14 Dayton Children's doctors named on 'Best Doctors in America' list

Fourteen physicians affiliated with Dayton Children’s appear on the Best Doctors in America^® List for 2013, officials from Dayton Children’s announced today.  Only five percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor, decided by impartial peer review.

Best Doctors has earned a sterling, worldwide reputation for reliable, impartial results by remaining totally independent. Doctors cannot pay to be included in the Best Doctors database, nor are they paid to provide their input. The List is a product of validated peer review, in which doctors who excel in their specialties are selected by their peers in the profession. 

In bringing together the best medical minds in the world, Best Doctors works with expert physicians from its Best Doctors in America^® List to help its 30 million members worldwide get the right diagnosis and right treatment.

The highly regarded Best Doctors in America List, assembled by Best Doctors, Inc. and audited and certified by Gallup®, results from exhaustive polling of over 45,000 physicians in the United States. Doctors in over 40 specialties and 400 subspecialties of medicine appear on this year’s List.  In a confidential review, current physician listees answer the question, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer?”  Best Doctors, Inc. evaluates the review results, and verifies all additional information to meet detailed inclusion criteria.   

The experts who are part of the Best Doctors in America^® database provide the most advanced medical expertise and knowledge to patients with serious conditions – often saving lives in the process by finding the right diagnosis and right treatment. Dayton Children’s group of experts listed in the database includes world-class specialists in orthopaedics, infectious disease and hematology/oncology. These include:

• Michael C. Albert, MD, orthopedics
• Sherman J. Alter, MD, infectious disease
• Emmett Broxson, Jr, MD, hematology/oncology
• Ann Burke, MD, pediatrics
• Paul Deenadayalu, MD, pediatrics
• Mukund Dole, MD, hematology/oncology
• Greg Eberhart, MD, pediatrics
• Robert J. Fink, MD, pulmonary medicine
• William Klykylo, MD, psychiatry
• Gary A. Mueller, MD,  pulmonary medicine
• Maria T. Nanagas, MD, pediatrics
• John M. Pascoe, MD, pediatrics
• Alonzo Patterson, MD, pediatrics
• Arthur S. Pickoff, MD, cardiology

About Best Doctors, Inc.:

Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School physicians, Best Doctors works with the best five percent of doctors, ranked by impartial peer review, to help people get the right diagnosis and right treatment. Gallup^® has audited and certified Best Doctors, Inc.’s database of physicians, and its companion Best Doctors in America^® List, as using the highest industry standards survey methodology and processes. The global health solutions company, which has grown to over 30 million members worldwide, uses state-of-the-art technology capabilities to deliver improved health outcomes while reducing costs. Best Doctors seamlessly integrates its trusted health services with large self-insured employers, insurers and other groups in every major region of the world. The company also designs and implements international insurance programs that help people be sure they get the right health solutions.

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For more information, contact: 

Grace Rodney 

Marketing Communications Specialist 

Phone: 937-641-3666 

marketing@childrensdayton.org