BY MIKE GOODKIND

Members of SHS' medical staff, including 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 84 staff members were included among 348 of what professional polling organization Woodward/White identified as the Bay Area's 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, SC, 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 strokes, diabetes, heart diseases, liver disease, lung infections, respiratory disease and trauma. Each broad category included specialties and subspecialties. Several SHS physicians were named in more than one category.

Here is a list of active members of the SHS medical staff (and their practice locations) 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, 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 (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 STROKES: 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 DISEASES: 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; and John B. Simpson, SUMC. Nuclear medicine, Robert J. Herfkens, SUMC. Pediatrics, Daniel Bernstein, LPCH. Pulmonary and critical 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, Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation; and Vincent R. Hentz, SUMC. SR