The Orange County Medical Association, in conjunction with Orange Coast Magazine, completed the process of selecting the 2007 Physicians of Excellence that will be published in the magazine's January health and beauty edition.

The Physicians of Excellence Selection Committee met twice before finalizing their choices. Their selections will be sent to the OCMA board of directors for final approval prior to being sent to the magazine for printing.
Members of the 2007 POE Selection Committee were:

Jeffrey Barke, MD, chairman of the Physicians of Excellence committee

Ed Arnold, anchor for KOCE's Real Orange

Dawn Bruner, MD, OCMA president

Richard Chambers, CEO of CalOptima

Sanford Chen, MD, Ophthalmological Society of Orange County

Peter Dangvu, MD

Edward Ellison, MD, Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Richard Frankenstein, MD, speaker of the California Medical Association House of Delegates

Sridhara Iyengar, MD, OCMA board member

Richard Kim, MD, president of the Society of Neurosurgeons of Orange County

Neal Lonky, MD, president of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Society of Orange County

Maria Minon, MD, trustee of the California Medical Association

Santosh Mohanty, MD, OCMA board member

Julie Poulson, RN, director of the County of Orange Health Care Agency

Fred Richmond, Coalition of Orange County Community Clinics

Aisha Simjee, MD, OCMA past president

Joanna Tan, MD, OCMA board member

Surinder Thind, MD, chief of staff for Fountain Valley Hospital