100 Most Powerful (Text List)

1. Steve Case
Founder, chairman, CEO
Revolution Health Group
Washington

2. Eric Schmidt
Chairman, CEO,
Google, Mountain View, Calif.

3. Bill Gates
Co-founder,
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; board chairman,
Microsoft Corp.,
Redmond, Wash.

4. Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. senator (D-N.Y.), former presidential candidate,
U.S. Senate, Washington

5. Barack Obama
U.S. senator (D-Ill.),
Democratic presidential candidate,
U.S. Senate, Washington

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

7. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California, Sacramento

8. George W. Bush
President of the U.S., Washington

9. John McCain
U.S. senator (R-Ariz.), Republican presidential candidate,
U.S. Senate, Washington

10. Newt Gingrich
Founder, Center for Health Transformation;
former speaker of the House (R-Ga.),
Washington

11. Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House
(D-Calif.), U.S. House of Representatives, Washington

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

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

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

15. Joel Allison
President, CEO,
Baylor Health Care System,
Dallas

16. Sister Carol Keehan
President, CEO
Catholic Health Association,
Washington

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

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

19. Paul Diaz
President, CEO,
Kindred Healthcare,
Louisville, Ky.

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

21. Stuart Altman
Chairman, Council on Health Care Economics and Policy,
Brandeis University

22. Mike Leavitt
Secretary,
HHS, Washington

23. Kent Thiry
Chairman, CEO,
DaVita, El Segundo, Calif.

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

25. Angela Braly
CEO,
WellPoint, Indianapolis

26. Harry Reid
Senate majority leader (D-Nev.),
U.S. Senate,
Washington

27. Jack Bovender
Chairman, CEO,
HCA, Nashville

28. Max Baucus
U.S. Senator, (D-Mont.), chairman, Senate Finance Committee,
U.S. Senate, Washington

29. Chuck Grassley
U.S. senator (R-Iowa), ranking minority member,
Senate Finance Committee,
U.S. Senate, Washington

30. Carolyn Clancy
Director,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Md.

31. Julie Gerberding
Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

32. Uwe Reinhardt
Professor, healthcare economics,
Princeton University,
Princeton, N.J.

33. Pete Stark
U.S. representative (D-Calif.), Chairman, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee U.S. House of Representatives, Washington

34. Ronald Williams
Chairman, CEO,
Aetna, Hartford, Conn.

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

36. Wayne Smith
Chairman, president, CEO,
Community Health Systems,
Franklin, Tenn.

37. Janet Corrigan
President, CEO
National Quality Forum,
Washington

38. Neal Patterson
Chairman, CEO,
Cerner Corp.,
Kansas City, Mo.

39. John Hammergren
Chairman, president, CEO,
McKesson Corp.,
San Francisco

40. Denis Cortese
President, CEO,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

41. Gary Kaplan
Chairman, CEO,
Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle

42. Michael Dowling
President, CEO,
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System,
New York

43. Richard Umbdenstock
President, CEO
American Hospital Association,
Chicago

44. Karen Ignagni
President, CEO,
America’s Health Insurance Plans, Washington

45. Rose Ann DeMoro
Executive director,
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee,
Oakland

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

47. Michael Maves
Executive vice president, CEO,
American Medical Association,
Chicago

48. Andrew Webber
President, CEO,
National Business Coalition on Health,
Washington

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

50. Darrell Kirch
President, CEO,
Association of American Medical Colleges,
Washington

51. Judith Faulkner
Founder, CEO,
Epic Systems Corp., Verona, Wis.

52. Nancy Schlichting
President, CEO,
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit

53. Bobby Jindal
Governor of Louisiana, Baton Rouge

54. Georges Benjamin
Executive director,
American Public Health Association, Washington

55. Kevin Lofton
President, CEO,
Catholic Health Initiatives,
Denver

56. Robert Kolodner
National coordinator for healthcare information technology,
HHS, Washington

57. Lloyd Dean
President, CEO,
Catholic Healthcare West,
San Francisco

58. Karen Davis
President,
Commonwealth Fund,
New York

59. Brent James
Vice president of medical research and executive director,
Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare,
Salt Lake City

60. Richard Foster
Chief actuary,
CMS, Washington

61. Michael McCallister
President, CEO, Humana,
Louisville, Ky.

62. Mark Chassin
President,
Joint Commission,
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

63. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove
CEO,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland

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

65. Patrick Quinlan
CEO,
Ochsner Health System,
New Orleans

66. Richard Norling
President, CEO,
Premier, San Diego

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

68. Margaret “Peggy” O’Kane
President,
National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington

69. Mark Leavitt
Chairman,
Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology,
Chicago

70. James “Denny” Shelton
Chairman,
Legacy Hospital Partners,
Plano, Texas

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

72. Deborah Peel
Founder, chairman,
Patient Privacy Rights Foundation,
Austin, Texas

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

74. Rainier Gonzalez
Founder, chairman, CEO.
Pacer Heath Corp.
Miami Lakes, Fla.

75. Chris Van Gorder
President, CEO,
Scripps Health,
San Diego

76. Joseph Swedish
President, CEO,
Trinity Health, Novi, Mich.

77. Andrew von Eschenbach
Commissioner,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
Washington

78. George Halvorson
Chairman, CEO,
Kaiser Permanente,
Oakland, Calif.

79. Dennis Rivera
Chairman,
SEIU Healthcare,
New York

80. Gary Gottlieb
President,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

81. Val Halamandaris
President, National Association for Home Care & Hospice,
Washington

82. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President, CEO,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.

83. Anthony Tersigni
President, CEO,
Ascension Health, St. Louis

84. Bill Novelli
CEO,
AARP, Washington

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

86. David Shulkin
President, CEO,
Beth Israel Medical Center,
New York

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

88. Billy Tauzin
President, CEO,
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America,
Washington

89. Scott Serota
President, CEO,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association,
Chicago

90. Herb Kuhn
Deputy administrator,
CMS, Washington

91. Glenn Hackbarth
Chairman,
Medicare Payment
Advisory Commission,
Washington

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

93. Jay Grinney
President, CEO,
HealthSouth Corp.,
Birmingham, Ala.

94. Prem Reddy
Chairman,
Prime Healthcare Services,
Victorville, Calif.

95. James Peake
Secretary,
U.S. Veterans Affairs Department,
Washington

96. Duane Dauner
President,
California Hospital Association,
Sacramento

97. James Mongan
President, CEO,
Partners HealthCare System, Boston

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

99. Quint Studer
CEO,
Studer Group,
Gulf Breeze, Fla.

100. Tim Size
Executive director,
Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative,
Sauk City