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Top Doctors 2019
We want to be happy and healthy, and sometimes we need help to achieve that ideal. That’s why each year Palm Springs Life enlists Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a physician-led healthcare research and information company, to identify the leading primary...
Bobby S. Bhasker Rao, MD, FACS
Most of us associate bariatric surgery with weight loss, and to be sure, the procedure can help obese patients slim down significantly. But it’s the multitude of other marked health benefits patients experience that made Bobby S. Bhasker Rao dedicate...
Iliana Popescu, MD, Oncology
In a perfect world, not a single person would have to battle cancer. And while our world may be far from perfect, we’ve come a long way, says Iliana M. Popescu, an oncologist at Eisenhower Desert Cancer Care in Rancho Mirage.“Cancer, particularly breast...
Julia l. Martin, MD, Family Medicine
When Julia L. Martin began medical school at the University of Minnesota, she thought she wanted to be an OB/GYN. But after she helped deliver the babies, she decided to learn more about them. And her curiosity didn’t stop there.“Then it went on to...
Brad A. Wolfson, MD, Urology
Urologist Brad A. Wolfson admits that his field is one most people don’t think about until they find themselves in need of a urologist. That might be when they’re dealing with kidney stones, urinary difficulties, urological cancers, or male sexual...
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Theodore D. Masek, M.D. — Top Doctors 2017
Radiation oncologist Dr. Theodore D. Masek loves many of aspects of his profession, which combines time spent in the clinic and operating room with physics and radiobiology planning, but his favorite part of the job is a no-brainer. “I’m actually curing...
Rodolfo Batarse, M.D. — Top Doctors 2017
Carol Renke, M.D. — Top Doctors 2017
Dr. Carol Renke and her family practice exudes a familial atmosphere and that’s exactly how she likes it. Her husband, Robert Renke, serves as practice manager; much of her staff has been with her for many years; and Renke gets to care for multiple...
Wendy Roberts, M.D. — Top Doctors 2017
Dr. Wendy Roberts knows she’s in the right place at the right time. “The Coachella Valley is unique in that it’s an older population, however, it’s getting younger. That’s a neat environment to work in and, for a dermatologist, very exciting," she...
Javed Siddiqi, M.D. — Top Doctors 2017
When Javed Siddiqi first arrived at Desert Regional Medical Center in 2005 to fill in during a neurosurgeon shortage, he planned to stay for 10 days. That plan changed when he was asked to stay and build a new neurosurgery program. Siddiqi agreed, but...
Top Doctors 2017 Directory
The following is Palm Springs Life‘s Top Doctors 2017 Directory in partnership with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research and information company founded in 1991 by a former medical college board chairman and president to help guide...
Top Doctors 2016
Choosing the best physician for your health and well-being is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make.We at Palm Springs Life do not take lightly the journalistic responsibility we have in profiling and recommending the top physicians in...
David R. Clawson, M.D. — Top Doctors 2016
David R. Clawson has always been enamored of the Coachella Valley; for years he and his family visited from Washington state over long weekends and school breaks.But it wasn’t until Eisenhower established a dedicated physical medicine and rehabilitation...
Amy Law, M.D. — Top Doctors 2016
For Amy Law, there has never been a more exciting time to be an oncologist. A lot has changed since she started practicing in the 1990s. Medical researchers and physicians now have a better understanding of how genetic mutations drive growth of the...
Elliot B. Lander, M.D. — Top Doctors 2016
It would still be business as usual for Elliot B. Lander and the successful Rancho Mirage urology practice he established in 1997 had it not been for one life-changing event in 2010.That’s when his colleague, cosmetic surgeon and fat transfer expert...
Geoffrey D. Block, M.D. — Top Doctors 2016
When Geoffrey D. Block was recruited by Eisenhower Medical Center to focus on interventional and surgical endoscopy, only part of his glee was about the work.He’d grown tired of the gray skies of Pittsburgh, where he’d spent more than 30 years as a...
Hetal R. Bhakta, M.D. — Top Doctors 2016
Almost every cardiology practice has a significant impact on patients’ lives, but that wasn’t enough for Hetal R. Bhakta.He specializes in electrophysiology because it “allows us to do certain procedures that are definitive in their nature. You don’t...
Harry L. Haroutunian, M.D. — Top Doctors 2016
Known by patients and colleagues as “Dr. Harry," Harry L. Haroutunian “was an old-fashioned country doctor," says the Boston native of the years he spent in family practice in Vermont, often making house calls.He also ran an active sports medicine...
Top Doctors 2015
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Kate Hudson on Music, “Song Sung Blue,” and Life in Palm Desert
