Twenty-nine City of Hope physicians are featured in the recently published fifth edition of “America’s Top Doctors for Cancer,” an increase from 24 in the fourth edition.

The book is a consumer guide to the country’s top cancer specialists and includes profiles of more than 2,200 doctors throughout the U.S. within 43 cancer specialties and subspecialties. Numerous City of Hope physicians have appeared in the first four editions of the book.

The physicians on the list were selected through nationwide surveys of physicians and hospital and medical center leadership.

Among City of Hope’s many doctors, those appearing in the book include:

Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

• Stephen J. Forman, M.D., chair and Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
• Auayporn P. Nademanee, M.D., associate clinical director
• Margaret R. O’Donnell, M.D., associate clinical director
• David S. Snyder, M.D., associate chair

Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research

• Warren A. Chow, M.D., associate professor
• Robert A. Figlin, M.D., chair and Arthur and Rosalie Kaplan Professor of Medical Oncology
• Marianna Koczywas, M.D., assistant professor
• Dean W. Lim, M.D., assistant clinical professor
• Joanne Mortimer, M.D., vice chair
• Stephen I. Shibata, M.D., co-director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Program
• Przemyslaw Twardowski, M.D., associate professor

Department of Pathology

• Lawrence M. Weiss, M.D., chair
• Sharon Wilczynski, M.D., Ph.D., chief, Division of Anatomic Pathology

Department of Radiation Oncology

• Richard D. Pezner, M.D., associate chair
• Jeffrey Y.C. Wong, M.D., chair

Department of Surgery

• James S. Andersen, M.D., chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Behnam Badie, M.D., chief, Division of Neurosurgery
• Joshua D.I. Ellenhorn, M.D., chief, Division of General Oncologic Surgery
• Frederic Grannis, M.D., associate clinical professor
• Mark H. Kawachi, M.D., associate professor
• Kemp H. Kernstine, M.D., Ph.D., chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
• I. Benjamin Paz, M.D., vice chair
• Vijay Trisal, M.D., surgical oncologist, Division of General Oncologic Surgery
• Timothy G. Wilson, M.D., Pauline and Martin Collins Family Chair in Urology

Other departments

• Fouad R. Kandeel, M.D., Ph.D., chair, Department of Clinical Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
• Alexandra Levine, M.D., M.A.C.P., chief medical officer
• Joseph Rosenthal, M.D., interim chair, Department of Pediatrics
• Jeffrey N. Weitzel, M.D., director, Division of Clinical Cancer Genetics
• Yun Yen, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. & Mrs. Allen Y. Chao Chair in Developmental Cancer Therapeutics

“America’s Top Doctors for Cancer” is available online at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com and via publisher Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. at www.castleconnolly.com and www.americastopdoctors.com.