200+ UW Health physicians named to 2015-16 BEST DOCTORS IN AMERICA list
MADISON — More than two hundred UW Health physicians appear on the Best Doctors in America® List for 2015-2016, officials have announced. Only five percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor.
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. Doctors cannot pay to be included in the Best Doctors database, nor are they paid to provide their input.
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 Best Doctors in America® List, assembled by Best Doctors, Inc. and audited and certified by Gallup®, results from exhaustive polling of more than 40,000 physicians in the United States. Doctors in more than 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.
UW Health is an academic health system associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including:
- UW School of Medicine and Public Health, the nation’s only combined school of medicine and public health;
- UW Medical Foundation, the state’s second largest medical practice group representing the school’s 1300 faculty physicians;
- University Hospital, a nationally recognized 592-bed regional referral center that is home to a Level One adult and pediatric trauma center, American College of Surgeons-verified burn center, one of the nation’s largest organ transplant programs, the 87-bed American Family Children’s Hospital with pediatric and surgical neonatal intensive care units, an innovative regional Telestroke Program and the Carbone Cancer Center, one of 40 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive centers in the country;
- UW Health at The American Center, a 56-bed community-based health and wellness facility;
- UW Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 50-bed post-acute inpatient program.
About Best Doctors, Inc.:
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 certified Best Doctors as using the highest industry standards survey methodology and processes in polling physicians to discover the doctors they would choose for their own care. Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School physicians, 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 Fortune 1000 employers, insurers and other groups in every major region of the world.
For the list of UW Health physicians named to the list, visit: www.uwhealth.org/news/best-
For further information, visit Best Doctors at www.bestdoctors.com.
