79 Doctors with Privileges at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Named to Los Angeles Magazine’s “Super Doctors” 2010 List

LOS ANGELES – Seventy-nine 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 Los Angeles magazine’s 2010 “Super Doctors.” List.

 “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.”

A complete list of all physicians selected for the list is available at www.SuperDoctors.com.  The list will be published in the January issue of Los Angeles magazine.  The alphabetical list of doctors with privileges at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is on page two of this release.

Key Professional Media performs the polling, research and selection for Super Doctors in a process designed to identify medical professionals who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. 

Key Professional Media (KPM) sends thousands of ballots to doctors asking, “If you needed medical care, which doctor would you choose?”  The intent is to identify those doctors most highly regarded by their peers.  Numerous safeguards are in place to prevent ballot manipulation and doctors may not self-nominate.

The nominees are grouped into more than 30 medical practice areas.  Those nominees with the highest point totals from each practice area are invited to serve on the blue ribbon panel.  Each blue ribbon panelist reviews and scores a list of nominees for their primary practice area.

Throughout the selection process, Key Professional Media interviews and corresponds with medical professionals to identify the top doctors in each practice area.  KPM actively searches for outstanding doctors to complement the statewide survey of doctors.  Key Professional Media evaluates prospective candidates on indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement as a supplement to the balloting and blue ribbon panel review.

KPM reviews the discipline record of each candidate and verifies that the doctor is active and in good standing.  The point totals from the ballot surveys and the screening process are added to arrive at a final point score.

The alphabetical list of doctors with privileges at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles includes:
Hisham Abdel-Azim, Robert Adler, Mark Barr, Marvin Belzer, Eyal Ben-Isaac, Richard Boles, Jeffrey Birns, Mark Borchert, Anna Butturini, Andy Chang, Joseph Church, Thomas Coates, Hartley Cohen, Yves DeClerck, Roger DeFilippo, Anat Erdreich-Epstein, Steven A. Feig, Jonathan Finlay, Henri Ford, Philippe Friedlich, Joseph Gantan, Paul Gaynon, Mitchell Geffner, Kenneth Geller, Edward Gomperts, John Gross, Yvonne Gutierrez, Brian Hardy, Robert Hartman, Philip Hawley, Thomas Hofstra, Arno Hohn, Karen Kay Imagawa, John Irvine, Debra Jeandron, Neena Kapoor, Francine Kaufman, Matthew Keefer, Thomas Keens, Jeffrey Koempel, Chester Koh, Andrea Kovacs, Dennis Maceri, Marcio Malogolowkin, Araz Marachelian, Leo Mascarenhas, Wilbert Mason, David Miller, Wendy Mitchell, Steven Mittelman, Linn Murphree. Marvin Nelson, Peck Ong, Lawrence Opas, Pisit Pitukcheewanont, Linda Randolph, Andreas Reiff, Howard Reinstein, Suzanne Roberts, Lawrence Ross, Tena Rosser, Robert Selby, Bracha Shaham, Donald Shaul, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Smith, Jonathan Song, Philip Stanley, Vaughn Starnes, Masato Takahashi, Glenn Takata, George Teitelbaum, Claire Templeman, Vernon Tolo, Mark Urata, Judith Villablanca, Sally Ward, Kenneth Wright and Cynthia Wong.

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.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles also is one of eight children’s hospitals in the nation to receive the “Top Hospital” designation from The Leapfrog Group.  And Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is one of only three pediatric medical centers in the nation to receive both honors – “Top Hospital” from Leapfrog and the “Honor Roll” from U.S. News & World Report.