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Chang Receives Castle Connolly “Physician of the Year” Award

Stanley Chang, M.D. was one of three physicians honored with the prestigious Castle Connolly “National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence” at a dinner in New York City on March 18. Two other physicians were recognized for lifetime achievement. The award acknowledged Dr. Chang’s many contributions to medicine and ophthalmology in particular, reflecting both his outstanding professional achievements and those of the Department of Ophthalmology.

Honorees were selected from among the more than 600,000 physicians currently practicing in the United States. Nominations were solicited from the executive and medical leadership of the nation’s premier medical centers and specialty hospitals and from all physicians profiled in the Castle Connolly publications America’s Top Doctors and America’s Top Doctors for Cancer, with final selections made by the Castle Connolly Medical Advisory Board. Chang Receives Castle Connolly “Physician of the Year” Award

Arthur Hull Hayes Jr., M.D., former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and former Provost and Dean of New York Medical College, presents Stanley Chang, M.D. with the Physician of the Year” award.

L to R:

L. Dade Lunsford, M.D.,
Lars Leksell Professor and Distinguished
Professor, University of Pittsburgh; Director,
Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center;

Lee Goldman, M.D.,
Executive Vice President for Health and
Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the
Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine,
Columbia University Medical Center;

Stanley Chang, M.D.,
Edward S. Harkness Professor of
Ophthalmology, K.K. Tse and Ku Teh Ying
Professor of Ophthalmology, Department
Chairman, Ophthalmology, Columbia
University Medical Center.