February 23, 1998
University of Washington physicians comprise more than half of the “Best Doctors” in Western Washington
Physicians from University of Washington-affiliated hospitals in Seattle — University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center — and the University of Washington School of Medicine constitute more than 50 percent of the Western Washington doctors in the latest regional listings of The Best Doctors in America.
The nationwide survey is compiled by Woodward/White, Inc. of Aitken, S.C. The Western Washington results are featured in the March issue of Seattle Magazine, available on newsstands this Wednesday. National results will be available only online, at www.bestdoctors.com, later this spring.
The listing is the result of an extensive telephone survey in which doctors are asked to confidentially rate their peers based on the question: “If a close friend or loved one needed a doctor in your specialty and you couldn’t treat them yourself, to whom outside your own institution would you refer them?”
Among the 431 Western Washington listings this year, 225 involve full time UW physicians. (An additional 144 physicians are UW clinical faculty who practice medicine elsewhere but have part-time teaching responsibilities with the UW School of Medicine).
The full-time faculty physicians, from University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC), Harborview Medical Center (HMC), Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Children’s), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) and Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), include:
Allergy and Immunology
General Allergy and Immunology: Leonard C. Altman (UWMC), Frank S. Virant (Children’s) Immunodeficiency: Hans D. Ochs (Children’s) Anesthesiology
Adult Cardiovascular Anesthesia: Bruce D. Spiess (UWMC) Complications of Anesthesia: Frederick W. Cheney (UWMC) General Anesthesiology: Rosemary Jean Orr (Children’s) Neuroanesthesia: Alan Artru (UWMC), Arthur M. Lam (HMC) Obstetric Anesthesia: H.S. (Cliff) Chadwick (UWMC), Beth Glosten (UWMC) Pain Management: Stephen H. Butler (UWMC), W. Thomas Edwards (HMC), L. Brian Ready (UWMC) Pediatric Anesthesiology: Jeffrey P. Morray (Children’s), Donald C. Tyler (Children’s)
Cardiovascular Disease
Echocardiography: Catherine Otto (UWMC), Alan S. Pearlman (UWMC) Electrophysiology: Peter Kudenchuk (UWMC) General Cardiovascular Disease: J. Ward Kennedy (UWMC), James L. Ritchie (UWMC) Transplantation: Daniel P. Fishbein (UWMC)
Dermatology
Philip H. Fleckman (UWMC), John E. Olerud (UWMC) Pediatric Dermatology: Julie Francis (Children’s), Virginia P. Sybert (Children’s, UWMC)
Eating Disorders
Obesity: David Scott Weigle (HMC)
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Diabetes: Irl B. Hirsch (UWMC), Jerry P. Palmer (UWMC, VAMC) General Endocrinology and Metabolism: Alan Chait (UWMC) Neuroendocrinology: William J. Bremner (VAMC), Alvin M. Matsumoto (VAMC)
Family Medicine
General Family Practice: David Losh (UWMC)
Gastroenterology
Endoscopy: Michael B. Kimmey (Children’s, HMC, UWMC) Esophageal Disease: Charles Edward Pope II (UWMC) Gastrointestinal Motility: Charles Edward Pope II (UWMC) General Gastroenterology: Sum Lee (UWMC), Christina M. Surawicz (HMC, UWMC) Hepatology: Robert L. Carithers, Jr. (UWMC)
Geriatric Medicine
General Geriatric Medicine: Itamar B. Abrass (HMC), David Mark Buchner (VAMC), Wayne C. McCormick (HMC), Robert A. Pearlman (VAMC), May J. Reed (HMC), Robert S. Schwartz (HMC), Jeffrey I. Wallace (HMC)
Infectious Disease
AIDS: Ann Collier (UWMC), King K. Holmes (HMC) Cancer and Infections: James C. Wade (FHCRC) General Infectious Disease: Marvin Turck (HMC, UWMC) Herpes Virus Infections: Lawrence Corey (FHCRC, UWMC) Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Lawrence Corey (FHCRC, UWMC), H. Hunter Handsfield (UWMC), King K. Holmes (HMC), Walter E. Stamm (HMC, UWMC) Urologic Infections: Walter E. Stamm (HMC, UWMC), Marvin Turck (HMC, UWMC)
Internal Medicine (General)
Wylie Gilman Burke (UWMC), David C. Dale (UWMC), David C. Dugdale III (UWMC), Bruce C. Gilliland (UWMC), Deborah L. Greenberg (HMC, UWMC), Douglas S. Paauw (UWMC), Dominic F. Reilly (UWMC), James Findlay Wallace (UWMC), Joyce E. Wipf (UWMC, VAMC)
Medical Oncology and Hematology
Bone Marrow Transplantation: Frederick R. Appelbaum (FHCRC), John A. Hansen (FHCRC), Keith M. Sullivan (FHCRC) Breast Cancer: Georgiana K. Ellis (UWMC), Robert B. Livingston (UWMC) General Medical Oncology and Hematology: Stephen Hans Petersdorf (UWMC) Leukemia: Frederick R. Appelbaum (FHCRC) Lung Cancer: Robert B. Livingston (UWMC)
Nephrology
Dialysis: Suhail Ahmad (HMC, UWMC) General Nephrology: William G. Couser (UWMC), Richard J. Johnson (UWMC) Glomerular Diseases: William G. Couser (UWMC) Kidney Disease: William G. Couser (UWMC)
Neurological Surgery
Epilepsy Surgery: George A. Ojemann (UWMC) General Neurological Surgery: Marc R. Mayberg (UWMC) Pediatric Neurological Surgery: Richard Ellenbogen (Children’s), Theodore S. Roberts (Children’s) Peripheral Nerve Surgery: Michael Kliot (UWMC) Spinal Surgery: M. Sean Grady (UWMC) Tumor Surgery: H. Richard Winn (Children’s, HMC, UWMC) Vascular Neurological Surgery: David Newell (HMC), H. Richard Winn (Children’s, HMC, UWMC)
Neurology
Critical Care Medicine: Michael Copass (HMC) General Adult Neurology: Bradley Galer (UWMC), W.T. Longstreth (HMC), Christina M. Marra (HMC), Phillip D. Swanson (HMC, UWMC) Neurogenetics: Thomas D. Bird (UWMC, VAMC) Neuromuscular Disease: Thomas D. Bird (UWMC, VAMC)
Nuclear Medicine
General Nuclear Medicine: Wil B. Nelp (UWMC) Oncology: Michael M. Graham (UWMC)
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Gynecologic Oncology: Barbara Goff (UWMC), Benjamin E. Greer (UWMC) Infectious Disease: David A. Eschenbach (UWMC), D. Heather Watts (UWMC) Maternal and Fetal Medicine: Thomas J. Benedetti (UWMC), Zane Brown (UWMC), Thomas R. Easterling (UWMC), Steven G. Gabbe (UWMC) Reproductive Endocrinology: Michael Roy Soules (UWMC) Reproductive Surgery: Gretchen M. Lentz (UWMC), Morton A. Stenchever (UWMC)
Ophthalmology
General Ophthalmology: James L. Kinyoun (UWMC) Glaucoma: Richard P. Mills (UWMC) Neuro-Ophthalmology: Richard P. Mills (UWMC) Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery: James C. Orcutt (Children’s, HMC, UWMC, VAMC)
Orthopaedic Surgery
Food and Ankle Surgery: Sigvard T. Hansen, Jr. (HMC), Bruce J. Sangeorzan (HMC), Douglas G. Smith (HMC) General Orthopaedic Surgery: James D. Bruckner (UWMC) Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery: Vincent S. Mosca (CHMC) Reconstructive Surgery: Frederick A. Matsen III (UWMC) Spinal Surgery: Jens Chapman (UWMC) Trauma: Stephen K. Benirschke (HMC), Jens Chapman (HMC), Douglas Paul Hanel (HMC, UWMC), Sigvard T. Hansen, Jr. (HMC), M.L. (Chip) Routt, Jr. (HMC) Tumor Surgery: Ernest U. Conrad III (UWMC)
Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery: Neal Futran (UWMC), Robert Stanley (HMC), Ernest A. Weymuller, Jr. (UWMC) Laryngology: Allen Hillel (UWMC) Neurotology: George A. Gates (UWMC) Pediatric Otolaryngology: Andrew F. Inglis, Jr. (Children’s), Scott C. Manning (Children’s), Kathleen C.Y. Sie (Children’s) Sinus and Nasal Surgery: Ernest A. Weymuller, Jr. (UWMC)
Pediatrics
Abused Children: Kenneth W. Feldman (Children’s), Mary S. Gibbons (HMC) Metabolic Diseases: C. Ronald Scott (Children’s) Pediatric Cardiology: S. Paul Herndon (Children’s), James Geoffrey Stevenson (Children’s, UWMC) Pediatric Critical Care: P. Pearl O’Rourke Pediatric Endocrinology: C. Patrick Mahoney (Children’s, UWMC) Pediatric Gastroenterology: Dennis L. Christie (Children’s) Pediatric Hematology-Oncology: Irwin D. Bernstein (FHCRC), J. Russell Geyer (Children’s), Thomas W. Pendergrass (Children’s, UWMC), Jean E. Sanders (FHCRC), Pediatric Infectious Disease: Jane L. Burns (Children’s), Christopher B. Wilson (Children’s) Pediatric Nephrology: F. Bruder Stapleton (Children’s), Sandra Lee Watkins (Children’s) Pediatric Pulmonology: Bonnie W.
