July 2, 2002
More than half of the ‘Best Doctors’ in Western Washington are from Children’s, Fred Hutchinson, Harborview, UW Medical Center, VA Medical Center
Media contacts:
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center: Georgia Taylor (206) 528-5207
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance:
Susan Edmonds, (206) 667-2896
Harborview Medical Center: Susan Gregg-Hanson, (206) 731-4097
University of Washington: Walter Neary or Pam Sowers, (206) 543-3620
Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System:
Jeri Rowe or Ellen Flores, (206) 764-2435
A little more than half of Western Washington physicians listed in the latest edition of The Best Doctors in America are faculty physicians who practice at institutions managed by, or affiliated with, the University of Washington School of Medicine, including Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System.
Many of the physicians see patients at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the “host” for oncology patient-care services delivered by Children’s, Fred Hutchinson and the UW.
The current listing, The Best Doctors in America (Copyright 2001 by Best Doctors, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), is the result of the fifth survey undertaken by Best Doctors, Inc. To compile the current database, more than 30,000 doctors throughout the United States were asked to rate the clinical abilities of other doctors in their areas of specialization. Only physicians who earned the consensus support of their peers were included. Listings cannot be bought.
Among nearly 500 Western Washington listings this year, a little more than half are full-time UW physicians. Many of the others have part-time teaching responsibilities with the UW School of Medicine, and practice elsewhere.
The following list includes many of the places that the individual physicians may practice: Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), Harborview Medical Center (HMC), University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) and and Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System (VAPSHCS).
This listing was updated on July 10, 2002
Allergy and Immunology
Leonard C. Altman (HMC, UWMC)
Garrison Hubert Ayars (UWMC, HMC)
Clifton T. Furukawa (Children’s)
Hans D. Ochs (UWMC Children’s)
Gail Greenberg Shapiro (Children’s)
Frank S. Virant (Children’s)
Paul V. Williams (Children’s)
Anesthesiology
Alan Artru (UWMC, HMC)
H. S. (Cliff) Chadwick (UWMC, HMC)
Frederick W. Cheney (UWMC, HMC)
Bruce F. Cullen (HMC, UWMC)
W. Thomas Edwards (HMC, UWMC)
Lucinda L. Everett (HMC, UWMC, Children’s)
Charles M. Haberkern (UWMC, Children’s)
Arthur M. Lam (HMC, UWMC)
Anne Lynn (UWMC, HMC, Children’s)
Lynn D. Martin (HMC, UWMC, Children’s)
Rosemary Jean Orr (UWMC,Children’s)
L. Brian Ready (UWMC, HMC)
Cardiovascular Disease
Arnold Baas (HMC, UWMC)
Marshall Corson (HMC, UWMC)
Larry S. Dean (UWMC, HMC)
Daniel P. Fishbein (UWMC, HMC)
J. Ward Kennedy (VAPSHCS)
Peter Kudenchuk (UWMC, HMC)
Catherine Otto (UWMC)
Alan S. Pearlman (UWMC)
April Stempien-Otero (UWMC)
Douglas T. Stewart (UWMC, HMC)
Dermatology
Philip H. Fleckman (UWMC)
Julie Francis (UWMC, Children’s)
Bernard Goffe (UWMC)
John Everett Olerud (UWMC, HMC)
Virginia P. Sybert (UWMC, Children’s)
Eating Disorders
David Scott Weigle (HMC, UWMC)
Endocrinology and Metabolism
William J. Bremner (UWMC)
Alan Chait (UWMC, HMC)
Irl B. Hirsch (UWMC)
Jerry P. Palmer (VAPSHCS, UWMC)
R. Paul Robertson (UWMC, HMC)
Family Medicine
Sharon A. Dobie (UWMC)
Gastroenterology
Robert L. Carithers, Jr. (UWMC)
Martin L. Greene (UWMC, HMC)
Michael Kimmey (UWMC, HMC)
Kris Kowdley (UWMC, HMC)
Sum Lee (VAPSHCS, UWMC)
William A. Pearce (UWMC, HMC)
Charles Edward Pope II (UWMC, HMC)
Alexandra Elizabeth Read (UWMC)
Christina M. Surawicz (HMC, UWMC)
Jane Todaro (Children’s)
Geriatric Medicine
Itamar B. Abrass (HMC, UWMC)
Wayne C. McCormick (HMC, UWMC)
May J. Reed (HMC, UWMC)
Infectious Disease
Ann Collier (HMC, UWMC)
Lawrence Corey (FHCRC, HMC, UWMC)
H. Hunter Handsfield (HMC)
King K. Holmes (HMC)
Elaine C. Jong (UWMC)
Walter E. Stamm (UWMC, HMC)
Marvin Turck (HMC, UWMC)
Internal Medicine (General)
Janis D. Bridge (UWMC)
David C. Dale (UWMC)
Dawn E. DeWitt (UWMC)
Diane Doerner (UWMC)
David C. Dugdale III (UWMC)
Bruce C. Gilliland (UWMC, HMC)
Deborah L. Greenberg (UWMC)
Mary Beth Laya (UWMC, HMC)
Douglas S. Paauw (UWMC, HMC)
James Findlay Wallace (UWMC, HMC)
Joyce E. Wipf (VAPSHCS, UWMC)
Medical Genetics
Virginia P. Sybert (UWMC)
Medical Oncology and Hematology
Frederick R. Appelbaum (FHCRC, UWMC)
Julie Gralow (UWMC, FHCRC)
John A. Hansen (FHCRC, UWMC)
Robert B. Livingston (UWMC, FHCRC)
Stephen Hans Petersdorf (UWMC, FHCRC, HMC)
Oliver Press (FHCRC, UWMC)
F. Marc Stewart (FHCRC, UWMC)
Arthur R. Thompson (UWMC, FHCRC, HMC)
John Ainslie Thompson (UWMC, FHCRC)
Nephrology
Suhail Ahmad (UWMC)
William G. Couser (UWMC, HMC)
Connie Davis (UWMC, HMC)
John C. Stivelman (HMC, UWMC)
Richard A. Zager (FHCRC, HMC)
Neurological Surgery
Richard Ellenbogen (Children’s)
Robert Goodkin (VAPSHCS, HMC)
Michael Kliot (UWMC, HMC)
John D. Loeser (UWMC, HMC, Children’s)
George A. Ojemann (UWMC, HMC)
David T. Pitkethly (HMC)
Theodore S. Roberts (Children’s)
Christopher I. Shaffrey (UWMC, HMC, Children’s)
Daniel L. Silbergeld (UWMC, HMC)
Neurology
Thomas D. Bird (VAPSHCS, UWMC)
James D. Bowen (UWMC, HMC)
Michael Copass (HMC, UWMC)
W. T. Longstreth, Jr. (HMC, UWMC)
Christina M. Marra(HMC, UWMC)
Phillip D. Swanson (UWMC, HMC)
Neurology, Child
Phillip F. Chance (UWMC, Children’s)
Stephen T. Glass (Children’s)
Jerrold M. Millstein (Children’s)
Brien W. Vlcek (Children’s)
Nuclear Medicine
David Mankoff (UWMC, HMC)
Satoshi Minoshima (UWMC, HMC)
Wil B. Nelp (UWMC, HMC)
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Thomas J. Benedetti (UWMC, HMC)
Zane Brown (UWMC, HMC)
Edith Yee Tak Cheng (UWMC, HMC)
Thomas R. Easterling(UWMC, HMC)
David A. Eschenbach (UWMC, HMC)
Barbara A. Goff (UWMC, FHCRC, HMC)
Benjamin E. Greer (UWMC, FHCRC, HMC)
Gretchen M. Lentz (UWMC, HMC)
Michael Roy Soules (UWMC, HMC)
Ophthalmology
Mark J. Greenwald (Children’s, UWMC, HMC)
Daniel J. Karr (UWMC)
James L. Kinyoun (UWMC, HMC)
Martha M. Leen (UWMC)
James C. Orcutt (VAPSHCS, UWMC, HMC)
Bryan S. Sires (HMC, UWMC)
Craig G. Wells (UWMC)
Steven Eugene Wilson (UWMC, HMC)
Orthopaedic Surgery
Stephen K. Benirschke (HMC, UWMC)
James D. Bruckner (UWMC, HMC, Children’s)
Jens Chapman (HMC, UWMC)
Ernest U. Conrad III (UWMC, HMC, Children’s)
Douglas Paul Hanel (HMC, UWMC)
Sigvard T. Hansen, Jr. (HMC, UWMC)
Martin G. Mankey (UWMC, HMC)
Frederick A. Matsen III (UWMC, HMC)
Vincent S. Mosca (UWMC, Children’s, HMC)
M. L. (Chip) Routt, Jr. (HMC, UWMC)
Bruce J. Sangeorzan (HMC, VAPSHCS, UWMC)
Douglas G. Smith (HMC, UWMC)
Kit M. Song (Children’s, HMC, UWMC)
Otolaryngology
Larry Duckert (UWMC, HMC)
Neal Futran (UWMC, HMC)
George A. Gates (UWMC, HMC)
Allen Hillel (VAPSHCS, UWMC, HMC
