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Best of Health 2021

Congratulations to the winners of Ranch & Coast's Best of Health 2021

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Image Credits Photography by Vincent Knakal

General Practitioner

Winners: Diane Hutchison, MD 760.634.6922, encinitasphysician.com
& Monica Perlman, MD 858.273.6021, perlmanclinic.com

Local Hospital

Winners: Scripps Encinitas scripps.org
& UC San Diego Medical Center health.ucsd.edu
Finalist: Sharp Grossmont Hospital sharp.com
Finalist: Tri-City Medical Center tricitymed.org

OB/GYN

Winners: Kirstin A. Lee, MD 858.554.7700, scripps.org
& Sean Daneshmand, MD 858.626.6245, scripps.org
Finalist: Lily Tsai, MD 760.633.7245, scripps.org
Finalist: Mimi Shaffer, MD 858.499.2702, sharp.com
Finalist: Allan I. Silver, MD 858.453.0753, scripps.org

Dermatologist

Winners: Melanie Palm, MD, MBA, Art of Skin MD 858.792.7546, artofskinmd.com
& Susan Stuart, MD, La Jolla Plastic Surgery & Dermatology 858.623.6333, lajollaskin.com
Finalist:Vishakha Gigler, MD, Comprehensive Dermatology Group 760.634.3376, comprehensivederm.com
Finalist: Alice Liu, MD dmgnc.com
Finalist: Dermatology Specialists of North County 760.757.7546, dmgnc.com

Eye Doctor

Winners: Solana Beach Family Optometry 858.259.8239, sdeyevision.com
& Janie Bodman, OD, 760.704.5895, janiebodmanod.com
Finalist: Elizabeth Christensen, OD, FCOVD, Rancho Santa Fe Optometry 858.756.3210, rsfoptometry.com
Finalist: Edwin Chen, MD 858.793.0093, oceaneyesd.com
Finalist: Jeffrey Anshel, OD, E Street Eyes 760.931.1390, estreeteyes.com

Naturopathic Medicine

Winners: Bloom Natural Health 760.230.4982, bloomnaturalhealth.com
& Alcheme Health 858.299.4990, alchemehealth.com
Finalist: David Yoder Wellness Center 760.943.8910, davidyoderwellness.com
Finalist: Paix Medicine 858.771.1980, paixmedicine.com

Readers’ Choice — Best OB/GYN: Sean Daneshmand, MD As one of the most recognized names in San Diego medicine, perinatologist Sean Daneshmand consistently leads the conversation when it comes to women’s health in his position as the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Scripps Clinic. A specialist in caring for patients with high-risk pregnancies, he’s also one of the most trusted doctors here. His expertise and experience led him to found Miracle Babies in 2009, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide financial assistance and other support to parents of newborns in neonatal intensive care. Daneshmand, a fervent women’s health advocate, is also leading the charge in studying and addressing the alarming increase in pregnancy complications and health issues. 858.626.6245, scripps.org D.M.

General Dentist

Winners: Curtis Chan, DDS 858.481.9090, curtischandds.com
& James Salazar, DDS, Purely Dental 760.487.1390, purelydentalencinitas.com
Finaist: David Eshom, DDS 858.455.9151, eshomdds.com
Finalist: Edward B. Coffey, DDS, MS 760.942.7272, encinitasdentalart.com
Finalist: The Super Dentists thesuperdentists.com

Gym

Winners: Gemini Fit 760.429.4321, geminifit.com
& Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA 760.942.9622, ymcasd.org/ecke
Finalist: Equinox equinox.com
Finalist: Life Time La Jolla 858.410.7100, lifetime.life
Finalist: The Fitness Studio 858.395.7247, fitstudiosb.com

Personal Trainer

Winners: Scott Baker, Gemini Fit 760.429.4321, geminifit.com
& Bill Borsack, Push Personal Fitness 760.519.0045, billborsack.com
Finalist: Kim Kelly, Kim Kelly Fit 858.342.1442, kimkellyfit.com
Finalist: Ana Nieto, Mindful Online Workouts 646.286.6264, mindfulonlineworkouts.com
Finalist: Scott Ross, Personally Fit 858.756.5232, personallyfitrsf.com

Specialty Workout Studio

Winners: Gemini Fit 760.429.4321, geminifit.com
& PillarPerformance 760.479.1944, pillarinmotion.com
Finalist: Orangetheory Fitness orangetheory.com
Finalist: YogaSix yogasix.com
Finalist: Mindful Online Workouts mindfulonlineworkouts.com

Physical Therapy

Winners: Solana Beach Physical Therapy 858.755.6024, solanabeachphysicaltherapy.com
& RISE Physical Therapy risephysicaltherapy.com
Finalist: San Diego Sports Medicine & Family Health Center sdsm.com

Editors’ Pick — Healthcare Pioneer: Janelle Ayres Salk professor Janelle Ayres has been named the inaugural recipient of the Salk Institute Legacy Chair, an honor made possible in part thanks to Elizabeth Keadle, a Salk alumna and member of the Board of Trustees, who recently donated $1.5 million in matching funds to establish the endowed chair at the institute. Ayres, head of the Molecular and Systems Physiology Laboratory and a member of both the Gene Expression Laboratory and the NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, has demonstrated through her work that health is an active process, involving evolved physiological defense mechanisms, creating a new paradigm and field that she calls “the biology of health.” At its core is Ayres’ discovery of the “Cooperative Defense System,” which has challenged the longstanding notion that, in order to survive infections, the host needs to kill the pathogen. Instead, the Cooperative Defense System encodes disease-tolerance mechanisms that promote health and survival by providing a physiological defense without killing the pathogen. Ayres’ discoveries provide the foundation for the conceptual framework and theory she developed for an understanding of the biology of health, which she hopes will serve as a roadmap for biomedical research for decades to come. salk.edu M.P.

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