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Reddy, Walker named to Best Doctors in America
Columbia, Mo. (Dec. 13, 2002) - Two physicians working with the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (MARRTC) have been named to the 2001-2002 Best Doctors in America.
Geetha Reddy, M.D., and Sara Walker, M.D., are both rheumatologists with the MU School of Medicine. They are among 718 Missouri physicians named to the Best Doctors list.
Reddy works with MARRTC’s Arthritis Rehabilitation Center: Training in Careers (ARCTC) research project. This project focuses on helping people with arthritis stay or become employed.
Walker is co-investigator on a MARRTC project looking at depression and rheumatoid arthritis and a project designed to develop a model curriculum for arthritis health care professionals.
Best Doctors is a Web-based physician referral service based in South Carolina. The site is at http://www.bestdoctors.com/.
The company was founded by Greg Smith and Steve Naifeh after Smith was diagnosed with an "inoperable" brain tumor in 1991 and he sought and found successful treatment on his own. Smith and Naifeh, both lawyers and authors, then founded Best Doctors as a referral service to empower people with information.
Physicians listed for the Best Doctors Web site are selected through a survey of 30,000 leading specialists in various medical fields. The specialists are asked which physician they would choose for their own medical care or that of a loved one.
In addition to the paid referral service, the Web site offers a free health information database compiled by the doctors.
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