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EIGHTY UCSD PHYSICIANS NAMED AS 2009 "TOP DOCTORS"

UC San Diego Medical Center has once again excelled in the “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey, which appears annually in the October issue of San Diego Magazine.

Eighty UCSD physicians in 30 specialties were rated the best doctors in the region by their peers -- more than any other health care system or medical group in San Diego County. UCSD is consistently honored with more physicians on the top doctors list than any other medical group and the number of UCSD physicians that are named the best in San Diego continues to grow every year.

Congratulations to these UCSD physicians who were recognized for 2009.  An asterisk indicates physicians listed in more than one specialty:

Cardiac Electrophysiology

• Gregory Kent Feld, MD

Cardiovascular Disease

• Daniel G. Blanchard, MD, FACC
• Ehtisham (Shami) Mahmud, MD, FACC

Critical Care Medicine

• Peter F. Fedullo, MD*

Emergency Medicine

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

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

• Steven Victor Edelman, MD

Family Medicine

• Suraj Achar, MD
• David Emil Joseph Bazzo, MD*
• Ellen L. Beck, MD
• Cecilia Gutierrez, MD
• Gene A. Kallenberg, MD
• William A. Norcross, MD
• Kenneth Samuel Taylor, MD

Gastroenterology

• Thomas John Savides, MD

Internal Medicine

• Jennifer  Blanchard, MD
• Jason Bronner, MD
• Lori A. Brown, MD
• Lynette C. Cederquist, MD
• Paul N. Gamble, MD
• Eduardo L. Grunvald, MD
• Shawn Harrity, MD
• Karen L. Herbst, MD
• Tony P. Lopez, MD
• William Christopher Mathews, MD
• Gregory A. Maynard, MD
• Unna McPherson-Albers, MD
• Gita Mehta, MD, FACP
• Joe Wesley Ramsdell, MD
• Armelia Sani, MD
• Kenton Smitherman, MD
• Pearl Yu, MD

Maternal and Fetal Medicine

• Thomas F. Kelly, MD*

Neonatal Medicine

• Frank L. Mannino, MD

Neurology

• Jody Corey-Bloom, MD, PhD
• Sean J. Evans, MD

Neuroradiology

• John R. Hesselink, MD

Neurosurgery

• John F. Alksne, MD

Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Homer G. Chin, MD
• Thomas F. Kelly, MD*
• Christine B. Miller, MD
• Thomas R. Moore, MD
• Charles W. Nager, MD
• Steven C. Plaxe, MD

Oncology

• Barbara A. Parker, MD
• Erin G. Reid, MD

Ophthalmology

• Michael H. Goldbaum, MD
• David B. Granet, MD, FACS, FAAP, FAAO
• Don O. Kikkawa, MD
• Leah Levi, MD
• David J. Schanzlin, MD
• Robert N. Weinreb, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery

• Reid Allen Abrams, MD
• Scott Taber Ball, MD
• Steven Robert Garfin, MD

Otolaryngology

• Robert A. Weisman, MD, FACS

Pain Medicine

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

Pathology

• Lawrence A. Hansen, MD
• Noel Weidner, MD

Pediatrics

• Martin T. Stein, MD

Plastic Surgery

• Anne Marie Wallace, MD*

Psychiatry

• Kaimana Scott MacDonald, MD
• Terry A. Schwartz, MD
• Sidney Zisook, MD

Pulmonary Disease

• William R. Auger, MD
• Antonino Catanzaro, MD
• Peter F. Fedullo, MD*

Radiology

• Mini Nutan Pathria, MD

Sports Medicine

• David Emil Joseph Bazzo, MD*

Surgery

• Niren Angle, MD, RVT, FACS *
• Michael Bouvet, MD
• David W. Easter, MD, FACS
• Andrew M. Lowy, MD, FACS
• Sonia L. Ramamoorthy, MD
• Mark Adams Talamini, MD
• Anne Marie Wallace, MD*

Surgical Critical Care

• Bruce Potenza, MD

Urology

• Michael E. Albo, MD
• Christopher Joseph Kane, MD

Vascular Surgery

• Niren Angle, MD, RVT, FACS*