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One Hundred and Ten Doctors from Childrens Hospital Los Angeles are Listed in Best Doctors in America®

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LOS ANGELES – One hundred and ten doctors with privileges to practice at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, many of them academically affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, have been listed among the Best Doctors in America®.

“We have truly outstanding physicians at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles,” said Childrens Hospital Los Angeles President and CEO Richard D. Cordova, FACHE.  “Increasingly, the national community is coming to know that, too.  We’re delighted at this result.”

Best Doctors® was founded in 1989 by doctors affiliated with Harvard University School of Medicine, and it is considered one of the most respected and comprehensive knowledge-based medical referral services.  Its worldwide database of 50,000 top medical specialists in more than 400 subspecialties is based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation of the medical profession.  The polling process is anonymous and confidential, qualitative and quantitative – a process that requires that every listed physician be re-evaluated with each new survey.  Only five-percent of the doctors in any country are actually selected to become Best Doctors®.

Physicians with privileges to practice at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles included in the Best Doctors in America® database are:

Allergy and Immunology – Joseph A. Church, MD
Dermatology – Joyce N. Fox, MD, and Robert M. Hartman, MD
Gastroenterology – Hartley Cohen, MD
Internal Medicine – Marvin E. Belzer, MD
Nephrology – Hector J. Rodriguez, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology – David A Miller, MD, and Claire L. Templeman, MD
Ophthalmology – Mark S. Borchert, MD, John A. Irvine, MD, Thomas C. Lee, MD, A. Linn Murphree, MD,
and Ronald E. Smith, MD
Otolaryngology – Dennis R. Maceri, MD
Pathology – Timothy J, Triche, MD, PhD
Pediatrics  – Robert Adler, MD, Eyal Ben-Isaac, MD, Aviva D. Biederman, MD,  Michael D.
Bryant, MD, Yvonne R. Gutierrez, MD,  Jeannette Levenstein, MD, Howard J. Reinstein, MD, and Suzanne L. Roberts, MD
Pediatric Specialist – Jeffrey Birns, MD, Danielle L. Borut, MD, Gerald Bushman, MD, Victoria Camerini, MD, Angela J. Castellano, MD, Thomas Coates, MD, Timothy W. Deakers, MD, Sylvia del Castillo, MD, Debra M. Don, MD, David Epstein, MD, Ronald Ferdman, MD, Jonathan L. Finlay, MD, Lynda K. Fischer, MD, David R. Freyer, DO, Philippe S. Friedlich, MD, Paul S. Gaynon, MD, Mitchell E. Geffner, MD, Kenneth A. Geller, MD, Marshall G. Goldberg, MD, Joanna Green, MD, Carl M. Grushkin, MD, Brian E. Hardy, MD, Laura Ann Hastings, MD, Jill A. Hoffman, MD, Thomas Hofstra, MD, Debra D. Jeandron, MD, Rima Jubran, MD, Francine R. Kaufman, MD, Robert M. Kay, MD, Thomas G. Keens, MD, Andrea Kovacs, MD, Mark D. Krieger, MD, Kevin V. Lemley, MD, Alan B. Lewis, MD, Eithne F. MacLaughlin, MD, Marcio H. Malogolowkin, MD, S. Michael Marcy, MD, Monique F. Margetis, MD, Barry P. Markovitz, MD, Leo Mascarenhas, MD, Wilbert H. Mason, MD, J. Gordon McComb, MD, Wendy G. Mitchell, MD, Roshanak Monzavi, MD, David Moromisato, MD, Lawrence S. Neinstein, MD, Christopher J. Newth, MD, Nam X. Nguyen, MD, Lawrence M. Opas, MD, Iris Perez, MD, Pisit Pitukcheewanont, MD, Arnold Platzker, MD, Rangasamy Ramanathan, MD, John F. Reinisch, MD, Lawrence A. Ross, MD, Tena L. Rosser, MD, Terence D. Sanger, MD, Gary M. Scott, MD, Robert C. Seeger, MD, Istvan Seri, MD, PhD, Bracha Shaham, MD, Donald B. Shaul, MD, Cathy E. Shin, MD, Stuart E. Siegel, MD, Michael J. Silka, MD, Frank R. Sinatra, MD, David L. Skaggs, MD, Mark S. Sklansky, MD, James Stein, MD, Jacqueline Szmuszkovicz, MD, Masato Takahashi, MD, Dan. W. Thomas, MD, Vernon T. Tolo, MD, Judith A Villablanca, MD, Sally D. Ward, MD, Randall C. Wetzel, MD, Pierre C. Wong, MD, John C. Wood, MD, PhD, and Kenneth W. Wright, MD
Plastic Surgery – Mark M. Urata, MD
Radiation Oncology – Parvesh Kumar, MD, and Kenneth K. Wong, MD
Radiology – Marvin D. Nelson, Jr, MD
Surgery – Henri R. Ford, MD, Robert Rick Selby, MD
Thoracic Surgery – MD, Vaughn A. Starnes, MD, and Winfield J. Wells, MD

Founded in 1901, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has been treating the most seriously ill and injured children in Los Angeles for more than a century, and it is acknowledged throughout the United States and around the world for its leadership in pediatric and adolescent health. Childrens Hospital is one of America’s premier teaching hospitals, affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California since 1932.  The Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is among the largest and most productive pediatric research facilities in the United States. 

Since 1990, U.S. News & World Report and its panel of board-certified pediatricians have named Childrens Hospital Los Angeles one of the top pediatric facilities in the nation.  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is one of only 10 children’s hospitals in the nation – and the only children’s hospital on the West Coast – ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties in the U.S. News & World Report rankings and named to the magazine’s “Honor Roll” of children’s hospitals.