Eighteen Stony Brook Medicine physicians have been named to the list of Best Doctors for 2015, published in the June 8 issue of New York Magazine.
Thomas V. Bilfinger, MD, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Alexander B. Dagum, MD, Plastic Surgery
Raphael P. Davis, MD, Neurological Surgery
Roger Fan, MD, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Suzanne D. Fields, MD, Geriatric Medicine
Todd R. Griffin, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lynn E. Hallarman, MD, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Catherine E. Kier, MD, Pediatric Pulmonology
Leonard Kristal, MD, Dermatology
William E. Lawson, MD, Interventional Cardiology
Lloyd Lense, MD, Cardiovascular Disease
Robert I. Parker, MD, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Michael Poon, MD, Cardiovascular Disease
Michael W. Schuster, MD, Hematology
Apostolos K. Tassiopoulos, MD, Vascular Surgery
James R. Taylor Jr., MD, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Carmen Tornos, MD, Pathology
Henry H. Woo, MD, Neurological Surgery
The doctors are selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. each year through a peer-review survey. Licensed physicians vote online for doctors they view as exceptional. Participating physicians are asked to nominate those doctors who, in their judgment, are the best in their field and related fields, taking into account not only professional qualifications and reputation, but also skills in dealing with patients. Doctors cannot nominate themselves, and all nominations are confidential.
The 1,282 New York Magazine honorees are a smaller subset of the annual Castle Connolly list from its guidebook Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, which lists those whom Castle Connolly considers among the top 10 percent of the region's physicians, numbering 6,497 in all this year.