Chicago magazine names three
Saint Margaret Mercy physicians in list of top doctors

For Immediate Release
January 31, 2001
Contact: Maria E. Ramos
(219) 865-2141, ext. 45321
Maria.Ramos@ssfhs.org

Hammond/Dyer, Ind - - Chicago magazine named three physicians on staff at Saint Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers as among metropolitan Chicago’s top doctors. Appearing in the prestigious list of the magazine’s January 2001 issue, physicians providing quality treatment are Drs. Thomas Weigel, Alan Jackson and Jacob Rotmensch.

Dr. Thomas Weigel, a board-certified pediatric cardiologist, specializes in congenital heart disease and echocardiography. He also is on staff at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ill. Last year, Saint Margaret Mercy partnered with Children’s Memorial Hospital for the management of its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Hammond, Ind., the only PICU between Chicago and Indianapolis. The agreement enables the same physicians at Children’s Memorial to provide services to Northwest Indiana.

Dr. Weigel received his medical training at Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill. He interned and was a resident at Northwestern

University, Chicago. He completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn.

Dr. Alan Jackson, board-certified internist, specializes and is board certified in cardiovascular disease. He also is on staff at Trinity Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Jackson received his medical training at the University of California in San Francisco, Calif. He interned and was a resident at Columbia Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, where he also completed a fellowship in cardiology.

Dr. Jacob Rotmensch, board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist, specializes and is board certified in gynecologic oncology. He also is on staff at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dr. Rotmensch received his medical training at Meharry Medical College, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn. He interned and was a resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., where he also completed a fellowship in gynecologic oncology.

Chicago magazine creates its annual list of top doctors with the help of Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., publisher of several regional guides to physicians for the past decade. The firm surveyed about 12,000 Chicago-area doctors, nurses and hospital administrators for names of physicians to whom they would entrust a family member when confronting a particular problem.

The process yielded more than 500 names arranged into 39 commonly consulted medical specialties. Primary care and emergency-medicine physicians are not included in the list.