{"id":24906,"date":"2025-08-26T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/?p=24906"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:12:59","slug":"cooper-foot-and-ankle-surgeon-named-among-americas-best-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/2025\/08\/cooper-foot-and-ankle-surgeon-named-among-americas-best-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Foot and Ankle Surgeon Named Among America\u2019s Best in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/doctors\/michael-kimball-md\"><strong>Michael J. Kimball, MD<\/strong><\/a>, a Cooper orthopaedic surgeon, has been named one of <strong>America&#8217;s Leading Doctors 2025<\/strong> by <em>Newsweek<\/em> and <em>Statista<\/em>\u2014<strong>an honor awarded to just 2,000 physicians nationwide and 150 physicians in his specialty nationwide<\/strong>. This elite recognition celebrates clinical excellence, with selection based on rigorous criteria, including physician performance data from Medicare, peer recommendations, quality assessments, and certifications by the American Board of Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kimball specializes in foot and ankle surgery, offering both non-surgical treatments and advanced minimally invasive and arthroscopic techniques to treat a wide range of adult foot and ankle conditions. These include sports injuries, foot and ankle deformities, and traumatic injuries such as fractures or ligament and tendon tears. He also provides expert care for arthritis and adult flatfoot deformity. Dr. Kimball sees patients at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/locations\/cooper-specialty-care-cherry-hill\">Cherry Hill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/locations\/moorestown-campus-400-NJ-38-Moorestown-NJ\">Moorestown<\/a> office locations.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Dr. Kimball, on this well-deserved achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael J. Kimball, MD, a Cooper orthopaedic surgeon, has been named one of America&#8217;s Leading Doctors 2025 by Newsweek and Statista\u2014an honor awarded to just 2,000 physicians nationwide and 150 physicians in his specialty nationwide. This elite recognition celebrates clinical excellence, with selection based on rigorous criteria, including physician performance data from Medicare, peer recommendations, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/weeklyrounds\/2025\/08\/cooper-foot-and-ankle-surgeon-named-among-americas-best-in-2025\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-mlongshore","4":"post-24906","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cooper Foot and Ankle Surgeon Named Among America\u2019s Best in 2025 - Weekly Rounds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cooper Foot and Ankle Surgeon Named Among America\u2019s Best in 2025 - Weekly Rounds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael J. 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