Chicago Magazine Names 27 Loyola Physicians to 2019 'Top Cancer Doctors' List
November 5, 2019MAYWOOD, IL – Twenty-seven Loyola Medicine physicians have been named to Chicago magazine's 2019 list of "Chicago's Top Cancer Doctors."
The annual list of Top Cancer Doctors can be found in Chicago magazine's October 2019 issue and online.
Loyola Medicine is nationally recognized for its expert team of highly trained cancer doctors who come from a wide variety of clinical areas. These multidisciplinary specialists provide the expertise, translational research experience and compassionate care needed to diagnose and treat cancer. They work together, taking a collaborative approach to cancer care.
The annual Top Cancer Doctors issue also features local breakthroughs in cancer treatment, including Loyola's innovative CAR T-cell therapy treatment for leukemia and lymphoma. Patrick Stiff, MD, director of hematology and oncology at Loyola University Medical Center, participated in a momentous 2017 study that led to FDA approval of CAR T-Cell therapy for pediatric leukemia and adult lymphoma patients. Stiff and his team are now working to produce CAR T-cells in Loyola's laboratory and are the first cancer center in Illinois to produce these cells onsite.
Loyola Medicine physicians named to the Top Cancer Doctors list include:
- Kathy Albain, MD, medical oncology
- Marc Borge, MD, interventional radiology and vascular surgery
- Richard Borrowdale, MD, otolaryngology
- Dariusz Borys, MD, pathology
- Victor Cimino, MD, plastic surgery
- Joseph Clark, MD, medical oncology
- Scott Cotler, MD, hepatology
- Bahman Emami, MD, radiation oncology
- Robert Flanigan, MD, urology
- Constantine Godellas, MD, surgery
- Gopal Gupta, MD, urology
- Charles Hemenway, MD, pediatric hematology/oncology
- John Leonetti, MD, otolaryngology
- Fred Luchette, MD, surgery
- Edward Melian, MD, radiation oncology
- Kenneth Micetich, MD, medical oncology
- Sucha Nand, MD, hematology/oncology
- Russ Nockels, MD, neurological surgery
- Ronald Potkul, MD, gynecologic oncology
- Vikram Prabhu, MD, neurological surgery
- Marcus Quek, MD, urology
- David Rosi, MD, medical oncology
- William Small, Jr., MD, radiation oncology
- Patrick Stiff, MD, hematology/oncology
- Thomas Turk, MD, urology
- Darl Vandevender, MD, plastic surgery
- Wickii Vigneswaran, MD, thoracic & cardiac surgery
"We are incredibly proud of our Loyola Medicine physicians who are featured on the Top Cancer Doctors list for 2019," said Shawn P. Vincent, president and CEO of Loyola Medicine. "Their continued commitment to innovation and cancer research is saving lives.”
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a healthcare research and information company, compiled the list of top cancer doctors. The group's process for selecting the top doctors includes reviewing peer nominations, extensive research and careful review and screening by a physician-directed research team. Physicians are not able to nominate themselves or pay to be featured on the list.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or X (formerly known as Twitter).
About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).