Palm Springs Life teams with the physician-led healthcare research and information company Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. to identify the leading primary care doctors and specialists in our region.
Hope Chest
Eric Presser, M.D., Thoracic Surgery
As a minimally invasive thoracic surgeon, Dr. Eric Presser tackles virtually every issue outside of the heart at Desert Regional Medical Center.
Raising Standards
Qing Tian, M.D., Otolaryngology
Dr. Qing Tian serves as an otolaryngology head and neck surgeon at JFK Memorial Hospital and Desert Regional Medical Center.
Group Dynamics
Coty P. Ho, M.D., Oncology
Coty Ho’s passion is research, which is why he relishes his position as medical director of the oncology research program at Desert Regional’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Bringing it Home
Mark C. Genesen, M.D., Gynecologic Oncology
Dr. Mark C. Genesen brings specialized gynecology care to the Coachella Valley at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage.
Gut Instincts
Mehrdad Asgeri, M.D., Gastroenterology
There’s a simple reason Dr. Mehrdad Asgeri went into gastroenterology. “My passion is to prevent my patients from getting cancer.”
Top Doctors 2018 Directory
The following is Palm Springs Life’s Top Doctors 2018 Directory in partnership with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a health care research and information company.
Top Doctors 2017
A physician-led research team identifies the desert’s top doctors in 38 specialties.
There’s an old joke that you can never find a policeman/plumber/president when you really need one. Applied to medical practitioners here in the Coachella Valley, that old chestnut has absolutely no traction. The editors at Palm Springs Life do not think your health is a laughing matter. That’s why, when we put together our annual Top Doctors 2017 story, we
Jennifer Hui, M.D., F.A.C.S. — Top Doctors 2017
At The Eyelid Institute, precision and perfection are always the goals.
For Dr. Jennifer Hui, there’s no better fit than the super-specialized field of oculoplastics. “I like very detailed things. I’m very, very precise and in the field of ophthalmology you need to be precise. Everything is down to the millimeter,” explains Hui, who also has an interest in plastic surgery. “When I discovered the subspecialty of oculoplastics, [which] combines plastic
Theodore D. Masek, M.D. — Top Doctors 2017
21st Century oncology is in the 100 percent survival business.
Radiation oncologist Dr. Theodore D. Masek loves many of aspects of his profession, which combines time spent in the clinic and operating room with physics and radiobiology planning, but his favorite part of the job is a no-brainer. “I’m actually curing patients,” says Masek, medical director with 21st Century Oncology in Palm Desert. “Not that many fields in medicine actually
