Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd. Honored Top Physicians at
Ninth
Annual National Physician of the Year Awards
Monday,
March 31, 2014
On Monday, March 31, 2014, the Ninth Annual Castle
Connolly Medical Ltd. National Physician of the Year Awards took
place at The Pierre Hotel in New York City. The Awards
recognized and honored five exemplary physicians, as well as
the many thousands of other excellent physicians practicing
in communities throughout the United States. Nearly 300
guests joined in celebrating the honorees’ achievements.
Awards were given to physicians who are
nationally recognized leaders and contributors in their
specialties.
The Lifetime
Achievement Award, awarded
to physicians for their lifetime of dedication to research
and practice in their respective fields, was presented to:
· Victor
Fazio, M.D., Chairman
Emeritus, Digestive Disease Institute; Department of
Colorectal Surgery - Cleveland Clinic
· Hagop
M. Kantarjian, M.D., Professor
and Chair, Leukemia - The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center
The Clinical
Excellence Award, recognizing physicians
who exemplify excellence in clinical medical practice, was
presented to:
· Susan
B. Bressman, M.D., Alan
and Joan Mirken Chair, Departments of Neurology - Mount
Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai
Roosevelt; Professor of Neurology – Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai
· Catherine
R. deVries, M.D., M.S., Professor of Surgery -
University of Utah; Director of the University of Utah
Center for Global Surgery – University of Utah Health Care
and Primary Children’s Hospital
· Michael
Saag, M.D., Professor
of Medicine and Director of the UAB Center for AIDS Research
(CFAR) – University of Alabama at Birmingham
The National
Health Leadership Award, awarded
to individuals for outstanding dedication and work with an
organization that has served to heighten the awareness for
the need for support and research on that specific cause,
was presented to Dr.
Mehmet Oz, Host of The Dr. Oz Show, best-selling author
and Co-Founder ofHealthCorps and Lisa
Oz, Host of The Lisa Oz Show, best-selling author and
Co-Founder of HealthCorps 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. were the Awards Presenters for the evening. Dr.
Steve Salvatore, host of “Dr. Steve,” Tribune’s
nationally syndicated TV show, was 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 nearly
a decade ago as a further way to 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 do so 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 very 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 web site and various consumer and business-oriented
print and online partnerships. Under the direction of its
physician-led research team, Castle
Connolly receives
annually more than 100,000 nominations of outstanding
physicians in primary care and specialty care areas of
medicine and located all across the U.S. The research team
then reviews, screens and selects those 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
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