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Top Docs ’11: Family Medicine
By Seattle Mag December 31, 1969
FAMILY MEDICINE
Laura-Mae Baldwin, M.D., Family Medical Center, 4245 Roosevelt Way NE, 206.598.4055, University of Washington Medical Center; University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1980; women’s health
Paul E. Buehrens, M.D., Lakeshore Clinic, 12710 Totem Lake Blvd. NE, Kirkland, 425.821.4040, Evergreen Hospital Medical Center; Case Western Reserve University, 1978; preventive medicine, diabetes
Jonathan Drezner, M.D., Hall Health Primary Care Center, 4060 E Stevens Circle, 206.616.2495, University of Washington Medical Center; University of California, Los Angeles, 1996; sports medicine, musculoskeletal injuries
Sally Esser, M.D., Lakeshore Clinic, 10025 NE 186th St., Bothell, 425.486.9131, Evergreen Hospital Medical Center; University of Washington, 1985; women’s health
Kim Leatham, M.D.**, Virginia Mason Winslow, 380 Winslow Way, E, Bainbridge Island, 206.842.5632, Virginia Mason Medical Center; University of Washington, 1988; women’s health, depression, adolescent medicine, chronic illness
Christopher Allen Sanford, M.D., Family Medical Center, 4245 Roosevelt Way NE, 206.598.4055, University of Washington Medical Center; University of California, San Diego, 1985; travel medicine, international health
Peter V. Sefton, M.D., Lakeshore Clinic, 10025 NE 186th St., Bothell, 425.486.9131, Evergreen Hospital Medical Center; Indiana University, 1982; preventive medicine, pediatrics, geriatric medicine, sports injuries
Roberta Sherman, M.D.*, The Polyclinic, 509 Olive Way, Suite 900, 206.860.4700, Swedish Medical Center; University of Washington, 1981; adolescent medicine, preventive medicine, women’s health.
Originally published in July 2011
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