PALO ALTO, Calif. -- As part of its ongoing program to highlight excellence in healthcare and in conjunction with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Awareness Month, Expertscape.com is pleased to announce its inaugural ranking of the top institutions and individual specialists for COPD research and treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions estimates that COPD is the third most common cause of death in the United States, claiming over 133,000 lives in 2009 and afflicting over 4 percent of the population.
As part of COPD Awareness Month, Expertscape.com honors these five individual experts and institutions (http://www.expertscape.com/leaders/copd/c/us) for demonstrating the greatest expertise and knowledge in the US in the field of COPD research and treatment:
Leading Experts, USA – COPD
1. Dr. David Mannino - University of Kentucky
2. Dr. Bartolome Celli - Brigham and Womens Hospital
3. Dr. Sanjay Sethi - SUNY Buffalo
4. Dr. Stephen Rennard - University of Nebraska Medical Center
5. Dr. Donald Tashkin - UCLA
Leading Institutions, USA - COPD
1. Brigham and Womens Hospital
2. UCLA
3. Johns Hopkins University
4. National Jewish Center
5. SUNY Buffalo
To view Expertscape’s comprehensive results for COPD, covering hundreds of institutions and thousands of specialists worldwide, visit http://www.expertscape.com/ex/copd
The Expertscape medical search and ranking solution uses objective algorithms to identify the most knowledgeable and experienced physicians, clinicians and researchers across over 26,000 specific topics, stratified by geography. With Expertscape, healthcare consumers can quickly and easily find the top experts within their travel area, and then learn more about their expertise and knowledge. Expertscape defines an expert as someone who has published peer-reviewed research in the science, therapies, and complications a specific medical topic. To search on any medical topic, visit www.expertscape.com.
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