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
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø: 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 including and the
Many of the physicians see patients at the the “host” for oncology patient-care services delivered by Children’s, Fred Hutchinson and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
The current listing, (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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø physicians. Many of the others have part-time teaching responsibilities with the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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), ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC) 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, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Garrison Hubert Ayars (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Clifton T. Furukawa (Children’s)
Hans D. Ochs (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC Children’s)
Gail Greenberg Shapiro (Children’s)
Frank S. Virant (Children’s)
Paul V. Williams (Children’s)
Anesthesiology
Alan Artru (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
H. S. (Cliff) Chadwick (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Frederick W. Cheney (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Bruce F. Cullen (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
W. Thomas Edwards (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Lucinda L. Everett (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, Children’s)
Charles M. Haberkern (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, Children’s)
Arthur M. Lam (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Anne Lynn (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC, Children’s)
Lynn D. Martin (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, Children’s)
Rosemary Jean Orr (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC,Children’s)
L. Brian Ready (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Cardiovascular Disease
Arnold Baas (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Marshall Corson (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Larry S. Dean (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Daniel P. Fishbein (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
J. Ward Kennedy (VAPSHCS)
Peter Kudenchuk (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Catherine Otto (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Alan S. Pearlman (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
April Stempien-Otero (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Douglas T. Stewart (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Dermatology
Philip H. Fleckman (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Julie Francis (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, Children’s)
Bernard Goffe (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
John Everett Olerud (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Virginia P. Sybert (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, Children’s)
Eating Disorders
David Scott Weigle (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Endocrinology and Metabolism
William J. Bremner (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Alan Chait (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Irl B. Hirsch (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Jerry P. Palmer (VAPSHCS, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
R. Paul Robertson (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Family Medicine
Sharon A. Dobie (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Gastroenterology
Robert L. Carithers, Jr. (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Martin L. Greene (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Michael Kimmey (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Kris Kowdley (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Sum Lee (VAPSHCS, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
William A. Pearce (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Charles Edward Pope II (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Alexandra Elizabeth Read (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Christina M. Surawicz (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Jane Todaro (Children’s)
Geriatric Medicine
Itamar B. Abrass (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Wayne C. McCormick (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
May J. Reed (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Infectious Disease
Ann Collier (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Lawrence Corey (FHCRC, HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
H. Hunter Handsfield (HMC)
King K. Holmes (HMC)
Elaine C. Jong (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Walter E. Stamm (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Marvin Turck (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Internal Medicine (General)
Janis D. Bridge (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
David C. Dale (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Dawn E. DeWitt (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Diane Doerner (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
David C. Dugdale III (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Bruce C. Gilliland (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Deborah L. Greenberg (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Mary Beth Laya (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Douglas S. Paauw (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
James Findlay Wallace (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Joyce E. Wipf (VAPSHCS, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Medical Genetics
Virginia P. Sybert (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Medical Oncology and Hematology
Frederick R. Appelbaum (FHCRC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Julie Gralow (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, FHCRC)
John A. Hansen (FHCRC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Robert B. Livingston (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, FHCRC)
Stephen Hans Petersdorf (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, FHCRC, HMC)
Oliver Press (FHCRC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
F. Marc Stewart (FHCRC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Arthur R. Thompson (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, FHCRC, HMC)
John Ainslie Thompson (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, FHCRC)
Nephrology
Suhail Ahmad (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
William G. Couser (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Connie Davis (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
John C. Stivelman (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Richard A. Zager (FHCRC, HMC)
Neurological Surgery
Richard Ellenbogen (Children’s)
Robert Goodkin (VAPSHCS, HMC)
Michael Kliot (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
John D. Loeser (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC, Children’s)
George A. Ojemann (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
David T. Pitkethly (HMC)
Theodore S. Roberts (Children’s)
Christopher I. Shaffrey (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC, Children’s)
Daniel L. Silbergeld (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Neurology
Thomas D. Bird (VAPSHCS, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
James D. Bowen (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Michael Copass (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
W. T. Longstreth, Jr. (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Christina M. Marra(HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Phillip D. Swanson (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Neurology, Child
Phillip F. Chance (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, Children’s)
Stephen T. Glass (Children’s)
Jerrold M. Millstein (Children’s)
Brien W. Vlcek (Children’s)
Nuclear Medicine
David Mankoff (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Satoshi Minoshima (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Wil B. Nelp (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Thomas J. Benedetti (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Zane Brown (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Edith Yee Tak Cheng (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Thomas R. Easterling(ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
David A. Eschenbach (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Barbara A. Goff (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, FHCRC, HMC)
Benjamin E. Greer (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, FHCRC, HMC)
Gretchen M. Lentz (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Michael Roy Soules (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Ophthalmology
Mark J. Greenwald (Children’s, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Daniel J. Karr (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
James L. Kinyoun (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Martha M. Leen (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
James C. Orcutt (VAPSHCS, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Bryan S. Sires (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Craig G. Wells (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Steven Eugene Wilson (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Orthopaedic Surgery
Stephen K. Benirschke (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
James D. Bruckner (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC, Children’s)
Jens Chapman (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Ernest U. Conrad III (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC, Children’s)
Douglas Paul Hanel (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Sigvard T. Hansen, Jr. (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Martin G. Mankey (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Frederick A. Matsen III (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Vincent S. Mosca (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, Children’s, HMC)
M. L. (Chip) Routt, Jr. (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Bruce J. Sangeorzan (HMC, VAPSHCS, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Douglas G. Smith (HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Kit M. Song (Children’s, HMC, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC)
Otolaryngology
Larry Duckert (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Neal Futran (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
George A. Gates (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC)
Allen Hillel (VAPSHCS, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC, HMC