Three cancer specialists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia have been recognized by Good Housekeeping magazine as being among the nation’s top 318 top cancer specialists for women. The magazine’s March issue offers a guide to the country’s most renowned experts for lung, breast and colon disease. The guide includes:

• Walter J. Curran, MD, Clinical Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Jefferson Medical College (JMC).
• Robert D. Fry, MD, Professor of Surgery and Director, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, JMC.
• Gordon F. Schwartz, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, JMC.

Thomas J. Lewis, President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, congratulated the three specialists on receiving this honor and for their lifetime of work, in conjunction with Jefferson’s team of cancer physicians, in the diagnosis, research and treatment of women with various forms of cancer.

“These physicians can be very proud of their accomplishments and deserve commendation for their efforts to achieve the positive outcomes we’re now seeing in patients with cancer,” Mr. Lewis said.

Good Housekeeping’s editors reported that they made their selections based on nominations from nearly 300 department chairs and section chiefs in surgical, medical and radiation oncology at major medical centers around the United States. The physicians who made the nominations were asked to select “the specialists who provide the most expert treatment and who are the leading clinicians for lung, breast and colon cancer in women.”

See more information at www.jeffersonhealth.org

News Briefs | Photo Album | Calendar | Announcements | Notables