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Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd. Honors Top Physicians at
Tenth
Annual National Physician of the Year Awards
Monday, March 23, 2015
Castle Connolly Medical
Ltd. is proud
to announce that the Tenth Annual Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd. National Physician of the Year Awards will
take place at The Pierre Hotel in New York City on Monday,
March 23, 2015. The Awards recognize and honor five
exemplary physicians, as well as the many thousands of other
excellent physicians practicing in communities throughout
the United States. The evening will begin at 6:30 P.M. with
a reception, followed by dinner and the awards
presentation.
Awards are given to physicians who are nationally recognized
leaders and contributors in their specialties.
The Lifetime
Achievement Award is
awarded to physicians for their lifetime of dedication to
research and practice in their respective fields. This
year, the award will be presented to:
· Michael
M.E. Johns, M.D., Professor,
Schools of Medicine and Public Health; Chancellor
(2007-2012); CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
(1996-2007) –
Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
· John
B. Mulliken, M.D., Professor of Surgery – Harvard
Medical School; Co-Director, Vascular Anomalies Center and
Director, Craniofacial Centre – Boston Children’s Hospital
(Boston, MA)
The Clinical
Excellence Award, recognizing physicians
who exemplify excellence in clinical medical practice, will
be presented to:
· Henry
Brem, M.D., Harvey
Cushing Professor; Professor of Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology,
Oncology and Biomedical Engineering; Director, Department of
Neurosurgery; Director, Hunterian Neurosurgical Research
Laboratory – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
(Baltimore, MD)
· Kimberly
Brown, M.D., Division
Head, Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology – Henry Ford
Healthcare System (Detroit, MI)
· Fabrizio
Michelassi, M.D., FACS, Lewis
Atterbury Stimson Professor and Chairman of Surgery – Weill
Cornell Medical College; Surgeon-in-Chief – NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell Medical Center (New York, NY)
The National
Health Leadership Award is
awarded to individuals for outstanding dedication and work
with an organization that has served to heighten the
awareness for the need of support and research on that
specific cause. Anthony
and Jeanette Senerchia, Founders of The
Anthony Senerchia Jr. ALS Charitable Foundation Inc. and
the Ice
Bucket Challenge will
receive this year’s National
Health
Leadership Award.
John K. Castle, Chairman,
and John
J. Connolly, Ed.D., President and CEO of Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd., William
Liss-Levinson, Ph.D., Vice
President, Chief Strategy & Operations Officer, Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd. and Jean
Morgan, M.D., Vice
President, Chief Medical & Research Officer, Castle Connolly
Medical Ltd. will be among the Awards Presenters for the
evening. The Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be Holly
Phillips, M.D., CBS News Medical Contributor, Board
Certified General Internist and author of “The Exhaustion
Breakthrough” (Rodale, June 2015).
About the National
Physician of the Year Awards
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. created the National Physician
of the Year Awards ten years ago as a way to further
acknowledge the clinical excellence that typifies American
medicine. Building upon its already broad and deep
processes for the identification ofCastle Connolly Top
Doctors®, it annually solicits special
nominations from thousands of physicians across the country
and the leadership of more than 1,000 hospitals to identify
extraordinary physicians who have made significant and
cutting-edge contributions to their areas of medicine. The
three physicians selected annually for Clinical
Excellence awards
have already made major contributions over the course of
their medical careers to-date and are expected to make even
more amazing contributions in the years ahead. The two
physicians recognized annually for Lifetime
Achievement have
achieved international and national recognition for the body
of their lifetime contributions to medicine and health on
the broadest of levels. Though the creation of these very
special National
Physician of the Year Awards, Castle Connolly continues
to demonstrate its commitment to the Best
in American Medicine.
About Castle Connolly
Medical Ltd.
Castle Connolly Medical
Ltd. is
America’s trusted source for identifying top doctors.
Founded in 1991 by John
K. Castle, (Chairman) and John
J. Connolly, Ed.D. (President
and CEO), who served as board chairman, President and CEO of
New York Medical College, respectively; its mission is to
help consumers find the best healthcare. They achieve that
mission through their consumer guides – such as America’s
Top Doctors® –
their website and various consumer and business-oriented
print and online partnerships. Under the direction of its
physician-led research team, Castle
Connolly annually
receives more than 100,000 nominations of outstanding
physicians in primary and specialty care areas of medicine
and located all across the U.S. The research team then
reviews, screens and selects the most outstanding physicians
to be Castle
Connolly Top Doctors®. The selected
physicians all share one distinguishing professional
attribute: an unwavering dedication to their patients and to
medicine as a whole. Each and every one of these outstanding
medical professionals - among the very best in their
specialties and for specific diseases and techniques - is a
symbol of the clinical excellence that characterizes
American medicine. Castle
Connolly’s valuable Top Doctors information can also be
found online at www.CastleConnolly.com.
To contact Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., please call William
Liss-Levinson, Ph.D. at (212) 367-8400 ext. 114, fax to
(212) 367-0964 or email
bliss-levinson@castleconnolly.com
For information regarding the Awards and to purchase tickets
to the Awards Ceremony, please call Beverly Fox at (212)
317-6413, fax to (212) 888-5460/Attention Beverly Fox or
email
bfox@castleharlan.com
Tickets are $225 per
person.
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