Dr. Roger Lyons of Cancer Care Centers of South Texas named to prestigious Castle Connolly Top Doctors® List
San
Antonio, Texas (Jan. 21, 2014) — Cancer Care Centers of South Texas (CCCST), united in healing
with The
US Oncology Network,
is pleased to announce that Roger Lyons, M.D., F.A.C.P., has been named a
2013 Castle Connolly Top Doctor. Castle Connolly
Medical Ltd. is a highly regarded healthcare research and information company
that identifies top doctors in America and provides consumers with detailed
information about physicians. The Top Doctor list is based on an extensive
nominating process in which doctors who excel in their specialties are selected
by their peers. Their credentials and qualifications are then carefully
reviewed and evaluated by a physician-led research team and key personnel who
select the honorees. Doctors cannot pay to be included on a Castle Connolly Top
Doctors® list, and those who provide their input are not
compensated.
“We
congratulate Dr. Lyons on being named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor,” said Deborah
Gaeke, executive director, CCCST. “Dr.
Lyons is renowned as an international expert in hematology, and we are proud to
see him receive the recognition he deserves.”
Currently,
Dr. Lyons is the president of Cancer Care Centers of South Texas and the
medical director for its Myelodysplasia Foundation Center of Excellence. In
2012, Dr. Lyons was appointed as the medical director for Hematology for The US
Oncology Network and McKesson Specialty Health. He served for five
years on the editorial board for the publication, Blood, and has held leadership roles with many professional
societies, organizations and institutions including Bexar County Hospital
District, South Texas Regional Blood Bank, Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital
and Humana Hospital of San Antonio. Dr. Lyons is actively involved in clinical
research and has published more than 49 journal articles, 86 abstracts in
peer-reviewed journals, and has taken a leading role in more than 50 research
studies. He is now initiating a Phase 1b research program at CCCST.
The
extensive nominating process for Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors™ lists results
in nearly 100,000 physician nominees each year. Board-certified physicians
nominate other doctors whom they feel are the most outstanding in their medical
specialties, in any area of medicine and in any part of the country. Physicians
cannot nominate themselves. In addition to peer nominations, a physician-led
research team makes thousands of phone calls each year to leading specialists,
chairs of clinical departments and others involved in healthcare, gathering
further information regarding the top specialists for various diseases and
procedures.
The
physician-led team carefully reviews the credentials of every physician being
considered for the Top Doctors list. The review includes scrutiny of medical
education, training, board certifications, hospital appointments,
administrative posts, professional achievements and malpractice and
disciplinary history, among other factors. This team, along with other key
personnel, makes the final determination on which doctors will be included in the
list. Less than 5% of the nation’s licensed physicians have been recognized as
Castle Connolly Top Doctors for their specialties in their regions, making Dr. Lyons’
achievement worthy of recognition.
In
addition to this recognition by Castle Connolly, Dr. Lyons has been recognized
as a top doctor multiple times by several organizations including, San Antonio Magazine, Texas Monthly, America’s Top Doctors, Best
Doctors in America and The National
Registry of Who’s Who.
About Cancer
Care Centers of South Texas
Cancer Care Centers of South Texas (CCCST) is
committed to providing the best and most advanced, compassionate, comprehensive
care. CCCST begins by offering therapies proven to be effective and advanced
diagnostic and treatment technologies and continues by providing unprecedented
access to new investigational drugs through clinical trials. To Cancer Care
Centers of South Texas, providing the best care means understanding that having
cancer is difficult for patients and their families. Physicians and staff are
kind and compassionate, and will do whatever it takes to make everyone more at
ease. Its state-of-the-art centers are designed to make patients comfortable,
and physicians and staff believe care should be both advanced and
compassionate. For more information, visit www.cancercaresouthtexas.com.
Cancer Care
Centers of South Texas is united in healing with The US Oncology
Network, one of the nation’s
largest networks of integrated, community-based oncology practices dedicated to
advancing high-quality, evidence-based cancer care. As an affiliate of The US
Oncology Network, CCCST is united with nearly 1,000 physicians nationwide. Cancer
Care Centers of South Texas participates in clinical trials through US Oncology Research, which has played a role in 48
FDA-approved cancer therapies, nearly one-third of all cancer therapies
approved by the FDA to date. For more information, visit www.usoncology.com.
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