By Joy Pierce Mathews for Summit Medical Group
 

Summit Medical Group is pleased to announce that its senior breast surgeon,  Jerrold S. Lozner, MD, MHA, FACS, has been designated a Top Doctor for Women in the February issue of Inside Jersey. Dr. Lozner's peers selected him among New Jersey's outstanding physicians in breast surgery through a Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. survey.

Dr. Lozner is dedicated to diagnosing and treating benign and malignant diseases of the breast. His expertise includes minimally invasive stereotactic and ultrasound-guided mammotome biopsies, core needle biopsies, and cyst aspirations under local anesthesia. In addition, he performs excisional breast biopsies, lumpectomies, sentinel lymph node biopsies, and mastectomies that sometimes coincide with reconstructive surgery

In addition to his position at Summit Medical Group, Dr. Lozner is Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He is Chairman of the Summit Medical Group Clinical Practice Committee and a member of the Summit Medical Group Board of Directors, Atlantic Health Physician Quality Committee, and Overlook Medical Center Advisory Board. Dr. Lozner is Past Chairman of the Atlantic Health Medical Staff Leadership Committee and Past President of the Overlook Medical Center Medical Staff. He has been Chairman of the Overlook Medical Center Department of Surgery and a member of the Atlantic Health Board of Trustees. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.

Dr. Lozner is a recipient of the Upjohn Achievement Award for Excellence in Medicine. New York magazine lists him in "Top Doctors in the New York Metropolitan Area," New Jersey Life lists him in "Top Docs for Women," and Castle Connolly lists him in "Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area" and "America's Top Doctors.

Dr. Lozner practices with the Summit Medical Group Breast Care Center at its 1 Diamond Hill Road in Berkeley Heights. The Breast Care Center is one of few breast centers in the United States and one of only 2 such centers in New Jersey that are designated a National Consortium of Breast Centers Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence.

For more information
or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Lozner,
please call the Summit Medical Group Breast Care Center today
at 908-277-8770.