Managing Editor

Ariana Donalds Dawes, a New York native and former copy chief for Time Out New York guidebooks, is the founding managing editor of Seattle Met.

Ariana ensures general quality control across all media, from the monthly print magazine, mobile device editions, and email newsletters to the website, blogs, and apps. In addition being Seattle Met’s copy editor, policing grammar and style, she creates budgets and schedules, spearheads annual Top Doctors and Top Dentists surveys, and, when lucky, conducts the occasional Q&A with touring comedians like Bob Odenkirk.

During her tenure, Seattle Met has received dozens of awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and City and Regional Magazine Association. Her writing has also appeared in National Magazine Award–winning publications Print and Metropolis. She graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s in English literature and a minor in theater and dance.

Stay Healthy

Top Doctors 2018

Where to find the best care, citywide.

09/21/2018 Edited by Ariana Dawes

Say Cheese

Top Dentists 2018

The 781 best dentists in the Seattle metropolitan area.

09/21/2018 Edited by Ariana Dawes

Best of the City

Top Doctors 2018

Our 13th annual list of the best health care professionals in the Seattle area features 753 doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and more in 78 specialties.

07/17/2018 Edited by Ariana Dawes

Methodology

Top Dentists 2018

781 of the best practitioners in the Seattle metropolitan area.

01/15/2018 Edited by Ariana Dawes

Best of the City

Top Doctors 2017

Our 12th annual list of the best health care professionals in the Seattle area features 791 doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and more in 100 specialties.

07/20/2017 Edited by Ariana Dawes

Best of the City

Top Dentists 2017

765 of the best practitioners in the Seattle metropolitan area.

12/20/2016 By Ariana Dawes

Best of the City

Top Doctors 2016

Our 11th annual list of the best health practitioners in the Seattle area feature 911 doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and more in 100 specialties.

07/04/2016 By Ariana Dawes

Best of the City

Top Dentists 2016

701 of the best practitioners in the Seattle metropolitan area.

12/28/2015 By Ariana Dawes

Top Doctors

Top Doctors and Nurses 2015: How We Made the List

1,065 practitioners in 82 specialties made this year’s list of top doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and complementary care givers in the Seattle metro area.

08/04/2015 Edited by Ariana Dawes and Darren Davis