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, department chair and acting cancer center director
• Marianna Koczywas, M.D., assistant professor
• Lucille Leong, M.D., associate director for clinical affairs
• Dean Lim, M.D., clinical assistant professor
• Robert Morgan Jr., M.D., director of medical education
• Joanne Mortimer, M.D., vice chair
• Stephen I. Shibata, M.D., director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program
• George Somlo, M.D., co-director of the 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., clinical professor
• Jeffrey Wong, M.D., chair

Department of Surgery

• James S. Andersen, M.D., chief of the Division of Plastic and 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 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 and 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., the Pauline and Martin Collins Family Chair in Urology and 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 of the 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 through publisher Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. at www.castleconnolly.com and www.americastopdoctors.com.