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UCI Health Physicians Receive 'Best Doctors' Honor

January 15, 2012
 Best Doctors

More than 90 UCI Health physicians have earned the distinction of being named Best Doctors in America® in the latest peer-reviewed list compiled by Best Doctors, Inc.

The independent organization asked more than 50,000 physicians across the nation to identify the most skilled among their peers in more than 400 medical subspecialties. The comprehensive survey began with the question, "Who would you choose to treat a loved one’s complex medical condition?"

The anonymous and confidential poll information was put through rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis by Best Doctors. Physicians named “Best Doctors in America®” represent the top 5 percent of their peers nationwide.

Many of the following physicians at UCI Medical Center, Orange County’s only university medical center and hospital, have been recognized as “Best Doctors®” for 2011-2012 in more than one category:

Cardiovascular Disease
Morton J. Kern, MD
Dawn Marie Lombardo, DO, MS

Colon and Rectal Surgery
Steven D. Mills, MD
Michael J. Stamos, MD

Critical Care Medicine
Matthew Brenner, MD
Marianne E. Cinat, MD
Roy M. Fujitani, MD

Dermatology
Anand Ganesan, MD, PhD
Kristen M. Kelly, MD
Margaret Wing-Yan Mann, MD
Lucille L. Lemus, MD
Janellen Smith, MD
Christopher B. Zachary, MD

Endocrinology and Metabolism
Ping H. Wang, MD

Family Medicine
Emily Eunmee Dow, MD
Laura Mosqueda, MD
Wadie I. Najm, MD
Michael D. Prislin, MD

Gastroenterology
Gregory C. Albers, MD
Kenneth J. Chang, MD
John G. Lee, MD
Hooshang Meshkinpour, MD
V. Raman Muthusamy, MD

Geriatric Medicine
Laura Mosqueda, MD

Hand Surgery
Neil F. Jones, MD

Medical Genetics
Maureen E. Bocian , MD

Medical Oncology and Hematology
Michael B. Lilly, MD
Frank L. Meyskens Jr., MD
Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, MD, PhD
Leonard S. Sender, MD
Lewis M. Slater, MD

Nephrology
Madeleine Pahl, MD
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD

Neurology
Mark Fisher, MD
Claudia Helen Kawas, MD

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Michael T. Banchi, MD
Michael L. Berman, MD
Robert E. Bristow, MD, MBA
Afshan B. Hameed, MD
Carol A. Major, MD
Karen L. Noblett, MD
Manuel Porto, MD
Krishnansu S. Tewari, MD
Julianne S. Toohey, MD
Deborah Ann Wing, MD

Ophthalmology
Swaraj Bose, MBBS
Marjan Farid, MD
Ronald N. Gaster, MD
Baruch Kuppermann, MD, PhD
Ronald M. Kurtz, MD
Linda S. Lippa, MD
Donald S. Minckler, MD
Sameh Mosaed, MD
Roger F. Steinert, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery
Stuart Green, MD
Ranjan Gupta, MD
Steven Douglas Ross, MD

Otolaryngology
William B. Armstrong, MD
Naveen D. Bhandarkar, MD
Roger L. Crumley, MD
Hamid Djalilian, MD
Jason H. Kim, MD
Sunil P. Verma, MD
Brian J.F. Wong, MD

Pathology
Luis M. de la Maza, MD, PhD
Fritz Lin, MD

Pediatric Specialist
Dan Michael Cooper, MD
Joseph H. Donnelly, MD
Zeev Kain, MD
Antoine E. Khoury, MD
Marc Lerner, MD
Ira T. Lott, MD
Leonard S. Sender, MD
Jack H. Sills, MD
Jennifer L. Simpson, MD
Feizal Waffarn, MBBS

Plastic Surgery
Al Aly, MD
Gregory Randolph Evans, MD
Mark Robert Kobayashi, MD

Psychiatry
Gerald A. Maguire, MD

Pulmonary Medicine
Matthew Brenner, MD

Radiology
Stephen A. Feig, MD
Scott C. Goodwin, MD
Anton N. Hasso, MD

Rheumatology
George Vance Lawry, MD
Pamela Prete, MD, FACP, FACR

Surgery
Marianne E. Cinat, MD
Clarence Earl Foster III, MD
David Imagawa, MD, PhD
Michael Lekawa, MD
Ninh T. Nguyen, MD
Russell A. Williams, MBBS

Surgical Oncology
James G. Jakowatz, MD

Thoracic Surgery
Jeffrey C. Milliken, MD

Urology
Thomas E. Ahlering, MD
Ralph V. Clayman, MD
Jaime Landman, MD
Elspeth McDougall, MD

Vascular Surgery
Roy M. Fujitani, MD
John S. Lane, MD
Russell A. Williams, MBBS
Samuel Eric Wilson, MD