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Best Doctors in America

06/07/96


A total of 139 USC full time and voluntary faculty gained recognition in the Best Doctors In America: Pacific Region. These physicians were chosen through a survey in which more than 5,000 physicians in the Pacific area were asked to rate the clinical abilities of their peers. This book is a regional companion to the national "Best Doctors in America," in which USC had 101 physicians included. Listed below are the USC physicians (as they appear in the Pacific Region edition.)

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY Joseph A. Church* Robertson Parkman*

ANESTHESIOLOGY Gary M. Scott* David J. Steward* Vladimir Zelman

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Uri Elkayam David P. Faxon

COLON & RECTAL SURGERY Robert W. Beart, Jr.

DERMATOLOGY Richard G. Bennett Thomas H. Rea Paul A. Rehder*

ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM Willa Ann Hsueh John T. Nicoloff Peter A. Singer Rebecca Z. Sokol

FAMILY MEDICINE Maureen P. Strohm

GASTROENTEROLOGY Hartley Cohen Loren A. Laine Telfer B. Reynolds

GENERAL SURGERY Kathryn D. Anderson* Thomas R. DeMeester

HAND SURGERY Cathleen A. Godzik

INTERNAL MEDICINE John L. Brodhead David A. Goldstein

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY Dan Douer Donald I. Feinstein Johnathan C. Goldsmith* Carol K. Kasper** C. Gail Leichman Lawrence Leichman Alexandria M. Levine Howard A. Liebman Franco M. Muggia Ronald B. Natale Cary A. Presant

NEPHROLOGY Shaul G. Massry NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY Michael L.J. Apuzzo Steven L. Giannotta J. Gordon McComb* Martin H. Weiss

NEUROLOGY William K. Engel Mark J. Fisher James R. Keane Richard A. Shubin Leslie P. Weiner

NUCLEAR MEDICINE Robert W. Henderson John H. Miller* Michael E. Siegel Alan D. Waxman

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Robert Israel Bruce W. Kovacks Charles M. March Daniel R. Mishell, Jr. C. Paul Morrow Richard J. Paulson

OPHTHALMOLOGY Lawrence P. Chong Steven E. Feldon Dale K. Heuer John A. Irvine Peter J. McDonnell Donald S. Minckler A. Linn Murphree Narsing A. Rao Stephen J. Ryan Alfredo A. Sadun Ronald E. Smith

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Lawrence D. Dorr Mark Hoffer** Frank W. Jobe James V. Luck** Joel M. Matta Vernon T. Tolo*

OTOLARYNGOLOGY Dennis M. Crockett Antonio DeLaCruz Kenneth A. Geller* John W. House William M. Luxford Dale H. Rice James L. Sheehy Maisine Shindo

PATHOLOGY Floyd H. Gilles* Bharat N. Nathwani

PEDIATRICS Robert Adler* Bram H. Bernstein* C. Michael Bowman* Joseph A. Church* Gertrude Costin* Timothy Deakers* Robert A. Delemos Astrid H. Heger Arno R. Hohn* Francine R. Kaufman* Thomas G. Keens* Alan B. Lewis* Richard G. Mackenzie* Wilbert H. Mason* Lawrence Neinstein* Christopher J. Newth* Lawrence Opas Jorge A. Ortega* Robertson Parkman* Thomas F. Roe* Robert C. Seeger* Stuart E. Siegel* Masato Takahashi* Sally D. Ward* Julian C. Williams*

PLASTIC SURGERY Garry S. Brody Susan E. Downey John F. Reinisch* Randy Sherman

PSYCHIATRY H. Richard Lamb Edmond H. Pi Lon S. Schneider

PULMONARY & CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Om P. Sharma

RADIATION ONCOLOGY Zbigniew Petrovich

RADIOLOGY Robert W. Henderson

RHEUMATOLOGY Rodanthi C. Kitridou Francisco P. Quismorio, Jr Mary Stimmler

SURGERY Kathryn D. Anderson* Gary L. Dunnington Thomas R. DeMeester Albert E. Yellin

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY Robert W. Beart, Jr.

THORACIC SURGERY Mark L. Barr Jerome H. Kay Vaughn Starnes

UROLOGY Stuart D. Boyd Jeffry L. Huffman Gary Lieskovsky Robert Mendez Harin Padama-Nathan Donald G. Skinner Eila Skinner

*Childrens Hospital Los Angeles ** Orthopaedic Hospital