GOOD HOUSEKEEPING RANKS EMORY HEART CENTER SPECIALISTS AMONG NATION'S BEST

March 25, 1996
Media Contact: Sarah Goodwin at 404/727-5686, e-mail: sgoodwi@emory.edu

Emory Heart Center specialists were among the doctors most frequently cited by 260 department chairs and section chiefs at major medical centers when asked by Good Housekeeping magazine staff to name their top peers.

From more than 1,000 heart and stroke specialists named, the magazine published in the March issue only the 357 most cited for its list of "The Country's Best Heart Doctors." Emory University School of Medicine faculty entries on the list include the following:

Daniel Barrow, M.D., neurosurgery/aneurysms chairman and professor, department of neurosurgery

Marc Chimowitz, M.D., neurology director, Emory Stroke Center associate professor, department of neurology

Joseph M. Craver M.D., heart surgery for adults/arrhythmia, transplants, valve disorders professor, division of cardiothoracic surgery, department of surgery

Robert A. Guyton, M.D., heart surgery for adults/arrhythmia, transplant, valve disorders director and professor, division of cardiothoracic surgery, department of surgery

Ellis Jones, M.D., heart surgery for adults/arrhythmia, cardiothoracic, valve disorders professor, division of cardiothoracic surgery, department of surgery

Spencer B. King III, M.D., cardiology for adults/interventional cardiology director, Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center professor, division of cardiology, department of medicine

Robert C. Schlant, M.D., cardiology for adults professor, division of cardiology, department of medicine

Willis H. Williams, M.D., heart surgery for children/cardiothoracic professor, division of cardiothoracic surgery, department of surgery

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