Physician of the Year - Dr. Bart Barlogie

Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which publishes the annual "America's Top Doctors" guide, has named Dr. Bart Barlogie, director of the Myeloma Institute for Research & Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock, as a National Physician of the Year.

Barlogie and two other physicians will receive the award for clinical excellence during a ceremony Wednesday evening at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. Honored with Barlogie are Dr. Marilyn Bull of Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis and Dr. Michael J. Zinner of Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Physician of the year recipients were selected from nominations submitted by physicians profiled in "America's Top Doctors."

Barlogie is among the world’s experts in the diagnosis and treatment of multiple myeloma. UAMS said Barlogie's research has more than doubled the annual survival rate of a myeloma patient upon diagnosis from three years to more than seven years.