New York Magazine Honors Members of Yale Cancer Center
For Immediate Release
Date: 6/11/07
Contact: Renee Gaudette 203-436-8533 or renee.gaudette@yale.edu
New Haven, Conn. – Yale Cancer Center is proud to announce that twenty-six of its members were named top doctors in New York Magazine’s Best Doctors issue, June 18, 2007.
The physicians included on the list are selected by their peers through nomination forms sent to over 12,000 doctors in the metro New York area; the listings represent the top 2 percent of New York area physicians. New York Magazine collaborated with Castle Connolly Medical, a research and publishing company, to produce the list.
The following members of Yale Cancer Center were recognized in the June 18th publication: Drs. Edward Chu, Dennis Cooper, Mark Cullen, Richard Edelson, Jack Elias, Gary Friedlaender, Jonathan Knisely, John Kveton, David Leffell, Walter Longo, Richard Matthay, Shirley McCarthy, Richard Peschel, Joseph Piepmeier, Carrie Redlich, Kenneth Roberts, Thomas Rutherford, Ronald Salem, Clarence Sasaki, Peter Schwartz, Richard Stahl, Hugh Taylor, J. Grant Thomson, Robert Udelsman, Jeffrey Weinreb, and Lynn Wilson.
For more information on the guide, please refer to www.nymag.com/bestdoctors
Established in 1974, Yale Cancer Center was one of the first university-based comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. Today, it is one of a select network of only 39 in the United States, and the only one in Southern New England. Bringing together the resources of Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale University School of Medicine, its mission encompasses patient care, research, cancer prevention and control, community outreach, and education. For more information on the Center, please go to www.yalecancercenter.org