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New York Magazine Honors Members of Yale Cancer Center

June 11, 2009

New Haven, Conn. — Yale Cancer Center is proud to announce that twenty-one of its members were named top doctors in New York Magazine’s Best Doctors issue, June 15, 2009

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 2009 publication: Drs. Masoud Azodi, Edward Chu, Richard Edelson, Sukru Emre, Kevin Kelly, John Kveton, David Leffell, Walter Longo, Pasquale Patrizio, John Persing, Richard Peschel, Joseph Piepmeier, Kenneth Roberts, Clarence Sasaki, Richard Stahl, Lynn Tanoue, Hugh Taylor, J. Grant Thomson, Robert Udelsman, Jeffrey Weinreb, and Lynn Wilson.

For more information on the guide, please refer to www.nymag.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 40 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. For more information on the Center, please go to www.yalecancercenter.org.

Submitted by Ania Childress on July 08, 2011