Top Doctor Awards & Statewide Recognition
Below you’ll find the awards that prove why patients choose our clinic year after year.
AY’s Best
2025 Best of the Best
- Winner – Best Orthopedic Group – OrthoArkansas
- Winner – Sports Medicine Clinic – OrthoArkansas
- Nominee – Best Pain Center
- Nominee – Best Doctor-Owned Hospital
- Nominee – Best Hand Surgeon – Brian Norton, MD
2025 AY Best Healthcare Professionals
- Hand Surgery: Jeanine Andersson, MD
- Foot & Ankle: Troy Ardoin, MD
- Hand Surgeon: Matthew Burn, MD
- Hand Surgeon: . Kirk Grynwald, MD
- Hand Surgeon: Brian Norton, MD
- Hand Surgeon: Richard Wirges, MD
- Nonsurgical Interventional Pain Management: Drew Beasley, MD
- Nonsurgical Interventional Pain Management: Gunter Cain, MD
- Nonsurgical Interventional Pain Management: Gary Frankowski, MD
- Nonsurgical Interventional Pain Management: Stephen Paulus, MD
- Nonsurgical Interventional Pain Management: Brent Walker, MD
- Nurse Practitioner: Rebekah Young, APRN
- Orthopedics: Victor Vargas, MD
- Physician Assistant: Kristen Wagner, PA-C
- Physician Assistant: Maggie Brown, PA-C
- Sports Medicine: Ethan Schock, MD
- Sports Medicine: Jonathan Wyatt, MD
2024
- Nominee – Best Orthopedic Group – OrthoArkansas
- Nominee – Best Sports Medicine Clinic – OrthoArkansas
2023
- Nominee – Best Foot & Ankle Surgeon – Troy Ardoin, MD
2022
- Nominee – Best Doctor-Owned Hospital/Facility – OrthoArkansas
- Nominee – Best Hand Surgery – Jeanine Andersson, MD
- Nominee – Best Sports Medicine Clinic – OrthoArkansas
- Nominee – Best Upper Extremity Surgeon – Richard Wirges, MD
2021
- Nominee – Best Doctor-Owned Hospital/Facility – OrthoArkansas
- Nominee – Best Orthopedic Group – OrthoArkansas
- Winner – Best Sports Medicine Clinic – OrthoArkansas
2019
- Winner – Best Sports Medicine Clinic – OrthoArkansas
Arkansas Democrat Gazette “Best of the Best”
2024
- Best Orthopedic Surgeon – Kirk Reynolds, MD
- Best Urgent Care – OrthoArkansas Urgent Care
- Best Physical Therapy Center – OrthoArkansas Physical Therapy
Soirée Top Docs
2025
- Hand Surgery: Jeanine Andersson, MD
- Hand Surgery: Richard Wirges, MD
- Hand Surgery: Brian Norton, MD
- Hand Surgery: David Black
- Anesthesiology: Jacob Lewis, MD
- Orthopedic Surgery: Eric Gordon, MD
- Orthopedic Surgery: Gordon Newbern, MD
- Orthopedic Surgery: Michael Hussey, MD
- Orthopedics: Kirk Reynolds, MD
- Orthopedics: P. Allan Smith, MD
- Orthopedics: Troy Ardoin, MD
- Pain Management: Drew Beasley, MD
- Pain Management: Brent Walker, MD
- Pain Management: Gary Frankowski, MD
- Pain Management: Gunter Cain, MD
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: Stephen Paulus, MD
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: Rodrigo Cayme, MD
- Spine Surgery: Ikemefuna Onyekwelu, MD
- Spine Surgery: Jason Smith, MD
- Spine Surgery: Justin Seale, MD
- Sports Medicine: Jonathan Wyatt, MD
2024
- Hand Surgery: Jeanine Andersson MD · Brian Norton MD · Richard Wirges MD
- Neurological Surgery: Anthony Capocelli MD
- Orthopedic Surgery: Eric Gordon MD · Michael Hussey MD · Gordon Newbern MD · Kirk Reynolds MD · Jonathan Wyatt MD
- Orthopedics: Victor Vargas MD
- Pain Management: Gary Frankowski MD · Brent Walker MD
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: Rodrigo Cayme MD
- Spine Surgery: Ikemefuna Onyekwelu MD · Richard Peek MD · Justin Seale MD
- Sports Medicine: Ethan Schock MD
Arkansas Times
2025
- Winner- Best Sports Medicine Clinic
- Winner- Best Pain Specialist- Brent Walker, MD
- Top 5- Best Orthopedic Surgeon- Troy Ardoin
- Top 5- Best Orthopedic Surgeon- Tad Pruitt, MD
- Top 5- Best Orthopedic Surgeon- Ethan Schock, MD
Arkansas Money and Politics
2025
- Future Icons- Drew Beasley, MD
- Future Icons- Derrick Henry, MD
- Most Admired Companies- OrthoArkansas
- Champions of Health Care- Physician Assistant- Maggie Brown, PA-C
2024
- Champions of Health Care- Nurse Practitioner- Rebekah Young, APRN
2022
- Champions of Health Care- Health Care Clinics- OrthoArkansas
2021
- Champions of Health Care- Physician Assistant- Trent Tappan, PA-C
2020
- Champions of Health Care- Physician- Gordon Newbern, MD
- Champions of Health Care- Physician Assistant- Trent Tappan, PA-C
