Pittsburgh, April 25, 2007 -- Several University of Pittsburgh neurosurgeons have been named among this area’s top doctors in their field in a national survey published locally in the May issue of Pittsburgh Magazine. P. David Adelson, MD, Amin B. Kassam, MD, Douglas S. Kondziolka, MD, L. Dade Lunsford, MD, and Ian Pollack, MD, were named in the survey conducted by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

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