December 10, 2012
 
Fifteen physicians affiliated with Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill are listed in the latest compilation of The Best Doctors in America® database.
 
Dr. Myron Cohen

Dr. Myron Cohen
Dr. Alison Stuebe

Dr. Alison Stuebe
Dr. John Thorp

Dr. John Thorp
Dr. Anthony Viera

Dr. Anthony Viera

They include epidemiology professor Myron Cohen, MD, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, who was selected in the infectious disease category; Alison Stuebe, MD, assistant professor of maternal and child health in the public health school and of obstetrics and gynecology in the medical school, selected in the obstetrics and gynecology category; John M. Thorp Jr., MD, professor of maternal and child health in the public health school and Hugh McAllister Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the medical school, selected in the obstetrics and gynecology category; and Anthony J. Viera, MD, director of the Health Care and Prevention Master of Public Health degree program in the public health school’s Public Health Leadership Program and Wilkerson Professor of Family Medicine in the School of Medicine, who was selected in the family medicine category.

 
Only about 5 percent of physicians in the U.S. are included in the Best Doctors database, a resource that contains the names and professional affiliations of more than 45,000 doctors in the U.S., all chosen through an exhaustive peer-review survey.
 
Adjunct faculty members at the Gillings School of Global Public Health included in the Best Doctors list are:
  • Timothy Carey, MD, adjunct in epidemiology, director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research (internal medicine);
  • Margaret Gourlay, MD, adjunct in the Public Health Leadership Program (family medicine);
  • Laura C. Hanson, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (geriatric medicine);
  • Joanne Jordan, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (rheumatology);
  • Warren P. Newton, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (family medicine);
  • Matthew Nielsen, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (urology);
  • David B. Peden, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (allergy and immunology);
  • Michael Pignone, adjunct in health behavior (internal medicine);
  • Robert S. Sandler, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (gastroenterology);
  • Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (gastroenterology); and
  • Philip D. Sloane, MD, adjunct in epidemiology (geriatric medicine).

A total of 277 physicians from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were included in the new Best Doctors compilation. Many of the doctors also are listed in the December 2012 issue of Business North Carolina magazine, as part of its annual compilation of North Carolina’s best doctors.


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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: David Pesci, director of communications, (919) 962-2600 or dpesci@unc.edu.
 

 

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