100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare 2009 -- nominee bios

Anderson, Ron
CEO, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas

Armada, Anthony
President and CEO, Henry Ford Hospital and Health Network, Detroit

Atkinson, William
President and CEO, WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, N.C.

Averill, Richard
Director, clinical and economic research, 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, Conn.

Aviles, Alan
President and CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., New York

Baird, Zoe
President, Markle Foundation, New York

Ballantyne, Reginald
Senior corporate executive, Vanguard Health Systems, Phoenix

Barnett, Charles
President and CEO, Seton Family of Hospitals, Austin, Texas

Bates, David
Chief of general medicine division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Baucus, Max
Senator (D-Mont.) Chairman, Senate Finance Committee, Washington

Bauer, Joanne
President of global healthcare, Kimberly-Clark, Roswell, Ga.

Bednash, Geraldine “Polly,”
Executive director, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington

Beer, Lori
Chief information officer, WellPoint, Indianapolis

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

Benson, Holly
Secretary, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Tallahassee

Bernd, David
CEO, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Va.

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

Binder, Leah
CEO, Leapfrog Group, Washington

Bisognano, Maureen
Executive vice president and COO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Mass.

Bluford, John
President and CEO, Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, Mo.

Blumenthal, David
National coordinator for health Information technology, HHS, Washington

Borgstrom, Marna
President and CEO, Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System

Boress, Larry
President and CEO, Midwest Business Group on Health, Chicago

Boudreaux, Gail
Executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.

Boxer, Barbara
U.S. senator (D-Calif.), Washington

Bracken, Richard
President and CEO, HCA., Nashville

Brainerd, Mary
President and CEO, HealthPartners, Bloomington, Minn.

Braly, Angela
President and CEO, WellPoint, Indianapolis

Brase, Twila
President, Citizens' Council on Health Care, St. Paul, Minn.

Brennan, Troyen
Executive vice president and chief medical officer, CVS Caremark Corp., Woonsocket, R.I.

Bria, William
Chairman, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, Lake Almanor, Calif.

Brinkley, Ruth
President and CEO, Carondelet Health Network, Tucson, Ariz

Burd, Steve
President and CEO, Safeway stores, Pleasanton, Calif., and an advocate for national healthcare reform

Bush, Jonathan
Chairman, president and CEO, Athenahealth, Watertown, Mass.

Byrne, Frank
President, St. Mary's Hospital, Madison, Wis.

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

Carlson, James
Chairman, president and CEO, Amerigroup Corp., Virginia Beach, Va.

Carpenter, Bill
President and CEO, LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn.

Case, Steve
Founder, chairman and CEO, Revolution Health Group, Washington

Cassell, Christine
President and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine, ABIM Foundation, Philadelphia

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

Cecchettini, Diane
President and CEO, MultiCare Health System, Tacoma, Wash.

Chapman, Thomas
President and CEO, HSC Foundation, Washington

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

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

Clohan, Dexanne
Chief medical officer, HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala.

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

Cochran, John
Executive director, Permanente Federation, Oakland, Calif.

Cohen, Michael
President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, Pa.

Connelly, Michael
President and CEO, Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati

Converso, Ann
President, United American Nurses, AFL-CIO, Silver Spring, Md.

Convery, Paul
Senior vice president and chief medical officer, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas

Copeland, Lanny
Chief medical officer, LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn.

Cordova, Richard
President and CEO, Children's Hospital Los Angeles,

Corina, Ilene
Founder, Pulse, New York

Corrigan, Janet
President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington

Cosgrove, Delos “Toby”
Chairman and CEO, Cleveland Clinic

Covert, Michael
CEO, Palomar Pomerado Health, Escondido, Calif.

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

Cram, Suzanne
CEO, Desert Canyon Rehabilitation Hospital, Las Vegas, Nev.

Cripe, Kimberly
President and CEO, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, Calif.

Crone, Robert
Managing director, Huron Consulting, Boston

Croushore, Susan
President and CEO, Christ Hospital, Cincinnati

Daley, Jennifer
Chief medical officer, Partners Community Healthcare, Boston

Dauner, Duane
President, California Hospital Association, Sacramento

Darling, Helen
President, National Business Group on Health,

Davis, Karen
President, Commonwealth Fund, New York

Davis, Pamela
President and CEO, Edward Hospital and Health Services, Naperville, Ill.

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

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

de Brantes, Francois
Founder and CEO, Bridges to Excellence, Newtown, Conn.

DeParle, Nancy-Ann
Director, White House Office of Healthcare Reform, Washington

Devanny, Trace
President, Cerner Corp., Kansas City, Mo.

DeVore, Susan
Incoming president and CEO, Premier, Charlotte, N.C.

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

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

Dowling, Michael
President and CEO, North Shore -Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, N.Y.

Doyle, John
Chief strategy officer, Ascension Health, St. Louis

Drazen, Jeffrey
Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, Boston

Duggan, Michael
CEO, Detroit Medical Center

Enzi, Michael
U.S. senator (R-Wyo.), Washington

Epperly, Ted
President, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan.

Estes, Melinda
President and CEO, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vt.

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

Feinstein, Richard
Director, Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, Washington

Fineberg, Harvey
President, Institute of Medicine, Washington

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

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

Fike, Ruthita
CEO, Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center

Fine, Peter
President and CEO, Banner Health, Phoenix

Foster, Richard
Chief actuary, CMS, Washington

Friedman, Emily
Independent health policy and ethics analyst, Chicago

Fry, Patrick
CEO, Sutter Health, Sacramento, Calif.

Gabow, Patricia
CEO and chief medical officer, Denver Health

Gage, Larry
President, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Washington

Galvin, Robert
Global healthcare leader, General Electric Co., Fairfield, Conn.

Gates, Bill
Chairman, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash.; co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Gauss, Jim
President and CEO, Witt/Kieffer, Oak Brook, Ill.

Gingrich, Newt
Founder, Center for Health Transformation, Washington

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

Goodman, John
President, National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas

Goodman, Larry
President and CEO, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Gorman, Mary Jo
Co-founder and CEO, Advanced ICU Care, St. Louis

Gottlieb, Gary
President, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

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

Grealy, Mary
President, Health Leadership Council, Washington

Greeno, Ron
Co-founder and chief medical officer, Cogent Healthcare, Brentwood, Tenn.

Gregg, Vicky
President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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

Guest, James
President and CEO, Consumers Union, Yonkers, N.Y.

Hackbarth, Glenn
Chairman, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington

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

Halamka, John
Chief information officer, CareGroup Health System, Boston

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

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

Hanway, H. Edward
Chairman and CEO, Cigna Corp., Philadelphia

Haskell, Helen
Founder and president, Mothers Against Medical Error

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

Hatcher, Jody
President and CEO, Novation, Irving, Texas

Hawthorne, Doug
CEO, Texas Health Resources, Arlington

Haynes, Crystal
CEO, St. Louis University Hospital

Hemingway-Hall, Patricia
President and CEO, Health Care Service Corp., Chicago

Hemsley, Stephen
President and CEO, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.

Henry, Mary Kay
Executive vice president, Service Employees International Union, Washington

Hernandez, Hank
President and CEO, Las Palmas Medical Center, El Paso, Texas

Herzlinger, Regina
Nancy R. McPherson professor of business administration; healthcare researcher, Harvard Business School, Boston

Hobby, Fred
President and CEO, Institute for Diversity in Healthcare Management, Chicago

Hochman, Rodney
CEO, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle

Holder, Eric
U.S. attorney general, Justice Department, Washington

Hunt, Linda
President, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix

Hupfeld, Stanley
President and CEO, Integris Health, Oklahoma City

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

Jacobs, Joey
President and CEO, Psychiatric Solutions, Franklin, Tenn.

James, Brent
Chief quality officer, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City

Janatka, Lucille
President and CEO, MidState Medical Center, Meriden, Conn.

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

Jindal, Bobby
Governor, State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge

Kahn, Chip
President, Federation of American Hospitals, Washington

Kaplan, Gary
CEO, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle

Keckley, Paul
Executive director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Washington

Keehan, Sister Carol
President, Catholic Health Association, Washington

Kennedy, Patrick
U.S. Representative (D-R.I.), Washington

Kennedy, Rosemary
Chief nursing informatics officer, Siemens Healthcare, Malvern, Pa.

Killingsworth, Cleve
Chairman and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Kirch, Darrell
President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington

Kloss, Linda
CEO, American Health Information Management Association, Chicago

Kocher, Robert
Special assistant to the president for healthcare policy and economics, National Economic Council

Koster, John
President and CEO, Providence Health & Services, Seattle

Lambrew, Jeanne
Director, HHS' Office of Healthcare Reform, Washington

Lamm, Richard
Former Colorado governor; Co-director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy & Contemporary Issues, University of Denver

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

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

Lee, Peter
Executive director for national health policy, Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco

Leibold, Peter
Executive vice president and CEO, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington

Lewin, Jack
CEO, American College of Cardiology, Washington

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

Lofton, Kevin
President and CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver

Lopez, David
President and CEO, Harris County Hospital District, Houston

Lyne, Sister Sheila
President and CEO, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago

Malone, Beverly
CEO, National League for Nursing, New York

Mansue, Amy
President and CEO, Children's Specialized Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J.

Margolis, Jeff
Chairman and CEO, TriZetto Group, Newport Beach, Calif.

Martin, Charles
Chairman and CEO, Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville

Maryland, Patricia
President and CEO, St. John Health System, Warren, Mich.

Massingale, Lynn
Chairman and CEO, TeamHealth, Knoxville, Tenn.

Maves, Michael
Executive vice president and CEO, American Medical Association, Chicago

McCallister, Mike
President and CEO, Humana, Louisville, Ky.

McCaughey, Betsy
Founder and chairman, RID: Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, New York

McClellan, Mark
Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution, Washington

McConnell, Mitch
U.S. senator (R-Ky.), Senate minority leader, Washington

Meyer, Robert
CEO, Phoenix Children's Hospital

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

Moen, Daniel
President and CEO, Legacy Hospital Partners, Plano, Texas

Moffit, Robert
Director, Center for Health Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation, Washington

Molden, Michelle
President & CEO, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta

Mongan, James
President and CEO, Partners HealthCare, Boston

Moore-Hardy, Cynthia
President and CEO, Lake Hospital System, Painesville, Ohio

Morgan, Alan
CEO, National Rural Health Association, Washington

Mosley, Christopher
President and CEO, Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Medical Center,

Murphy, Edward
CEO, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, Va.

Nasca, Thomas
Executive director and CEO, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago

Naylor, Mary
Director, New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing,

Newman, Stephen
Chief operating officer, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas

Newsome, Gary
CEO, Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla.

Nielsen, Nancy
Outgoing president, American Medical Association, Chicago

Nonomaque, Curt
President and CEO, VHA, Irving, Texas

Nussbaum, Sam
Executive vice president and chief medical officer, WellPoint, Indianapolis

Obama, Barack
President of the United States, White House, Washington

Odle, Sam
Executive vice president and COO, Clarian Health's Indianapolis operations,

Orszag, Peter
Director, White House Office of Management and Budget, Washington

Osteen, Debra
President, UHS Behavioral Health Division, King of Prussia, Pa.

Palestrant, Daniel
Founder and CEO, Sermo, Cambridge, Mass.

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

Pate, David
CEO, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston

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

Patton, Rebecca
President, American Nurses Association, Washington

Paul, Barbara
Senior vice president and chief medical officer, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.

Peel, Deborah
Founder and chairwoman, Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, Austin, Texas

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

Perlin, Jonathan
Chief medical officer, president of Clinical Services Group, HCA, Nashville

Pescovitz, Ora
President and CEO, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor

Pettingill, Richard
President and CEO, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Minneapolis

Petasnick, William
President and CEO, Froedtert & Community Health, Milwaukee

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

Pollack, Ron
Founder, executive director, Families USA, Washington

Priselac, Thomas
President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

Pryor, David
Chief medical officer, Ascension Health, St. Louis

Quinlan, Patrick
CEO, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans

Rand, A. Barry
CEO, AARP, Washington

Rangel, Charlie
U.S. representative (D-N.Y.), chairman, House Ways and Means Committee, Washington

Raske, Kenneth
President and CEO, Greater New York Hospital Association, New York

Reddy, Prem
Chairman of the board, Prime Healthcare Services, Victorville, Calif.

Reed, Monica
CEO, Florida Hospital Celebration (Fla.) Health

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

Reinhardt, Uwe
Professor, healthcare economics, Princeton (N.J.) University

Reynolds, Stephen
President and CEO, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp., Memphis, Tenn.

Rick, Cathy
Chief nursing officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington

Ricker, David
President and CEO, Broadlane, Dallas

Rizk, Emad
President, McKesson Health Solutions, Boston

Rohack, J. James
Incoming president, American Medical Association, Chicago

Romans, Juanita
CEO, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston

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

Rother, John
Executive vice president of policy and strategy, AARP, Washington

Royer, Thomas
President and CEO, Christus Health, Irving, Texas

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

Rydell, Richard
President and executive director, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, Lake Almanor, Calif.

Safyer, Steven
President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

Sandvig, Molly
Executive director, Physician Hospitals of America, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Sankaran, Vish
Program Director, Federal Health Architecture Office at HHS, Washington

Saunders, Ninfa
Executive vice president of health services, Virtua Health, Marlton, N.J.

Scanlan, Carolyn
President and CEO, Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

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

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

Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Governor, State of California, Sacramento

Sebelius, Kathleen
Secretary, HHS, Washington

Sensor, Wayne
President and CEO, Alegent Health, Omaha, Neb.

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

Sheridan, Susan
Co-founder and president, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, Chicago

Shinseki, Eric
Secretary, Veterans Affairs Department, Washington

Siegel, Bruce
Professor and director of the Center for Health Care Quality in the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health

Silbaugh, Barry
CEO, American College of Physician Executives, Tampa, Fla.

Singer, Adam
Founder, chairman and CEO, IPC-The Hospitalist Co., North Hollywood, Calif.

Sinioris, Marie
President and CEO, National Center for Healthcare Leadership, Chicago

Size, Timothy
Executive director, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, Sauk City

Slavitt, Andy
CEO, Ingenix, Eden Prairie, Minn.

Slipkovich, Daniel
CEO, Capella Healthcare, Franklin, Tenn.

Smith, Wayne
CEO, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.

Snow, David
Chairman and CEO, Medco Health Solutions, Franklin Lakes, N.J.

Snowe, Olympia
U.S. senator (R-Maine), Washington

Sorenson, Charles
President and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City

Spezia, Anthony
President and CEO, Covenant Health, Knoxville, Tenn.

Stacey, Rulon
President and CEO, Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, Colo.

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

Statuto, Richard
CEO, Bon Secours Health System, Marriottsville, Md.

Steele, Glenn Jr.
President and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.

Stern, Andy
President, Service Employees International Union, Washington

Straube, Barry
Director and chief clinical officer, CMS, Washington

Studer, Quint
CEO, Studer Group, Pensacola, Fla.

Swedish, Joseph
President and CEO, Trinity Health, Michigan

Tang, Paul
Vice president and chief medical information officer, Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation

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

Teitelbaum, Hal
Managing Partner & CEO, Crystal Run Healthcare, Middletown, N.Y.

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

Thiry, Kent
CEO, Davita, El Segundo, Calif.

Thomas, Warner
President and chief operating officer, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans

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

Timmons, Karen
President and CEO, Joint Commission Resources, Oak Brook, Ill.

Tooker, John
Executive vice president and CEO, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia

Tuckson , Reed
Executive vice president and chief of medical affairs, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.

Tullman, Glen
CEO, Allscripts, Chicago

Trunfio, Joseph
President and CEO, Atlantic Health, Morristown, N.J.

Turkal, Nick
President and CEO, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee

Ullian, Elaine
President and CEO, Boston Medical Center

Umbdenstock, Richard
President and CEO, American Hospital Association, Chicago

Van Gorder, Chris
President and CEO, Scripps Health, San Diego

Vandewater, David
President and CEO, Ardent Health Services, Nashville

Varney, Christine
Assistant attorney general/antitrust division, Justice Department, Washington

Vonderfecht, Dennis
President and CEO, Mountain States Health Alliance, Johnson City, Tenn.

Wachter, Robert
Chief of the division of hospital medicine, University of California San Francisco Medical Center,

Wah, Robert
Chief medical officer, vice president of health services, Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif.

Wakefield, Mary
Director, Health Resources and Services Administration, Washington

Waxman, Henry
U.S. representative (D-Calif.), Washington

Webber, Andrew
President and CEO, National Business Coalition on Health, Washington

Weis, Shirley
Chief administrative officer, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Weldon, William
Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.

Wellikson, Larry
CEO, Society of Hospital Medicine, Philadelphia

Whelton, Paul
President and CEO, Loyola University Health System, Maywood, Ill.

Whitehouse, Sheldon
U.S. senator (D-R.I.), Washington

Wilkerson, Dean
Executive director, American College of Emergency Physicians, Dallas

Williams, Ronald
President and CEO, Aetna, Hartford, Conn.

Wolter, Nicholas
President and CEO, Billings (Mont.) Clinic

Wolterman, Dan
President and CEO, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston

Woods, Eugene
President and CEO, St. Joseph Health System, Lexington, Ky.

Yarwood, Bruce
President and CEO, American Health Care Association, Washington

Young, Quentin
National coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program, Chicago

Young, Sylvia
CEO, Sunrise Health System, Las Vegas, Nev.

Zeppenfeldt-Cestero, George
President, Association of Hispanic Healthcare Executives, New York