Longstreet doctors recognized

Eight Longstreet Clinic physicians recently earned recognition as Atlanta Magazine’s Top Doctors for 2024.

The honorees are:

Alexander Allaire, MD, MSPH, Perinatology
J. Fernando Aycinena, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Colon & Rectal Surgery
Marti Gibbs, MD, FAAFP, Family Medicine
Betsy Grunch, MD, FAANS, FACS, Neurosurgery
Saima Hussain, MD, FACP, Pediatrics
Karl Schultz Jr., MD, FAANS, FACS, Neurosurgery
Priscilla Strom, MD, FACS, Breast Surgery
Eric Velazquez, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS, Bariatric Surgery

This represents the ninth year Dr. Gibbs has earned this distinction and the eighth year for Dr. Allaire and Dr. Schultz. Drs. Grunch and Strom also make their third appearances in the honors. Dr. Velazquez, who was featured on the cover last year, makes his second appearance. Velazquez joined Longstreet Clinic in October 2021; previously was named a top doctor in surgery by Philadelphia magazine from 2018 to 2021. This is the second time making the feature for Dr. Aycinena and the first appearance for Dr. Hussain.

Each July, Atlanta Magazine recognizes the achievements of Metro Atlanta physicians

Eight named 2024 Atlanta Magazine ‘Top Doctors’ – Longstreet Clinic

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.