2011 Top Doctors in San Diego

One Place, Many Extraordinary Doctors

UC San Diego Health System had nearly 130 physicians in 39 specialties named “Top Docs” in the annual San Diego Magazine “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey.

These extraordinary doctors were rated among the best in San Diego County by their peers — members of the San Diego County Medical Society — and eight were named as best doctors in two specialties.

Congratulations to these UCSD physicians for being named 2011 Top Docs. An asterisk indicates physicians listed in more than one specialty:

Anesthesiology

• John Cornell Drummond, MD

Cardiac Electrophysiology

• Gregory Kent Feld, MD

Cardiovascular Disease

• Daniel G. Blanchard, MD, FACC*
• Lori B. Daniels, MD

Critical Care Medicine

• Peter Fedullo, MD*
• Kim Kerr, MD*
• Judd W. Landsberg, MD*

Emergency Medicine

• Theodore C. Chan, MD
• Richard F. Clark, MD
• James V. Dunford, Jr., MD
• Russell Engevik, MD
• David A. Guss, MD
• Aaron B. Schneir, MD
• Christian M. Sloane, MD
• Gary M. Vilke, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

• Steven Victor Edelman, MD

Family Medicine

• Suraj Arthur Achar, MD*
• David Emil Joseph Bazzo, MD*
• Ellen Beck, MD
• Gary Bogart, DO
• Daniel R. Slater, MD
• Theodore Ganiats, MD
• Cecilia Gutierrez, MD
• Tyson Ikeda, MD
• Gene A. Kallenberg, MD
• Dustin Lillie, MD
• William A. Norcross, MD
• Jennifer J. Wu, MD, MS.Ed

Gastroenterology

• Robert G. Gish, MD
• William Jeffery Sandborn, MD
• Thomas John Savides, MD

Geriatric Medicine

• Victor J. Legner, MD, MS

Geriatric Pyschiatry

• Daniel Sewell, MD

Hand Surgery

• Reid Allen Abrams, MD

Hematology

• Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD
• Thomas J. Kipps, MD
• Erin Reid, MD
• Sanford Shattil, MD

Internal Medicine

• William Ackerman, MD
• Unna Albers, MD
• Daniel G. Blanchard, MD, FACC*
• Jason Bronner, MD
• Edward David Brown, MD
• Lori A. Brown, MD
• Lynette Cederquist, MD
• Brian Clay, MD
• Neil J. Farber, MD
• Paul Gamble, MD
• Eduardo Grunvald, MD
• Tony Lopez, MD
• Wm. Christopher Mathews, MD
• Gita Mehta, MD, FACP
• Marlene Millen, MD
• Joe Wesley Ramsdell, MD
• Armelia Sani, MD
• Gregory B. Seymann, MD
• Pam R. Taub, MD
• Lisa Wastila, MD
• Pearl Yu, MD

Maternal and Fetal Medicine

• Thomas Moore, MD*

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

• Frank L. Mannino, MD

Nephrology

• Ravindra L. Mehta, MD

Neurology

• Jody Corey-Bloom, MD, PhD

Neuroradiology

• John R. Hesselink, MD
• Mahmood F. Mafee, MD, FACR

Neurosurgery

• Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD

Nuclear Medicine

• Carl K. Hoh, MD
• Michael S. Kipper, MD

Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Homer Chin, MD
• Stephen A. Herbert, MD
• Thomas Kelly, MD
• Emily Spencer Lukacz, MD
• Michael McHale, MD
• Christine Miller, MD
• Thomas Moore, MD*
• Charles W. Nager, MD
• Steven Plaxe, MD

Oncology

• Paul Timothy Fanta, MD, MS
• Barbara A. Parker, MD

Ophthalmology

• David Bruce Granet, MD, FACS, FAAP, FAAO
• Don Kikkawa, MD
• Leah Levi, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery

• Scott Taber Ball, MD
• Steven Robert Garfin, MD
• Alexandra K. Schwartz, MD

Otolaryngology

• Robert A. Weisman, MD, FACS

Pain Medicine

• Farshad M. Ahadian, MD
• James Modir, MD
• Mark Steven Wallace, MD

Pathology

• Kurt Benirschke, MD
• Brian Datnow, MD
• Michael R. Peterson, MD, PhD
• Grace Y. Lin, MD, PhD
• Noel Weidner, MD

Pediatrics

• Eyla Boies, MD
• Marilyn C. Jones, MD
• Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD
• Bret Pickering, MD
• Martin Stein, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

• Douglas Chang, MD, PhD

Plastic Surgery

• Anne Marie Wallace, MD*

Psychiatry

• Katie P. Hirst, MD
• Dilip V. Jeste, MD
• Brian Miller, MD
• Christine Moutier, MD
• Terry A. Schwartz, MD
• Kaimana S. MacDonald, MD
• Sidney Zisook, MD

Pulmonary Disease

• William Auger, MD
• Douglas J. Conrad, MD
• Peter Fedullo, MD*
• Kim Kerr, MD*
• Judd W. Landsberg, MD*

Radiation Oncology

• Arno James Mundt, III, MD

Radiology

• Christine B. Chung, MD
• Tudor Hesketh Hughes, MBBS, MD, FRCR
• Linda Olson, MD
• Mini N. Pathria, MD
• Dolores H. Pretorius, MD
• Donald Resnick, MD
• Katherine (Meg) Richman, MD
• Anne Roberts, MD
• Claude Sirlin, MD

Sports Medicine

• Suraj Arthur Achar, MD*
• David Emil Joseph Bazzo, MD*
• Kenneth Samuel Taylor, MD

Surgery

• Michael Bouvet, MD
• David Easter, MD, FACS
• Alan W. Hemming, MD, MSc
• Andrew M. Lowy, MD, FACS
• Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD
• Mark Talamini, MD
• Anne Marie Wallace, MD*

Surgical Critical Care

• Bruce Michael Potenza, MD

Thoracic Surgery

• Michael M. Madani, MD, FACS

Urology

• Michael E. Albo, MD
• Christopher Joseph Kane, MD
• J. Kellogg Parsons, MD, MHS

* Denotes physicians named as best doctors in two specialties.