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Letter from the Publisher
Anna Magzanyan
Los Angeles is brimming with many of the nation’s best healthcare practitioners and centers of excellence. We’ve selected a sampling of some of the very best and most outstanding leaders of their respective specialties here to create our Top Doctors of 2020. So how did we do it?
For our Top Doctors in Los Angeles profiles this year, we analyzed each of the many nominations received and pulled a few particularly outstanding medical professionals each from 12 disciplines of focus: Cardiology, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, General Surgery, Gynecology, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, Otolaryngology, Psychiatry, and Pulmonology, based on their good standing, reputation, thought leadership and success here in Los Angeles.
Top Doctors in Los Angeles
CARDIOLOGY:
Christine Albert – Cedars-Sinai
Mehrdad Ariani – Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center
William K. Averill – Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Anil Bhandari – PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital Antelope Valley Hospital California Hospital Medical Center
Sunny Bhatia – Prime Healthcare
Dominic J. Blurton – Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Joanna Chikwe – Cedars-Sinai
Myunghae Choi – CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital St. Mary Medical Center
Michele Del vicario – Torrance Memorial Providence Medical Institute South Bay Heart and Vascular Center
Gregg Fonarow – UCLA Health
Cynthia Herrington – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
James Kulczycki – Adventist Health Glendale USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
Ray Matthews – Keck Medicine of USC
Guy Mayeda – PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Christopher A. Tan – Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
DERMATOLOGY
Jenny Kim – UCLA Health
David Peng – Keck Medicine of USC
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Carl R. Chudnofsky – USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
Augusto Cigliano – Emanate Health
Brandon Lew – Huntington Memorial Hospital
Stephen Liu – Adventist Health White Memorial
Magdi Alexander – Methodist Hospital of Southern California | Huntington Memorial Hospital
GENERAL SURGERY
Samuel Kashani – Valley Presbyterian Hospital
Simon Keushkerian – Adventist Health Glendale
Fasal Khan – Adventist Health White Memorial
GYNECOLOGY
Richard L. Friedman – Providence St. Joseph Medical Center
Bente Kaiser – CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center | PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Charles M. March – HRC Fertility
Laurence Spencer-Smith – Adventist Health White Memorial
John G. Wilcox – HRC Fertility
Arus Zograbyan – CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center | Glendale Memorial Hospital
NEUROLOGY
Ronald Andiman – Cedars-Sinai
Said Beydoun – Keck Medicine of USC
Eric Frechette – Methodist Hospital of Southern California | Huntington Hospital
Joung Lee – CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
Lance Lee – Adventist Health Glendale | Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center
Sun Lee – CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
Jingtian Wang – Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
ONCOLOGY
Jonathon B. Blitzer – Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Inderbir S. Gill – Keck Medicine of USC
Heinz-Josef Lenz – USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center | Keck Medicine of USC
Sumanta Kumar Pal – City of Hope
Ravi Salgia – City of Hope
Dennis Slamon – UCLA Health
Marilou Terpenning – Providence St. John’s Health Center
Alan S. Wayne – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Eijean Wu – Dignity Health California Hospital
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Thomas C. Lee – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Karen Morgan – Keck Medicine of USC
Rohit Varma – CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
David Yu – Huntington Memorial Hospital
ORTHOPEDICS & SPORTS MEDICINE
Annette Billings – PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Seth Gamradt – Keck Medicine of USC
William Gow – Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
George Frederick “Rick” Hatch – Keck Medicine of USC
Jay R. Lieberman – Keck Medicine of USC
Lawrence Menendez – Keck Medicine of USC
Phillip O. Merritt – Adventist Health Glendale
Alexander Miric – Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Jonathan Nissanoff – Advanced Orthopedic Center
Guy Paeiment – Cedars-Sinai
Ankur D. Patel – Emanate Health
Lanny Rudner – Silicon Beach Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Specialist
OTOLARYNGOLOGY (ENT)
Ellie Maghami – City of Hope
Uttam Sinha – Keck Medicine of USC
PSYCHIATRY
Michael Agress – Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Carlos M. Figueroa- Keck Medicine of USC
Steven Siegel- Keck Medicine of USC
PULMONOLOGY
Mohammad A. Ansari – Cedars-Sinai
Ricardo Juarez- Keck Medicine of USC
Paryus patel – Prime Healthcare
Tisha Wang – UCLA Health