, West, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 125, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 215-9200
EUGENE S. CHUNG
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave.,
Suite 138, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1180
KEVIN J. COCHRAN
Mercy Health - The Heart Institute, Fairfield, 3000 Mack Rd., Suite 100, Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 751-4222
ALEXANDRU COSTEA
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 1000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8521
GREGORY F. EGNACZYK
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 138, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1180
GAURANG GANDHI
TriHealth Heart Institute - Montgomery, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 246-2400
SAI HANUMANTHU
TriHealth Heart Institute - Anderson, 7777 Beechmont Ave., Suite 220, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 246-2400
DAVID HARRIS
UC Health, 3200 Burnett Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-1000
CHARLES HATTEMER
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
DEAN KEREIAKES
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 136, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1060
FAISAL KHAN
Kettering Physician Network - Heart & Vascular, 1010 Cereal Ave., Suite 207, Hamilton, OH 45013, (513) 867-3331
PRASANTH LINGAM
Kettering Health Network - Ft. Hamilton Hospital, 1010 Cereal Ave., Suite 207, Hamilton, OH 45013, (513) 867-3331
WOJCIECH MAZUR
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 320, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1120
KEVIN MILLER
St. Elizabeth - Heart & Vascular Newport/Ft. Thomas, 1400 Grand Ave., Ft. Thomas, KY 41071, (859) 905-3073
VANSHIPAL S. PURI
Mercy Health - The Heart Institute, Anderson, 7502 State Rd., Suite 2210A, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 624-2070
PUVI N. SESHIAH
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 5885 Harrison Ave., Suite 1900, Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 206-1800
KAMAL SHEMISA
TriHealth Heart Institute - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 400, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-2400
JEFFREY T. STRIET
Mercy Health - The Heart Institute, West, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 125, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 215-9200
DAMODHAR SURESH
St. Elizabeth - Heart & Vascular Florence Turfway, 7388 Turfway Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 525-0005
ANIL VERMA
Mercy Health - The Heart Institute, West, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 125, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 215-9200
CORY D. BARRAT
Mercy Health - Kenwood Colon and Rectal Surgery, 3300 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 2010, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 686-5392
JOHN PATRICK CULLEN
Mercy Health - Kenwood Colon and Rectal Surgery, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 207, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 686-5392
HAMZA GUEND
TriHealth Surgical Institute - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000
GENNARO D. LABELLA
TriHealth Surgical Institute - Group Health - Mason, 6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 853-9000
IAN PAQUETTE
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 7000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 929-0104
JANICE F. RAFFERTY
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Colon & Rectal Surgery, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 524, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2888
JONATHAN R. SNYDER
UC Health, 7690 Discovery Dr., Suite 2300, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 929-0101
EARL V. THOMPSON
The Christ Hospital Medical Office Building, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 400,
Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 929-0104
SAMIR ATAYA
Mercy HealthClermont Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 200, Batavia, OH 45103, (513) 233-6480
DAVID C. BECK
Mercy HealthClermont Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 200, Batavia, OH 45103, (513) 735-1701
LATONYA BROWNPURYEAR
St. Elizabeth - Pulmonology - Crestview Hills, 651 Centreview Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-2927
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
KYLE A. DARNELL
Mercy Health - West Pulmonary, Sleep, and Critical Care, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 559-7025
TriHealth Pulmonary Medicine, 10506 Montgomery Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 853-1300
JEAN ELWING
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4061
CHRISTOPHER E. HAYNER
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 793-2654
UC Health, 3200 Burnett Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-1000
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Pulmonary Medicine, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 401, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 241-5489
SHAHLA MALLICK
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincin-
We knew the kids weren’t alright. But they might be struggling even more than we think. A March 2022 study published in JAMA Pediatrics shows a 30 percent increase in childhood anxiety or depression rates, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 1 in 5 children have a mental health disorder, which can range from anxiety and depression to ADHD and disruptive behavior disorder.
Courtney Cinko, M.D., a psychiatrist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), sees kids struggling every day in back-to-back appointments. “The problem is big and getting worse,” she says. The pandemic is an obvious culprit, with lack of access to typical supports and busier parents contributing to increases in anxiety and depression. But Cinko says the concerning trends began emerging much earlier, particularly with more and more kids on social media.
“They always have to be ‘on,’ ” Cinko says. “And they always have to put on this persona and never get to be their authentic self,” especially during pivotal years of identity formation in junior high and into high school. “With friends, and bullies online, lots of kids are trying to figure out who they are—and what does that mean?”
Only about 20 percent of kids struggling with mental health conditions are getting help, the CDC reports. Access to care is a barrier for many, and longer wait times due to heightened demand for care only compound the problem. “There’s just not enough of us,” Cinko says, pointing to a workforce shortage of child psychiatrists. “Kids are worse off than they have been before, so we’re not catching it early enough. They end up very sick, very depressed, very anxious. In Cincinnati, our kids are sometimes waiting two to three months to see therapists, and it’s significantly longer of a wait time to see someone for medication treatment.”
If your child is waiting for mental health care, there are still steps you can take now, starting with reaching out to your child’s pediatrician, who can often manage care until other specialists are available. Cinko emphasizes making frequent and meaningful check-ins with your child a priority. “The biggest protective factor against suicide is having strong adult connections,” she says. Resist the urge to let your child push you away (even if it feels like you’re invading their privacy), and watch for early signs of worsening mental health, such as isolation, changes in behavior, inability to have fun, and issues with friends or school.
Fortunately, Cinko says parents can have hope for a full recovery. “Once you get them going on a treatment plan, their chances of success are very high, especially when you treat it early.”
Tri-state kids are struggling. It’s time to step in.
—ALEXANDRA FROSTCOURTNEY M. CINKO, M.D. Psychiatrist, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Assistant Professor, UC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
nati, OH 45220, (513) 793-2654
DANIEL E. MURPHY
Mercy Health - Kenwood Pulmonary and Critical Care, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 206, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 791-4490
matology, 4440 Red Bank Expy., Suite 220, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 564-1325
BRETT COLDIRON The Skin Cancer Center, 3024 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 221-2828
UC Health’s Sarah Pickle, M.D., is a family medicine physician whose passion for transgender medicine and gender-diverse care has helped scores of patients. But she says there’s still work to be done.
In family medicine, we’re about living a life that feels authentic and aligned. For me, that resonates in gender-diverse care.
One of the things that I would love—and that we’re working to have fellow clinicians understand—is that everyone can have a role in providing gender-affirming care. Genderaffirming care means you accept the patient in their aligned and authentic gender identity and that you hold space for them in that clinical setting, whether that’s in the preassessment unit before surgery, or whether that’s in the mammography suite, or in our offices across our systems.
I think sometimes people hear transgender medicine and they hear hormones,
or they think surgery. And while hormones and surgery may be part of people’s gender journeys, there’s so much more than those two elements. Our health systems across the country, historically, have marginalized folks. There haven’t been safe places to be able to access health care. And so sometimes when we hear things like “trans and gender-diverse folks have higher rates of depression or anxiety or suicide,” I think we have to be really clear that this is not because they are transgender. [It’s because] the way that their gender diversity has been viewed by society and the way that individuals can be marginalized within the healthcare system really [contributes] to those outcomes.
Health outcomes are more than just the clinical experience. Employment, education, housing, and the discrimination that can be within all of those also impact health outcomes. All of those are really necessary next steps to change inequities and to change outcomes. And as a society, we must do more to make sure that people are included, elevated, and celebrated.
PICKLE, M.D.Family Physician, UC Health | Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine, UC
CHRISTOPHER
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Pulmonary Medicine, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 401, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 241-5489
EVAN RAMSER UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
MOHAMMAD SHEATT
TriHealth Pulmonary Medicine, 10506 Montgomery Rd., Suite 501, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 793-2654
DANIEL TANASE
UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 211, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8523
WILLIAM WILLMOTT
St. Elizabeth - Sleep Medicine - Crestview Hills, 651 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-2927
SABRA MARIE ABNER
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7546
BRIAN ADAMS
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 5300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7630
DEBRA ANDERSON
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Dermatology, 4460 Red Bank Expy., Suite 130, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 579-9191
ASMA ANSARI TriHealth - Group Health - Mason, 6030 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-2400
DAVID L. BROOMALL
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-7000
JENNIFER CAFARDI
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Der-
MOHAMMAD DIAB The Dermatology Group, 4450 Eastgate Blvd., Suite 232, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 770-4212
MOLLY EISNER
Dermatology Associates of N.K.Y., 7766 Ewing Blvd., Suite 100, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 283-1033
MONA FOAD
Mona Dermatology, 7730 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-4800
RACHEL E. GUSTIN
Mercy Health - Kenwood Dermatology, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 105, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 924-8860
ANNE HOUSHOLDER
UC Health, 3590 Lucille Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45213, (513) 475-7630
DREW KURTZMAN
St. Elizabeth - Dermatology - Highland Heights, 2626 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 371-3376
LEANNA R. LANE
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7000
MATTHEW J. MEIER
Mercy Health - Kenwood Dermatology, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 105, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 924-8860
MONA MISLANKAR
Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery, 4834
Socialville - Fosters Rd., Suite 20, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 459-1845
EMILY A. MOOSBRUGGER
Mercy Health - Kenwood Dermatology, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 105, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 924-8860
MICHAEL MORGAN
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Dermatology, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 210, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 579-9191
One family doctor’s quest to make gender-diverse care the norm within every corner of our healthcare systems.
—AS TOLD TO LAUREN FISHERSARAH
Dermatology & Skin Care Associates, 7249 Liberty Way, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 824-5880
SAMIR PATEL
The Dermatology Group, 5298 Socialville-Foster Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 770-4212
KARA SHAH
Medpace, Inc., 5375 Medpace Way, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 579-9911
CRISTIN SHAUGHNESSY
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 5300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7630
PRANAV B. SHETH
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-7546
KERITH SPICKNALL
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4644
JENNIFER MARY
WALKER
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Mohs unit 6th Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-5730
The Dermatology Group, 5298 Socialville-Foster Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 770-4212
TANYA FROEHLICH
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4611
LISA KUAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4611
PATRICIA MANNINGCOURTNEY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4611
SUSAN WILEY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4611
JORDAN BONOMO
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
WILLIAM KNIGHT IV
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
PHILLIP F. OBLINGER
Qualified Emergency Specialists, Inc., 10500 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-1200
ARTHUR PANCIOLI
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
KENNETH PATTON, D.O. TriHealth - Bethesda North Hospital, 10500 Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 478-5822
ROBBIE PAULSEN
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
CONAL ROCHE
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
RICHARD RYAN
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
DAVID SOWER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 600 Rodeo Dr., Erlanger, KY 41018, (513) 354-3700
COLIN CARRACHER
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 6300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7400
ROBERT COHEN
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 6300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7400
AMANDA DENNEY
The Christ HospitalDiabetes & Endocrine Center, 4440 Red Bank Expy., Suite 210, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 272-0313
DIMA DIAB
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 6300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7400
WAEL EID
St. Elizabeth Regional Diabetes Center, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way, Suite 301, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 655-8910
BRADLEY EILERMAN
St. Elizabeth Regional Diabetes Center, 1500 James Simpson Jr. Way, Suite 301, Covington, KY 41011, (859) 655-8910
FALCIGLIA
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
JYOTHI JOSEPHHAYES
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-1900
ELIE KLAM
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-1900
PADMA MANGU
TriHealth - Group Health - Mason, 6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-7000
LINA MITCHELL
Mercy Health - Deerfield Endocrinology, Cholesterol and Diabetes, 5075 Parkway Dr., Suite 101, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 891-3636
MICHAEL WEBB
TriHealth - Bethesda Family Practice Center, 1775 W. Lexington Ave., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 977-6700
ABID YAQUB
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 6300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7400
NADIA YAQUB
Mercy Health - Fairfield Endocrinology, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 200, Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 603-8352
WAFA AKKAD
TriHealth - Indian Springs Family Medicine, 3145 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 300, Fairfield Twp., OH 45011, (513) 863-6222
SHOAIB ASGHER
TriHealth - West Chester Medical Group, 8020 Liberty Way, Liberty Township, OH 45069, (513) 777-8300
ELIZABETH BEITER
TriHealth - Bethesda Family Practice Center, 1775 W. Lexington Ave., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 977-6700
PATRICK BEITER
TriHealth - Northcreek Family Practice, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 792-4700
CHRISTOPHER BERNHEISEL
UC Health - The Christ Hospital Mt. Auburn Medical Office Building, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 340, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 721-2221
PHILIP DILLER
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
MELISSA ERICKSON
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-8222
MOHAMMAD FATTAL
TriHealth - Bethesda Group Practice - Milford, 5861 Cinema Dr., Milford, OH 45150, (513) 248-8800
JESSICA L. HOYING Mercy Health - Anderson, 7500 State Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 233-6439
FARZAD R. MAZLOOMI TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7000
SARAH PICKLE
UC Health, 175 W. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45216, (513) 821-0275
ESHWAR H. RAMADAS
TriHealth - Queen City Physicians - Madeira IM, 7825 Laurel Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45243, (513) 561-4811
EUGENE W. REILLY TriHealth - White Oak Family Practice, 7631 Cheviot Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 923-1886
AMY RENEE RUSCHULTE
TriHealth - Western Family Physicians, 3425 N. Bend Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45239, (513) 853-4900
MANOJ SINGH
UC Health, 7798 Discovery Dr., Suite A, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8264
MICHAEL T. TROMBLEY
Mercy Health - Deerfield Family Medicine and Specialists, 5232 Socialville Foster Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 339-0800
LAUREN F. WANG
UC Health, 3120 Burnet Ave., Suite 406, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-8600
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 1007, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8690
RYAN P. FINNAN
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
NICHOLAS T. GATES
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 2626 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 301-2663
ROBERT KULWIN
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 221-5500
RICHARD LAUGHLIN
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 2200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8690
JOHN LINZ
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663
ADAM G. MILLER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
ROBERT A. RAINES
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6480
The June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade has plunged physicians—particularly those in women’s health—into a complex legal and ethical landscape.
—ALEXANDRA FROSTOn June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, triggering an Ohio ban that effectively eliminated the right to abortion after a fetus has a heartbeat.
Since then, judges and physicians have fought restrictive bans, which Thomas Burwinkel, M.D., an OB-GYN and reproductive endocrinologist at Cincinnati’s Institute for Reproductive Health, calls “an attack on women’s reproductive rights.”
As of publication, a court granted a preliminary injunction against the ban, allowing abortions up to 22 weeks while
Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700
VINCENT J. SAMMARCO
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700
JEFFREY WU
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 271-3222
MATTHEW ATKINSON
Gastro Health, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 389-7300
KHURRAM BARI
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 3200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-9999
PRADEEP BEKAL
Gastro Health, 2925 Vernon Pl., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 751-6667
RAJAGOPAL R.
CHADALAVADA
Gastro Health, 2925 Vernon Pl., Suite 100,
Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 751-6667
ANDREW CHUN
Gastro Health, 2925 Vernon Place, Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 794-5600
PETER DRYER
Gastro Health, 7354 Liberty One Dr., Liberty Township, OH 45044, (513) 794-5600
STEVEN GAY
Gastro Health, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 389-7300
NAV K. GRANDHI
Gastro Health, 8231 Cornell Rd., Suite 320, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 794-5600
CHADWICK HATFIELD
Tri-State Gastroenterology Associates, 425 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-3575
MICHAEL JONES
Tri-State Gastroenterology Associates, 425 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-3575
JOSHUA B. MAX Ohio Gastroenterology and Liver Institute, 2925
litigation continues. But in the weeks that followed the overturning of Roe, Burwinkel says the impact on his colleagues and patients has been significant.
Women are already seeking care out of state.
Roe’s overturn means tri-state women are traveling across state lines for procedures, further exacerbating the socioeconomic divide in women’s healthcare access.
“It’s created a lot of angst amongst patients,” Burwinkel says, describing colleagues across the state who have had “very difficult” conversations with patients past the 22-week cutoff.
Physicians are navigating ethical and legal dilemmas.
Burwinkel says OB-GYNs and emergency room physicians are navigating a complex legal landscape. “It’s even more difficult
Vernon Place, Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 751-6667
CARMEN MEIER
Gastro Health, 8231 Cornell Rd., Suite 320, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 794-5600
TERRANCE M. O’TOOLE JR., D.O.
Gastro Health, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 445, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 389-7300
ALLAN PECK
Gastro Health, 8231 Cornell Rd., Suite 320, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 794-5600
JOSHUA R. PECK
Gastro Health, 2925 Vernon Pl., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 751-6667
KAMRAN SAFDAR
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 3200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-9999
NATHAN SCHMULEWITZ
UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 211, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-7505
MILTON SMITH
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3492
CHRISTOPHER SOUTH Gastro Health, 8271 Cornell Rd., Suite 730, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 936-0700
RASHMI TADIPARTHI
Gastro Health, 8231 Cornell Rd., Suite 320, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 794-5600
GENERAL SURGERY
KRISHNA ATHOTA
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 7000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
LAWRENCE BARTISH
TriHealth Surgical Institute - Western Hills, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-5110
DAVID FISCHER
The Christ Hospital Physicians - General Surgery, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 308, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2062
MICHAEL GOODMAN
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 7000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
because you don’t know what’s happening from one day to the next,” he says, pointing to states like Texas, where doctors can face criminal charges for performing abortions.
Families are hesitating to pursue fertility treatments.
If Ohio House Bill 598 were to become law, doctors like Burwinkel wouldn’t be able to perform “selective reductions” on mothers carrying too many embryos as a result of fertility treatments.
And fertility treatment centers could face new concerns about handling embryos. “What happens if somebody drops a culture dish with embryos?” Burwinkel asks. “What if fertilization doesn’t happen? Are they going to blame us?”
New doctors could opt out of Ohio. “There are many residents in training that do not want to practice in Ohio with this climate,” Burwinkel says. “They don’t want to practice in a state where this has happened.”
THOMAS BURWINKEL, M.D.
OB-GYN/Reproductive Endocrinologist, Cincinnati Institute for Reproductive Health
SCOTT C. HOBLER
Mercy Health - Kenwood General Surgery, 4750 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 207, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 686-5392
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From mental health care to addiction treatment, TriHealth’s Behavioral Health Services team breaks down barriers to treat a subset of illnesses that affect about one in four adults.
—MICHELE DAYTriHealth of Cincinnati has launched a three-year initiative to embed behavioral health consultants in adult and pediatric primary care offices. Dallas Auvil, M.D., systems chief for Behavioral Health Services at TriHealth, says this effort to break down medical silos means better care for patients.
Behavioral health disorders are common and treatable. Behavior-related illnesses like depression and substance abuse occur in about one out of four adults. And 15 to 20 percent of children suffer disorders such as anxiety and ADHD in a given year, Auvil says. Treatment options for these conditions are improving. “Older antidepressants were very difficult for people to tolerate,” Auvil says. “But those have advanced over the years. Also, the types of therapy that work are becoming more focused.”
Doctors need to address behavioral and physical conditions. “The issue is we’re trying to treat the whole person,” Auvil says. “If a person has high blood pressure or heart disease, we care very much if they have depression. Are they able to take their medications? Are they able to get out and exercise like they need to? If they’re depressed, they can’t.” Quick treatment for the behavioral issues leads
to better care for the physical ones, he says.
Utilizing a team approach helps doctors better understand patients.
Auvil cites the example of a TriHealth program that embedded substance abuse specialists in hospitals to treat patients who came in with drug overdoses. Patients going through withdrawal often become irritable and difficult. “Having someone there to say, ‘This is what this is and this is how we treat it sooner’—that really is a game changer.”
Primary care doctors treat the majority of behavioral conditions and prescribe three-fourths of the antidepressants, Auvil says. “But they don’t necessarily have the training to do that. They have heart and will. But they can’t do everything.”
Community attitudes are shifting.
“I’ve heard people say, ‘I don’t believe in psychiatrists,’ ” Auvil says. “They have the idea that they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I do believe some of that is changing. People are reaching out more for treatment. Now, we have to provide the access for treatment.”
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Looking back at her own father’s misdiagnosed stroke in Chicago in 2006, Dr. Pooja Khatri, co-director of the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute Stroke Center of Excellence, wonders if local access to clinical trials might have affected the outcome. A faculty member of the College of Medicine, a UC Physicians provider, and a recognized expert in the development of novel stroke therapies, Dr. Khatri cites such community access as one of the unique benefits the UC Stroke Team provides.
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A generation of national rock bands, local musicians, and club kids came of age at the legendary Short Vine bar/laundromat. But its spirit of connecting people through live music isn’t all in the past.
BY CEDRIC ILLUSTRATIONROSE
BY RAFA ALVAREZ
LAUNDROMATS ARE USUALLY PLACES
you want to forget. Wash, dry, repeat. Yet when Sudsy Malone’s Rock ’n Roll Laundry & Bar closed in 2008, the mourning began. It’s been collectively remembered with unusual intensity ever since, and not for its coin-operated Maytags.
Sudsy’s, as we knew it, was also a bar and music club that grew in the 1990s to national and legendary renown. The Afghan Whigs, Beck, Better Than Ezra, Jack White, Stereolab, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, Jeff Buckley, Spoon, Girls Against Boys, G. Love & Special Sauce, Cat Power, The Jesus Lizard, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Over the Rhine all played its small stage. Hundreds of great local musi-
cians got their start there. It was a Mecca for new music during a decade when rock music was changing and just before everything about the music industry would completely turn upside down.
Sudsy’s stood across from Bogart’s on Short Vine Street in Corryville. You entered to the right of a low, carpeted stage, scuff ed and duct-taped, gouged by falling cymbals. Speakers towered around it, hung from the ceiling. The dim bar ran the length of the front room in front of a mosaic of band photos. Washers and dryers were lined up in back.
When bands played, it was so loud that the air felt pressurized, particles vibrating in sparse spotlights. And there was a lot swirling in that atmosphere: smoke, detergent, beer, whiskey, dryer lint, sweat, and brand new songs that are still being sung 30 years later.
But small clubs come and go, right? What makes Sudsy’s stick in the memories of so many fans? The answers shine a light on the vital importance of small stages everywhere and on the power of live, original music to connect people to one another and to a collective “home.”
“WE’RE TRYING TO GO ONE STEP FURther and develop a character,” ballet dancer and founding partner Michael Sharp told The Cincinnati Post in July 1986, when Sudsy Malone’s Laundry and Libation
Emporium opened. Sharp had sketched a coin-flipping, beer-swilling, pin-striped cartoon gangster, the eponymous Sudsy Malone, whose image hung outside the door for more than two decades.
Music of the incredibly loud, electric variety took over Sudsy’s within a few years thanks to a band called The Thangs. Guitarist Patrick Hennessy, who still plays in veteran Cincinnati punk outfit The Tigerlilies, was there one Friday night watching a lone guitarist get drowned out by the happyhour crowd. Hennessy loaned him one of The Thangs’s amplifi ers in exchange for permission to play the following weekend.
The next weekend the band loaded in its gear, including “these crazy huge speakers we bought from some band from the ’70s,” Hennessy says. “And it was packed.” The owner, John Cioffi, asked them to come back the next night. The Thangs eventually played Sudsy’s every weekend for nearly two months and recruited friends’ bands to open. Cioffi thanked them for playing but complained his ears were ringing. “That’s not your ears,” Hennessy’s brother and bandmate, Steve, shot back. “That’s the sound of your cash register.”
Sudsy Malone’s Rock ’n Roll Laundry & Bar was born. There were many small clubs clustered around Bogart’s, but it was one of the few featuring original music, Hennessey says.
Wesley Pence and Randy Cheek fre-
quented Sudsy’s in the early days, Cheek playing bass in Ass Ponys and Pence on guitar in Middlemarch. While Sudsy’s helped launch bands that, like Ass Ponys, went on to get major label record deals, it was fundamentally a place where bands played music for the music’s sake, without the pretention that came with the rise of MTV, Cheek says. “After all, you were still just playing in a goddamn laundromat.”
The pair watched Sudsy’s morph from a sort of “underground scene clubhouse,” Cheek says, to a place that was on national record companies’ radar. “Bands were moving here,” Pence says. “That was inconceivable to us.”
“Kids who were younger than us grew up
with MTV, so they knew how bands looked and acted,” Cheek says. “Where we clearly didn’t,” Pence adds, laughing.
Pence and Cheek resurrect for me certain details about the early ’90s Sudsy’s scene. “Johnny Flowers” circulated through the crowd in baggy trousers, selling roses, and occasionally climbed on stage to sing Fats Domino’s “Kansas City.” Virtuoso harmonica player “Archie” told jokes and played the blues.
Musical genres under the Alternative Rock banner had yet to be fully defined at that point, so wildly different bands shared bills and audiences. A couple of waves of bands later, Cheek says, “the scene became more codified.” Sudsy’s began to attract bigger acts, and not necessarily as performers. Pence was playing Sudsy’s the night Guided By Voices and The Breeders performed at Bogart’s. “We went on, and all of those
people were right there in the front of the audience, Bob Pollard [of GBV] and the Deal sisters [of The Breeders],” he says. Cheek remembers Elvis Costello’s drummer Pete Thomas demanding to sit in. “He was pretty lit up already, and he rocked. We had a hard time getting him off the stage. He told us, Speed up, you cunts, we’re not playing Bryan Adams. Then he started some stuff with our drummer, and we had to separate them.”
Dan Reed, music director at Philadelphia’s WXPN public radio station, was getting his start in the business around that time at WOXY-FM in Oxford, Ohio (known as 97X). He also worked at Bogart’s, crossing the street after work to check out the scene at Sudsy’s. Eventually he defected to Sudsy’s, bartending and booking bands, including touring acts from small independent record labels like SST, Touch and Go, and Homestead Records. “I served Izzy Stradlin and the drummer for Guns N’ Roses,” he says. “If there was a show at Bogart’s, people would walk across the street and pay $3 to get into Sudsy’s and just keep watching music.” They timed shows to catch the dispersing Bogart’s crowd.
Sudsy’s capacity was frequently blown by local and regional bands with big draws: The Auburnaires, The Wolverton Brothers, Middlemarch, Ass Ponys, and the CONTINUED ON PAGE 95
Being There THE THANGS, WITH THE HENNESSY BROTHERS PATRICK (FAR LEFT) AND STEVE (DRUMS), HELPED USHER IN SUDSY MALONE’S ROCK
By Mary McCarty
In 2018, following a series of mistakes by Cincinnati’s 911 system and police, 16-year-old Kyle Plush died. His parents, Jill and Ron Plush, now consult with emergency call centers here and around the U.S. to make sure that tragedy never happens again.
Photographs by Jeremy Kramer
Jill Plush lingered in her driveway on the chilly morning of April 10, 2018, for one last glimpse of her son Kyle as he headed off to school. He looks so little, she told herself.
Hers was the most commonplace of parental worries: a teenager behind the wheel of a car. It’s a fear so primal that Subaru built a series of ads around it, with furrow-browed parents envisioning a small child in the driver’s seat. As she looked at Kyle, Jill could still see the little boy he’d once been, with his tousled hair and warm, irrepressible smile.
Jill knew she had less cause for concern than many moms.
At 16, Kyle was responsible, mature, and more likely to stay after school for Latin Club than to abuse drugs or alcohol. Still, she was a worrier, a habit ingrained since Kyle nearly died from a spinal cord injury as an infant.
That morning she scraped the frost from the windshield of the family’s Honda Odyssey van. “I wanted him to be safe,” she recalls now. She says she
always tried to anticipate every danger—except the one that her son would face with characteristic resourcefulness later that afternoon.
When Kyle tried to retrieve his tennis gear from the back of his car after school, the bench seat flipped and trapped him against the van’s rear door. Unable to move and struggling to breathe, he used voice activation technology to place two
successful 911 calls. It was a heroic effort that should have saved his life. It didn’t.
“As a 911 caller calling for help, Kyle did everything right,” says Jill, her eyes filling with tears. “So why did help not reach him in time?”
It’s a question that rocked the city’s conscience and shocked the world. How could two such desperate calls for help—with specific informa-
WHAT IF? Jill and Ron Plush (previous page), photographed at home on November 23, 2022, are inspired by their son Kyle’s too-short life to help other parents avoid a similar tragedy.
tion about his location at Seven Hills School and his vehicle model—have failed to save Kyle’s life?
The first emergency call taker never conveyed the urgency of the call—the banging sounds and the caller’s plea, “I’m going to die soon!” Two police officers dispatched to the scene spent 11 minutes cruising school parking lots without stepping out of their vehicle or checking the address that had been provided for them, 12 parking spots away from the family van.
The second call-taker, receiving no response from the victim, activated the TTY function for deaf callers. She never played back the message in which Kyle provided more specific information about his vehicle (a gold Honda Odyssey) and never told the officers, who were still on the scene, that a second call for help had been placed. “I probably don’t have much time left,” Kyle said in that call, “so tell my mom that I love her if I die.”
His plea touched hearts around the world. But in the moments that might have mattered, nobody listened.
Kyle Plush’s tragic death grabbed national and international headlines. But the most profound part of the story may well have happened after the news trucks left. It’s the story of parents who have channeled their grief into a fierce drive to prevent future tragedies. “We wanted to find out what happened so it doesn’t happen to another
family,” says Ron Plush.
In 2021, Ron and Jill reached a settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati that established a team of 911 experts to work with the city’s Emergency Communications Center (ECC) over a five-year period to reform its 911 system. “I wish this had never happened, but I do think that Cincinnati is a
safer place than in 2018,” says ECC Director Bill Vedra, part of a new management team brought in after the tragedy. “We are on this path of continuous improvement, looking at how we can be the best 911 center we can be, and I absolutely believe that Kyle was a catalyst for that.”
Local 911 officials say the tragedy’s impact has extended
far beyond Cincinnati. “This was a nationwide incident that affected everyone,” says Andrew Knapp, director of communications for the Hamilton County Communications Center, a multi-jurisdictional agency that does not include Cincinnati. “Everyone has heard of an Amber Alert. In much the
DOING BETTER Andrew Knapp, photographed at the Hamilton County Communications Center on November 30, 2022, says he and other emergency professionals are “inspired to do better” every day by the Plushes’ story.
“As a 911 caller calling for help, Kyle did everything right. So why did help not reach him in time?”
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Mincheff, Kelsey J. Montion, Emily G. O’Connor, Brian P. O’Shea, Peter J. Palmer, Jason Rasmussen, Katherine A. Scott, Stephanie M. Steiner, Jordan T. Trout, Taylor V. Watt, Melissa Weiner, Lauren White, Zach Zuccarelli, Nicolas
SUPER LAWYERS
Armstrong, Adam C. Barron, Michael S.
Dunham, Brian Harmon, Sean H. Hirschfeld, Michael A. Vincent, George H.
Zimmerman, James M.
RISING STARS Bahorik, Zachary D.
Baxter, Brian P. Horwitz, Alexandra S.
Hurley, Dustin R. Johnson, Blake T.
Kurcab, Gabriel J. Larsen, Justine Z.
McGraw, Ryan J. S-5
Olinger, Jacklyn D. Perkinson, Michael J., Perkinson Legal, Plavko, Patricia M., Frost Brown Todd, Purcell, Jacob Reeder, Elizabeth M. Renzenbrink, Brett M.
Rust, Katlin E. Simon, Nicholas Lawson Smith, Shannon Tassone, Christopher Wheeler, Ryan
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RISING STARS
Barbiere, Katherine L. Brann, Christopher T. Epperley, Lauren K. Jandes, Jennifer J. Joyce, Justin J. Maher, Kristine McLane, Ryan M. Rice, Michael D.
Richardson, Michael Smith, Adair M. St. Cyr, Emily E.
Woodard, Brandon, Porter Rennie Woodard
LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF
SUPER LAWYERS
Bernat, Stephen M. Kircher, Konrad S-5 Marquis, David Myers, Kristen M. Wright, Rebecca W.
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SUPER LAWYERS
Dinkler, Lynnette Gerhardstein, Alphonse A., Friedman Gilbert + Hurley, Brian E. Mando, Jeffrey C. Newman, Robert B.
SUPER LAWYERS
Bailey, Melanie S. Bilott, Robert
Coates, Terence R.
Goldenberg, Jeffrey S.
Lyon, Joseph Naylor, Todd B.
Rhinehart, Erin E.
Utter, Gregory M. Woodside, III, Frank C.
RISING STARS Daly, Kenneth M.
Gebelle, Jacob Powell, Jessica Leigh
Reintjes, Tatyana Roberts, John T.
RISING STARS Wiseman, Matthew E.
SUPER LAWYERS
Higgins, John S. Lipcius, Jesse R. Shadley, Frederic
RISING STARS Schwandner, Nicholas W.
Snyder, Jason Adam
SUPER LAWYERS
Burdge, Ronald L. Flick, Brian
RISING STARS Upton, Lindsay, Montgomery Jonson,
SUPER LAWYERS
Boydston, Richard
Hedrick, Brandon C.
Hurley, Timothy J. Kirby, Tami H.
RISING STARS
Dunlop, Branson D.
SUPER LAWYERS
Abboud, Antony A. Arenstein, Hal R. Beck, Ryan M.
Bouldin, Michael W., Bouldin Law Firm,
Bowling, Kate L. Brush, Michael P.
Cicero, Anthony R. Croswell, III, R. Scott
Dickman, Paul J. Fox, Bradley W.
For over 30 years O’Connor, Acciani & Levy has dedicated their law practice to representing individuals against big business and insurance companies alike. Justice for individuals comes in many forms, and we work tenaciously to defend our clients in and out of the courtroom. Our attorneys and paralegals take an individualistic approach to every case to obtain the most favorable results for our clients, whether that means negotiating settlements or taking a case to trial.
Our attorneys focus their practice in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, trucking accidents, defective products, dangerous drugs, pharmaceutical negligence, Social Security disability and workers’ compensation. We represent the people, not insurance companies or large corporations. And we take that responsibility very seriously.
While the majority of our practice is in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, with a wide network of affiliated counsel throughout the country, our firm has successfully handled cases from Florida to California. We are passionate about providing fearless advocacy to obtain a successful outcome for every client.
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Gallagher, William R.
Ganote, Jodie D. Goldberg, Brian T.
Goldberg, Richard J. Gounaris, Nicholas G. Graman, Nicholas D. S-5
Grubbs, Margo L. S-18
Howe, Steven
Laufman, Paul M., Laufman Napolitano, Mabjish, Ameer Malocu, Frank A. Massey, C. Ed
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Fox, Jonathan N. Lyons, Robert H.
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Sirkin, H. Louis RISING STARS Johnson, Amanda E-DISCOVERY RISING STARS Garcia, Joanna L.
SUPER LAWYERS
Anstaett, Jennifer, Wood + Lamping, French, Gregory S. Millonig, Michael J. Pecquet, Janet E.
RISING STARS Burke, Ashley Shannon
SUPER LAWYERS Stiebel, Mark A.
SUPER LAWYERS
Blankenship, Randy J.
Burke, Daniel E. Burrell, Peter M.
Byrne, Mark J. Canton, Doreen Chumley, Mark J. Colvin, Jennifer W. Comer, Randall M. Copetas, Theodore C. Cornett, Curtis L. Dershaw, Brian G.
Doll, John R. Dunlevey, Karen T. Flamm, Justin D.
Harrison, Jennifer Hann Hoffer, Robert M. Kaake, Andrew R., Wood + Lamping, Klingler, Robert A.
Lazarus, Stephen S. Matthews, Jason P. Myers, Kelly Mulloy O’Hara, Michael J. Rich, Matthew A. Rogers, Gregory P.
Simon, Stephen A. Stokely, Matthew D. Torchia, David G.
Weber, Katharine C. Winters, R. Gary
RISING STARS Castner, Tessa Collier, Katherine M., Frost Brown Todd, Garrett, B. Nathaniel
Hubbard, Emily McFarland, Evan
Milligan, John M.
Mitchell, Ian D. Rittgers, Samantha K. S-5
Robinson, Gregory J.
Smith, Joshua M. S-14 Sorrell, Shawna
Tranter, Katie Tsao, Clement L. Ziepfel, Nick
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Adams, Deborah S., Frost Brown Todd, Bond, Kasey L. Caruso, Anthony J. McIntyre, M. Scott
Nelson, Theresa L.
SUPER LAWYERS
Gibson, Bradley L. Mezibov, Marc D. Tuck, Elizabeth S.
RISING STARS Miller-Novak, Matthew E.
SUPER LAWYERS
Brown, Daniel A. Habel, Christopher S., Frost Brown Todd, Hayes, William D., Frost Brown Todd, Walker, Christopher A.
RISING STARS
Kezele, James C.
SUPER LAWYERS
Graf, Jr., William R. Weinewuth, Elizabeth E.W.
RISING STARS
Rice, Cassandra Andres
SUPER LAWYERS
Buechner, Robert W. S-18
Buttress, Christine A. Campbell, John L. Certo, Jr., Peter R.
Conway, Mark A. Coyne, Kenneth P. Frankel, Jan M. Gudorf, Ted Hoffheimer, Daniel J.
Honerlaw, Joseph S. Krehbiel, Anne E. Laub, Patricia D., Frost Brown Todd, Lefton, David H. Leonard, Jennifer T. Levin, Debbe A.
McCarthy, Daniel McGraw, III, William J. Meyer, Keith D. Rolcik, Karen A. Russo, William F. Sherrets, Carl D.
Singler, James A. Stagnaro, Jeffrey G. S-14
Stegman, Michael J. Wheatley, Susan E.
RISING STARS Francis, Jessica Mae Friedmann, Kurt R. S-14
Groman, Erica L. Lyons, Kara H.
O’Diam, Brittany D. Pettinato, Joseph Watts, Ann Charles Weingartner, Celia Klug
FAMILY LAW
SUPER LAWYERS Adams, Gregory L.
Berry, B. Bradley
Bossin, Phyllis G. S-7
Brogan, Jennifer L. Campbell, Patricia
Cook, Cathy R. Daggett, John K.
Dame, Juliette Gaffney S-5 DeCenso, William A.
Dietz, Stephanie A., Dietz Family Law, Dutton, Chrissy Dunn S-18 Essig, Ellen Evans, Ross M. Ginocchio, Ralph P.
Goldberg, Trista Grandjean, Dalma C. Hannigan, Erinn McKee
Hazen, Jr., Glen E. Heilbrun, John L. S-18 Hicks, Andrea N.
Hoffman Walker, Greta Howard, Barbara J. S-11
Hubbell, Martin E. Jackson, Ruth B., Jackson Family Law, Jreisat, Wijdan Kirkland, James R. Lampe, Lynn S-12
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McPartlin, Deborah L.
Meier, Andrew P. Meyers, Robert J. S-18
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Ogle, Mark A.
Rittgers, Ellen B. S-5 Roach, Adrienne J. Rollman, Jeffrey M.
Showen, Jason A.
Silverman, Beth Smith, John D.
Smith, Zachary D. Sommers, Brian A. Stagnaro, Michaela M.
Stone, Mark Edward
Warm, Gayle M. Webb, Mark Donald
RISING STARS Arenstein, Ethan J. Brueckner, Kourtney P. S-5
Evans, Shawn M. Feldkamp, Jordan M.
Foran, Melanie Schimmel
Lamping, Richard E.
Levy, Danielle L. Link, Diana M.
Millard, Melissa Thompson S-11
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Nidiffer, Justin C.
Satariano, Anthony C., Ferguson Legal Group, Shields, Kathleen S. Suhre, Courtney L.
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Bruns, Thomas B.
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Gilligan, Louis F. Kamp, David P.
Martins, Paul B.
Phillips, John H. Rouse, Thomas L.
Saxton, Jonathan P. Shipp, Jeff C. Sidebottom, Shane C.
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Voelker, Brandon Vollmar, T. Andrew
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Fleischer, Richard I. Hollis, III, Charles F. Somers, Blake P. Weigle, Douglas S.
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Lyons, Catha Nicol
Perelmuter, Yanky, Perelmuter Law, Villegas, Rafael Alejandro
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Beck, Jonathon L.
Blandford, Colleen M.
Kyle, Kimberly McLaughlin, John F.
Nolan, II, James P. Sarge, Carmen C. Wagner, Jared A.
RISING STARS Craven, Matthew F.X. McCune, Zachary F.
SUPER LAWYERS
Gaunt, Karen K.
Gillen, Stephen E. S-15
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Kuhnell, Clayton L. Marrero, Michael A.
Remaklus, Theodore R. S-15
Robbins, Eric M. Shufflebarger, Carrie A.
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Czanik, Alexander S., Frost Brown Todd, Earle, Ashley J. Fitzgerald II, David A. S-15 Gastright, Douglas Alexander
Jonovski, Jason T., Frost Brown Todd, Lahmann, Bethany R. Mathews, Adam
Siderits, Jonathan M., Frost Brown Todd, Volz, Eric W.
SUPER LAWYERS
Ahrens, Gregory F. S-15 Bellamy, Glenn D. S-15 Bennett, John F. Linden, Paul J. Schatz, Brett A. S-15
SUPER LAWYERS
Tepe, Jr., Thomas M.
RISING STARS Ryan, Kathleen Farro, Wood + Lamping,
SUPER LAWYERS
Greiner, John C.
RISING STARS Kulka, Kellie A.
SUPER LAWYERS
Jahnke, Mark J. Moeddel, Michael J.
Starkey, J. Shane Steiner, Edward E.
RISING STARS Bextermueller, Ross J. Hurley, Michael B. Jahnke, David W.
Mehaffie, Kelsey
Miller, Matthew Monk, Aaron Toebbe, Evan A.
RISING STARS
Kinman, Maxwell D.
RISING STARS
Hebbeler, Amy M. Hogan, Patrick
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Garvey, III, John J. Glassman, Thomas F. Heather, Timothy P. Moore, Christopher L. Sloan, David B. Trombetta, Patricia J. Wais, Natalie M. E. Zahniser, David W.
RISING STARS
Lehmkuhl, Andrew, Porter Rennie Woodard
SUPER LAWYERS
Acciani, Henry D. S-9 Allen, Eric P. S-5 Allen, William P.
Busald, E. André Day, Stephanie M.
De Villiers, Alison
Dunphy, Patrick K. Fessler, David F.
Gilday, Anne L. Gilday, Anne L. Godbey, Mark E. Goodson, Brett
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Hilgeman, John (Jack) R.
Intili, Thomas J. Jackson, Christopher L.
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Mann, Doug Mullins, Scott Napier, Mark W.
Posey, William A. Richards, Rhys J. Ruppert, Ronald W. Saltzer, Michael A. Sanders, Delana S. Sanders, Justin A. S-5
Tismo, J. Pierre Tsarnas, Nomiki Turner, James Ryan S-13 Wright, Michael L. RISING STARS Britt, Cory D. Brooks, Kesha Q. Doan, Steve Durst, Alexander J. Felton, Benjamin D. Gile, Eric Haren, Brian Hodges, Joshua D. Jones, David M. Lazares, Gus J. S-5 Lipuma, Austin Merk, Spencer Morgan, Michael J.
Penrose, Stuart W., Minnillo Law Group Co.,
Schultz, Jordan T. Stuckey, Nathan
Summe, Martin S. Titgemeyer, Brian Vervoort, J. Michael
PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: DEFENSE
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Adkinson, Patrick K. Blasik-Miller, Susan
Calderhead, David C. DeBra, Joshua F. Evans, Thomas M. Foley, Michael P. Franckewitz, Stephanie P. Goldwasser, Brian D. Haviland, John Francis Hines, Jeffrey M. Kramer, David Krisher, II, Howard P. Lockemeyer, David S. Lyon, Michael F. S-17 McCartney, Paul W. O’Keefe, Stephen P.
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PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: PLAINTIFF
SUPER LAWYERS
Braden, Roger N.
Hendy, Penny U.
Holschuh, Jr., John D. Lawrence, Jennifer L. Lawrence, Jennifer L. Lawrence, Lindsay A. S-5 Lewis, Robert D. Moore, Daniel N. Pera, Marc G. Sanders, Robert E. Shea, III, Joseph W. S-5
RISING STARS Harp, Kara M. Harp, Kara M.
PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: DEFENSE
SUPER LAWYERS Cosgrove, Paul
Erny, Frederick M. Green, K.C. Heis, Jennifer Snyder
Ney, Peter L. Peck, Jeffrey F. Rennie, Doug Thomas, Joseph P.
RISING STARS Bandy, Kevin M. Bickley, Maureen A., Frost Brown Todd, Dzialo, Kaeanna W.
PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: PLAINTIFF
SUPER LAWYERS
Nakajima, W. Matthew S-5 Tregre, Jr., Calvin S.
RISING STARS Harman, David Schanher, Seth
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE
SUPER LAWYERS Arnzen, Mark G.
Jonson, George D., Montgomery Jonson, Pyper, Thomas H. Zaring, Lisa M., Montgomery Jonson,
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Barlow, Anthony M.
Callan, Sean P. Curry, Robert M. Flagel, Todd J. Herndon, Richard D.
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Kadish, Scott P. Kohnen, Monica Donath Kreider, Kenneth P. Patterson, William J. S-14 Schaeffer, Alan B. Woebkenberg, Thomas M., Wood + Lamping,
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Barrowman III, Charles “Trey”
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Johnstone, Ricardo L. Lagos, Argeri Patel, Anand
Reid, Michelle E. Rieman, Michael A. Swick, Steven W. S-14
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Gatherwright, Jennifer M.
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RISING STARS Heck, Zachary
Oberly, David J.
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Duran, Samuel M.
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AMANDA JACKSON
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-6373
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TriHealth Gynecologic Oncology - Bethesda, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-1888
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Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 538 Oak St., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 354-3700
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Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 538 Oak St., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 354-3700
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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
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The Christ Hospital Physicians - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 221-5500
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OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 2626 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 301-2663
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Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 538 Oak St., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 354-3700
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TriHealth Cancer Institute - Good Samaritan Infusion Center - Bethesda Butler, 3035 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 206, Fairfield Twp., OH 45011, (513) 853-1300
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TriHealth Cancer Institute - Good Samaritan Infusion Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-1300
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OHC, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (888) 649-4800
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KEVIN CONNELLY St. Elizabeth - Hospitalist - Edgewood, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-8074
ALI ELAZAB Mercy Health - Fairfield, 3000 Mack Rd., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 870-7887
CHANTI FLANAGAN St. Elizabeth - Edgewood, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-8074
STEPHEN P. BLATT TriHealth Infectious Disease - Good Samaritan Hospital - MOB, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 315, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 624-0999
JOHN CAFARDI
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Infectious Diseases, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite A44, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2791
CARL FICHTENBAUM
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 6300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8585
JENNIFER FORRESTER
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 1300, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 475-8585
SCOTT R. FRIEDSTROM TriHealth Infectious Disease - Good Samaritan Hospital - MOB, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 315, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 624-0999
MARTIN LEONARDO GNONI
TriHealth Infectious Disease - Good Samaritan Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., 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 Health - Infectious Disease, Fairfield, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 200, Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 735-1529
THOMAS D. LAMARRE JR.
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Infectious Diseases, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite A44, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2791
KEITH LUCKETT
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
ANAR SHASHANK PATEL
TriHealth Infectious Disease - Good Samaritan Hospital - MOB, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 315, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 624-0999
JOHN CHAD PETERSON
Infectious Disease Consultants, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite 355, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 344-1512
EMILY M. SIMPSON
Mercy Health - Anderson Infectious Disease, 7502 State Rd., Suite 3310, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 735-1529
A. GEORGE SMULIAN
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 1300, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 475-8585
PETER DINH TRAN
TriHealth Infectious Disease - Good Samaritan Thomas Center, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 984-2775
RAVINDHAR VODELA
Mercy Health - West Infectious Disease, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 735-1529
AHMAD ANJAK
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4061
SALIM BAKALI
Bakali Medical Associates, LLC, 3035 Hamilton Mason Rd., Suite 103, Fairfield Twp., OH 45011, (513) 863-3999
TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-7555
JESSICA CASSADY
TriHealth - Queen City Physicians - Hyde Park IM, 2753 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208, (513) 246-8000
G. STEPHEN CLEVES
TriHealth - Queen City Physicians - Hyde Park IM, 2753 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208, (513) 246-8000
LEANN COBERLY
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4503
KIMBERLY DERINGER
St. Elizabeth - Primary Care - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, 334 Thomas More
Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-3400
ESTRELITA DIXON
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4503
MARY DUCK
ROBERTSHAW
UC Health, 3590 Lucille Dr., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45213, (513) 475-7370
ISAIAH FRY
St. Elizabeth - Hospitalist - Edgewood, 1 Medical Village Drive, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-8074
NEHA G. GANDHI
TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-7555
PARAMESWARAN HARIHARAN
Mercy Health - Clermont Internists Associates Inc., 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 300, Batavia, OH 45103, (513) 732-0663
JUSTIN HELD
UC Health, 3200 Burnett Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-1000
LOTFI MAMLOUK
Medicine Inpatient Group, LLC, 6730 Roosevelt Ave., Suite 303, Middletown, OH 45044, (513) 618-7430
BRADLEY MATHIS
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 8000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-7880
ANGEL J. MENA
TriHealth - Good Samaritan Faculty Medical Center, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-1800
LEKSHMI MISRA
UC Health, 7700 University Dr., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 298-3000
ALISON NEFF
TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-7555
YVETTE NEIROUZ
TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-7555
JOHN R. SCHRODER
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Primary Care, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 130, Cincinnati, OH 45208, (513) 564-3960
ERIC WARM
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4503
BARRY WENDT
St. Elizabeth - Primary Care - Crestview Hills Internal Medicine, 334 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-0288
MATTHEW G. WITSKEN
Mercy Health - Westside Internal Medicine, 5525 Marie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 981-5463
KRISTIN COPPAGE
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200
EMILY DEFRANCO, D.O.
UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 450, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8588
MOUNIRA A. HABLI
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200
ANDREA HINTON
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200
MALLORY HOFFMAN
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth Ave, Suite 867, Cincinnati, KY 45220, (513) 862-6200
KARA MARKHAM
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
SAMANTHA MAST
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200
DAVID MCKINNEY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
ROBERT ROSSI
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-5239
WILLIAM T. SCHNETTLER
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth
Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200
KATHLEEN L. SMITH
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867.2, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200
DEWARD H. VOSS
TriHealth Women’s Services - Tri-State Maternal Fetal Medicine Associates, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Suite 867, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-6200
CARRI WARSHAK
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 1400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-5239
SHAWN AHLFELD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
BETH HABERMAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
RAGHEED KATKHUDA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
VIVEK NARENDRAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 803-0961
AMY NATHAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
DANNA M. PREMER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
STEFANIE RIDDLE
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
FRANK J. ALBERS
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 7335 Yankee Rd., Suite 101, Liberty Township, OH 45044, (513) 217-5720
AHMAD ANJAK
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4061
FARHAN ARIF Mt. Auburn Nephrology, Inc., 8260 Pine Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 841-0222
MEGAN PATRICIA CAROWAY
Mt. Auburn Nephrology, Inc., 6350 Glenway Ave., Suite 206, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 841-0222
RITCHE CHIU Nephrology Associates of Southwestern Ohio, 2449 Ross Millville Rd., Suite 265, Hamilton, OH 45013, (513) 863-8212
SUNITA V. DHEENAN TriHealth, 8556 Twilight Tear Ln., Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 708-0906
SHARAD GOEL
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 1210 Hicks Blvd., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 217-5720
AMIT GOVIL
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 3200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-7001
SHAOMING HUANG
Mt. Auburn Nephrology, Inc., 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 722, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 841-0222
AMIR IZHAR
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 758-1170
KOTAGAL S. KANT
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4061
EMILY KENNER
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 830 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 202, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 341-6281
MUHAMMAD KHAN
Mt. Auburn Nephrology, Inc., 8260 Pine Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 841-0222
ELI LANCASTER
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 8000 Five Mile Rd., Suite 310, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 688-1500
AMR N. MOUSSA
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800
BHARVI OZA-GAJERA
UC Health, 7700 University Dr., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 298-3000
MUKTI PATELCHAMBERLIN
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 1210 Hicks Blvd., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 217-5720
VISHESH PURI Nephrology Associates of Greater Cincinnati, 4665 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 101, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-3500
AMIT RAJPUT
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800
BRIAN REVIS
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 11135 Montgomery Rd., 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 and Hypertension Center, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800
ANTOINE L. SAMAHA
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 325, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 861-0800
THOMAS MICHAEL SHAUGHNESSY
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 830 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 202, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 341-6281
ISAAC P. THOMAS
The Kidney and Hypertension Center, 830 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 202, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 341-6281
ARSHDEEP TINDNI Nephrology Associates of Greater Cincinnati, 4665 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 101, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-3500
TAMER Y. ABOU-ELSAAD Mercy Health - Anderson Neurology, 7495 State Rd., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 732-8377
MICHELLE BOWMAN Riverhills Neuroscience, 4805 Montgomery Rd., Suite 410, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 612-1111
TY BROWN St. Elizabeth - Neurology - Crestview Hills, 2670 Chancellor Dr., Suite 100, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 957-0052
ALBERTO ESPAY
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 3300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8730
AARON GROSSMAN
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 3300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8730
JASON WILLIAM HEIL TriHealth Neuroscience Institute - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-2300
BRETT KISSELA
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) 246-2300
ROBERT NEEL
UC Health, 3200 Burnett Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-1000
HOPE L. O’BRIEN Headache Center of Hope, 4565 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 898-9400
MICHAEL PRIVITERA
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 3300, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8730
BASSEL SALEM
TriHealth Neuroscience Institute - Group Health - Mason, 6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-2300
MICHAEL SCHMERLER
Riverhills Neuroscience, 4805 Montgomery Rd., Suite 410, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 612-1111
JOHN WEBB St. Elizabeth - Neurology - Crestview Hills, 2670 Chancellor Dr., Suite 100, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 957-0052
NORBERTO ANDALUZ
UC Health, 7690 Discovery Dr., Suite 2100, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8730
ARTHUR ARAND
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 200, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100
STEVEN C. BAILEY
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 544 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 916-7680
ROBERT BOHINSKI
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300,
Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
JOSEPH CHENG
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8990
BRADFORD CURT
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 200, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100
VINCENT DINAPOLI
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
JONATHAN FORBES
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45208, (513) 475-8990
YAIR GOZAL
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
RANDALL HLUBEK
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
JONATHAN HODES
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 544 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (513) 221-1100
MICHAEL C. KACHMANN
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
GEORGE MANDYBUR
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
CHRISTOPHER MCPHERSON
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 221-1100
CHRISTOPHER NEUMANN
Riverhills Neuroscience - Norwood, 4805 Montgomery Rd., Suite 210, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 961-5558
LAURA NGWENYA
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8990
CHARLES PRESTIGIACOMO
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8990
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, (859) 916-7680
ZACHARY J. TEMPEL Mayfield Brain & Spine, 6130 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 221-1100
WILLIAM D. TOBLER Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
RONALD WARNICK Mayfield Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 200, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100
MARIO ZUCCARELLO
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8990
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
LAURA BROXTERMAN
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Obstetrics & Gynecology, 5885 Harrison Ave., Suite 3100, Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 564-1600
CAROL M. CHOI
TriHealth - Samaritan Obstetrics and Gynecology - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411
AMBERLY L. DAVIDSON
TriHealth Women’s Services - Premier Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6331 Glenway Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 246-4550
SANDY GARDNER
TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan Obstetrics and Gynecology - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411
PRIYA GURSAHANEY
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Suite 1200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-5239
TERRI HOOPES
TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan Obstetrics and Gynecology - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411
MICHAEL KARRAM
Elevate MD, 4631 Ridge Ave., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 882-7006
TARA KNIPPER
TriHealth Women’s Services - Group HealthAnderson, 7810 5 Mile Rd., Cincinnati, KY 45230, (513) 246-7008
ELIZABETH LEROY
TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan Obstetrics and Gynecology - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411
SARA LYONS
TriHealth Women’s Services Comprehensive Obstetrics and Gynecology - Montgomery, 10550 Montgomery Rd., Suite 22, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 793-2229
MAMATA NARENDRAN
Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, Inc., 3050 Mack Rd., Suite 375, Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 221-3800
SARA G. RINALA
TriHealth Women’s Services - For Women Reading, 10475 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 563-2202
STEPHEN J. SCHUERMANN
TriHealth Women’s Services - Samaritan Obstetrics and Gynecology - Clifton, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 559-9411
MARIANNA C. VARDAKA
TriHealth Women’s Services - Marianna Vardaka, M.D., 10506 Montgomery Rd., Suite 204, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 985-9017
REGINA WHITFIELD
KEKESSI
TriHealth Women’s Services - Rookwood, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 425, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 731-1550
SAMANTHA K. YOUNG
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Obstetrics & Gynecology, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 2400, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 985-9966
HISHAM H. ARAR
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
JASON H. BELL
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 601 Ivy Gateway, Suite 301,
Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 654-2524
MARK CEPELA
MidWest Eye Center, 500 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 341-4525
HAROON CHAUDHRY
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 563 Wessel Dr., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 654-2524
ALISON D. EARLY
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 5850 Innovation Dr., Middletown, OH 45005, (513) 654-2524
KARL C. GOLNIK
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 4000, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 654-2524
LAURA L. HANSON
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
GINGER L. HENSON
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
EDWARD HOLLAND
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 580 S. Loop Rd., Suite 200, Edgewood, OH 41017, (513) 654-2524
DONALD T. HUDAK
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 563 Wessel Dr., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 654-2581
ROBERT K. HUTCHINS
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 3310 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 220, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 654-2524
SAIF JAWEED
MidWest Eye Center, 4452 Eastgate Blvd., Suite 305, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 752-5700
ADAM KAUFMAN
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
KAREN KLUGO
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 5240 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite B, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 654-2524
ALISHA G. KUMAR
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 580 South Loop Rd., Suite 200, Edgewood, OH 41017, (513) 654-2524
RADHIKA KUMAR
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
LUKE LINDSELL
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
EDWARD MEIER
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 6150 Radio Way, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 654-2524
VIRGINIA A. MIRALDI UTZ
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
MICHAEL L. NORDLUND
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
JAMES OSHER
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
JONATHAN M. PARGAMENT
Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
KAVITHA SIVARAMAN Cincinnati Eye Institute, 1945 CEI Dr., Blue Ash, OH 45242, (513) 654-2524
ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY MICHAEL ARCHDEACON
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 2200, 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, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 2400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 418-2225
PETER CHA
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
HALEEM CHAUDHARY Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
BRIAN K. CRELLIN, D.O.
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700
JAIME RICE DENNING Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
TONYA DIXON
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 1007, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8690
JOHN FRITCH
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560
S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
MARC T. GALLOWAY
Mercy Health - Cincinnati Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center, 5236 Socialville Foster Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 347-9999
STEVEN J. GOLDFARB Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700
BRIAN GRAWE
UC Health, 7690 Discovery Dr., Suite 1000, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8690
MATTHEW S. GRUNKEMEYER
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
JACOB GUNZENHAEUSER
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4460 Red Bank Expy., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 791-5200
STEVE HAMILTON Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 600 Rodeo Dr., Erlanger, KY 41018, (513) 354-3700
RONALD G. HESS
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 9100 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 150, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 354-3700
MATTHEW T. HUMMEL
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
ANDREW S. ISLAM
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700
MATTHEW A. JOHANSEN
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700
TODD KELLEY
UC Health, 7690 Discovery Dr., Suite 1000, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8690
PATRICK KIRK
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4460 Red Bank Expy., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 791-5200
MATTHEW A. LANGENDERFER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 5900 Boymel Dr., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 354-3700
JOHN J. LARKIN
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 2900 Chancellor Drive, Building 40, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (513) 354-3700
ARTHUR LEE
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663
EDWARD LIM
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4460 Red Bank Expy., Suite 110, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 791-5200
DAVID P.
LUSTENBERGER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700
TIMOTHY B. MCCONNELL
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 100 Arrow Springs Blvd., Suite 2600, Lebanon, OH 45036, (513) 354-3700
ADAM METZLER
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
NICHOLAS S. MIRKOPOULOS
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700
JOSHUA M. MURPHY
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 5900 Boymel Dr., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 354-3700
SURESH NAYAK
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663
MICHAEL P. PALMER
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6939 Cox Rd., Suite 370, Liberty Township, OH 45069, (513) 791-5200
ROBERT PETTIT
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 775
Alexandra Pike, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (513) 354-3700
WENDY RAMALINGAM
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
ROBERT ROLF
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700
PHILLIP ROSS
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 2200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8690
BRIAN A. ROTTINGHAUS
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 9100 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 150, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 354-3700
JOHN P. SCHWEGMANN, D.O.
TriHealth Orthopedic & Sports Institute, 10500 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-1111
KEVIN J. SHAW
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8099
Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700
JOEL I. SORGER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700
JONATHON M. SPANYER
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 2626 Alexandria Pike, Highland Heights, KY 41076, (859) 301-2663
J. TREVOR STEFANSKI
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8251 Pine Rd., Suite 212, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 232-2663
MICHAEL L. SWANK
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
JOSEPH D. THOMAS
TriHealth Orthopedic & Sports Institute - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000,
Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-2300
M. SCOTT TRUE
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 9100 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 150, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 354-3700
MARC WAHLQUIST
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 7423 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Suite A, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 354-3700
JASON P. WELTER, D.O. Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700
BRIAN A. WISSEL
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 605 Wilson Creek Rd., Suite 101, Lawrenceburg, IN 47025, (812) 539-2663
COLLIN BURKART
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Ear, Nose & Throat, 5885 Harrison Ave.,
Suite 3700, Cincinnati, OH 45248, (513) 421-5558
RYAN COLLAR
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8444
MARK D. DEUTSCH
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000
MICHAEL DOMET
ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900
NICHOLAS A. EBERLY
Mercy Health - Fairfield Ear, Nose, and Throat, 2960 Mack Rd., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 860-5200
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 - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000,
Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000
ADAM GOODALE
The Christ Hospital
Physicians - Ear, Nose & Throat, 6939 Cox Rd., Suite 260, Liberty Township, OH 45069, (513) 421-5558
BRIAN LEE
HENDRICKS
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Ear, Nose & Throat, 7691 Five Mile Rd., Suite 214, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 421-5558
REBECCA HOWELL
UC Health, 7690 Discovery Dr., Suite 3900, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-8400
SETH ISAACS
TriHealth - Group Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7000
TODD KIRCHHOFF
ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900
BRYAN KROL
ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900
SEAN LEWIS
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7000
ERNEST MANDERS
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Ear, Nose & Throat, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 2200, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 421-5558
UMESH MARATHE
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-7000
ANNA MARCINOW
TriHealth - Group Health - West Chester, 8040 Princeton Glendale Rd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 853-9000
YASH PATIL
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3274
PERRY POTEET
ENT & Allergy Specialists, 40 N. Grand Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (859) 781-4900
RAVI SAMY
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8400
ERIC L.
SCHWETSCHENAU
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000
AHMAD SEDAGHAT
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8400
DAVID L. STEWARD
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8400
THOMAS A. TAMI
TriHealth - Group Health - Western Hills, 2001 An-
derson Ferry Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45238, (513) 853-9000
ALICE TANG
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3274
MATTHEW R. VAJEN, D.O.
Mercy Health - Kenwood Ear, Nose and Throat, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 108, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 936-0500
JAMIE LEA
WELSHHANS
TriHealth - Group Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7000
KEITH M. WILSON
TriHealth - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7000
CHAD ZENDER
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3274
LEE A. ZIMMER
Mercy Health - Kenwood Ear, Nose and Throat, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite
108, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 936-0500
HUMAM AKBIK
Cincinnati Comprehensive Pain Center, 2818 Mack Rd., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 900-0750
SAIRAM ATLURI
Interventional Spine Specialists, 7655 Five Mile Rd., Suite 117, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 624-7525
C. DUANE BELLAMY Pain Management Associates - The Christ Hospital, 2139 Auburn Ave., Level A, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-2482
BRIAN BRAITHWAITE
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 600 Rodeo Dr., Erlanger, KY 41018, (513) 354-3700
JAMES R. BRUNS
TriHealth - Group Health TriHealth - Western Ridge, 6949 Good Samaritan Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 246-7000
DONALD CARRUTHERS
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
ATUL CHANDOKE
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8099 Cornell Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 354-3700
LAURA DEVITA
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 3200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8282
JAMES FORTMAN II
TriHealth - Group Health - West Chester, 8040 Princeton Glendale Rd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 246-2300
JONATHAN GRAINGER St. Elizabeth - Spine Center - Florence Turfway, 7388 Turfway Rd., Florence, KY 41042, (859) 212-7000
LYNDA M. GROH
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 200, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100
Dr. Munir completed his Pain Management fellowship training from Brigham & Women’s hospital, Harvard University in 2004. Dr. Munir established Southwest Ohio Pain Institute in 2008, as the area’s only multidisciplinary holistic Pain Center. Dr. Munir and his diverse team work hard to treat the patient as a whole, uncovering the root cause of pain instead of just masking it. In addition to medications, Dr. Munir utilizes new and advanced treatment options such as radio frequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, stem cell and regenerative medicine, PRP, and IV ketamine infusion to provide best pain relief. They also employ alternative medicine techniques such as acupuncture, CBD, and state of the art noninvasive laser light treatment. Dr. Munir and his team strive to take a holistic approach to treating chronic pain.
Southwest Ohio Pain Institute, 7760 West VOA Park Dr., Suite D, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 860-0371, www.swopi.com
JUSTIN J. KRUER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 775 Alexandra Pike, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075, (513) 354-3700
VIVEKANAND (VIC) MANOCHA
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 7423 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Suite A, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 354-3700
MUHAMMAD A. MUNIR
Southwest Ohio Pain Institute, 7760 West VOA Park Dr., Suite D, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 860-0371
SARA NASHI
TriHealth - Group Health-Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-7000
MARC P. ORLANDO
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
CHARLES ROBERTS
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 2845 Chancellor Dr., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
HARSH SACHDEVA
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-2400
AARTI A. SINGLA
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 9100 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 150, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 354-3700
GURURAU SUDARSHAN
Cincinnati Pain Physicians, 8261 Cornell Rd., Suite 630, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 891-0022
NICOLE BROWN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
JAMES CNOTA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
ALLISON DIVANOVIC
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4432
HALEH HEYDARIAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4432
RUSSEL HIRSCH
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4432
ANGELA LORTS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
THOMAS D. RYAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 355, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 636-4432
CHET R. VILLA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
MAYA DEWAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4259
LESLEY DOUGHTY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4259
SUE POYNTER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
ERIKA STALETS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4259
CHERYL BAYART
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4215
ANNE LUCKY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center/ Dermatologists of Central States, 7691 Five Mile Rd., Suite 312, Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 232-3332
KALYANI MARATHE
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4215
KARA SHAH Medpace, Inc., 5375 Medpace Way, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 579-9911
SARAH CORATHERS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4744
NANCY CRIMMINS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4744
IRIS GUTMARK-LITTLE
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4744
SARAH LAWSON
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4744
MEILAN M. RUTTER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4744
HALLEY WASSERMAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4744
NANA-HAWA YAYAH JONES
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4744
KATHLEEN CAMPBELL
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4415
LEE DENSON
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
MICHAEL FARRELL
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
JENNIFER HELLMANN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
AJAY KAUL
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
VINCENT MUKKADA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4415
SCOTT P. PENTIUK
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
ANNA L. PETERS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
PHILIP E. PUTNAM Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
KAREN BURNS Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
TRENT HUMMEL
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
KASIANI MYERS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
MAUREEN M. O’BRIEN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
CHRISTINE L. PHILLIPS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
BRIAN K. TURPIN, D.O. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
PEDIATRIC
REBECCA BRADY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
LARA DANZIGERISAKOV
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
ROBERT FRENCK
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
DAVID HASLAM
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
GRANT C. PAULSEN Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
JOSHUA K. SCHAFFZIN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-8492
ELIZABETH P. SCHLAUDECKER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
STEFANIE BENOIT
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4531
DONNA CLAES
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4531
STUART L. GOLDSTEIN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4531
DAVID HOOPER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4531
MEREDITH P. SCHUH
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4531
CHARLES D. VARNELL JR.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4531
DONALD GILBERT
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4222
BARBARA HALLINAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 355, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 636-2326
CUIXIA TIAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
MARISSA M. VAWTER-LEE
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4222
KRIS WESSELKAMPER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4222
FRANCESCO
MANGANO, D.O.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
SMRUTI K. PATEL
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
JESSE SKOCH
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
VADIVELU, D.O.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4726
DANIEL CHOO
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4355
CATHERINE HART
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 355, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 636-4355
CHRISTINE H. HEUBI
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 355, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 636-4355
CHARLES M. MYER IV
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4355
MICHAEL J. RUTTER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4355
COURTNEY CINKO
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
We are proud of the work they have done – and continue to do – to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
EMILY HARRIS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 5642 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45224, (513) 636-4200
DANIEL NELSON
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
ERNEST PEDAPATI
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
SUZANNE J. SAMPANG
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 5642 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45224, (513) 636-4200
JEFFREY STRAWN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4124
RAOUF AMIN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-6771
DAN BENSCOTER, D.O.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-6771
RONALD BOKULIC, D.O.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 355, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 636-6771
BARBARA CHINI
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
ERIK HYSINGER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-6771
CHERIE TORRES-SILVA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-6771
ALEXEI GROM
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4676
JENNIFER HUGGINS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 803-0649
DANIEL LOVELL
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4676
GRANT SCHULERT
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4676
TRACY V. TING
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4676
THOMAS J. DYE
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
NEEPA GURBANI, D.O. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-6771
CHRISTINE H. HEUBI
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 355, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 636-4355
NARONG SIMAKAJORNBOON Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
DAVID F. SMITH
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4355
ALEXANDER BONDOC
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4371
REBECCAH BROWN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4371
RICHARD FALCONE
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4371
JASON S. FRISCHER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
VICTOR F. GARCIA
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 7495 State Rd., Suite 355, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 636-4200
AARON GARRISON
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
MEERA KOTAGAL
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
FOONG-YEN LIM
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
BETH RYMESKI, D.O. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
GREG M. TIAO
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4371
DANIEL VON ALLMEN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4371
WILLIAM DEFOOR
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4975
For over 20 years, Dr. Neumann has specialized in comprehensive & complex spine procedures, as well as general neurosurgery.
Conditions frequently treated include neck or back pain with extremity pain from degenerative disease, injuries of the head and spine from accident or fall, and general neurosurgical disorders.
Now accepting new patients at the Norwood and West locations: (513) 612- 1111
EUGENE MINEVICH
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4975
PRAMOD P. REDDY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4975
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
NICOLE R. BALDWIN
Northeast Cincinnati Pediatric Associates, Inc., 8185 Corporate Way, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 398-7171
BASHAR BOUSO Kids Care PC, 202 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg, IN 47025, (812) 539-2142
KRISTEN M. DEMARCO
TriHealth - Queen City Physicians - Madeira Pediatrics, 7829 Laurel Ave.,
Cincinnati, OH 45243, (513) 936-2150
SHEELA GERAGHTY
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-2326
PIERRE P. MANFROY
Northeast Cincinnati Pediatric Associates, Inc., 8185 Corporate Way, Mason, OH 45040, (513) 398-7171
JOHN E. BARTSCH
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
JOHN BRANNAN Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
TIMOTHY M. BURNS, D.O.
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
DONALD CARRUTHERS
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
JENNIFER CHUNG
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 11140 Montgomery Rd., Suite 1100, Cincinnati, OH 45249, (513) 792-7441
EMILY E. DIXON, D.O.
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700
LESTER DUPLECHAN
UC Health, 68 Cavalier Blvd., Suite 1400, Florence, KY 41042, (513) 475-8730
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
MATTHEW MERZ
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 200, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100
SHRISHAIL NASHI TriHealth Group Health - Mason, 6010 S. Mason Montgomery Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 246-2300
MARC P. ORLANDO Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
DAVID W. PRUITT Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-7480
CHRISTINE N. SMITH TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-2300
F. CLIFFORD VALENTIN OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663
STEVEN WUNDER Mayfield Brain & Spine, 544 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 916-7680
BIANCA CHIN
Bianca Chin, MD, 2055 Reading Rd., Suite 480, Cincinnati, OH 45202, (888) 372-2446
RYAN COLLAR
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8444
ALEXANDER DONATH
Donath Facial Plastic Surgery, 7763 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 891-5438
RYAN GOBBLE
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 5400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
AMY KITE
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 1007, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8881
W. JOHN KITZMILLER
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 1200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
NEILENDU KUNDU
Mercy Health - Kenwood 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
DANIEL KUY
Kuy Plastic Surgery, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 550, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (844) 794-7763
ALLISON LIED
Holzapfel + Lied Plastic Surgery Center + Skin Care, 8044 Montgomery Rd., Suite 230, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 984-3223
MARK MANDELLBROWN
Mandell-Brown Plastic Surgery Center, 10735 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 984-4700
PETER MCKENNA
Peter J. McKenna, M.D., 10577 Montgomery Rd.,
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TAMER
ABOU-ELSAADNeurology
TARA ADHIKARI Rheumatology
SAMEH M. AREBI Foot, Ankle and Orthopedic Surgery
SAMIR ATAYA
Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Sleep Medicine
CORY BARRAT Colon and Rectal Surgery
DAVID BECK
Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease
TIMOTHY D. BRENNAN Cardiology
BASHAR BRIJAWI Sleep Medicine
CHRISTOPHER R. BUTLER
Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease
KEVIN J. COCHRAN Cardiology
JOHN CULLEN
Colon and Rectal Surgery
KYLE DARNELL
Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease
NICHOLAS A. EBERLY Otolaryngology
RICHARD B. FRIES Vascular Surgery
MARC GALLOWAY
Orthopedic Surgery
MARK W. GELPI Otolaryngology
RICHARD P. GOODMAN
Infectious Disease
DHEERAJ GOYAL Infectious Disease
RACHEL E. GUSTIN Dermatology
SCOTT C. HOBLER General Surgery
CHRISTOPHER JUERGENS General Surgery
NEILENDU KUNDU Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
MICHELLE R. LAUGLE Rheumatology
JUNAID S.A. MALIK Sleep Medicine
MATTHEW J. MEIER Dermatology
LINA MITCHELL
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
MOHI MITIEK Cardiac Surgery
EMILY MOOSBRUGGER Dermatology
DANIEL E. MURPHY Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Disease
JACQUELYN A. V. PALMER Breast Surgery
MANISHA A. PATEL Cardiac Surgery
SANJIV P. PATEL Sleep Medicine
VANSHIPAL S. PURI Cardiology
EMILY M. SIMPSON Infectious Disease
ANNA P. SOBOLEWSKI Breast Surgery
JEFFREY T. STRIET Cardiology
MICHAEL T. TROMBLEY Family Medicine
MATTHEW R. VAJEN Otolaryngology
the Cincinnati area
ANIL VERMA Cardiology
SAMUEL R A VESTER Cardiac Surgery
RAVINDHAR VODELA Infectious Disease
CRAIG B. WILLIS Hand Surgery
MATTHEW G. WITSKEN Internal Medicine
NADIA YAQUB
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
GREGORY C. ZENNI Vascular Surgery
LEE A. ZIMMER Otolaryngology
Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 793-5772
JON MENDELSOHN
Advanced Cosmetic Surgery, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 351-3223
BINH NGUYEN
TriHealth Surgical Institute - Group HealthKenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-9000
BRIAN S. PAN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
ANN R. SCHWENTKER
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
KEVIN A. SHUMRICK
TriHealth - Group Health - Anderson, 7794 5 Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 853-9000
JULIA SLATER
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 1200,
Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 475-8787
KAYLA SMITH
TriHealth Surgical Institute - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 246-7657
WILLIAM DONN TOBLER JR.
TriHealth Surgical Institute - Group Health - Clifton, 379 Dixmyth Ave., Floor 8, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-9000
JAMIE LEA
WELSHHANS
TriHealth - Group Health - Western Ridge, 6949 Good Samaritan Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 853-9000
RICHARD WILLIAMS
The Plastic Surgery Group, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 350, Cincinnati, OH 45227, (513) 791-4440
RYAN M. WILSON
The Plastic Surgery Group, 4030 Smith Rd., Suite 350, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 791-4440
EMAD ALSHAMI
Cedar Oaks Wellness Center, 5778 State Route 350, Oregonia, OH 45054, (513) 780-5201
MUHAMMAD ASLAM
UC Health, 3200 Burnett Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-1000
DALLAS AUVIL
TriHealth - Behavioral Health Services, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Floor 10, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-2692
LifeStance Health Blue Ash, 10200 Alliance Rd., Suite 150, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (216) 468-5000
NEHA GUPTA
UC Health, 3120 Burnet Ave., Suite 304, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 585-7700
PEIRCE JOHNSTON
UC Health, 3120 Burnet Ave., Suite 304, Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 585-7700
PAUL E. KECK JR.
Lindner Center of HOPE / UC Health, 4075 Old
Western Row Rd., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 536-0311
DAVID LEONARD
Cincinnati Center For Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, 3001 Highland Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 961-8861
JYOTI SACHDEVA
UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 420a, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 558-7700
TRACEY SKALE
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services, 1501 Madison Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45206, (513) 354-5200
WILLIAM BARRETT
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494
LAUREN CASTELLINI
St. Elizabeth - Radiation Oncology - Edgewood Cancer Center, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2238
EMILY DAUGHERTY
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494
PETER FRIED
The Urology Group, 2000 Joseph E. Sanker Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 841-7690
JEFFREY I. GRASS
OHC, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 105, Fairfield, OH 45014, (888) 649-4800
COURTNEY L. HENTZ OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800
COREY HOBBS
TriHealth Cancer Institute - Clifton, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-1300
BRADLEY J. HUTH St. Elizabeth - Radiation Oncology - Edgewood Cancer Center, 1 Medical Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2238
JORDAN KHAROFA
ANTON KHOURI
TriHealth Cancer Institute - Clifton, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 853-1300
ELIZABETH H. LEVICK
OHC, 4777 E. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (888) 649-4800
TERESA MEIER
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494
MARC R. MOSBACHER
OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800
LUKE PATER
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494
BRYAN RABATIC
TriHealth Cancer Institute - TriHealth Radiation Oncology - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite LL100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-1300
PRATISH SHAH
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-3494
St. Elizabeth - Edgewood Cancer Center, 1 Medical Congratulations
Village Dr., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2238
JOSEPH N.
SHAUGHNESSY OHC, 601 Ivy Gateway, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (888) 649-4800
MICHAEL SHEHATA
TriHealth Cancer Institute - Radiation OncologyKenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite LL100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 853-1300
ANTONOPLOS
TriHealth - Bethesda North Hospital, 10500 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-1331
ANGELA BECKES
Tristate IMG, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331
ANN CHOE
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
KIMBERLY DRAUD
TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital, 3125 Hamilton
Mason Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-2611
DAVID HUELSMAN
Tristate IMG, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331
ALISA KANFI
UC Health, 3200 Burnett Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 584-1000
DANIEL LONG
Professional Radiology, Inc., 9825 Kenwood Rd., Suite 105, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 527-9999
JAMES MERANUS
TriHealth - Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 862-5022
ATTEF MIKHAIL
Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky, 375 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-5860
SUNIL MISRA
Tristate IMG, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331
JONATHAN MOULTON
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
AMIT RATTAN
Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky, 375 Thomas More Pkwy., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 578-5860
ROBERT STEVENS
Professional Radiology, Inc., 9825 Kenwood Rd., Suite 105, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 527-9999
JULIANA TOBLER
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
ACHALA VAGAL
UC Health, 7981 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 475-8690
SHAUN WAHAB
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45216, (513) 584-1000
SHERIF AWADALLA
Institute for Reproductive Health, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 924-5550
THOMAS BURWINKEL
Institute for Reproductive Health, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 455, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 924-5550
NEEOO CHIN
Fertility Wellness Institute, 7671 Tylers Place Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 326-4300
EMILY HURLEY
UC Health, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite A43, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-7600
KASEY REYNOLDS
Bethesda Fertility Center, 10506 Montgomery Rd., Suite 303, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-1675
ISELA MOLINA ROBERTSHAW
Bethesda Fertility Center, 10506 Montgomery Rd., Suite
303, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-1675
MICHAEL D. SCHEIBER
Institute for Reproductive Health, 3805 Edwards Rd., Suite 450, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 924-5550
SURUCHI THAKORE
UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 315, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-7600
MICHAEL THOMAS
UC Health, 7675 Wellness Way, Suite 315, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-7600
TARA J. ADHIKARI
Mercy Health - Kenwood Rheumatology, 4760 E. Galbraith Rd., Suite 115, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 686-3800
SONAL BHALLA
Riverhills Neuroscience, 4805 Montgomery Rd., Suite 210, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 612-1111
TriHealth - Good Samaritan Hospital Rheumatology WR, 6949 Good
Samaritan Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 246-7000
CHRISTOPHER COLGLAZIER
Tristate Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2616 Legends Way, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 331-3100
PAIGE ANN DE BUYS
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Rheumatology, 2355 Norwood Ave., Suite 1, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 351-0800
LOUIS FLASPOHLER
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Rheumatology, 2355 Norwood Ave., Suite 1, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 351-0800
DEBORAH FRITZ
Deborah A. Fritz, MD, 10550 Montgomery Rd., Suite 23, Cincinnati, OH 45243, (513) 984-3313
ROBERT HILTZ
TriHealth - Group Health - Anderson, 7794 Five Mile Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45230, (513) 246-7000
John Seyerle, MD | Ashish Mathur, MD | Jeff Raub, MD
DEEPA KUDALKAR
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Rheumatology, 2355 Norwood Ave., Suite 1, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 351-0800
MICHELLE R. LAUGLE
Mercy Health - Rheumatology, Mason, 5075 Parkway Dr., Mason, OH 45040, (513) 896-9595
SOHA MOUSA
Arthritis & Rheumatology of Southwest Ohio, 7116 Sennet Pl., Liberty Township, OH 45069, (513) 779-0777
MAHNAZ SAOUDIAN
TriHealth - Group Health - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 2000, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 246-7000
AVIS WARE
UC Health, 3130 Highland Ave., Floor 2, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-4061
WINIARSKA
St. Elizabeth - Rheumatology - Newport/Ft. Thomas, 1400 Grand Ave., Ft. Thomas, KY 41071, (859) 344-1900
SAMIR ATAYA
Mercy Health - Clermont Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 2055 Hospital Dr., Suite 200, Batavia, OH 45103, (513) 233-6480
BASHAR BRIJAWI
Mercy Health - Liberty Falls Sleep Center, 6770 Cincinnati Dayton Rd., Suite 105, Liberty Township, OH 45044, (513) 559-7025
BRUCE CORSER
Sleep Management Institute, 5240 East Galbraith Rd., Suite A, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 721-7533
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Sleep Medicine, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 440, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 648-8980
SHAHROKH JAVAHERI
TriHealth - Bethesda Montgomery Sleep Center, 10535 Montgomery Rd., Suite 200, Montgomery, OH 45242, (513) 865-9500
KANAGARAJAN
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Sleep Medicine, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 440, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 648-8980
JUNAID S.A. MALIK
Mercy Health - Anderson Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care, 7502 State
Rd., Suite 3310, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 233-6480
JENNIFER MOLANO
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 3041, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 475-7500
NEAL MOSER
St. Elizabeth - Pulmonary Hypertension - Crestview Hills, 651 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 757-2927
OLUWOLE O. ONADEKO
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine Associates, LLC, 25 Office Park Dr., Hamilton, OH 45013, (513) 893-5864
SANJIV P. PATEL
Mercy Health - Fairfield Sleep Medicine, 2960 Mack Rd., Suite 200, Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 744-2870
SHAYLA L. PULLEN
TriHealth - Good Samaritan Sleep Center, 6350 Glenway Ave., Suite 315, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 862-5722
ANN ROMAKER
UC Health, 200 Albert Sabin Way, Suite 3041, Cincinnati, OH 45267, (513) 475-7500
ANTHONY J. SUCHOSKI
TriHealth - Bethesda Sleep Center, 10475 Montgomery Rd., Suite 2E, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-1690
OMDEVASENA THIRUGNANAM
TriHealth - Bethesda Butler Sleep Center, 3055 Hamilton Mason Rd., Fairfield Twp., OH 45011, (513) 454-3050
WILLIAM WILLMOTT
St. Elizabeth - Sleep Center Crestview Hills, 651 Centre View Blvd., Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 301-9140
FERHAN ASGHAR
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 2400, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 418-2225
ROBERT BOHINSKI Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
JOSEPH CHENG
UC Health, 3113 Bellevue Ave., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8990
JAIDEEP CHUNDURI Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6480
Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700
BRADFORD CURT Mayfield Brain & Spine, 9075 Centre Pointe Dr., Suite 200, West Chester, OH 45069, (513) 221-1100
ANTHONY GUANCIALE
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
JOHN B. JACQUEMIN
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8726 US 42, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 301-2663
VIRAL JAIN
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
MICHAEL C. KACHMANN
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 3825 Edwards Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45209, (513) 221-1100
WILLIAM W. MCCLELLAN
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8726 US 42, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 301-2663
MICHAEL PLANALP
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
IAN P. RODWAY
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
MICHAEL T. ROHMILLER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 600 Rodeo Dr., Erlanger, KY 41018, (513) 354-3700
ZACHARY J. TEMPEL
Mayfield Brain & Spine, 6130 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 221-1100
ROMAN TRIMBA
OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663
DAVID B. ARGO
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700
ROBERT BURGER
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700
DREW BURLESON
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 East
Business Way, Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
PETER CHA Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Cincinnati, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
MATTHEW T. DESJARDINS OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
EMILY E. DIXON, D.O. Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700
NICHOLAS A. EARLY OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 4355 Ferguson Dr., Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 232-2663
NICOLE GODDARD, D.O. Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
AMANDA GOODALE, D.O. TriHealth - Bethesda Family Practice Center, 1775 W. Lexington Ave., Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45212, (513) 977-6700
R. MICHAEL GREIWE OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8726 US 42, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 301-2663
TODD E. GRIME Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 6480 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45247, (513) 354-3700
FOREST HEIS OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8726 US 42, Florence, KY 41042, (859) 301-2663
BRUCE R. HOLLADAY OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
ANDREW S. ISLAM Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 8311 Montgomery Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 354-3700
TIMOTHY E. KREMCHEK
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
GEORGE MATIC
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
GLEN MCCLUNG
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 463 Ohio Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45255, (513) 354-3700
BRYAN P. MCCULLOUGH, D.O. Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 5900 Boymel Dr., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 354-3700
REBECCA E. POPHAM, D.O. OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 560 S. Loop Rd., Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2663
ANDREW RAZZANO, D.O. Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
IAN S. RICE
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
HENRY STIENE
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, 500 E. Business Way, Sharonville, OH 45241, (513) 354-3700
ROBERT ADAMS
TriHealth Heart Institute - Montgomery, 10506A Montgomery Rd., Suite 300, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 865-5120
JULIAN GUITRON
The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 139, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 206-1170
SANDRA STARNES
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 5200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
ROBERT VAN HAREN
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-6920
VALERIE WILLIAMS St. Elizabeth - Thoracic Surgeons- Edgewood Cancer Center, 1 Medical Village Dr., Floor 2, Suite A, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 301-2465
JESSICA CASSADY
TriHealth - Queen City Physicians - Hyde Park IM, 2753 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45208, (513) 246-8000
LEE ANN CONARD, D.O. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-3200
RULA KANJ
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-9400
RACHEL D. SNEDECOR
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229, (513) 636-4200
AARON BEY
The Urology Group, 4360 Ferguson Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45245, (513) 841-7750
JUSTIN COX
The Christ Hospital Physicians - Urology, 2123 Auburn Ave., Suite 441, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 721-7373
CATRINA CRISP
TriHealth Women’s Center - Kenwood, 8240 Northcreek Dr., Suite 4100, Cincinnati, OH 45236, (513) 463-4300
MARK DELWORTH
The Urology Group, 10220 Alliance Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 841-7800
The Urology Group, 350 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 363-2200
BROOKE B. EDWARDS
The Urology Group, 350 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 363-2200
RYAN FLYNN
The Urology Group, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 525, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 841-7700
MOHAMED KAMEL
UC Health, 3151 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-8222
ERIC KUHN
The Urology Group, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 525, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 841-7700
ROBERT J. LARKE
The Urology Group, 350 Thomas More Pkwy., Suite 200, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, (859) 363-2200
AYMAN MAHDY
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 7200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
BENJAMIN E. NIVER
The Urology Group, 10220 Alliance Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 841-7800
NILESH PATIL
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 7200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
COURTNEY PLATTNER
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 7200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 475-8787
DANIEL F. ROBERTSHAW
The Urology Group, 925 Deis Dr., Fairfield, OH 45014, (513) 841-7900
REBECCA ROEDERSHEIMER
The Urology Group, 3301 Mercy Health Blvd., Suite 525, Cincinnati, OH 45211, (513) 841-7700
BRIAN SHAY
The Urology Group, 2000 Joseph E. Sanker Blvd., Norwood, OH 45212, (513) 841-7500
PATRICK WIRTZ
The Urology Group, 10220 Alliance Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 841-7800
SEETHARAM CHADALAVADA
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 8200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-8247
DANIEL LONG
Professional Radiology, Inc., 9825 Kenwood Rd., Suite 105, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 527-9999
ABOUELMAGD MAKRAMALLA
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 8200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-8247
FRANK SCHLUETER
Tristate IMG, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331
DOAN VU
UC Health, 3188 Bellevue Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 584-1000
MICHAEL WOLUJEWICZ
Tristate IMG, 375 Dixmyth Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-1331
LULU ZHANG
UC Health, 222 Piedmont Ave., Suite 8200, Cincinnati, OH 45219, (513) 585-8247
MARK BROERING
TriHealth Heart Institute - Clifton Vascular Surgeons, 3219 Clifton Ave., Suite 400, Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 865-9898
EDWARD CALDWELL, D.O.
Edward Caldwell, DO, 20 Medical Village Dr., Suite
254, Edgewood, KY 41017, (859) 344-1600
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ferocious Brainiac, whose meteoric rise would be cut tragically short by the death of wunderkind Tim Taylor just after the band returned from a European tour in 1997 opening for Beck (who both played Sudsy’s and stopped in to do his laundry there). “It was a really strange scene with all kinds of diff erent bands and weirdos,” says Reed. “And I mean that in the best possible way. We were all weirdos.”
It was thrilling to hang out at a place with such a deep pool of prodigious tal-
lengthy. Jackson Browne did laundry at Sudsy’s when he played Riverbend, she says. Jane’s Addiction mingled there after their Bogart’s show. Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum slid playfully across recently mopped floors. Kate Pierson of the B-52’s and Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders stopped in to hand out flyers for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Members of the Reverend Horton Heat touring outfit got black eyes in a fight with local band Milkmine. Kurt Loder came to a Whigs show with an MTV video crew. The Clash’s Mick Jones hung there, as did “Weird” Al Yankovic and James Taylor. You know how there are bars where bar staff go to relax when they get off work? Sudsy’s was that for musicians.
Dana Hamblin is a drummer and bassist who plays in The Fairmount Girls, Culture Queer, and Darlene and got her start at Sudsy’s opening for many of her heroes,
and people would be like, Cincinnati? The laundromat club! ”
Montgomery first snuck into Sudsy’s with a fake ID, and he later played there with bands Thistle and El Gigante. He also ran sound at Sudsy’s. With glass windows in front and metal machines in back, he says, the place was a huge acoustic challenge. “It was a great place to learn how to make a show happen no matter what,” he says. “You just had to have enough bodies in the place to absorb the sound off the glass, and then you could get a pretty good mix.”
After speaking with Montgomery, I get a text from Kelley Deal, on tour in Spain with the Detroit band Protomartyr. She wants to weigh in on Sudsy’s, which she first played in 1997 with her band The Kelley Deal 6000. “The show was so fun,” she writes. “I just remember the good vibes there. People were so supportive of whatever music was going on. I am SURE the fun, supportive vibe had something to do with the washing machines.”
ent, plus there was a sense that any of the regular acts might be on the verge of getting big. The Afghan Whigs were the fi rst to go national, becoming one of the earliest non-Seattle bands signed to Sub Pop Records when that city emerged as the epicenter of grunge. “You could just watch the Whigs get great right there on that stage,” says Reed. “It was really exciting to see that happen.” Record company scouts with video cameras began casing band showcases at Sudsy’s.
BARTENDING AT SUDSY’S REMAINS ONE of the best jobs Suzanne Kehr Carden, assistant to the manager at San Francisco’s storied Fillmore Theatre, ever had, she says. She’s active on the almost 1,500-member-strong “Sudsy Malone’s Cincinnati ’85ish-’98ish” Facebook page, where former patrons and employees share Sudsy’s ephemera galore: photos, ticket stubs, flyers, and memories.
Carden’s catalog of recollections is
including female musicians she reveres: The Deal sisters, Babes in Toyland, and Larissa Strickland of L7 and Laughing Hyenas. The quality of the acts coming through, and bills that paired local talent with touring acts, she says, is “100 percent down to Dan McCabe,” who booked Sudsy’s at its apex, from 1991 to 1999, following Reed’s departure for another radio job.
Musician Mike Montgomery, who owns Candyland Studio in Dayton, Kentucky, is half of the band R. Ring with Breeders sister Kelley Deal. He shares Hamblin’s appreciation for McCabe. “You really can’t stress enough what a gift he gave by booking the acts he did. And taking chances and bringing bands that had high guarantees where it’s like, really, man, they could make or break a small club. He brought Hum here. He brought Swervedriver from England. Bands would show up in tour busses to play Sudsy’s. It put Cincinnati on the map for a lot of bands. I would travel all over the country
The washing machines at Sudsy’s have significance. They stood in harsh, fluorescent-lit contrast to the dark bar and black stage. You didn’t have to pay the cover charge if you were there to do laundry, and so for broke UC students and young music fans a basket of dirty clothes got you in for free. You sat on the washing machines with your long-neck Rolling Rock to cool off from whatever sonic maelstrom was going on up front. As Pence puts it, “They gave you a pretext for being there.” The laundromat area was the perfect place for commitment-averse Generation-Xers to be cool while not trying to be cool.
A portion of the Sudsy Malone’s sign, rescued from the building when it was demolished in 2019, hangs in Dan McCabe’s garage over a boat he’s refurbishing. McCabe, 57, is an avid fisherman. Until recently, he was a partner in MOTR Pub and the Woodward Theater, which he cofounded in Over-the-Rhine. When the pandemic temporarily closed those businesses, he did a stint in the kitchen at Goose & Elder. Most recently, he’s spent his days as a full-time custodian at East Fork Lake.
McCabe came to Cincinnati from Miami University in 1988. He was doing odd jobs for Cioffi when Reed left and Cioffi asked whether anyone else was interested
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WHY SUDSY MALONE’S MATTERED, AND STILL DOES
“SUDSY’S WAS A REALLY STRANGE SCENE WITH ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT BANDS AND WEIRDOS,” SAYS DAN REED. “I MEAN THAT IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY. WE WERE ALL WEIRDOS.”
booking. McCabe’s hand went up. He bartended, cleaned out washing machines, ran sound, and booked bands, fronting his own money to cover their guarantees and other costs, including advertising and bands’ food—all of which came out of ticket sales while the venue made money from the bar. More than a couple of times, when ticket sales were short, McCabe pawned a guitar. But for seven nights a week for most of the ’90s, he kept the music going at Sudsy’s.
“I’m a passionate dude,” says McCabe. “I’ve always been passionate about the live music experience.” As a youngster, he played guitar in the basement with his brother on drums. “God bless my parents for putting up with it,” he says. He also sings and plays trumpet and has been in outstanding local bands like Campfire Crush, Opi Yum Yum, and The Kiss
his booking chops to the Southgate House in Newport and producing the MidPoint Music Festival. He cofounded MOTR Pub on Main Street in 2010 and, shortly thereafter, the Woodward Theater across the street.
I PREFER TO BELIEVE THAT SUDSY’S didn’t disappear so much as disperse out into the universe like The Force from some vanquished Jedi Knight. It’s still there in all of the musicians who developed into performers on its stage and in the myriad fans who still are the lifeblood of Cincinnati live music clubs. The strength of Sudsy’s afterimage—the dense web of connections it casts out into the universe, the way it helped make this city a meaningful place for so many—makes you consider the importance of small stages everywhere. They
dark, making streets safer. It helps neighborhoods and entire cities become more desirable. “Look at Austin, Texas, the live music capital of the U.S.,” Schadler says. “Look at Nashville, ‘Music City USA.’ Companies move there because employees want to live there.”
Visit the northern reaches of Main Street today, and the small businesses clustered there resemble ’90s Short Vine in Corryville. That’s not a coincidence. When McCabe, Schadler, and their partners opened MOTR in 2010, the property had been sitting foreclosed for five years, McCabe says. 3CDC was bringing development to Vine Street, but the neighborhood had yet to recover from the civil unrest that wracked Cincinnati in 2001. In the 2000s, as Sudsy’s was on the wane, a similar flowering happened in Northside, anchored by the original music scenes at The Comet, Northside Tavern, and other establishments.
Me Everlasting. In the Sudsy’s era, it was Roundhead. Not that Roundhead played Sudsy’s much. McCabe was reluctant to book his own band often, he says, because “credibility is something you can lose easily. It takes years to build, and it’s quick to go if you’re not careful.”
Booking shows was an exciting opportunity at that time, he says. “In the ’70s, music was this huge, alien industry. Bands had come to seem like these unapproachable monsters of rock. But they became more accessible in the ’90s. I’d be thrilled to death about a new album coming out and realize, Oh, I can bring that band to Sudsy’s.”
Fortunately for McCabe and Sudsy’s, there was an audience for edgy music in Cincinnati that sustained the place. “Live music is an adventure,” he says. “That’s what excites me about it. I’ve always maintained my childish sense of wonder. I get fascinated. So bands that were pushing things, inventing, stretching, those were the ones I chased down the hardest.”
Eventually McCabe moved on, taking
create, sustain, and renew culture and draw people together to revel in creativity.
Chris Schadler sips a Guinness at MOTR Pub, which he cofounded and coowned with McCabe until McCabe’s departure from the business in 2021. With its tiny stage, walls covered with band posters, and a heavy rotation of touring bands, MOTR is about as true a contemporary manifestation of Sudsy Malone’s as you can get, albeit far cleaner and smoke-free.
Also a musician, Schadler played Sudsy’s with such bands as Cinema X, Spiderfoot, The Fairmount Girls, and Oyster. He booked the Southgate House for 13 years, frequently collaborating with McCabe. Along the way, he earned a master’s degree in urban planning and worked in the field.
Small clubs, Schadler says, are essential to the health and vibrancy of cities. You can read all about it in a paper he authored titled “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Neighborhood,” wherein he lays out the socioeconomic benefits urban planners see around live music. Music brings people out after
But the benefits of music run deeper than safety and dollars. For a city and region that prides itself on creative industries, including the many world-class design and branding firms that call Cincinnati home, music is a powerful attraction for the talent on which these companies rely. McCabe embraced that concept in his post-Sudsy’s years, when he was recruiting sponsors for the MidPoint Music Festival. “Brand-building requires fuel from creative minds,” he says. “So I was pounding on doors at Procter & Gamble and Bioré and other brands in town saying This is vital to creating an atmosphere where you can recruit your new talent.”
Local history librarian, music historian, and former Sudsy’s bartender Brian Powers has a memento from his first show at the Rock ’n Roll Laundry & Bar. He bought a CD from the cowpunk rockabilly band Goober and the Peas, all the way from Detroit; years later he realized their drummer on that tour had been none other than Jack White. Powers tended Sudsy’s bar and worked its door at the end of the ’90s, “which is probably why my hearing’s going,” he says. While Sudsy’s remained a great place to see a show well into the next decade, its zenith had been reached. At some point, Powers says, management decided not to book touring bands anymore. The bar’s glasses
“WE HAVE AN INNATE NEED TO RUB ELBOWS WITH EACH OTHER,” SAYS DAN MCCABE. “THAT THIRST IS STILL THERE. BEER AND MUSIC ARE A GREAT WAY TO QUENCH IT.”
got smaller, he says, and the pours more carefully measured.
The club’s diviness got divier and went to seed. Even the patina had patina. I left town for a couple of years, and when I came back the Sudsy’s that burns brightest in so many memories was gone.
But Sudsy’s remains an important place in our local music history, a creative cauldron in a city where Black, Appalachian, and other musicians have converged, played, and recorded together since the heyday of King Records. That collision of music and cultures had a huge influence on American music and helped make Cincinnati one of three cities, along with New Orleans and Memphis, that have a claim to being a birthplace of rock and roll. For almost two decades, rock was reborn at Sudsy Malone’s.
McCabe is working on another live music rebirth by restoring the Liberty Theatre in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, with plans to reopen the historic building as a live music venue in 2023, just in time for her 130th birthday. This time around, he’ll be booking live, original music in a small-town, rural setting, looking at the entire states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana as sources from which to attract and develop talent. Lawrenceburg isn’t as different from Cincinnati as you might think, he says, in that it’s a community of strivers, which he believes was a big part of what made Sudsy’s work.
America, urban and rural, needs music. Despite our streaming-media saturated world, “at our base, we need interaction and have an innate need to get out and rub elbows with each other,” says McCabe. “It’s in our genes. It’s how we’ve survived as a species. That thirst is still there. And it turns out beer and music are a great way to quench it.” The Liberty Theatre will be “a real test, a real proof of concept for building community through live music culture.”
What made Sudsy’s great—authenticity and a steady flow of excellent, boundary-pushing music—works in all corners of the world, says McCabe. “And we go on to change the world from there.”
same way, the Plush family has gone to national 911 conferences and shared their story. You can’t listen to their presentation without being inspired to do better the next day you go to work.”
Jills recalls that every night at bedtime she’d stop by Kyle’s room, and he would say, “Good night, I love you, see you in the morning, sweet dreams.” It was a tradition carried over from childhood, symbolizing the closeness he shared with his parents and younger sister, Alli.
That bond only deepened as a result of early adversity and a lifetime of physical challenges. Kyle nearly died when he was four months old after suffering a lifechanging spinal cord injury. Complications from a routine spinal tap caused a hematoma, or a mass of blood clots, to form as blood slowly leaked into his epidural space. His parents were warned he might not make it through the emergency surgery to remove the blood clot that was compressing his spinal cord and causing him to go into paralysis.
After Kyle survived the surgery, his medical team wasn’t sure how much function he would regain. He wore a full body cast for six months, and he did physical and occupational therapy throughout the rest of his childhood, often wearing a brace to prevent curvature of his spine. He never regained full use of his right hand. “He went through a lot,” Jill says. “It is truly amazing that he was so positive and happy all the time, with a huge smile on his face.”
Every six months, the family traveled to a clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota, so that his back brace could be adjusted. His parents turned these appointments into an adventure, initially visiting LEGOLAND before graduating to the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Despite their three-year age gap, Kyle and Alli were best friends who spent
countless hours building ships and planes from LEGOs. Kyle played tennis and basketball and loved skiing at Perfect North Slopes. A nature lover who was active in the Boy Scouts, he was working toward his Eagle Scout rank. “He was doing everything a normal kid should be doing,” Ron says. “You look at him and what he did in 16 years, and I can only dream of doing so much no matter how long I live.”
Kyle’s medical issues made him more focused, Jill says. “Having to learn to do things with disadvantages helped him to be more innovative and creative.”
As a sixth-grader at Mercy Montessori School, Kyle announced one night at dinner, “Seven Hills School is having an open house, and I want to go.” The minute he stepped on campus, he knew it was the right place for him. “He always loved to learn, and at Seven Hills he found the challenge he needed,” says Ron.
Krish Gupta forged an enduring friendship with Kyle in the seventh grade, when both were newcomers to Seven Hills. Kyle was more gregarious, Gupta more reserved, but they shared a passion for learning and a fascination with the way things worked. Working together on a presentation for a Latin Club convention, they experimented with techniques to cast coins from gallium metal. “We always bounced ideas off each other,” Gupta says. “We were both nerds.”
Kyle also became a bit of a class clown. “I don’t think there was anybody in the school who didn’t like Kyle,” says Gupta. “He could be friends with anybody.”
So many of Kyle’s friends shared lunch together that they formed a two-footdeep circle with chairs around their table. “There was always room for one more at their table,” Jill says.
After finishing a math exam on April 10, 2018, Gupta headed to his waiting school bus while Kyle walked to the family van to retrieve his tennis equipment for a match that afternoon. For the next six hours, Kyle’s loved ones assumed that’s where he was.
JILL HAD NO REASON TO WORRY WHEN Kyle didn’t come home after school that day. She knew he had a tennis match, and her Life360 app confirmed that he and
his phone were at the school. As the afternoon wore on, she started calling and texting Kyle. No answer. She finally phoned a friend, a former tennis coach, to ask if students normally played this late. “They usually watch the other students play before they come home,” he reassured her. When it got dark, Jill again called her friend, who contacted the tennis coach and called back with terrifying news: Kyle never made it to the match that day.
“This is when our nightmare began,” Jill says. They knew Kyle’s phone was at the school, but he wasn’t answering. After calling 911, Ron rushed up to the school while Jill remained at home to talk to the police. “I couldn’t go to the school,” she says. “I couldn’t move. I was so scared.”
ment. She didn’t communicate that the caller was pounding and screaming that he was going to die soon. She knew Kyle’s first name after calling him back when his initial call became disconnected, but she failed to share that information.
She did, however, classify the call as high priority, and she gave Cincinnati police officers an address that should have brought them within a short distance of Kyle’s van. Two officers arrived at 3:26 p.m. and entered the south end of the school parking lot; Kyle’s van was parked in the north end. The officers remained on the scene for 11 minutes without stepping outside their cruiser or rolling down their windows to hear someone calling for help. The officers never displayed the address, 5471
Ron found the van in the parking lot with the door unlocked. He spotted Kyle’s tennis racquet and backpack, but he didn’t see his son until at last checking in the back. He freed Kyle from the collapsed seat and frantically attempted CPR. “But I knew,” says Ron, bowing his head.
Help arrived too late. With the bench seat applying 80 pounds of pressure to his chest, Kyle died from asphyxiation.
It wasn’t until the next day that the Plushes learned of the 911 calls, adding a fresh dimension to their grief—the growing awareness that his death could have been prevented. The first call came in at 3:14 p.m. The emergency call taker could hear Kyle banging and crying out: “Help. I am stuck in the van. Help. Help. Help. I am stuck in the van outside Seven Hills parking lot. Help. I need help. Help. Help. Help. Can you hear me? I’m at the Seven Hills parking lot. I am trapped in my van...I am in desperate need of help...I am going to die soon.”
The worker waited seven minutes before entering the call in the computeraided dispatch system (CAD), labeling it “unknown trouble” instead of “rescue,” which would have engaged the fire depart-
Red Bank Road, in the mapping function on their mobile data computer or punched it into their cell phones. They talked with a school resource officer who was directing traffic, dismissing the call as a likely prank, and on the body camera recording one officer can be heard saying that he didn’t imagine they would find anything.
At 3:34 p.m., while the officers were still on the scene, Kyle succeeded in placing a second 911 call. This emergency call-taker activated the TTY function for deaf callers. When the caller still failed to respond, she didn’t switch back to normal mode. She never played back the call in which Kyle provides a description of his van and an update on his deteriorating condition as he gasps and struggles for breath: “This is not a joke. This is not a joke. I’m trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the sophomore parking lot of Seven Hills Hillsdale. Send officers immediately. I’m almost dead.”
The call-taker did not submit a second CAD report, even though she knew it was a repeat caller. The police officers left the scene without exploring the north end of the parking lot or being informed of the second call for help.
“It was a catastrophic series of events,” says Knapp of the Hamilton County Communications Center. “If you change one thing in this chain, the outcome would have been different.”
The Plush family knew that Kyle was well-loved, but they were overwhelmed by the community outpouring after his death. Mourners waited in the cold rain for hours at his visitation, the line snaking into a Kroger parking next to the funeral home.
The condolence cards struck similar themes, talking about Kyle’s compassion, enthusiasm, and broad, impish grin. One mother wrote about his exceptional kindness to her special needs daughter. In another typical comment, a family friend wrote, “He approached life with such zest and brought a lot of laughter to our family.”
Jill intended to ask her sister to read Kyle’s eulogy, but on the morning of his funeral she felt compelled to perform this one last service for her son. Although normally terrified by public speaking, she experienced a tremendous sense of peace when she stepped up to the lectern before 1,000 mourners at St. Rose Church in the East End.
“Kyle, I am going to miss you each and every day until I see you again in heaven,” she said. “I know you are in a better place now, and I believe God has some very big plans for you. I know you are up for this challenge because you are the strongest person I’ve ever known. And now through your courageous bravery in the last moments of your life, you have touched the lives of many more people who now love you too. Good night, Kyle, love you, see you in heaven, sweet dreams!”
A month after the funeral, Jill visited her lifelong friend Jana Strader in Knoxville, Tennessee. During that get away they decided to attend the national conference of the National Emergency Number Association taking place that same week in Nashville. “I was awestruck by her ability to attend a national conference with 4,000 people while genuinely trying to learn,” recalls Knapp, who met Jill at the conference.
Attending the conference caused Jill to realize that “there are so many kind and compassionate people in the 911 industry.” When the friends returned to Knoxville, she announced, “We’re going to
start a foundation.” That was the birth of the Kyle Plush Answer the Call (KPATC) Foundation, whose mission statement declares, “Kyle would have focused on solutions to improve the 911 system. He would not have made excuses or found barriers as to why things couldn’t be done.”
The foundation is dedicated to supporting 911 workers in any way possible, from delivering gourmet cookies to presenting awards, called Challenge Coins, to dispatchers who exhibit dedication and creative thinking. They also make frequent presentations to dispatch centers across the country. “There isn’t a dry eye in the audience,” says Knapp, who has frequently brought in the couple to present at his Hamilton County dispatch centers.
The cookie deliveries, accompanied by notes of encouragement, are a gamechanger for these unseen first responders. “We couldn’t believe the response,” says Strader. “There were hugs and tears.”
“Jill and Ron quickly realized that no one tells [dispatchers] Thank you,” Knapp says. “They saw that deficiency and stepped up to make a real difference in the industry.”
AFTER KYLE’S DEATH, JILL AND RON faithfully attended Cincinnati public law and safety meetings, trusting that the city would keep its promise to initiate timely reforms. They were bitterly disappointed in November 2018 when the Cincinnati Police Department’s internal investigation concluded the officers and emergency calltakers had followed protocol. “The message seemed to be, We didn’t do anything wrong, and nothing is going to change,” Ron says.
Initially reluctant to file a lawsuit, the couple felt they had no choice if they wanted to find out what happened to their son and to spur the city to fix the systemic problems that contributed to his death. Acting on the advice of a friend, they hired renowned Cincinnati civil rights attorney Al Gerhardstein, best known nationally for representing James Obergefell in the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges.
It was a good fit. The couple shared their lawyer’s primary focus on reform rather than financial compensation. “They wanted change, because that was the best way to honor their son,” says Gerhardstein.
“They were at City Hall trying to learn the details of how things failed and were getting lots of responses, lots of words, but not seeing lots of action.”
On August 12, 2019, Gerhardstein filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati, ultimately resulting in a $6 million settlement with the Plush family in 2021. Far more meaningful to Kyle’s parents was the establishment of a team of 911 experts from around the country to monitor and enhance the Emergency Communications Center. The expert team reports to the public every six months, monitoring such issues as training, quality assurance, up-to-date technology, and adherence to protocol. “The only part of the settlement that was important to us was the reforms to the Cincinnati ECC to help them become a world-class 911 center to ensure a tragedy like Kyle’s never happens again,” Jill says.
Vedra, ECC’s new director, says that countless improvements have been made since Kyle’s death, many of them taking place before announcement of the settlement. “The team of experts are making sure that the momentum isn’t lost and that there is transparency in the improvements that are taking place,” he says.
Vedra says the city has invested heavily in hiring more call takers and dispatchers as well as full-time quality assurance personnel. The back-up call center, where Kyle’s calls were answered, has been renovated and updated with state-of-the-art equipment. “The technology was not where it needed to be and the acoustics were poor, creating a challenging environment for 911 workers and making it difficult to understand their caller,” he says.
In city after city, at dispatch call center after call center, Ron and Jill Plush are reliving the worst day of their lives as they share Kyle’s story with 911 workers. During a recent virtual session with dispatchers in Santa Ana, California, Ron began by stating, “First we want to share that we are here to learn, not to criticize. Let’s not focus on what went wrong. Let’s focus on what should have gone right.”
Their optimistic, forward-looking approach is very much in keeping with the way their son lived his life. “Kyle was a true leader in his group of friends, and he was always full of energy and ideas,” Jill
explained to the California group. “When we think of Kyle, we think of the Latin phrase carpe diem, which means seize the day. This is the way Kyle lived his life. He lived to the fullest every day with a huge smile on his face while always being his best self. We believe if even one person involved in Kyle’s call had been their best self, he would still be with us today.”
If a 911 call seems strange or a voice sounds remote, Jill cautioned the group, never assume it’s a prank. “Be persistent and determined to find out why. With new technology and creative callers, it might be the victim’s only way to ask for help.”
After their presentations, Jill says, dispatchers often tell her and Ron, I have been doing this my whole life, and now I will look at it completely differently. Recently a dispatcher in Alaska wrote about the significance of being awarded a Challenge Coin: “More and more I found myself keeping the coin next to me at my dispatch station to remind me to do the best I can on every call, even on my grumpiest days.”
That’s the kind of message that inspires the Plushes to crisscross the country sharing Kyle’s story, even though both work full-time jobs. Kyle’s friends, too, remain committed to the cause. In spite of his hectic schedule as a Purdue University engineering student, Gupta has remained active with the KPATC Foundation, working with a group of friends to craft a series of videos about using a cell phone during emergencies. The videos have received wide circulation—first among the Seven Hills student body, and then an updated version that’s being shared everywhere from driving schools to Cincinnati Reds games. “I wanted to keep the spirit of Kyle with me, his resourcefulness, excitement, and love of learning that we shared,” Gupta says. “I try to live my life taking lessons from the kind of person that he was.”
At every milestone, including his 21st birthday, Gupta says he asks himself, What would Kyle be doing now? “He would have excelled at anything,” he says.
The Plush family finds comfort in knowing that Kyle’s life and death are making a difference. “God blessed us with Kyle for 16 years,” says Jill. “As sad as we are that we don’t have him here with us, we know that God decided he had a different plan for him. Kyle is saving lives.”
ROYCE brings authentic French flavors to Fountain Square. —BRANDON WUSKE
IF CINCINNATI IS TO LIVE UP TO ITS NICKNAME OF “THE PARIS OF THE MIDWEST,” THEN restaurants like Royce—recently opened in The Foundry development across from Fountain Square—are essential. Does it get any more blissfully Parisian than enjoying a glass of wine and pâté de foie gras while watching the city scurry by from your patio table? Not on this side of the Atlantic.
The restaurant is the latest Cincinnati concept from Terry Raley’s Amaranth Hospitality Group, which also owns Pearlstar in Over-the-Rhine. It’s a deeply personal project for Raley, who named the place for his grandfather. According to the restaurant’s website, Royce was a steelworker who used to slurp oysters and whip up “pork rillettes” after a hard day’s work. This marriage of the down to earth and sublime seems to be the restaurant’s raison d’etre and, for the most part, it does provide a humbly exquisite dining experience.
The space is a testament to this. Sleekly minimal, the decor doesn’t shout. Rather, the eye is drawn to the long, open kitchen (helmed by Chef de Cuisine Myles Klapatch) along the rear wall, the massive raw bar at the front of the restaurant, and the city’s spectacle beyond the windows. In keeping with this theme, the dishes (and prices) range from humble to regal. You can get a burger and fries for $18 or a raw seafood tower fit for Versailles for $145.
Royce’s menu delves into the French deep cuts, from sweetbreads to grilled duck hearts to sauteed skate. It starts, though, with a wide selection of pâtés, legumes, cured meats, and cheeses which can be ordered à la carte or as part of a larger charcuterie board. The menu lists sources for the meats and cheeses, most coming from the tri-state. The fatty, silky Tennshootoe ham, for example, hails from Indiana, while the Wagyu
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501 Vine St., downtown, (513) 721-0888, royce-cincy.com Hours Dinner Sun–Thurs 5 p.m.–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5 p.m.–11 p.m. Prices $7 (Blue Oven Bakery Baguette)–$145 (Royce Grand Plateau) Credit Cards All major The Takeaway Sleek brasserie brings a piece of Paris to Fountain Square.
Bresaola comes from Ohio. It’s refreshing to see Royce’s commitment to charcuterie, a word that is too often used to gussy up what amounts to a glorified deli tray.
It pairs exceptionally well with Royce’s extensive, heavily French wine list. In fact, most of Royce’s hefty drink menu is also French, loaded with French beers on tap and cocktails with names like the Claude Monet. The knowledgeable service staff, including an in-house sommelier, are happy to help you pick the perfect pairing. One thing to keep in mind as you peruse the menu: diners are encouraged to order all courses at once, with the staff determining the order of the meal. Though with courses this good, I suppose I can sacrifice a little prandial autonomy.
For a classic—though often misunderstood—bite straight out of a French country kitchen, it’s hard to top the sauteed sweetbreads appetizer. Sweetbreads, a euphemism for organ meat from calf or lamb (usually the thymus gland and pancreas), are often seen as the white tablecloth version of Fear Factor fare. Sign me up. Served with mushrooms and a red pepper velouté (a sauce that literally means “velvety” in French), this delicate dish is proof that the restaurant takes French food seriously.
The same can be said of the grilled duck hearts. The olive-sized hearts (slightly gamy, slightly chewy) eat like peppery sausages, with a lemony pesto-like pistou sauce cutting into the fatty flavor. It’s the kind of unique bite this city needs more of. It’s a bold move to lead off with hearts and a pancreas, but it’s one that I hope will pay off.
The produce and fish strike a perfect harmony in the skate wing entrée. With the looks of a small stingray, it doesn’t exactly whet
the appetite when seen through a pair of scuba goggles. Fileted and sauteed to a delicate brown, though, it looks and tastes like flaky goodness. The dish is served with a red romesco sauce (a Spanish tomato-based sauce meant to go with seafood), squash, and a rich brown eggplant puree allowing acidic and oily flavors to meld with the buttery taste of the skate.
For a more familiar French dish, you can’t go wrong with the steak frites. The best iteration of the dish I’ve had in Cincinnati, the hangar steak is soft and juicy, so much so that the steak knife is hardly necessary. The topping of tarragon butter only enhances the softness of the steak. Accompanied by soft-on-the-inside-crispyon-the-outside fries, it’s a simple entrée, which makes its richness all the more surprising. In true French fashion, nearly every dish I ordered came with some vibrant yet restrained sauce, with inspiration taken from seemingly all corners of Europe.
Royce’s desserts—made in-house by Pastry Chef Madelinne Wagner—are as classically French as the rest of the menu. The crème brûlée, for example, is given the classic preparation with a crunchy torched sugar coating and tart berries. It’s the largest crème brûlée I’ve had to date, and one of the best. The opera cake, with its toasted chocolate flavor and hint of coffee, is another winner. Where one expects decadence, Wagner brings finesse.
Continental dining has taken a hit in our city recently, with the closure of restaurants like The Mercer, Table, and Restaurant L. Royce occupies that niche authentically and comfortably. Interestingly, it took a team of outsiders to do it: Raley is based out of Nashville; Klapatch recently moved here from Madison, Wisconsin; and Wagner hails from Charleston, South Carolina. It’s exciting to see Cincinnati’s food scene draw talent from across the country. If it’s to keep doing so, restaurants like Royce will be one of the reasons why.
ACAI BOWLS—THE SUPERFOOD BREAKFAST THAT gained popularity on many a foodie blog more than a decade ago—get their just due at BOL. The West End food truck showcases antioxidant-rich blended acai berries, which serve as the bottom floor of a breakfast food multiplex.
Start your bowl with that organic acai berry puree. Add ingredients like frozen banana and clover honey, which thicken the mix to a texture between a smoothie and sorbet. Then take your pick of six gourmet granolas. While Expialidocious (oats, honey, cherries, strawberries, banana, mango, blueberries, cinnamon, pumpkin seeds, and coconut) is a popular choice, coffee junkies may enjoy Presto Espresso (oats, espresso, and macadamia nuts). From berries to mangoes, fresh fruits shine and toppings like bee pollen and Nutella make this healthy dish taste like dessert. If you’re spoiled for choice, the Queen City BOL offers a sweet blend of strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, pineapple, raspberries, chia seeds, and honey. The acai puree brings together the crunchy granola without overwhelming the fresh fruit.
The variety at BOL makes it easy to have a different lunch at the purple truck every day for weeks.
—M. LEIGH HOODBOL Acai Bar, 2165 Central Ave., West End, (513) 903-9636, BOLonline.org
—AIESHA D. LITTLEJanuary 19 is National Popcorn Day, and area popcorn shops have what you need. Anna’s Gourmet Popcorn (2 S. Broadway St., Lebanon, (513) 480-1206, annasgourmetpopcorn.com) has monthly seasonal flavors in addition to specialty ones like Birthday Cake. Mama Made It Kettle & Gourmet Popcorn (117 W. Elder St., Over-the-Rhine, mamamadeit.com) specializes in kettle-cooked popcorn—high-quality kernels that bloom in a denser “mushroom style” when heated—and offers caramel, cheddar, Chicago style (cheddar and caramel mix), and traditional sweet flavors. Al’s Delicious Popcorn (1202 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 993-7677, alspopcorn.com) gives you local access to some of the Columbus-based chain’s signature flavors, such as horchata, vanilla bean, and chili mango. And if you want to go retro, head over to Patty’s Old Fashioned Popcorn (3437 Michigan Ave., Hyde Park, (513) 533-2676, pattys oldfashionedpopcorn.com) and grab a replica of an old school red-and-white striped popcorn bag with the flavor of your choice (we recommend the butter salted with Mediterranean truffle salt). A-maize-ing!
Fall in love with acai again at this food truck.
In November, 750 guests gathered at Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati to enjoy five nights of amazing food and wine from 10 of the best chefs in Cincinnati. Each night featured a one of a kind five-course menu from two local chefs, complete with wine pairings. As well, each night, we partnered with a different local nonprofit to raise funds to further its mission. Thank you to all of our sponsors, partners, and guests, who made this dining series a phenomenal success.
Kroger, Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati
Additional Sponsors: Northwestern Mutual, McCormick, Old Bay, FIJI Water, Basil Hayden, Mercedes Benz of Ft. Mitchell, KMK Law, St. Elmo’s Steakhouse Cocktails, La Brea Bakery, and Nothing Bundt Cakes
t the corner of Corry Street and Short Vine lies the hidden gem Al-Madina Market & Grill, a Middle Eastern grocery store offering fresh Lebanese cuisine cafeteria style. The renowned chicken shawarma sandwich—more of a wrap, really—comes on housemade grilled pita with heaps of roasted chicken, seasoned with herbs, carved from a giant rotating cylinder. Ask for everything on it to top it with cool lettuce, diced tomato, pickle, a bit of parsley, and a generous squirt of creamy yogurt sauce. You can (and should) add falafel for added crunch and flavor, and order it spicy for an ardent but manageable heat. This portable pouch of goodness is perfect for a pre-concert feast or a quick and tasty lunch. —SAM ROSENSTIEL
Al-Madina Market & Grill, 6 W. Corry St., Corryville, (513) 873-5030, almadinagrill.com
MAKERS BAKERS Co. has everything you need to treat your sweet tooth. Its “World’s ‘Really Good’ Cinnamon Rolls,” “Big A** Cookie Slices,” muffins, danishes, and too-manyto-count variations of pies, cheesecakes, and cobblers are all satisfying, but when it comes to game day delights, there’s only one option—the orange-colored Who Dey banana pudding with chocolate cake mixed throughout.
The bakery released the special-edition pudding last year to mark the Bengals’ Super Bowl appearance and decided to bring it back this season. (There’s also a “white Bengal” version for the team’s new color rush uniforms.)
The banana flavors are softer than the Steelers offense, and the cake bits inside are—dare we say it—smoother than Joe Burrow himself.
One spoonful will have you wondering who you think gonna beat this baker. The answer? Well, do we really need to say it?
—KANE MITTEN
Makers Bakers Co., 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 807-9748, makersbakersco.com
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On any given evening, guests nibble at spicy hummus served with French breakfast radishes and pita bread while sipping slightly spumante glasses of Spanish Txakolina. And while the dinner menu reads strictly casual at first glance—soups, salads, and sandwiches and sharing plates—the preparation and quality are anything but. A chef salad with chopped romaine, sweet peas, applewood smoked bacon, hard-boiled egg, and sunflower seeds surpassed many versions of the bistro classic. And both the Brussels sprouts and fingerling potato sides refused to play merely supporting roles. Both were sensational studies in the balance of sweet, spicy, and acidic flavors.
702 Indian Hill Rd., Terrace Park, (513) 8315678, thebirchtp.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sat. MCC, DS. $
Boomtown leans hard into the Gold Rush theme: prospector-style overall aprons on servers, bluegrass tunes humming, and rustic decor details. And the dense grub isn’t for the faint of heart. Arrive with an empty belly, ready for a carbo load. The biscuits are all they’re cracked up to be, and the gravy’s not playing around, either. Sample its biscuits and gravy styles with a gravy flight. Or try The Yukon, an anytime breakfast sandwich, featuring fried chicken on par with the best the city has to offer. By the end of the meal, you’ll feel a little out of place without your own denim getup. 9039 U.S. Route 42, Suite H, Union, (859) 384-5910, boomtownbiscuitsandwhiskey. com. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner Tues–Sat. Breakfast and lunch Sun. MCC. $
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 grilled lamb t-bone, boar tenderloin, and prawns in scampi butter is a standout. The eye for detail and contrasts of colors and textures belongs to someone who cares for food.
Newport on the Levee is opening a micro food hall in the former Barnes & Noble space in the galley area this summer. The venture will be run by Galley Group, which has similar spaces in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis. The company says it plans to incorporate several global cuisines, such as Asian, Italian, and Mexican, but nothing was finalized at the time the magazine went to press. newportonthelevee. com/the-galley-onthe-levee
1000 Summit Place, Blue Ash, (513) 794-1610, browndogcafe.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat, brunch Sat. MCC, DS. $$
With wine on tap and an extensive local beer list, Coppin’s is an ideal place to meet for drinks. In addition to plenty of Kentucky bourbon, much of the produce, meat, and cheese comes from local growers and producers. House-cured meat and cheese from Kenny’s Farmhouse and cheese from Urban Stead populate the “Artisan Cheese and Charcuterie Board,” which dresses up the main attractions with honey, dijon mustard, house pickles, and Sixteen Bricks purple barley bread. The mussels—made with seasonally rotating sauces and chorizo from Napoleon Ridge Farms in Gallatin County—were served with a peppery tomato sauce, perfect for sopping up with bread. The seven-ounce Sakura Farms Wagyu ribeye with wild mushrooms, roasted parsnip, and beef jus is a must have. Or try the striped bass with grape farro roasted broccolini and mussel cream sauce.
638 Madison Ave., Covington, (859) 9056600, hotelcovington.com/dining/coppins. Breakfast seven days, lunch Mon–Fri, and dinner Thurs–Sun. MCC. $$
The revamped post office at 13th and Vine feels cozy but not claustrophobic, and it has distinguished itself with its stellar fried chicken. Even the white meat was pull-apart steamy, with just enough peppery batter to pack a piquant punch. Diners can order by the quarter, half, or whole bird—but whatever you do, don’t skimp on the sides. Bacon adds savory mystery to crisp corn, green beans, and edamame (not limas) in the succotash, and the crock of mac and cheese has the perfect proportion of sauce, noodle, and crumb topping. The Eagle OTR seems deceptively simple on the surface, but behind that simplicity is a secret recipe built on deep thought, skill, and love. 1342 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 802-5007, eaglerestaurant.com. Lunch Fri–Sun, dinner Mon–Thurs. MCC. $
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 and almondine) make for high-style alternative selections. Talk about a party.
8170 Montgomery Rd., Madeira, (513) 9848090, embersrestaurant.com. Dinner seven days. MCC, DC, DS. $$$$
The third restaurant from chef Jose Salazar, Goose & Elder is a more everyday kind of joint compared to his others. The prices are lower, and most of the dishes, from burgers to grits, are familiar. Salazar’s menus have always hinted that the chef had a fondness for, well, junk food. But junk food is only junk if it is made thoughtlessly. Everything here is made with little twists, like the cumin-spiced potato chips and delicate ribbons of housemade cucumber pickles with a sweet rice wine vinegar. Even the fries, crinkle cut and served with “goose sauce,” a mildly spiced mayonnaise, are wonderfully addictive. The restaurant demonstrates that what we now consider “fast food” can be awfully good if someone makes it the old-fashioned, slow way.
1800 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 5798400, gooseandelder.com. Mon & Wed–Fri, dinner Mon & Wed–Sun, brunch Sat & Sun. MCC. $$
With a kitchen full of students from the Findlay Culinary Training Program, this “meat and three” makes food good enough that everyone involved can hang their chef’s hats on. (Served in a small skillet so it stays hot and slightly creamy throughout the meal, the baked mac and cheese casserole would be the favorite dish at any church potluck.)
At $15 for an entrée and three sides, Mighty Good offers one of the best values, not just in Over-theRhine, but in all of Greater Cincinnati.
1819 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 263-6893, mightygoodotr.com. Lunch and dinner Tues-Sat. MCC. $$
The classics are here—prime rib with horseradish and au jus; liver and onions; an eight-ounce filet with bernaise— plus some new favorites, including short rib pasta. Or have breakfast, English-style: fried eggs, bacon, sausage, stewed beans, roasted tomatoes, and buttered toast. The dinner menu also features burgers, risotto, pasta, seafood, and plenty more lighter options.
6880 Wooster Pke., Mariemont, (513) 271-2103, nationalexemplar.com. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$
Chef/owner Paul Weckman opened Otto’s, named after his father-in-law, with $300 worth of food and one employee—himself. Weckman’s food is soothing, satisfying, and occasionally, too much of a good thing. His tomato pie is beloved by lunch customers: Vine-ripe tomatoes, fresh basil, and chopped green onions packed into a homemade pie shell, topped with a cheddar cheese spread, and baked until bubbly. Weckman’s straightforward preparations are best. The shrimp and grits with sauteed shrimp spinach, mushrooms, Cajun beurre blanc atop a fried grit cake, short ribs braised in red wine and herbs, served over mashed potatoes with green beans and caramelized baby carrots that will bring you the comfort of a home-cooked meal. This is, at its heart, a neighborhood restaurant, a place with its own large, quirky family.
521 Main St., Covington, (859) 491-6678, ottosonmain. com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Fri, brunch and dinner Sat–Mon. MCC. $$
The quintessential neighborhood dive, Quatman’s sits in the shadow of the Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, serving up a classic bar burger. Look elsewhere if you like your burger with exotic toppings: This half-pound of grilled beef is served with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickle. Sometimes cheese. The no-frills theme is straightforward and appealing. A menu of standard sandwich fare and smooth mock turtle soup; beer on tap or soda in cans (no wine or liquor); and checkered tablecloths, serving baskets, and plenty of kitsch is served daily. Peppered with regulars, families, and political discussions, Quatman’s is far from fancy. But it is fun, fast, and delicious.
2434 Quatman Ave., Norwood, (513) 731-4370, quatmancafe.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat. MC, V, DS, MCC. $
Historically peasant-grade cuts of meat get the full Pygmalion treatment at Red Feather in Oakley, where there’s deep respect for the time and tending necessary to bring a short rib, pork chop, or steak to its full potential. After a quick sear to lock in juices, the steak takes a turn in the wood-fired oven. While primal cuts play a leading role, the supporting cast is just as captivating. The French onion soup is especially warming on a winter evening and the crispy skin on the salmon acts as the foil to the plump, rich flesh. Service here only improves the experience.
3200 Madison Rd., Oakley, (513) 407-3631, redfeatherkitchen.com. Dinner Wed–Sat, brunch Sun. MCC. $$$
An old flag stands in one corner and pictures of Abe Lincoln and the first George W. hang on the wall of this Civil War–era schoolhouse. The daily menu of familiar Midwestern comfort fare is written in letter-perfect cursive 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 corn bread, slaw, salad, mashed potatoes, chicken gravy, and vegetables. The deal here is quantity. More mashed potatoes with your fried chicken? More corn bread with your baked ham? You don’t even have to raise your hand.
8031 Glendale-Milford Rd., Camp Dennison, (513) 8315753, theschoolhousecincinnati.com. Lunch Sun, dinner Fri–Sun. MCC, DS. $
This Paddock Hills diner, with a second location in Overthe-Rhine, 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 steak and eggs, corned beef hash, and basic burgers with funky iterations that draw on ethnic ingredients such as chorizo and tzatziki. Get here early if you don’t want to stand in line.
4381 Reading Rd., Paddock Hills; 1203 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 242-3521, eatsugarnspice.com, Breakfast and lunch seven days. MCC. $
Tucked into a West 14th Street Italianate directly around the corner from Music Hall, this place feels like a private dinner club. There’s a preferred by-reservation policy. Check the web site for the weekend’s five-course menu, a slate of “new American” dishes that changes monthly. You can see the reliance on local produce in the Greek lemon chicken soup. Salads are interesting without being busy, and the lemon lavender sorbet is served as the third course palate cleanser with the five-course menu. Main courses of panseared rainbow trout, grass-fed strip steak, and a veggie burger hit all the right notes, and you can end with a sweet flourish if you choose the strawberry lavender shortcake. 210 W. 14th St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 721-3353, symphonyhotel.com. Dinner Fri & Sat. $$
This Loveland bistro is comfortable, with reasonably priced food and amenable service. The menu is tidy—25 or so dishes divided between appetizers, salads, and entrées, plus two or three specials—its flavor profile partially influenced by a childhood growing up in a third generation Italian family. Most of Tano Bistro’s main courses lean toward the comfortable side of American. For instance, Williams serves a stuffed salmon and an allegiance pork chop. The sprout & snout appetizer is also worth a trip to Loveland, combining balsamic-drizzled brussels sprouts with sliced pork belly. 204 W. Loveland Ave., Loveland, (513) 683-8266, foodbytano.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$$
Classically conceived but casually executed comfort food, including a royale with cheese, mac and cheese topped with a Mr. Pibb–braised pulled short rib, and steak frites with garlic aioli. Servers are slightly scattered, yet enthusiastic and friendly, with a good grasp of the beverage program. 1212 Springfield Pke., Wyoming, (513) 821-8352, telabarandkitchen.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$
Wildflower Café is not the sort of place that tries to wow anyone with feats of inventiveness. Its formula is simple but satisfying: lots of mostly local meat and produce, a menu that continuously changes with available ingredients, a nice selection of wine and beer, and well-made, homey food. The small, focused menu has a classic American quality (salads, steaks, burgers) with enough surprises to keep things interesting. Many of the dishes are designed with open spaces to be filled with whatever is available in the kitchen that day, an advantage of an unfussy style. You don’t go to Wildflower expecting a certain kind of perfection; you accept that your favorite dish from last time might be made differently tonight, or no longer available. Like the farmhouse that Wildflower occupies, the imperfections are part of the charm.
207 E. Main St., Mason, (513) 492-7514, wildflowermason.com. Dinner Mon–Fri. MCC. $$$
Five blocks from the Newport riverfront, Terry and Betsy Cunningham have created the sort of comfortable, welcoming environment that encourages steady customers. A dependable menu and quirky atmosphere appeal to a broad range of diners, from non-adventurous visiting relatives to non-attentive children. Desserts have always been one of the stars: flourless chocolate hazelnut torte, bittersweet, rich and moist; butter rum pudding that would
be equally at home on a picnic table or a finely dressed Michelin-starred table.
738 York St., Newport, (859) 261-9675, yorkstonline. com. Lunch Tues–Fri. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC, DS. $$
Elias Leisring started building his pulled pork reputation under canopies at Findlay Market and Fountain Square in 2011. Leisring’s proper little ’cue shack along the river serves up ribs that are speaking-in-tongues good, some of the zazziest jalapeño cheese grits north of the Mason-Dixon line, and browned mashed potatoes that would make any short order cook diner-proud. The small no-frills restaurant—packed cheek-by-jowl most nights—feels like it’s been there a lifetime, with customers dropping vinyl on the turntable, dogs romping in the side yard, and picnic tables crowded with diners. The hooch is bring-your-own, and the barbecue is bona fide. 3313 Riverside Dr., East End, (513) 533-1957, elisbarbeque.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC. $
A Northern Kentucky institution returns. Roughly 750 pounds of ribs per week are pit-fired in a small building in front of the restaurant, with a smaller dedicated smoker out back for brisket and chicken. Walt’s ribs begin with several hours in the smokehouse and then are quick-seared at the time of service. This hybrid method takes advantage of the leaner nature of the baby-back ribs they prefer to use. Each rib had a just-right tooth to it where soft flesh peeled away from the bone. One hidden treasure: Walt’s housemade tomato and garlic dressing. Slightly thicker than a vinaigrette yet unwilling to overwhelm a plate of greens, the two key elements play well together.
3300 Madison Pke., Ft. Wright, (859) 360-2222, waltshitchingpost.com. Dinner seven days. MCC. $$
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 fluffy 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. Paired with a Sazerac and nightly live jazz, you may just feel tempted to start a second line.
4632 Eastern Ave., Linwood, (513) 861-2484, brewrivercreolekitchen.com. Dinner Tues–Sun, brunch and lunch Sat & Sun. MCC. $
At first blush, this place is a dive where homesick Cajuns can find a good pile of jambalaya. But thoughtful details like draft Abita Root 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. $$
The Pine serves some of the best Louisiana home-style food you’ll find this far north of New Orleans. Taste the
Karrikin Spirits Co. in Fairfax recently got into the catering business, turning its former restaurant to an exclusive event and catering center. The 30,000-square-foot space, which closed as a restaurant indefinitely in December 2020, allows for groups of up to 425 people.
karrikinspirits.com
fried catfish filets with their peppery crust, or the garlic sauteed shrimp with smoky greens on the side, and you’ll understand why it’s called soul food. Between March and June, it’s crawfish season. Get them boiled and heaped high on a platter or in a superb crawfish etouffee. But the rockin’ gumbo—a thick, murky brew of andouille sausage, chicken, and vegetables—serves the best roundhouse punch all year round. As soon as you inhale the bouquet and take that first bite, you realize why Cajun style food is considered a high art form and a serious pleasure. And you’ll start planning your return trip.
6302 Licking Pke., Cold Spring, (859) 7812200, theknottypineonthebayou.com. Dinner Tues–Sun. MCC, DS. $$
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 the evil fast-food villain with dishes like “fl y rice,” “Brocco-Lee,” and “Big Bird’s Nest.” Freshness rules. Pot stickers, 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 noodle, fried chicken, and seasonal vegetables in gingery white sauce) topping the menu’s flavor charts.
521 Madison Ave., Covington, (859) 261-6121 , amerasia.carry-out.com. Lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Sat. MCC. $
Although the (24-page!) menu features classic dishes in every style, the specialty at Great Tang is the refined coastal cuisine of Zhejiang. If you like spice, you can get still the Sichuanese and Hunanese classics. One dish will hint at the surprises in store for people who are mainly used to Chinese takeout: the lovely Xian cold noodle. The dish is exquisitely layered: the creamy and nutty undertone of sesame paste, mixed with notes of tang and spice, topped with the bright pop of cilantro. The combination of textures is also delightful, with crunches of cucumber and sprouted mung and the softness of the flat noodles. And that tofu! It was wonderfully meaty, with dense layers, substantial and satisfying as a counterpart to the noodles. Be as brave as you are in the mood to be. Ask for some suggestions and prepare to be astonished.
7340 Kingsgate Way, West Chester, (513) 847-6097, greattangohio.com. Lunch and dinner Wed–Mon, dim sum Sat & Sun. V, DS, MC, AMEX. $$
The monster of a menu can be dizzying. Ease in with some top-notch Korean Wings. These slightly bubbly, shatter-crisp wings are painted with a thin gochujang chili sauce (a foil to the fat). It takes 24 hours to prep the Cantonese duck, between a honey-vinegar brine to dry the skin, a marinade of star anise, bean paste, and soy within the resealed cavity, and the crispy convection oven finish. Dolsot bibimbap had plenty of crispy rice at the bottom of the stone bowl, and the accompanying banchan were soothing yet flavorful. Even dishes like a Malaysian goat stew resonated with rich, original flavors.
8300 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, (513)
898-1833, thepacific.kitchen. Lunch and dinner Mon & Wed–Sun, dim sum lunch Sat & Sun. MCC. $$
It has all the elements of your typical neighborhood Chinese restaurant: Strip mall location. General Tso and kung pao chicken. Fortune cookies accompanying the bill. The dragon decoration. But it is the nontraditional aspects of Raymond’s Hong Kong Café that allow it to stand apart. The menu goes beyond standard Chinese fare with dishes that range from Vietnamese (beef noodle soup) to American (crispy Cornish hen). The Portuguese-style baked chicken references Western European influences on Chinese cuisine with an assemblage of fried rice, peppers, carrots, broccoli, zucchini, and squash all simmering together in a creamy bath of yellow curry sauce. Deciding what to order is a challenge, but at least you won’t be disappointed.
11051 Clay Dr., Walton, (859) 485-2828. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC. $$
Most people who’ve eaten at Abigail Street have favorite dishes that they order every visit: the Moroccan spiced broccoli, for example, or the mussels charmoula, with its perfect balance of saffron, creaminess, and tomatoey acidity. Many of the new items on the menu have the same perfected feeling as these classics. Working within a loose framework of Middle Eastern and North African flavors, Abigail Street has never fallen into a routine that would sap its energy. New offerings like the wood-grilled kefta, with charred tomatoes, peppers, and whipped tahini, feel just as accomplished as old favorites like the falafel, beautifully moist and crumbly with a bright parsley interior.The restaurant is always watching for what works and what will truly satisfy, ready to sacrifice the superficially interesting in favor of the essential.
1214 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 421-4040, abigailstreet.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC, DS. $$
This Walnut Street spot draws on authentic Argentine recipes, including the empanadas. Choose from more than a dozen different crispy, perfectly cinched dough pockets, with fillings ranging from traditional (a mixture of cumin-spiced beef, hardboiled 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, (513) 345-8838, checincinnati.com. Lunch Tues–Sun, dinner seven days, brunch Sat & Sun. V, MCC, DC, AMEX. $$
What makes Crown Republic special isn’t its handful of outstanding dishes. It’s the place’s sheer consistency. No single dish is absolutely mindblowing or completely original, but when almost everything that comes out is genuinely tasty, the service is always friendly and attentive, and (stop the presses!) the bill is quite a bit less than you expected, you sit up and pay attention. The crab and avocado toast, served on toasted bread with lime juice and slivers of pickled Fresno chiles, is a prime example of what makes Crown Republic tick. The cocktails are equally unfussy and good, like the Tequila Honey Bee, made with tequila reposado, honey thyme syrup, lemon, bitters, and mezcal rinse, which adds a smoky kick.
720 Sycamore St., downtown, (513) 246-4272, crgcincy.com. Brunch, lunch and dinner Wed–Sun. V, MC, DS, AMEX. $$
The concept behind the name for Dear is that the restaurant is a kind of love letter from the team to the guests, to Hyde Park, and to Cincinnati. Occupying the old Teller’s spot on Hyde Park Square, it’s two establishments in one. One side is a full-service butchery that sells housemade sausages, wine, and coffee, and the other is a grand two-story restaurant. Animals, from pigs to cows, arrive weekly and are broken down in house, and turned into charcuterie and other cuts that make it into most of Dear’s dishes. The menu is small and focused, with dishes changing seasonally. This variability means the restaurant is serious about letting the availability of the best ingredients dictate what comes out. And if the dishes turn out to be as good as the spring carbonara, with its sugar snap pea tagliatelle, lemon, and mint, they can serve us whatever they want.
2710 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, (513) 321-2710, dear-restaurant.com. Dinner Tues–Sat, brunch Sun. MCC. $$$
This Milford restaurant playfully elevates diner classics. Breakfast is available all day so if you’re looking to greet the morning with decadence, try the ricotta toast, a thick slab of brioche toast smothered in ricotta and fresh, seasonal jams. Sandwiches also get an inventive twist here. The “Governor Tso’s chicken”—a crispy fried chicken breast glazed with a General Tso’s–inspired sauce, topped with apricot slaw and served on a toasted brioche bun—is a gigantic, happy mess of a sandwich, but the sweet glaze faintly evokes the namesake “General” while letting the sublimely fried chicken lead the charge. Order a side of crinkle cut fries and ask for the housemade Maple Thousand Island dipping sauce. (You’ll thank us later.)
231 Main St., Milford, (513) 239-8298, governordiner.com. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days. Brunch and lunch Sun. MCC. $
At Maplewood, you order at the counter, then find a table, and a server will deliver what you’ve selected. There’s no cohesive cuisine, rather, the menu takes its cue from all corners of the globe: chicken tinga, spaghetti pomodoro, a New York Strip steak, guajillo chicken are all represented, along with a satisfying pappardelle with housemade sausage. Brunch is available all day so try the light lemon ricotta pancakes or the satisfying avocado benedict.
525 Race St., downtown, (513) 421-2100, maplewoodkitchenandbar.com. Breakfast and lunch seven days. MCC. $$
After serving mofongo at Findlay Market for nearly four years, Mashroots opened its first brick-and-mortar spot in College Hill this year.
For the uninitiated, mofongo is a traditional Puerto Rican dish of mashed fried plantains with garlic and olive oil, typically served with protein and sauce. Here, you can get plantain, yuca, or sweet potato as your root and a protein, like skirt steak or pulled chicken. Top it off with veggies (pinkslaw, vinagrete, citruscarrot) and a sauce (pink mayo, anyone?), and wash it all down with refreshing cocktails made with rum and harderto-find spirits.
5903 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, (513) 6204126, mashroots.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sat, lunch and dinner Sun. MCC. $
In this Northside sandwich joint, the restaurant’s name pretty much dictates what you should get.
Diners have their choice of sandwiches, including the vegetarian cheesesteak—seitan (a meat substitute) topped with roasted onions, peppers, and provolone—and the J.L.R. Burger, a black bean or veggie patty served with cheese, tomato, lettuce and housemade vegan mayo. For those who require meat in their meals, try the verde chicken melt: juicy pieces of chicken intermingle with pesto, zucchini, and provolone. Not sure you’ll want a whole sandwich? Try one of the halvesies, a half-salad, half-soup selection popular with the lunch crowd.
4100 Hamilton Ave., Northside, (513) 818-8951, meltrevival.com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Fri, breakfast, lunch, and dinner Sat, brunch Sun. MCC, DS. $
501 Race St., downtown, (513) 421-6482, mitas.co. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC. $$$
To remind local diners that they were here before those young dog-toting punks with their exposed brick and crafty ales in Over-the-Rhine, Nicholson’s branded themselves Cincinnati’s “first and finest gastropub,” and revamped the menu to include plenty of snacks and small plates for grazing, and not-quite-brawny, straightforward sandwiches and main dishes. Try the Faroe Island salmon, bowl of cock-a-leekie soup, or check out the shepherd’s or Scottish BBQ style burgers or the turkey reuben with Russian dressing. And the bar’s clubby intimacy makes it easy to belly up and enjoy their impressive collection of single malts or a Scottish ale.
625 Walnut St., downtown, (513) 564-9111, nicholsonspub.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC. $$
pot shaped by immigration, particularly from Italy and Germany, and with plenty of meat on the plate. You see that mix in the menu, but Pampas puts parrillada, the Argentine method of cooking over an open flame, front and center. The chimichurri appears throughout the menu, and does wonders wherever it goes. Spicy, tart, and filled with the flavor of oregano, it wakes up the marinated skirt steak. Magnificent desserts deserve special mention. The dolce de leche crème brule, with its caramelized sugar crust and shaved chocolate, is particularly popular.
2036 Madison Rd., O’Bryonville, (513) 321-0863, pampascincinnati.com. Brunch Sun, dinner Tues–Sun. V, DS, MC, AMEX. $$
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It’s fitting that chef Jose Salazar named this restaurant after his grandmother, because there is something deeply homey about the food at Mita’s. With a focus on Spanish and Latin-American tapas, it always feels, in the best possible way, like elevated home cooking. Its sophistication is modestly concealed. The flavors are bold and direct, whether the spicy freshness of the ceviche de camarones with passionfruit leche de tigreor the intensely bright sourness of the pozole verde. In dishes like the alcochofas y hongos, the chef hits every register: the acid of red espelette peppers to balance the earthy ramp-garlic hummus, the crunchy pistachios against the soft sautéed mushrooms and artichoke hearts. But what mainly comes through is the warm-hearted affection a grandmother might have put into a meal for a beloved grandson. It’s the kind of big hug everyone needs from time to time.
This lively mash-up is a telling symbol of Earth+Ocean Restaurant Group’s flexible approach to traditional food. In what other Greek restaurant would the best cocktail be a smoky, chile-laced paloma, normally associated with Mexico? Or would the dish of lamb chops come dressed with gremolata, which we’ve never seen on anything but Italian food? E+O has always prided itself on its eclectic take on regional cuisine and they serve up something similarly fun and varied here. Those looking for classic Greek food will find plenty to satisfy them. The lamb kebabs, served ground, with the classic roasted tomato on the side; or the Via bowls, featuring tomatoes, olives, cucumbers, feta, red onion, tzatziki, and your choice of protein served atop a bed of couscous. The fun Okto has with Greek cuisine means there is already plenty that is good, plus plenty of room to grow.
645 Walnut St., downtown, (513) 632-9181, oktocincinnati.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$
Much like American food, Argentine cuisine is a melting
Dan Wright’s BBQ dream gets reincarnated as a wing joint and tiki drink emporium. The brisket still shows up on the brisket nachos, and the fried pickles and the cheesy grits didn’t go anywhere, but the smoked wings have taken center stage. Choose from one of three sauce options—BBQ, buffalo, or dry rub—pick your quantity, and chow down. If you’re feeling particularly spirited, you can try one of their original tiki cocktails. The cherry blossom, made with lightly aged Puerto Rican rum, whisks diners away with notes of coconut and lime.
1403 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 579-8500, pontiacbbq.com. Lunch Fri–Sun and dinner Wed–Sun, brunch Sun. MCC. $$
Owners Paul Weckman and Emily Wolff offer a pared down menu of five to seven rotating small plates, plus seven sandwiches. It’s simple but satisfying, with a small-town diner vibe. After a complete menu overhaul that shifted the restaurant away from its Pan-Asian street food concept, The Standard focuses on Americana classics, like smoked brisket chopped cheese, smash burgers, smoked wings, and chili.
434 Main St., Covington, (859) 360-0731, thestandardcov.com. Dinner Tues–Sun. MCC. $
This restaurant mixes Mediterranean influences with homespun choices, and he comes up with some marvelous food. Lamb meatballs with melted onions and romesco sauce are sweet and peppery, and their simplicity partners well with a lush Zinfandel. The excellent wine list, arranged by flavor profiles within the varietals, features dozens of varieties by the glass in five-ounce or two-ounce pours, which makes it easy to try several.
101 Main St., Milford, (513) 831-2749, 20brix.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DS, DC. $$
West African cuisine consists of mostly simple, home-style dishes of stews and grilled lamb with just enough of the exotic to offer a glimpse of another culture. Be prepared for a few stimulating sights and flavors that warm from within. An entire grilled tilapia—head and all—in a peppery citrus marinade and served on plantains with a side of Dijoncoated cooked onions is interesting enough to pique foodie interest without overwhelming the moderate eater. Stews of lamb or chicken with vegetables and rice are a milder bet, and Morrocan-style couscous with vegetables and mustard sauce accompanies most items. The dining room atmosphere is extremely modest with most of the action coming from the constant stream of carryout orders.
8438 Vine St., Hartwell, (513) 821-1300, terangacinci. com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC. $
The name of this restaurant demands that one question be answered first: So, how’s that view? Well, it’s impressive. Especially if the weather cooperates and you can get a seat outside. Most dishes are rotated out every six months, but a few remain staples from season to season. Try the panroasted chicken, featuring a Freebird Farms skin-on breast. Or go for the Chef’s Feast for Two, a shareable steak with an Argentine shrimp salad and two sides. The cocktail list offers
high, low, and zero proof options alongside a well-rounded beer and wine selection.
309 Vine St., 10th Floor, downtown, (513) 407-7501, theviewatshiresgarden.com. Dinner Tues–Sat, brunch Sat & Sun. MCC. $$$
Yuca is in The Fairfield’s former space, retaining much of the same modern, airy, and inviting café vibes with a neighborhood feel, but boasting a menu certainly worth a commute. In the mood for a hearty breakfast? Indulge in the Fat Zach, a heaping corn gordita packed to the brim with chicken, chorizo, and scrambled egg, served with avocado, pineapple pico, and sweet and spicy potatoes. There’s a full drink menu ranging from coffee to Bloody Marys—or a selection of margaritas and palomas if you’re looking to stick around.
700 Fairfield Ave., Bellevue, (859) 360-0110, yucabycedar.com. Breakfast and lunch Tues–Sun. MCC. $
Based on American stereotypes of French food—that it’s elaborate, elitist, and expensive—one might expect Chez Renée to fall on the chichi side. Instead, it’s elegant in an everyday way, operating on the principle that it is better to excel at simplicity than to badly execute something complicated. The formula is not complex: Simple ingredients, generally fresh and from nearby, prepared without much fuss. Warmed brie is served with thyme, almonds, fruit, and bread, and the chicken risotto is served with creamy mushrooms. This is solid, tasty food, both approachable and well executed. It’s well on its way to becoming, as a good bistrot should be, a neighborhood institution. 233 Main St., Milford, (513) 428-0454,
chezreneefrenchbistrot.com. Friday–Sat and dinner Wed–Sat. MCC. $$
Located in the old Globe Furniture building at the corner of Elm and Elder Streets, this Jean-Robert de Cavel creation offers French fare in the heart of Over-the-Rhine. Swing by for lunch and have a quiche Lorraine (French Crust’s quiches are unrivaled in our humble opinion) and an avocado and shrimp salad, or opt for a more hearty entree—like bouillabaisse or cassoulet—for dinner. If you’re an early bird, a Croque Monsieur (sunny side up egg) is a great way to start the day. 1801 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 455-3720, frenchcrustcafe.com. Breakfast and lunch Wed–Sun, dinner Thurs–Sun. MCC. $$
If it’s been a couple of years since you’ve been to Le Bar a Boeuf—Jean-Robert de Cavel’s fun-yet-refined French bistro located on the first floor of the Edgecliff Private Residences in East Walnut Hills—it may be time for a revisit. The formerly burger-centric menu now approaches the full repertoire of bistro classics. The menu reads like a greatest hits list of bistro fare, with escargot, beef tartare, duck leg confit, steak frites, and French onion soup all making appearances. As France’s influence on American fine dining has waned, it’s refreshing to see a restaurant committed to not only preserving the French classics but reinvigorating them.
2200 Victory Pkwy., East Walnut Hills, (513) 751-2333, barboeuf.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC. $$
Muthu “Kumar” Muthiah serves traditional southern Indian and Indo-Chinese vegetarian cuisine, but with a
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sizable Orthodox Jewish community nearby, Muthia 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, ammaskitchen.com. Lunch buffet seven days (all-vegan on Wed), dinner seven days. MC, V, DS. $
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. $
Everything about this place says it’s about the pizza: the herbed sauce, the assault of the cheese, the toppings. It’s all evenly distributed, so you get a taste in every bite. Adriatico’s still delivers the tastiest pizza in Clifton. On any given night the aroma wafts through every dorm on campus. It’s that popular because it’s that good. Being inexpensive doesn’t hurt either.
113 W. McMillan St., Clifton Heights, (513) 281-4344, adriaticosuc.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC. $
This Italian place hits the spot on all levels. It’s casual—we felt at home in jeans and a T-shirt—but not so casual to rule it out as a date-night spot. It’s friendly, with a staff that stays on top of refilling that Morretti La Rossa beer. And best of all, the food is amazing (especially for the price). We ranked their pizza the best in the city. Dubious? Their pizza Margherita will make a believer out of you. Their lasagna, spaghetti, and eggplant Parmesan will have you crying Mama Mia and other Italian-sounding phrases. Their dessert options (Cannoli! Tiramisu! Amaretto cream cake!) are all homemade, and delicious to the very last bite. 3764 Montgomery Rd., Norwood, (513) 631-6836. Lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Mon–Sat. MC, V. $$
or the balance of bitterness, funkiness, and creaminess in the endive and Gorgonzola salad. Order an old favorite, by all means, but make sure you try something new, too.
1420 Sycamore St., Pendleton, (513) 721-6200, nicolasotr.com. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DC, DS. $$$
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 rolls, 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, padrinoitalian. com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$
Besides offering the old world flavors of Italy, Primavista also serves up a specialty no other restaurant can match: a bird’s eye view of Cincinnati from the west side. The kitchen is equally comfortable with northern and southern regional specialties: a Venetian carpaccio of paper thin raw beef sparked by fruity olive oil; house-made fresh mozzarella stuffed with pesto and mushrooms; or artichoke hearts with snails and mushrooms in a creamy Gorgonzola sauce from Lombardy. Among the classics, nothing is more restorative than the pasta e fagioli, a hearty soup of cannellini, ditali pasta, and bacon. Most of the pastas are cooked just a degree more mellow than al dente so that they soak up the fragrant tomato basil or satiny cream sauces. The forktender osso buco Milanese, with its marrow-filled center bone and salty-sweet brown sauce (marinara and lemon juice), is simply superb. Desserts present further problems; you’ll be hard-pressed to decide between the house-made tiramisu or bread pudding with caramel sauce, marsala soaked raisins, and cream.
810 Matson Pl., Price Hill, (513) 251-6467, pvista.com. Dinner Wed–Sun. MCC, DC, DS. $$
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 vegan torta di ceci. At the base of the dish is a light, flaky farinata—a griddled pancake made out of chickpea flour. Topped with pickled red onion, and covered with nectarine and toasted almonds, the whole dish is rounded out with a touch of tangy sweetness from a blackberry balsamic vinaigrette. Everything at Subito is done with intelligence and a light touch.
311 Pike St., downtown, (513) 621-4500, thelytleparkhotel.com/dining/subito. Breakfast and lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Mon–Sat, brunch Sat & Sun. MCC. $$
ponzu sauce—a dipping sauce made of rice vinegar, soy sauce, mirin, and citrus juice—and the kind of yakitori that you can find on the streets of New York. Bento boxes—lacquered wooden boxes divided into compartments—offer the neophyte a sampling of several small dishes. Mei’s are lovely: deep red and stocked with tempura, cooked salmon, sashimi, stewed vegetables, and a fabulous egg custard with shrimp and gingko nut. Mei’s sushi—nigiri, maki, and handrolls—is exceptionally good with quality cuts of fresh seafood. The staff is knowledgeable, extremely efficient, respectful, and attentive, even when it’s at peak capacity.
8608 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, (513) 891-6880, meijapaneserestaurant.com. Lunch Sat & Sun, dinner Tues–Sun. MCC, DS. $$
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 timetested. Bowls of ramen come with a marinated soft-boiled 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. $$
After the closing of Sung Korean Bistro, Haru is a welcome addition to the downtown scene. Dishes are served along with the usual Korean accompaniment of pickles, kimchi, fish cakes, and other mysteriously delicious dainties. A favorite is the japchae, a traditional dish sporting silky sweet potato noodles with sesame-and-garlic sauce, matchsticks of assorted crisp vegetables, and behind it all a wonderful smokiness that pervades the whole meal. The accompanying pot of gochujang, a fermented Korean chili paste, adds its own sweet and spicy note. The result is a homey, soulful, and satisfying taste that appeals even to those who’ve never eaten a bite of Korean food before. 628 Vine St., downtown, (513) 381-0947, harucincy.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat. MCC. $$
Chef/Restaurateur Cristian Pietoso carries on the legacy of his father, Nicola, as the elder Pietoso’s Over-the-Rhine eatery celebrates 25 years in business. Nicola’s has entered a new era of exuberant creativity under the leadership of chef Jack Hemmer. 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 candied slice of blood orange on the mascarpone cheesecake to the staff’s wine knowledge—is going to put out special meals. Rarely have humble insalate been so intricately delicious, between the perfectly nested ribbons of beets in the pickled beet salad
Kiki started as a pop-up at Northside Yacht Club, then leapt into brick-and-mortar life in College Hill. Your best bet here is to share plates, or simply order too much, starting with the shishito buono, a piled-high plate of roasted shishito peppers tossed in shaved parmesan and bagna cauda, a warm, rich blend of garlic and anchovies. Add the karaage fried chicken, with the Jordy mayo and the pepe meshi, confit chicken on spaghetti and rice that somehow works. And, yes, the ramen, too. The shio features pork belly and tea-marinated soft-boiled egg, but the kimchi subs in tofu and its namesake cabbage for the meat.
5932 Hamilton Ave., College Hill, (513) 541-0381, kikicincinnati.com. Lunch Sun and dinner Wed–Sat. MCC. $
Mei’s menu is meant to represent traditional Japanese cuisine, appealing to the novice as well as the sushi maven. It is divided into sections that encourage a progressive meal of small dishes: One each for hot and cold appetizers, noodles, sushi and sashimi, special rolls, soups and salads, sushi dinners (with miso soup), and combinations (such as tempura paired with sashimi). Deep-fried soft shell crab comes with
Come for the jo gi mae un tang—a bowl of sizzling, happy hellbroth pungent with red pepper, garlic, and ginger, crowded with nuggets of fish, tofu, and vegetables. Come for the restorative power of sam gae tang, a chicken soup for the Seoul—a whole Cornish hen submerged in its own juices and plumped with sticky rice and ginseng, dried red dates, and pine nuts. Revered for their medicinal properties, both dinner-sized soups will leave your eyes glistening and your brow beaded with sweat. They’re 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. Lunch Tues–Fri, dinner Tues–Sun. MCC, DS. $$
is described as a “Turkish Egg Roll,” wrapping feta and fresh and dried herbs into phyllo dough, and frying it lightly to brittle flakiness. The pastry arrives atop a vivid cherry tomato marmalade, which adds a welcome dimension of barely sweet fruitiness. While there is a smooth, simple hummus on the menu, you should go for the classic sucuklu hummus, which is spiked with sujuk, a common beef sausage popular all over the Middle East.
3520 Erie Ave., East Hyde Park, (513) 871-8714, mediterranean-cafe.com. Lunch Mon–Sat, dinner seven days. MCC. $$
Steak, eggs, and home fries. Jumbo haddock sandwich with Greek fries. Chocolate chip hot cakes with bacon. Notice something wrong with this menu? Chicken Philly cheese steak sandwich with Olympic onion rings. Yep, it’s obvious: What’s wrong with this menu is that there’s nothing wrong with this menu. Greek feta cheese omelette with a side of ham. It’s been owned by the same family for more than 30 years. Santorini has diner standards, like cheeseburgers, chili five ways, and breakfast anytime, but they also make some Greek pastries in house, like spanakopita and baklava.
3414 Harrison Ave., Cheviot, (513) 662-8080. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner Mon–Sat, breakfast and lunch Sun. Cash. $
When the wind is just right, you can smell the meat roasting from a mile away. Watch owner Alex Vassiliou tend to 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. Alex’s wife and daughter run the counter with efficient speed, and whether you’re having a crisp Greek salad with house-made dressing, triangles of spanikopita, or simply the best walnut and honey baklava this side of the Atlantic (often made by the Mrs.), they never miss a beat, turning more covers in their tiny restaurant on one Saturday afternoon than some restaurants do in an entire weekend.
5209 Glenway Ave., Price Hill, (513) 471-2100, sebastiansgyros.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sat. Cash. $
Guests with dietary issues, high anxiety, and no Spanish may take a pass, but for hardy souls, this taqueria delivers a memorable evening. Seafood dishes are the star here—ceviche tostadas, crisp corn tortillas piled high with pico de gallo, avocado, and lime-tastic bits of white fish, squid, and crab; the oversized goblet of cocktel campechano, with ample poached shrimp crammed into a Clamato-heavy gazpacho; and simmering sopa de marisco came with langoustines, mussels, crab legs, and an entire fi sh—enough to feed three.
6717 Vine St., Carthage, (513) 821-5400, valle-verde3.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. $
It’s easy to find a cheap burrito place around a college campus, but you’d be hard-pressed to find one as consistently good as Habañero, with its flavors of Latin America and the Caribbean wrapped up in enormous packages. Fried tilapia, apricot-glazed chicken breast, hand-rubbed spiced flank steak, shredded pork tenderloin, or cinnamon-roasted squash are just some of the ingredients for Habañero’s signature burritos. All salsas are house-made, from the smoky tomato chipotle to the sweet-sounding mango jalapeño, which is hot enough to spark spontaneous combustion.
358 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, (513) 961-6800, habanerolatin.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DC, DS. $
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. Their crispy brussels, served with chipotle honey and candied ancho pepitas, are a deliciously intriguing starter.
600 Walnut St., downtown, (513) 721-6232, eatdrinknada.com. Lunch Mon–Fri, dinner seven days, brunch Sat & Sun. MCC, DS. $$
On a Saturday night, Taqueria Mercado is a lively fiesta, with seemingly half of the local Hispanic community guzzling margaritas and cervezas, or carrying out sacks of burritos and carnitas tacos—pork tenderized by a long simmer, its edges frizzled and crispy. The Mercado’s strip mall interior, splashed with a large, colorful mural, is equally energetic: the bustling semi-open kitchen; a busy counter that handles a constant stream of take-out orders; a clamorous, convivial chatter in Spanish and English. Try camarones a la plancha, 12 chubby grilled shrimp tangled with grilled onions (be sure to specify if you like your onions well done). The starchiness of the rice absorbs the caramelized onion juice, offset by the crunch of lettuce, buttery slices of avocado, and the cool-hot pico de gallo. A shrimp quesadilla paired with one of their cheap and potent margaritas is worth the drive alone.
6507 Dixie Hwy., Fairfield, (513) 942-4943; 100 E. Eighth St., downtown, (513) 381-0678, tmercadocincy. com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $
The daily rotation here reads like a fisherman’s wish list: fresh lobsters from the coast of Maine, ahi tuna from Hawaii, clams from New England. But high-quality ingredients are only half the equation; preparation is the other. Herb-broth sea bass, served with roasted fingerling potatoes, makes the taste buds dance. The spacious digs and attentive waitstaff bring a touch of class to Fountain Square, and make it a sophisticated destination. It’s likely to remain a favorite. After all, it’s right in the middle of things.
21 E. Fifth St., downtown, (513) 721-9339, mccormickandschmicks.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DC, DS. $$
Over-the-Rhine’s buzzworthy oyster bar marks owner Terry Raley and his Amaranth Hospitality Group’s first foray outside of Nashville. The oysters—flown in every 24 to 36 hours—are delivered on a bed of crushed ice with lemon wedges and a vinegary herbed mignonette sauce. Add a few refreshing drops of lemon and mignonette, mix in the additional fresh horseradish, house-made hot sauce, or cocktail sauce, and slurp your way to the sea. The entrées (Pearl “Stars,” as they’re called on the menu) are equal parts surf and turf, with the Arctic char and Texas redfish living up to the “star” billing. The char, with its topping of lemon caper butter, was creamy enough to eat by the spoonful while the soft, spicy redfish was flecked with a chocolaty chorizo oil that tasted like a master chef’s take on Cincinnati chili. All of this can be washed down with PearlStar’s extensive drink menu, including cleverly named cocktails like Summer Dreamsicle and House Cup #1.
1220 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 381-0427, pearl-star.com. Dinner Wed–Sun, brunch Sun. MCC. $$
When Mapi De Veyra and Kam Siu, the duo behind DOPE! and Decibel Korean Fried Chicken, took over Pelican’s Reef in late 2021, they weren’t looking to make too many changes. Varieties of fresh fish still
rotate daily across the 10-by-2-foot chalkboard: mahi-mahi from the Gulf, Lake Erie walleye, wild Alaskan salmon, wreckfish from South Carolina, rainbow trout, and wild striped bass make up the majority of the featured dishes. The regular offerings are no slouch either: a Cajun grouper sandwich with chipotle tartar sauce, chubby fi sh tacos, perfectly fried piping hot oysters tucked into a buttered and toasted po’ boy bun with housemade slaw, and tart-sweet key lime pie. And of course, the damn good New England style chowder.
7261 Beechmont Ave., Anderson Twp., (513) 232-2526, the pelicansreef.com. Lunch Tues-Sat, dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DS. $$
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—yes, totally out of season, but still good—is at least freshly cut off the cob and recalls elote with lime and chile.
1401 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 2464213, losantiotr.com. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC. $$$
Chef Michelle Brown’s food is deeply flavored, if occasionally a bit busy, her steaks of the butterymild variety, with not too much salty char crust. All five cuts are served with veal demi-glace and fried onion straws. According to my steak-centric dining partner, his cowboy ribeye is “too tender and uniform” (as if that’s a crime). “I like to wrestle with the bone,” he adds, though that’s a scenario that, thankfully, doesn’t get played out in this subdued dining room.
5980 West Chester Rd., West Chester, (513) 860-5353, jags.com. Dinner Tues–Sat. MCC, DC. $$$
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. White-jacketed waiters with floor-length aprons 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, even the willowy model types, inhale slabs of beef (dry aged USDA prime) like they’re dining in a
crack house for carnivores. The best of these is Jeff Ruby’s Cowboy: , 22 ounces of 70-day dryaged bone-in rib eye. This is steak tailor-made for movers and shakers.
505 Vine St., downtown, (513) 784-1200, jeffruby.com. Dinner Mon–Sat. MCC, DC. $$$$
Part of the appeal of the Ruby restaurants is their ability to deliver deep, comfort-food satisfaction. And the steaks. The meat is tender with a rich mineral flavor, and the signature seasoning provided a nice crunch, not to mention blazing heat. The supporting cast is strong—the basket of warm Tribeca Oven bread with a mushroom truffle butter, the addictive baked macaroni and cheese, the creamy garlic mashed potatoes, the crisp-tender asparagus with roasted garlic and lemon vinaigrette—and dinner ends on a sweet note with a piece of Ruby family recipe cheesecake. Neither cloyingly sweet nor overwhelmingly creamy, it’s a lovely slice of restraint.
311 Delta Ave., Columbia-Tusculum, (513) 321-5454, jeffruby.com/precinct. Dinner seven days. MCC. $$$$
He is a captivating presence, Tony Ricci. Best known for his 30 years in fine dining—including the Jeff Ruby empire while managing the venerable Precinct—Ricci has built a life in the hospitality industry. Much of Tony’s menu is right out of a steakhouse playbook: jumbo shrimp and king crab legs from the raw bar; Caprese, Greek, and Caesar salads; sides of creamed spinach, mac-and-cheese, asparagus, and sautéed mushrooms; toppings of roasted garlic or Gorgonzola butters to accompany your center cut of filet mignon. There are boutique touches, though, that make it stand out—a garlic
Restaurant entrepreneur Ai Lin—the former owner of Sichuan Chili Chinese Restaurant in Evendale who currently operates Gyu-Kaku Japanese restaurant in Kenwood—recently opened a Paris Baguette franchise downtown. The French-style South Korean bakery, located at 407 Race Street, is one of fewer than 90 locations in the United States and the only one in Ohio.
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herb aioli with the calamari, steak tartare torch-kissed and topped with a poached egg, a superb rack of lamb rubbed with aromatic sumac and served with mint pesto.
12110 Montgomery Rd., Symmes Township, (513) 6778669, tonysofcincinnati.com. Dinner seven days. MCC, DS. $$$$
Inside this simple dining room, replete with soothing browns and greens and handsome, dark wood furniture, it takes time to sort through the many curries and chef’s specialties, not to mention the wide variety of sushi on the something-for-everyone menu. Have the staff—friendly, attentive, and knowledgeable—help you. When the food arrives, you’ll need only a deep inhale to know you made the right choice. The Green Papaya sushi rolls are as delicious as they look, with a manic swirl of spicy mayo and bits of crabstick and crispy tempura batter scattered atop the spicy tuna, mango, cream cheese, and shrimp tempura sushi—all rolled in a vivid green soybean wrap.
2942 Wasson Rd., Oakley, (513) 731-0107, greenpapayacincinnati.com. Lunch Mon–Sat, dinner seven days. MCC. $$
Nestled in the nearly hidden Market Place Lane, this tiny restaurant isn’t exactly slick. A chalkboard lists the day’s specials, usually spicy dishes worthy of an adventurous diner. But if it’s noodle dishes and curries you’re after, Sukhothai’s pad kee mao—wide rice noodles stir-fried with basil—is the best around. Served slightly charred, the fresh and dried chilies provide enough heat to momentarily suspend your breath. Pad Thai has the right amount of
crunch from peanuts, slivers of green onion, and mung sprouts to contrast with the slippery glass noodles, and a few squeezes of fresh lime juice give it a splendid tartness. The crispy tamarind duck is one of the best house specials, the meat almost spreadably soft under the papery skin and perfectly complemented by the sweet-tart bite of tamarind.
8102 Market Place Lane, Montgomery, (513) 794-0057, sukhothaicincin.com. Lunch Tues–Fri, dinner Tues–Sat. DS, MC, V. $
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-the-Rhine, 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 long-time 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, teakotr. com. Lunch and dinner Tues–Sun. MCC. $$
Wild Ginger Asian Bistro’s ability to satisfy a deep desire for Vietnamese and Thai fusion cuisine is evidenced by their signature Hee Ma roll—a fortress of seaweed-wrapped rolls filled with shrimp tempura, asparagus, avocado, and topped with red tuna, pulled crab stick, tempura flakes, a bit of masago, scallions, and of course, spicy mayo. It’s tasty, even though the sweet fried floodwall of tempura and spicy mayo overpowered the tuna completely. The spicy pad char entrée
was a solid seven out of 10: broccoli, carrots, cabbage, succulent red bell peppers, green beans, and beef, accented with basil and lime leaves in a peppercorn-and-chili brown sauce.
3655 Edwards Rd., Hyde Park, (513) 533-9500, wildgingercincy.com. Lunch and dinner Mon–Sun. MCC, DS. $$
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 that should make canned energy drinks obsolete.
1828 Race St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 376-9177, pholangthang.com. Lunch and dinner seven days. MCC, DS, DC. $
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WHEN SHILLITO’S OPENED AT SEVENTH AND RACE IN 1878, IT WAS CROWNED THE LARGEST department store in the country and lauded as “the dry goods palace of the world”—a shopping wonderland that required 1,000 employees each day just to keep operations running. The brand eventually morphed into Lazarus, then Macy’s, but the old building still stands, repurposed in 1998 into 97 market-rate apartments dubbed The Lofts at Shillito Place. Renovating an old department store wasn’t without its surprises. While researching the building’s history, Towne Properties discovered a poster celebrating the city’s 100th birthday and displaying what looked like a massive glass atrium sitting right atop Shillito’s. “Nobody knew that there was an atrium in the building at all when we took the building over,” says Arn Bortz, former Cincinnati mayor and partner at Towne Properties. Sure enough, when contractors pulled back the plywood, they uncovered the skeleton of the skylight that architect James McLaughlin designed to resemble Le Bon Marche, an iconic department store in Paris. With help from artist Rick Janney, Towne Properties was able to completely recreate the hexagonal atrium, right down to the original Victorian paint colors and intricate floral patterns that breathed life and light into the Shillito’s of yesterday. —LAUREN FISHER
