One of the strongest overall primary-care picks in the area: a Washingtonian 2025 Top Doctor with excellent Johns Hopkins patient ratings and Harvard training.
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Best Doctors in North Bethesda, MD (2026)
A growing Pike District hub with Johns Hopkins Community Physicians and convenient access off the Rockville Pike corridor. Below are 19 top-rated physicians serving North Bethesda, ranked by our editorial team on credentials, peer recognition, and verified patient reviews.
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A strong patient-experience profile with broad adult primary-care scope, including women’s health and preventive medicine, and care in four languages.
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A Tufts-trained orthodontist on Rockville Pike known for taking on the complex cases other offices call impossible — and for hundreds of near-perfect patient reviews.
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A nationally recognized cosmetic and dermatologic surgeon, Johns Hopkins–trained and a former chief resident, now co-leading ICON Dermatology & Aesthetics in North Bethesda.
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Director-level urogynecologic surgeon at MedStar's National Center for Advanced Pelvic Surgery, an oral board examiner for the FPMRS subspecialty boards, with 80+ peer-reviewed publications on prolapse and mesh repair.
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A modern Pike District practice with late-evening and Saturday hours — Dr. Nikkhah pairs cosmetic and general dentistry with state-of-the-art technology right off Rockville Pike.
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A Master of the Academy of General Dentistry who has run the same Old Georgetown Road practice since 1991 — the continuing-education credential that separates career-long learners from the rest.
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A double board-certified plastic surgeon with three decades of experience and repeat Washingtonian recognition, known for breast and body contouring at his Rockville practice.
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Duke-trained urogynecologist and Director of Research for MedStar's urogynecology division, known for a conservative-first approach to incontinence and pelvic floor disorders before considering surgery.
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A board-certified dermatologist and former chief resident with deep training in cosmetic dermatology and cutaneous laser surgery at ICON Dermatology & Aesthetics.
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A Checkbook- and Arlington Magazine–recognized dentist in the Pike District who offers composite and Bioclear options — the conservative alternatives most veneer-first practices skip.
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A veteran board-certified plastic surgeon and founder of the Washington Plastic Surgery Group with nearly four decades of cosmetic and reconstructive experience.
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One of the few urologists in the country with OB/GYN-based fellowship training in female pelvic medicine, giving patients both bladder and pelvic-floor expertise in a single consultation.
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A patient-centered CloseKnit physician assistant offering same- and next-day primary, preventive, and women's health care in Bethesda — in person and by telehealth across Maryland.
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A board-certified plastic surgeon who grew up in Potomac and returned home to open her own Rockville practice, offering personalized face, breast, and body surgery plus non-surgical care.
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A Vietnamese-born, Vietnamese-speaking Rockville dentist who graduated at the top of his class at Maryland and served as chief resident in advanced general dentistry — an extra hospital year most general dentists never do.
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A board-certified family physician at CloseKnit's North Bethesda office, caring for patients and families of all backgrounds in English, Hindi, and Urdu.
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A board-certified family physician at One Medical in North Bethesda caring for all ages — with a public-health background and a focus on patient education and health equity.
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An Amharic-speaking gastroenterologist and hepatologist, board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine, with fellowship training at Howard and focused liver training at Johns Hopkins.
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By the numbers
- 19
- doctors serving North Bethesda in our registry — 14% of all 139
- 4
- countries of medical training across 13 schools
- 33%
- did residency in the DC–Baltimore area (of 12 whose residency we record)
- 5
- confirmed accepting new patients (of 5 we checked)
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Training figures cover the 14 of 19 profiles that record a medical school. How we build this list.
Where they trained
The 14 doctors serving North Bethesda whose medical school we could place studied at 13 institutions in 4 countries — 4 (29%) trained outside the United States.
- 10United States
- 2India
- 1Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 1Ethiopia
All 13 schools
- University of Maryland School of Medicine — Baltimore, MD (2 doctors)
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine — Cleveland, OH
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons — New York, NY
- Deccan College of Medical Sciences — Hyderabad, Telangana
- Georgetown University School of Medicine — Washington, DC
- Harvard Medical School — Boston, MA
- Jimma University — Jimma, Oromia
- New York University College of Dentistry — New York, NY
- St. John's Medical College — Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Tufts University School of Dental Medicine — Boston, MA
- UConn School of Medicine — Farmington, CT
- University of Maryland School of Dentistry — Baltimore, MD
- University of Medicine and Health Sciences — Basseterre, Saint Kitts
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 14 of 19 profiles whose medical school we could place on the map; 5 record none. How we build this list.