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198 UNC physicians listed in The Best Doctors in America 2007-2008
CHAPEL HILL - One hundred and ninety-eight UNC Health Care physicians are included in the latest compilation of The Best Doctors in America database.
Dec. 13, 2007
198 UNC physicians listed in The Best Doctors in America® 2007-2008
CHAPEL HILL – One hundred and ninety-eight UNC Health Care physicians are included in the latest compilation of The Best Doctors in America® database.
Only 3 to 5 percent of physicians in each country where Best Doctors is present are included in its database. The Best Doctors database contains the names and professional affiliations of approximately 40,000 doctors in the United States, all chosen through an exhaustive peer-review survey that asks: “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?”
“The last time Best Doctors released its list, we found that at least 131 UNC Health Care physicians were included. This time the number of UNC Health Care physicians on the list has increased by 67,” said Dr. Bill Roper, chief executive officer of UNC Health Care. “I am extremely proud of each one of them and pleased to see that Best Doctors has recognized them as being among the very best in the country.”
The 198 UNC Health Care physicians, listed by their medical specialty (as the specialty is identified in the Best Doctors database), are:
Allergy and Immunology - Nortin M. Hadler (also listed in Geriatric Medicine and Rheumatology), David M. Peden
Anesthesiology - Philip Boysen, Anthony N. Passannante
Cardiovascular Disease - Kirkwood Adams, John Paul Mounsey, Marschall S. Runge, Sidney C. Smith, Jr., David Tate, Park W. Willis IV
Colon and Rectal Surgery - Mark J. Koruda
Dermatology - Luis A. Diaz, David Scott Rubenstein
Endocrinology and Metabolism - Susan Braithwaite, John B. Buse, David Clemmons, Jean Dostou, Thomas L. O’Connell, David A. Ontjes, Janet E. Rubin
Family Medicine - Evan A. Ashkin, Timothy P. Daaleman, Allen J. Daugird, Clark R. Denniston, G. Patrick Guiteras, Robert E. Gwyther, Andrew Hannapel, Margaret Helton, James P. Manor, Robert Howard McConville, Jr., Albert A. Meyer, Warren P. Newton, Susan F. Slatkoff, Donald Spencer, Beat D. Steiner
Gastroenterology - Eugene M. Bozymski, Douglas A. Drossman, Ian S. Grimm, Kim L. Isaacs, Michael Warren Fried, William D. Heizer, Roy Charles Orlando, Robert Sandler, R. Balfour Sartor, Nicholas J. Shaheen, Steven Zacks
Geriatric Medicine - Mary Janette Busby-Whitehead, Nortin M. Hadler (also listed in Allergy and Immunology), Laura C. Hanson, Philip D. Sloane
Hand Surgery - Donald K. Bynum, Jr.
Infectious Disease - Myron Cohen, Joseph J. Eron, Jr., David Michael Margolis, P. Frederick Sparling, Charles M. van der Horst
Internal Medicine (General) - Marco A. Aleman, Timothy Carey, M. Andrew Greganti, John S. Kizer, James E. Kurz, Michael Pignone, Amy W. Shaheen
Medical Genetics - James P. Evans, Joseph Muenzer
Medical Oncology and Hematology - Stephan Alan Bernard, Lisa A. Carey, Elizabeth Claire Dees, Richard Goldberg, Nigel S. Key, Stephan Moll, Thomas C. Shea, Mark Anthony Socinski
Nephrology - Randal K. Detwiler, Ronald J. Falk, Gerald A. Hladik, Patrick H. Nachman
Neurological Surgery - Matthew G. Ewend
Neurology - Caroline M. Klein, Daniel I. Kaufer, J. Douglas Mann, James F. Howard, Jr., Peter L. Jacobson, William J. Powers, Bradley Vaughn (also listed in Sleep Medicine)
Neurology, Child - O’Neill D’Cruz, Robert S. Greenwood, Michael B. Tennison, Spencer G. Weig
Nuclear Medicine - William H. McCartney
Obstetrics and Gynecology - John F. Boggess, Kim Boggess, Daniel L. Clarke-Pearson, Wesley C. Fowler, Jr., Marc A. Fritz, Paola Alvarez Gehrig, David A. Grimes, M. Kathryn Menard, John M. Thorp, Jr., John T. Soper, Robert Strauss, Linda Van Le, Honor M. Wolfe
Ophthalmology - Kenneth L. Cohen, Jonathan J. Dutton, W. Craig Fowler, Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, Travis A. Meredith
Orthopaedic Surgery - Edmund R. Campion, Laurence E. Dahners, Douglas R. Dirschl, Paul F. Lachiewicz, Timothy N. Taft, David A. Thompson
Otolaryngology - Craig Buchman, Amelia F. Drake, Harold C. Pillsbury III, Brent A. Senior, William H. Shockley, Mark C. Weissler, Carlton Zdanski
Pathology - L. Charles Jennette
Pediatric Specialist - Joshua J. Alexander, Pierre Barker, Thomas H. Belhorn, Julie Blatt, Carl Bose, Marsha Davenport, A. Joseph D'Ercole, Debbie Sue Gipson, Stuart Gold, Frederick W. Henderson, Marianna M. Henry, Margaret W. Leigh, Steven N. Lichtman, Joseph Muenzer, Marianne Muhlebach, Terry Lee Noah, William Primack, George Retsch-Bogart, Desmond K. Runyan, Leonard Stein, Alan D. Stiles
Pediatrics (General) - John T. Benjamin, Wallace Brown, Julie Story Byerley, Alan W. Cross, Harvey J. Hamrick, Kimberly Kylstra, Jacob Lohr, Kathleen Salter
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Patricia C. Gregory
Psychiatry - L. Jarrett Barnhill, Robert A. Bashford, Alan Beeber, James Cameron Garbutt, John Haggerty, David S. Janowsky, Maria C. La Via, Samantha E. Meltzer-Brody, Albert Jackson Naftel, Diana O. Perkins, Joseph Piven, David R. Rubinow, Linmarie Sikich, Jair Soares, Landrum S. Tucker, Jr., Amy M. Ursano, Richard H. Weisler
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine - Richard C. Boucher, James F. Donohue, David C. Henke, Michael Ray Knowles, Peadar Noone, Maria Patricia Rivera, James R. Yankaskas
Radiation Oncology - Julian G. Rosenman, Joel E. Tepper, Mahesh Kumar A. Varia
Radiology - Mauricio Castillio, Joseph K. T. Lee, Joseph M. Stavas
Rheumatology - MaryAnne Dooley, Nortin M. Hadler (also listed in Allergy and Immunology and Geriatric Medicine)
Sleep Medicine - Bradley Vaughn (also listed in Neurology)
Surgery - William T. Adamson, Kenneth Andreoni, Jeffrey H. Fair, David A. Gerber, Blair Keagy (also listed in Surgery and Thoracic Surgery), Anthony A. Meyer, J. Duncan Phillips
Surgery and Thoracic Surgery - Blair Keagy (also listed in Surgery)
Surgical Oncology - Benjamin Calvo
Thoracic Surgery - Thomas M. Egan, Richard H. Feins, Michael R. Mill
Urology - Timothy P. Bukowski, Culley C. Carson III, Raj Pruthi, Richard W. Sutherland, Eric Wallen
Best Doctors, Inc. is based in Boston and provides highly specialized medical services to nearly 10 million people in over 30 countries. Best Doctors’ global database is updated continuously through a peer-review based evaluation of the medical profession, and includes 50,000 doctors worldwide named “best,” in over 40 specialties and 400 subspecialties of medicine. Best Doctors, Best Doctors in America and the star-in-cross logo are registered trademarks of Best Doctors, Inc. in the United States and other countries, and are used under license.
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The UNC Health Care System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system owned by the state of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. It exists to further the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and to provide state-of-the-art patient care. UNC Health Care is comprised of UNC Hospitals, which is ranked among the top 50 in the nation in six specialties by U.S. News & World Report and ranked one of the country’s 41 best on the Leapfrog 2007 Top Hospitals list; the UNC School of Medicine, a nationally eminent research institution; community practices; home health and hospice services in seven central North Carolina counties; and Rex Healthcare and its provider network in Wake County. UNC Health Care also manages Chatham Hospital in Siler City.