Department of Pathology Faculty Members on 2009 List of New York’s Best Doctors

Jonathan Melamed, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, and David Zagzag, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurology, have been selected as two of New York's "Best Doctors" in New York magazine's twelfth annual Best Doctors survey. The honor to be ranked as one of the top 1,107 physician specialists in the metropolitan area is based on an extensive process of peer review conducted among medical professionals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

This is Dr. Melamed's fifth consecutive year to be included in the list. Along with many other duties, Dr. Melamed serves as the director of the prostate cancer tissue bioresource at NYU and the urologic pathology service in the Department of Pathology. His research work focuses on studies of new markers on human tissue using tissue microarrays and his clinical interests are in the early pathogenesis of prostate cancer and in diagnostic modalities that assist in surgical pathology.

Dr. Zagzag is director of the microvascular and molecular neuro-oncology laboratory and the director of the human brain tumor bank at NYU Langone Medical Center. His research specialties include the pathology of the nervous system and mechanisms of cerebral vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.

Drs. Melamed and Zagzag are among more than 100 physicians affiliated with the NYU Langone Medical Center and its hospitals to be included in New York magazine's annual list of best doctors in the New York metropolitan area.