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100 Most Powerful (List)


Posted: August 22, 2005 - 12:01 am ET
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1. Mike Leavitt, Secretary, HHS, Washington

2. Bill Gates Chairman, Microsoft Corp., Seattle

3. Donald Berwick, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Mass.

4. George W. Bush, President of the United States, Washington

5. Edward Kennedy, U.S. senator (D-Mass.), Washington

6. Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. senator (D-N.Y.), Washington

7. Bill Frist, U.S. senator (R-Tenn.); Senate majority leader, Washington

8. David Brailer, National healthcare information-technology coordinator, Washington

9. Mark McClellan, Administrator, CMS, Baltimore

10. Bill Thomas, U.S. representative (R-Calif.); chairman, House Ways and Means Committee, Washington

11. Joel Allison, President and CEO, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas

12. Newt Gingrich, Founder, Center for Health Transformation, Washington; former speaker of the House

13. Sister Mary Jean Ryan, President and CEO, SSM Health Care, St. Louis

14. Douglas Hawthorne, President and CEO, Texas Health Resources, Arlington

15. Elias Zerhouni, Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

16. James Mongan, President and CEO, HealthCare System, Boston

17. Ron Anderson, President and CEO, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas

18. Chuck Grassley, U.S. senator (R-Iowa); chairman, Senate Finance Committee, Washington

19. Uwe Reinhardt, Professor of healthcare economics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

20. Kenneth Raske, President, Greater New York Hospital Association, New York

21. Paul Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington

22. Pete Stark, U.S. representative (D-Calif.), Washington

23. Jack Bovender, Chairman and CEO, HCA, Nashville

24. G. Richard Hastings, President and CEO, St. Luke's Health System, Kansas City, Mo.

25. Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Washington

26. Sidney Wolfe, Director, Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Washington

27. Julie Gerberding, Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

28. Gail Graham, Director of health data and informatics, U.S. Veterans Affairs Department, Washington

29. Barbara Blakeney, President, American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, Md.

30. Richard Clarke, President and CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Westchester, Ill.

31. Stuart Altman, hairman, Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, Brandeis University; Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, Brandeis, Waltham, Mass.

32. Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

33. Kay Cox, President and CEO, American Association for Homecare, Alexandria, Va.

34. Trevor Fetter, President and CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas

35. Jay Grinney, President and CEO, HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala.

36. Polly Bednash, Executive director, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington

37. Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive director, California Nurses Association, Oakland

38. Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington

39. Eliot Spitzer, Attorney general, state of New York, Albany

40. Nancy Schlichting, President and CEO, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit

41. Kevin Lofton, President and CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver; American Hospital Association chairman-elect-designate

42. Linda Kloss, Executive vice president and CEO, American Health Information Management Association, Chicago

43. Michael Cohen, President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

44. Suzanne Delbanco, CEO, Leapfrog Group, Washington

45. David Bates, Chief of medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; professor of medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

46. Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric Co., Fairfield, Conn.

47. Drew Altman, President and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif.

48. George Lynn, Chairman, American Hospital Association board of trustees; president and CEO, AtlantiCare, Atlantic City, N.J.

49. Helen Darling, President, National Business Group on Health, Washington

50. Wayne Smith, Chairman, president and CEO, Community Health Systems, Brentwood, Tenn.

51. Alan Miller, President and CEO, Universal Health Services, King of Prussia, Pa.

52. Karen Davis, President, Commonwealth Fund, New York

53. John Hammergren, Chairman and CEO, McKesson Corp., San Francisco

54. John Casey, Chairman and CEO, MedCath Corp., Charlotte, N.C.

55. William Jessee, President and CEO, Medical Group Management Association, Englewood, Colo.

56. Regina Herzlinger, Professor of business administration, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass.

57. John Ferguson, President and CEO, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, N.J.

58. Kathleen Buto, Vice president for health policy and government affairs, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.

59. Pamela Thompson, CEO, American Organization of Nurse Executives, Washington

60. Anthony Tersigni, President and CEO, Ascension Health, St. Louis

61. Lloyd Dean, President and CEO, Catholic Healthcare West, San Francisco

62. Thomas Dolan, President and CEO, American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago

63. David Pryor, Senior vice president of clinical excellence, Ascension Health, St. Louis

64. Chip Kahn, President, Federation of American Hospitals, Washington

65. Susan Sherry, Deputy director, Community Catalyst, Boston

66. Paul O'Neill, Former U.S. Treasury Department secretary; board member, Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, Pittsburgh

67. Richard Carmona, U.S. surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington

68. George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.,

69. Molly Joel Coye, Founder and CEO, Health Technology Center, San Francisco

70. Dennis O'Leary, President and CEO, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

71. Catherine DeAngelis, Editor in chief, Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago

72. James Shelton, Chairman, president and CEO, Triad Hospitals, Plano, Texas

73. Benjamin Chu, President, Kaiser Permanente-Southern California Region, Pasadena

74. Roger Williams, Executive vice president and CEO, U.S. Pharmacopeia, Rockville, Md.

75. Neal Patterson, Chairman and CEO, Cerner Corp., Kansas City, Mo.

76. Patricia Gabow, CEO and medical director, Denver Health, Denver

77. Brent James, Executive director, Intermountain Health Care Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Salt Lake City

78. Clifton Lacy, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J.

79. Richard Pollack, Executive vice president, American Hospital Association, Washington

80. Carolyn Scanlan, President and CEO, Hospital and HealthSystem Association of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

81. Scott Wallace, President and CEO, National Alliance for Health Information Technology, Chicago

82. Gary Gottlieb, CEO, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

83. Diane Rowland, Executive vice president, Kaiser Family Foundation, Oakland, Calif.; executive director, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

84. Kenneth Kizer, President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington

85. H. Stephen Lieber, President and CEO, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Chicago

86. Ron Pollack, Executive director, Families USA, Washington

87. Larry Glasscock, President and CEO, WellPoint, Indianapolis

88. Rod Laughlin, President and CEO, Regency Hospital Co., Alpharetta, Ga.

89. Kenneth Donahey, Chairman, president and CEO, LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn.

90. William McGuire, Chairman and CEO, UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis

91. Thomas Coburn, U.S. senator (R-Okla.), Washington

92. Erich Reinhardt, President and CEO, Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pa.

93. John Rowe, Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Hartford, Conn.

94. William Bria, President, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, Keene, N.H.

95. John Wennberg, Director, Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.

96. Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union, Washington

97. William Roper, CEO, UNC Health Care System, Chapel Hill, N.C.

98. Richard Umbdenstock, President and CEO, Providence Services, Spokane, Wash.

99. Herbert Pardes, President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, New York

100. John Rother, Director of policy and strategy, AARP, Washington

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