New York Magazine Honors Members of Yale Cancer Center

For Immediate Release
Date: 6/16/06

Renee Gaudette, (203) 785-2143

Yale Cancer Center is proud to announce that thirty-two of its members were named top doctors in New York Magazine's Best Doctors issue, June 12, 2006.

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 12th publication: Drs. Stephan Ariyan, Nancy Berliner, Irwin Braverman, Edward Chu, Mark Cullen, Alain de Lotbiniere, Vincent DeVita, Frank Detterbeck, Richard Edelson, Gary Friedlaender, Jonathan Knisely, John Kveton, Jill Lacy, David Leffell, Charles Lockwood, Walter Longo, Shirley McCarthy, Richard Peschel, Joseph Piepmeier, Teresa Ponn, Carrie Redlich, Kenneth Roberts, Thomas Rutherford, Ronald Salem, Clarence Sasaki, Peter Schwartz, Richard Stahl, J. Grant Thomson, Robert Udelsman, Jeffrey Weinreb, Robert Weiss, and Lynn Wilson.

For more information on the guide, please refer to http://www.newyorkmetro.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.