Members of the SHS medical staff, including both university and community-based physicians, were well represented across a broad range of primary care and specialty practices in the latest list of "Best Bay Area Doctors," published in March by San Francisco Focus magazine.

A total of 83 staff members were included among what professional polling organization Woodward/White identified as the Bay Area's 348 best MDs. Selections are based on "patient care, not on research or prestige in the medical community," Focus editors said.

Woodward/White, based in Aiken, S.C., publishes a biennial professional directory, The Best Doctors in America. The Bay Area list, according to the Focus article, is based on "confidential, open-ended interviews with the doctors, who were not permitted to vote for themselves or for doctors in their own hospitals or medical practices."

The list was organized by several broad categories: primary caregivers, AIDS, cancer, cerebrovascular disease and stroke, diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, lung infections, respiratory disease and trauma. Each broad category included specialties and subspecialties. Several medical staff members were named in more than one category.

Here is a list of active members of the SHS medical staff (and their practice affiliations) who appeared on the Focus list. Many of these physicians, and others listed in the Focus magazine article have medical school appointments or other relationships with Stanford Medical Center.

PRIMARY CAREGIVERS

FAMILY MEDICINE

Susan D. Smith, Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF).

INTERNAL MEDICINE (GENERAL)

Jeffrey C. Croke, PAMF; Cheryl Gold, PAMF; Robert W. Hagar, Stanford Medical Group (SMG); Susan F. Hoffman, Welch Road Internal Medicine; Michael B. Jacobs, SMG; Henry W. Jones III, PAMF; Michael A. Nierenberg, private practice; Peter Rudd, Stanford University Medical Center (SUMC); Susan K. Sorensen, private practice; Scott H. Wood, private practice.

PEDIATRICS (GENERAL)

William Benitz, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH); James A. Cisco, Menlo Medical Clinic (MMC); Jane A. Morton, PAMF; Judith Murphy, LPCH.

AIDS

Thomas C. Merigan, SUMC; Jack S. Remington, PAMF.

CANCER

DERMATOLOGY

Elizabeth A. Abel, SUMC; Youn H. Kim, SUMC; A. Christine Miller, PAMF.

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY

Karl G. Blume, SUMC; Robert W. Carlson, SUMC; Sandra J. Horning, SUMC; Charlotte D. Jacobs, SUMC; Paula D. Kushlan, PAMF; Ronald Levy, SUMC; Harlan A. Pinto, SUMC and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System; William M. Rogoway, PAMF; Saul Rosenberg, SUMC; Frank E. Stockdale, SUMC.

OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Katherine A. O'Hanlan, private practice; John B. Schlaerth, SUMC; Nelson N.H. Teng, SUMC.

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

Willard E. Fee Jr., SUMC; Rodney Perkins, California Ear Institute at Stanford (CEI); Joseph Roberson, CEI.

PEDIATRICS

Michael D. Amylon, LPCH; Harvey J. Cohen, LPCH; Michael P. Link, LPCH.

PSYCHIATRY (CANCER SUBSPECIALTY)

David Spiegel, SUMC.

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Sarah S. Donaldson, LPCH and SUMC; Don R. Goffinet, SUMC; Steven L. Hancock, SUMC; Richard T. Hoppe, SUMC; Daniel S. Kapp, SUMC.

SURGERY

David L. Gregg, MMC.

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

John E. Niederhuber, SUMC.

THORACIC SURGERY

James B.D. Mark, SUMC.

UROLOGY

Fuad Freiha, SUMC; Thomas A. Stamey, SUMC.

CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE AND STROKE

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY

Gary K. Steinberg, SUMC.

NEUROLOGY

Gregory W. Albers, SUMC.

DIABETES

NEPHROLOGY

Jeffrey Petersen, SUMC.

OPHTHALMOLOGY

Mark S. Blumenkranz, SUMC.

PEDIATRICS

Susan B. Conley, LPCH; Darrell M. Wilson, LPCH.

HEART DISEASE

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Robert F. DeBusk, SUMC; John P. Cooke, SUMC; Sharon A. Hunt, SUMC; Richard L. Popp, SUMC; Ingela Schnittger, SUMC; John S. Schroeder, SUMC; John B. Simpson, SUMC.

NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Robert J. Herfkens, SUMC.

PEDIATRICS

Daniel Bernstein, LPCH.

PULMONARY AND CRITICAL-CARE MEDICINE

James Theodore, SUMC.

RADIOLOGY

Michael D. Dake, SUMC; Herfkens; Lewis Wexler, SUMC.

SURGERY

Thomas J. Fogarty, SUMC.

THORACIC SURGERY

D. Craig Miller, SUMC; Philip E. Oyer, SUMC; Bruce A. Reitz, SUMC; Norman E. Shumway, SUMC; and Edward B. Stinson, SUMC.

LIVER DISEASE

GASTROENTEROLOGY

Emmet B. Keeffe, SUMC.

PEDIATRICS

Kenneth L. Cox, LPCH.

SURGERY

Carlos O. Esquivel, SUMC.

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Niederhuber.

LUNG INFECTIONS

PEDIATRICS (GENERAL)

Benitz.

PULMONARY AND CRITICAL-CARE MEDICINE

Frank T. Kagawa, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center; Stephen J. Ruoss, SUMC; Theodore.

RESPIRATORY DISEASE

PULMONARY AND CRITICAL-CARE MEDICINE

Kagawa;Thomas A. Raffin, SUMC; Norman W. Rizk, SUMC; Ruoss; Theodore.

TRAUMA

HAND SURGERY

Gordon A. Brody, Sports, Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Associates; Vincent R. Hentz, SUMC.