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UCI Health doctors named 2014 'Physicians of Excellence'

January 30, 2014

More than 120 UCI Health physicians are listed as Physicians of Excellence in the January 2014 issue of Orange Coast magazine.

The "Physicians of Excellence" are chosen by the Orange County Medical Association, a voluntary physician member group organized to promote the art and science of medicine, to protect public health and to improve the medical profession.

UCI Health doctors practice at UCI Medical Center in Orange, Gottschalk Medical Plaza in Irvine and numerous other offices and health centers throughout Orange County.

To be eligible for the OCMA's designation, physicians are required to be certified by a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties, a member board of the American Board of Osteopathic Medical Specialties or an equivalency board recognized by the Medical Board of California or Osteopathic Medical Board of California. They also must be in good standing with the Medical Board of California or Osteopathic Medical Board of California, maintain a primary practice in Orange County for the last five years and be in practice within his/her specialty for the last five years.

Physicians also are required to meet at least two of the following criteria: physician leadership; teaching/mentoring; medical research/scientific advances; and humanitarian service.

Meet our UCI Health Physicians of Excellence:

Anesthesiology
Anna L. Harris, MD
Debra E. Morrison, MD

Cardiovascular Disease
Byron Allen, MD
Shaista Malik, MD
Pranav M. Patel, MD

Child Neurology
Joseph H. Donnelly, MD
Ira T. Lott, MD

Clinical Genetics & Metabolic Genetics
Virginia Kimonis, MD

Dermatology
Kristen Kelly, MD

Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
Marc A. Lerner, MD
Robin Steinberg-Epstein, MD

Diagnostic Radiology
Joseph E. Burns, MD

Emergency Medicine
Michael Burns, MD
Kristi L. Koenig, MD
Mark I. Langdorf, MD
Sharam Lotfipour, MD
Scott E. Rudkin, MD
Carl H. Schultz, MD
Jeffrey R. Suchard, MD

Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Brian J.F. Wong, MD

Family Medicine
David Kilgore, MD
Kathryn Larsen MD
Charles P. Vega, MD

Gastroenterology
Kenneth J. Chang, MD
John G. Lee, MD

Geriatric Medicine
Lisa M. Gibbs, MD
Laura Mosqueda, MD
Sonia R. Sehgal, MD

Gynecologic Oncology
Michael L. Berman, MD
Philip J. DiSaia, MD
Leslie M. Randall, MD
Krishnansu Tewari, MD

Internal Medicine
Alpesh N. Amin, MD
Ke-Qin Hu, MD
Martha Sosa-Johnson, MD

Maternal & Fetal Medicine
Judith Chung, MD
Afshan B. Hameed, MD
Carol A. Major, MD
Julianne Toohey, MD
Deborah Wing, MD

Medical Genetics
John Jay Gargus, MD

Medical Oncology
Rita S. Mehta, MD
Edward L. Nelson, MD
Jason A. Zell, DO

Neonatal & Perinatal Medicine
Fayez Bany-Mohammed, MD
Cherry C. Uy, MD

Neonatology
Irfan Ahmad, MD
Daryoush Bassiri, MD
Kushal Bhakta, MD
John P. Cleary, MD
Vijay Dhar, MD
Antoine N. Soliman, MD
Katarzyna Tesmer, MD

Neurology
Mark J. Fisher, MD
Neal S. Hermanowicz, MD
Tahseen Mozaffar, MD
Gaby Thuy Thai, MD 

Obstetrics & Gynecology
Felicia L. Lane, MD
Karen Noblett, MD
Manuel Porto, MD

Ophthalmology
Marjan Farid, MD
Baruch D. Kuppermann, MD, PhD
Robert W. Lingua, MD
Linda Lippa, MD
Sameh Mosaed, MD
Roger F. Steinert, MD
Jeremiah Tao, MD

Otolaryngology
William Armstrong, MD
Roger L. Crumley, MD
Hamid R. Djalilian, MD

Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
Mark Ellis, MD

Pediatric Cardiology
Anjan S. Batra
Nafiz Kiciman
Anthony C. Chang, MD
Michael A. Rebolledo, MD

Pediatric Critical Care
Nick George Anas, MD
Anthony Cherin, MD
Michele Domico, MD
Gary Goodman, MD
Jason Knight, MD
Paul S. Lubinsky, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology
Susan Clark, MD
Mark Daniels, MD
Timothy Flannery, MD

Pediatric Gastroenterology
Kenneth Grant, MD
Mitchell Katz, MD

Pediatrics, General
Mark Colon, MD
Roza Mahidyar, MD
Maria Minon, MD
Penny R. Murata, MD

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Leonard Sender, MD
Ivan Kirov, MD
Steven Neudorf, MD
Geetha Puthenveetil, MD
Amit Soni, MD

Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Felice Adler-Shohet, MD
Antonio C. Arrieta, MD
Negar Ashouri, MD
Jasjit Singh, MD

Pediatric Pulmonology
Anchalee Yuengsrigul, MD

Pediatric Rheumatology
Sheryl J. Boon, MD

Plastic Surgery
Gregory R.D. Evans, MD
Garrett A. Wirth, MD

Psychiatry
Rimal B. Bera, MD
Gerald A. Maguire, MD

Radiology
Stephen A. Feig, MD

Surgery
Cristobal Barrios Jr., MD
Matthew O. Dolich, MD
David K. Imagawa, MD, PhD
Karen Todd Lane, MD
Michael E. Lekawa, MD
Ninh T. Nguyen, MD
Brian R. Smith, MD

Surgery, Cardiothoracic
Jeffrey C. Milliken, MD

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

Surgery, Neurological
Mark E. Linskey, MD

Surgery, Orthopaedic
Nitin N. Bhatia, MD
Ranjan Gupta, MD
Neil F. Jones, MD

Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Scott C. Goodwin, MD