16 ALVARADO PHYSICIANS NAMED TOP DOCTORS BY SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE
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Alvarado Hospital Medical Center has 16 physicians in 11 specialties named "Top Doctors" in the annual San Diego Magazine "Physicians of Exceptional Excellence" survey done collaboratively with the San Diego County Medical Society.
"Congratulations to these Alvarado Hospital medical staff members for being named to the 2011 Top Doctors list," said Peter Adamo, Alvarado Hospital administrator. "For a community hospital, we have one of the most distinguished medical staffs in the area. We are pleased to see the quality of our physicians recognized by the San Diego County Medical Society and these physicians' peers.”
Also in this issue, Dr. John Finkenberg, an orthopedic surgeon with Alvarado Hospital, was profiled for his art work. He creates bronze sculptures in his free time - and two of the pices are surgeon's hands. Read the story "Sculpting Bronze With Surgeon Hands" in the Docs of the Clock section in San Diego Magazine.
These physicians were rated among the best in San Diego County according to the magazine:
- Dr. Kaveh Bagheri, Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine
- Dr. Afshin Bahador, Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Dr. Gonzalo Ballon-Landa, Infectious Disease
- Dr. Michael Butera, Infectious Disease
- Dr. Bridgette Duggan, Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Dr. George Fadda, Internal Medicine, Nephrology
- Dr. Kuljinder Grewal, Ophthalmology
- Dr. Charles Kossman, Oncology
- Dr. Steven Kossman, Oncology
- Dr. Ralph Lee, Family Medicine
- Dr. Perry Mansfield, Otolayngology
- Dr. John Marino, Internal Medicine
- Dr. Curtis McGuyer, Pathology
- Dr. Ravindra Prabhu, Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Dr. Kosala Samarasinghe, Internal Medicine
- Dr. Brian Weeks, Otolaryngology
Adamo added that in addition to these "Top Docs," Alvarado Hospital recognizes all of its more than 400 dedicated doctors, including six physicians who were recently identified by U.S. News & World Report as "Top Doctors” in the nation. These physicians are:
- Dr. Gonzalo Ballon-Landa, infectious disease specialist
- Dr. Irwin Goldstein, urology (he is the medical director of the Sexual Medicine Program at Alvarado Hospital)
- Dr. Alborz Hassankhani, cardiac electrophysiologist
- Dr. Frederick Howden, thoracic surgeon
- Dr. Choll Kim, orthopedic surgeon (specializing in minimally invasive spine surgery at Alvarado Hospital)
- Dr. Nasrin Mani, ophthalmologist.
