UI Physicians Listed Among "Best Doctors in America": News: University of Iowa Health Care

UI Health Care News: Week of April 18, 2005

UI Physicians Listed Among
"Best Doctors in America"

One hundred fifty-two physicians from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics have been selected for inclusion in the 2005 "Best Doctors in America" database, a leading resource for linking consumers with expert medical care.

The selected physicians--faculty in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine who provide clinical services at UI Hospitals and Clinics--represent 32 medical specialties. They comprise more than half of the 296 physicians from Iowa listed in the latest database, which includes physicians from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The "Best Doctors" database results from exhaustive peer review surveys undertaken by Best Doctors, Inc., a provider of information about the best medical care available. To compile the current database, more than 35,000 doctors throughout the United States were asked to rate the clinical abilities of other doctors in their areas of specialization.

Only physicians who earned the consensus support of their peers were included.

The polling methodology mimics the informal peer-to-peer referral process that doctors themselves use to identify appropriate specialists for their patients.

Best Doctors uses its database to support a family of high-touch, as well as Web-based services that link individuals with serious illness to expert medical specialists for second opinions or treatment. The database includes detailed physician profiles (special areas of research, diagnoses treated most often, etc.), enhancing its ability to guide patients to the doctors most experienced to advise on and/or treat the illness in question.

In addition, all doctors are checked for licensing and certification requirements and for any disqualifying disciplinary actions.

Donna Katen-Bahensky, director and chief executive officer of UI Hospitals and Clinics, said the "Best Doctors" listings underscore the high quality of physician expertise available to all Iowans at the hospital. "I believe the people of this state are extremely fortunate to have so many nationally recognized physicians available to them," she said.

Jean Robillard, M.D., dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine, said the "Best Doctors" listings validate the state's commitment to provide world-class patient care, research, and medical education at the UI.

UI Health Care physicians listed in the database, by specialty, are:

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

ANESTHESIOLOGY