Twenty-four City of Hope physicians are featured in the recently published fourth edition of “America’s Top Doctors for Cancer.” Several more appear in the online list, as well.

The book is a consumer guide to the country’s top cancer specialists and includes profiles of more than 2,200 doctors throughout the United States within 49 cancer specialties and subspecialties. Numerous City of Hope physicians have appeared in the first three editions of the book.

The physicians on the list were selected through nationwide surveys of physicians featured in the seventh edition of “America’s Top Doctors” and third edition of “America’s Top Doctors for Cancer.” Nominations also were solicited from hospital and medical center leaders nationwide.

Among City of Hope’s many respected physicians, those appearing in the book and online include these specialists:

Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

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

Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research

• Warren Chow, M.D., associate professor
• Robert A. Figlin, M.D., Arthur and Rosalie Kaplan Professor of Medical Oncology and chair
• Marianna Koczywas, M.D., assistant professor
• Lucille Leong, M.D., associate director for clinical affairs
• Dean Lim, M.D., clinical assistant professor
• Robert Morgan, M.D., associate director for medical education
• Joanne Mortimer, M.D., vice chair
• Stephen I. Shibata, M.D., director of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program
• George Somlo, M.D., co-director, Breast Cancer Program
• Jeffrey N. Weitzel, M.D., chief of the Division of Clinical Cancer Genetics
• Yun Yen, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. & Mrs. Allen Y. Chao Chair in Developmental Cancer Therapeutics and associate director for translational research in the cancer center

Department of Pathology

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

Department of Radiation Oncology

• Richard D. Pezner, M.D., associate chair
• Arnold Rotter, M.D., chief, Computed Tomography Section
• Jeffrey Wong, M.D., chief of the Division of Clinical Radiation Oncology

Department of Surgery 

• James S. Andersen, M.D., chief of the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
• Behnam Badie, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurosurgery
• Joshua D.I. Ellenhorn, M.D., chief of the Division of General Oncologic Surgery
• Frederic Grannis, M.D., clinical associate professor and staff surgeon in the Division of Thoracic Surgery
• Mark H. Kawachi, M.D., director of the Prostate Cancer Center
• Kemp H. Kernstine, M.D., Ph.D., chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery and director of the Lung Cancer and Thoracic Oncology Program
• I. Benjamin Paz, M.D., director of the Rita Cooper Finkel & J. William Finkel Women's Health Center and co-director of the Breast Cancer Program
• Vijay Trisal, M.D., surgical oncologist
• Timothy G. Wilson, M.D., Chief of the Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology

Other divisions and departments

• Alexandra Levine, M.D., chief medical officer
• James Ito, M.D., chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Fouad R. Kandeel, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
• Joseph Rosenthal, M.D., director of pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation

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