Northern Ohio Live magazine recently featured the region's "Top Docs"—more than half of whom have CWRU ties.

Among the 80 doctors listed in the article, 44 are affiliated with CWRU. Thirty-eight School of Medicine faculty members are named, seven of whom are also alumni. In addition, seven non-faculty alumni are included inthe list.

The Northern Ohio Live article highlights the top 10 area doctors in eight specialties: family medicine, internal medicine, ear nose and throat, allergy/immunology, dermatology, geriatric medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology. These specialties were chosen based on the kinds of treatments that people most often seek.

Northern Ohio Live compiled its list based on the responses of nearly 3,000 area doctors who were asked the question, "If you or a member of your family had a medical problem, whom would you select as the best physician in northeast Ohio for care and treatment?"

The "Top Docs" are, in alphabetical order by specialty:

Family Practice

Scott H. Frank, M.D., Associate Professor, Family Medicine

James E. Gibbs, M.D., Senior Clinical Instructor, Family Medicine

Patricia Kellner, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Medicine

William D. Smucker, M.D., Class of 1978 Jay M. Taylor, M.D., Senior Clinical Instructor, Family Medicine

Edward C. White, M.D., (Class of 1959), Associate Clinical Professor, Family Medicine

Allergy/Immunology

Robert Hostoffer, O.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Kent Knauer, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine Theodore H. Sher, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Michael J. Waikman, M.D., Allergy/Immunology, Class of 1985

Dermatology

Jonathan Bass, M.D., Assistant Professor, Dermatology

Jaye E. Benjamin, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Dermatology

Fred S. Hirsh, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Dermatology

Eliot N. Mostow, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Clinical Professor, Dermatology

Donald R. Schermer, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Dermatology

John G. Secrist, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Dermatology

Steven J. Taub, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Dermatology

Ear, Nose and Throat

Tom I. Abelson, M.D., (Class of 1976), Assistant Clinical Professor, Otolaryngology

James E. Arnold, M.D., Professor, Otolaryngology Robert L. Katz, M.D., Class of 1963

Geriatrics

Stephen A. Baum, M.D., Clinical Instructor, Medicine

Teresa Dolinar, M.D., (Class of 1993), Assistant Professor, Medicine

George Gelehrter, M.D., (Class of 1976), Assistant Professor, Medicine

Robert M. Palmer, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine

Internal Medicine

John Baniewicz, M.D., Senior Clinical Instructor, Medicine

Terek Elsawy, M.D., Class of 1991

Peter A. Esch, M.D., Internal Medicine, Class of 1974

Steven A. Rudolph, M.D., Ph.D., (Class of 1988), Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine

Adrian Schnall, M.D., Clinical Professor, Medicine

Richard L. Stein, (Class of 1982), Assistant Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine

Obstetrics/Gynecology

Laura David, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Reproductive Biology

LeRoy J. Dierker, Jr., M.D., Professor, Reproductive Biology

Anthony J. Gingo, M.D., Class of 1988

James M. Goldfarb, M.D., Clinical Professor, Reproductive Biology

Robert Kiwi, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Reproductive Biology

Laszlo Sogor, M.D., Ph.D., (Class of 1978), Associate Professor, Reproductive Biology

Pediatrics

Brian W. Berman, M.D., Professor, Pediatrics

John B. Lampe, M.D., Class of 1977

Arthur Lavin, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

James T. Leslie, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Thomas E. Phelps, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Shelley E. Senders, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Mary K. Skoch, Pediatrics, Class of 1987

Northern Ohio Live also profiled seven of the 80 doctors listed. Four of these highlighted doctors are affiliated with CWRU: Lampe, Esch, Bass and David.