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Yale-New Haven Hospital news release
Release date: June 28, 2007
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69 Yale-New Haven Hospital physicians are among New York magazine’s “best doctors”

NEW HAVEN – New York magazine has named 69 Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) physicians among the best in the New York metropolitan area in its 10th annual “Best Doctors” issue for 2007. The YNHH doctors, who provide a wide range of specialties, were selected from approximately 60,000 physicians in the greater New York metropolitan area. 

Yale-New Haven Hospital placed doctors in 42 of the 68 specialty categories. The greatest concentration of sub-specialty care was in cancer, where YNHH had 26 doctors cited for various practices of cancer treatment.  In addition, nine YNHH doctors were cited in the area of pediatrics, five doctors in cardiac and thoracic surgery, six doctors affiliated with psychiatry, six doctors affiliated with women’s health, and five affiliated with neurology and neurosurgery. 

            “We’re pleased to have such a wide selection of our doctors included in so many specialty fields by New York magazine,” said Peter Herbert, M.D., chief of staff at Yale-New Haven Hospital. “This list is a reflection of the high esteem that the medical profession holds for our doctors and the quality of care our patients and their families receive.”

The physicians included on the list are selected by their peers through nominations, sent to over 12,000 doctors throughout the metropolitan New York area, and the listings represent the top 2 percent of New York area physicians. New York magazine collaborated with Castle Connolly medical, a research and publishing company to compile the prestigious list.

Yale-New Haven Hospital physicians on the New York magazine’s 2007 “Best Doctors” list:

Dr. Peter S. Aronson, Nephrology
Dr. Robert Baltimore, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Dr. Michele Barry, Internal Medicine
Dr. William P. Batsford, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Dr. Hal Blumenfeld, Neurology
Dr. Henry Cabin, Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Thomas O. Carpenter, Pediatric Endocrinology
Dr. Edward Chu, Medical Oncology
Dr. Leo M. Cooney, Geriatric Medicine
Dr. Dennis Cooper, Oncology
Dr. Joshua Copel, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Dr. Mark R. Cullen, Occupational Medicine
Dr. Richard Edelson, Dermatology
Dr. Richard Ehrenkranz, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Dr. John Elefteriades, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Jack Elias, Pulmonary Disease
Dr. Gary E. Friedlaender, Orthopedic Surgery
Dr. Ian Gross, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Dr. Silvio Inzucchi, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Dr. Peter Jokl, Orthopedic Surgery
Dr. Walter Kernan, Internal Medicine
Dr. Robert A. King, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr. Jonathon Knisely, Radiation Oncology
Dr. Gary S. Kopf, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Dr. John Kveton, Otolaryngology
Dr. James F. Leckman, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr. David J. Leffell, Dermatology
Dr. Charles Lockwood, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Dr. Walter E. Longo, Colon & Rectal Surgery
Dr. Maurice J. Mahoney, Clinical Genetics
Dr. James S. Marsh, Orthopedic Surgery
Dr. Richard Matthay, Pulmonary Disease
Dr. Paul L. McCarthy, Pediatric Rheumatology
Dr. Shirley M. McCarthy, Diagnostic Radiology
Dr. R. Lawrence Moss, Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Edward Novotny, Child Neurology
Dr. Pasquale Patrizio, Reproductive Endocrinology
Dr. James Perry, Pediatric Cardiology
Dr. Richard E. Peschel, Radiology Oncology
Dr. Joseph Piepmeier, Neurosurgery
Dr. Vincent Quagliarello, Infectious Disease
Dr. Carrie Redlich, Pulmonary Disease
Dr. Kenneth Roberts, Radiation Oncology
Dr. Thomas Rutherford, Gynecologic Oncology
Dr. Ronald R. Salem, Surgical Oncology
Dr. Clarence T. Sasaki, Otolaryngology
Dr. Robert T. Schoen, Rheumatology
Dr. Richard Schottenfeld, Addiction Psychiatry
Dr. Peter E. Schwartz, Gynecologic Oncology
Dr. Margretta Seashore, Clinical Genetics
Dr. Eugene D. Shapiro, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Dr. Sally E. Shaywitz, Pediatric Neurology
Dr. Dennis D. Spencer, Neurosurgery
Dr. Susan S. Spencer, Neurology
Dr. Richard S. Stahl, Plastic Surgery
Dr. Bauer E. Sumpio, Vascular Surgery
Dr. William  V. Tamborlane, Pediatric Endocrinology
Dr. Hugh Taylor, Reproductive Endocrinology
Dr. J. Grant Thomson, Plastic and Hand Surgery
Dr. Mary E. Tinetti, Geriatric Medicine
Dr. Robert Udelsman, Endocrine Surgery
Dr. Christopher H. Van Dyck, Geriatric Psychiatry
Dr. Eugenia Vining, Otolaryngology
Dr. Fred Volkmar, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr. Jeffrey C. Weinreb, Diagnostic Radiology
Dr. Robert I. White, Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Dr. Lynn D. Wilson, Radiology Oncology
Dr. Kimberly A. Yonkers, Psychiatry
Dr. Barry L. Zaret, Cardiovascular Disease

Yale-New Haven Hospital is a 944-bed, not-for-profit hospital serving as the primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine. Yale-New Haven was founded as the fourth voluntary hospital in the U.S. in 1826 and today, the hospital complex includes Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, with a combined medical staff of about 2,400 university and community physicians practicing in more than 100 specialties. See www.ynhh.org for additional information.

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