Methodology: Marin Magazine conducted a 2015 survey that
has resulted in this [415] Top Doctors list — top physicians
practicing in San Francisco and Marin counties who received
multiple independent recommendations from their peers. The
list was rechecked again this year. The survey process started
with a list of more than 3,000 licensed doctors across all
specialties in both counties. All doctors on this list were both
candidates and eligible voters in the peer-to-peer voting poll.
Doctors were allowed to cast an unlimited number of votes
across all specialties — they could vote for as many doctors
as they wanted regardless of specific area of expertise — but
they could only vote for the same doctor once.
Response rate was maximized by the following procedures:
(a) a long field period of 12 weeks that was further extended
to allow all doctors ample time to log in and vote for peers;
(b) multiple channels of solicitations including both individual
invitations and organizational outreach to maximize contact
with all eligible voters; and (c) repeated invitations and
reminders to doctors who did not respond to initial rounds of
solicitations. At the close of the voting period, approximately
600 doctors with the highest vote counts were short-listed
for the database. Each of these doctors received a statistically
significant number of votes from peers based on established
principles of sampling probabilities and power analysis.
LinChiat Chang, Ph.D.
2017
We asked doctors, “Whom would you send your
family members to, or whom would you go to, if
faced with a medical problem?” More than 19,000
votes were cast, and the results — approximately
850, all in the 415 and 628 area code — are listed on
the following pages. To search by specialty online,
visit
marinmagazine.com/415topdoctors.
ALLERG Y /
IMMUNOLOGY
DONALD GERMAN
Asthma & Allergy Clinic of Marin
and San Francisco
KATHERINE GUNDLING
UCSF Medical Center
IMRAN JUNAID
Kaiser Permanente
RUSSELL LEONG
Sutter Health CPMC
LYNN E. SPITLER
Sutter Health
SCHUMAN TAM
Asthma & Allergy Clinic of Marin
and San Francisco
DIANE WARA
UCSF Medical Center
SHRU TI P. WILSON
Kaiser Permanente
CARDIOLOGY
JAMES R. ADAMS
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
SCOTT H. ADELMAN
Kaiser Permanente
ALAN S. AMENT
Kaiser Permanente
MARGARET L. BAER
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
ADAM J. BAUMGARTEN
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
BARBARA A. BOYLAN
Kaiser Permanente
TERESA DE MARCO
UCSF Medical Center
SUJOYA DEY
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
KEN T N. GERSHENGORN
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
WILLIAM GROSSMAN
UCSF Medical Center
STEVEN HAO
Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation
RICHARD HONGO
Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation
PE TER HUI
Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation
LESTER JACOBSON
California Pacific Medical Center
ANN K. KAO
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
BRIAN G. KEEFFE
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
BJOERN LAURBERG
Kaiser Permanente
ARUN K. RAGHUPATHY
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
GAGANDEEP K. SANDHU
Kaiser Permanente
KABIR SINGH
Meritage Medical Net work
JOEL SKLAR
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
DAVID C. SPERLING
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
ROBERT T. SPERLING
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
BRIAN L. STRUNK
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
DAVID J. SULCINER
Kaiser Permanente
RAMI J. TURK
Kaiser Permanente
MARK P. WEXMAN
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
YEREM YEGHIAZARIANS
UCSF Medical Center
JERALD A. YOUNG
Cardiovascular Associates of Marin
