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Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd. Honors Top Physicians at
Eleventh Annual National Physician of the Year Awards
Monday,
March 21, 2016
The
Eleventh Annual Castle Connolly National Physician of the
Year Awards will
take place at The Pierre Hotel in New York City on Monday,
March 21, 2016. Presented by Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd., 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:
· W.
Gerald Austen, M.D., Chair,
Massachusetts General Hospital Chiefs Council;
Surgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus – Massachusetts General Hospital;
Edward D. Churchill Distinguished Professor of Surgery –
Harvard Medical School
· Richard
J. O’Reilly, M.D., Chairman, Department of Pediatrics;
Chief, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Service; Clair
L. Tow Chair, Pediatric Oncology Research – Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
The Clinical
Excellence Award, recognizing physicians
who exemplify excellence in clinical medical practice, will
be presented to:
· William
Catalona, M.D., Urologist - Northwestern Medicine; Principal
Investigator, Prostate Cancer SPORE (Specialized Programs of
Research Excellence); Director, Clinical Prostate Program
-Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern
University
· Eva
L. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., Russell
N. DeJong Professor of Neurology; Director, A. Alfred
Taubman Medical Research Institute – University of Michigan
Health System
· Suzanne
Oparil, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Medicine;
Professor of Cell Development and Integrative Biology;
Director, Vascular Biology & Hypertensive Program, Division
of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine –
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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. Todd
J. Slotkin, Co-Founder, Director and Former Chairman of
Food Allergy Research & Education will receive this year’s National
Health Leadership Award.
John K.
Castle, Chairman, 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. Jane
Hanson, Emmy Award-winning television journalist, will
be the Master of Ceremonies for the evening.
About
the National Physician of the Year Awards
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. created the
National Physician of the Year Awards eleven 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 of Castle
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 beCastle 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@castleconnolly.com. Tickets
are $225 per person.
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