UAB Synopsis, Vol. 24, No. 43, November 28, 2005
The 2005 Best Doctors in America includes a record 233 UAB physicians, comprising almost one-third of UAB's medical staff. The physicians cited also make up more than two-thirds of all specialists from the Birmingham metropolitan area in the Best Doctors database.
Best Doctors is an independent, knowledge-based medical referral service located in Aiken, South Carolina. Its surveys ask peer physicians, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?" Only about 3% to 5% of all specialists worldwide make the list, which currently names 33,000 in the U.S. — including 345 physicians in the Birmingham area.
"This recognition is further testament to the outstanding clinicians who compose the UAB medical faculty and the Health Services Foundation," University of Alabama Health Services Foundation President Ray Watts, MD, says. "Collectively, we have one of the most outstanding academic multispecialty group practices in America, providing a level of care to patients throughout Alabama and beyond that is unsurpassed. I am extremely proud to be counted among these physicians."
Robert R. Rich, MD, UAB senior vice president for medicine and dean of UAB's School of Medicine, agrees: "This is yet another indicator of the extraordinary concentration of medical expertise available to Alabamians at UAB. I am proud so many UAB faculty physicians have achieved this distinction."
To view the list, visit www.health.uab.edu/bestdoctors05.