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100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare for 2010:
1. Barack Obama President of the United States,
Washington
2. Kathleen Sebelius Secretary,
HHS,
Washington
3. Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House (D-Calif.),
U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington
4. Max Baucus U.S. senator (D-Mont.);
chairman, Senate Finance Committee,
U.S. Senate, Washington
5. Sister Carol Keehan President and CEO,
Catholic Health Association,
Washington
6. Peter Orszag
Former director,
White House Office of Management and Budget,
Washington
7. Carolyn Clancy
Director,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
Rockville, Md.
8. Bill Gates
Chairman, Microsoft Corp.;
co-founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
Seattle
9. Henry Waxman
U.S. representative (D-Calif.);
chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington
10. Paul Ginsburg
President,
Center for Studying Health System Change,
Washington
11. Chuck Grassley
U.S. senator (R-Iowa);
ranking member, Senate Finance Committee,
U.S. Senate,
Washington
12. Harry Reid
Senate majority leader, (D-Nev.),
U.S. Senate,
Washington
13. Donald Berwick
CMS administrator;
Washington;
former president and CEO,
Institute for Healthcare Improvement,
Cambridge, Mass.
14. David Blumenthal
National coordinator for health information technology,
HHS,
Washington
15. Margaret Hamburg
Commissioner,
Food and Drug Administration,
Silver Spring, Md.
16. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Outgoing governor,
state of California,
Sacramento
17. Newt Gingrich
Founder,
Center for Health Transformation,
Washington
18. Mary Kay Henry
President,
Service Employees International Union,
Washington
19. Sister Mary Jean Ryan
Chairwoman and CEO,
SSM Health Care,
St. Louis
20. Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director,
White House Office
of Health Reform,
Washington
21. Karen Ignagni
President and CEO,
America's Health Insurance Plans,
Washington
22. Bruce Yarwood
President and CEO,
American Health Care Association,
Washington
23. Joel Allison
President and CEO,
Baylor Health Care System,
Dallas
24. Lloyd Dean
President and CEO,
Catholic Healthcare West,
San Francisco
25. Trevor Fetter
President and CEO,
Tenet Healthcare Corp.,
Dallas
26. Richard Feinstein
Director, Bureau of Competition,
Federal Trade Commission,
Washington
27. Mary Wakefield
Administrator,
Health Resources and Services Administration,
Rockville, Md.
28. Ronald Williams
Chairman and CEO,
Aetna,
Hartford, Conn.
29. Beverly Malone
CEO,
National League for Nursing,
New York
30. David White
Chairman and CEO,
Iasis Healthcare,
Franklin, Tenn.
31. Regina Benjamin
U.S. surgeon general,
Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service,
Rockville, Md.
32. Glenn Hackbarth
Chairman,
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission,
Washington
33. Pamela Thompson
CEO,
American Organization of Nurse Executives,
Washington
34. Drew Altman
President and CEO,
Kaiser Family Foundation,
Menlo Park, Calif.
35. Glenn Steele Jr.
President and CEO,
Geisinger Health System,
Danville, Pa.
36. Dan Wolterman
President and CEO,
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System,
Houston
37. Rebecca Patton
President,
American Nurses Association,
Silver Spring, Md.
38. Scott Armstrong
President and CEO,
Group Health Cooperative,
Seattle
39. Gary Newsome
President and CEO,
Health Management Associates,
Naples, Fla.
40. Wayne Smith
Chairman, president and CEO,
Community Health Systems,
Franklin, Tenn.
41. William Carpenter
President and CEO,
LifePoint Hospitals,
Brentwood, Tenn.
42. Chip Kahn
President and CEO,
Federation of American Hospitals,
Washington
43. Stuart Altman
Sol C. Chaikin professor of national health policy,
Brandeis University,
Waltham, Mass.
44. Richard Umbdenstock
President and CEO,
American Hospital Association,
Chicago
45. Eric Shinseki
Secretary,
Veterans Affairs Department,
Washington
46. Kathy Warye
CEO,
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology,
Washington
47. David Bates
Chief, general internal medicine;
medical director of clinical and quality analysis,
Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston
48. Barbara Crane
President,
National Federation of Nurses,
Seattle
49. Richard Bracken
Chairman and CEO,
HCA,
Nashville
50. Harvey Fineberg
President,
Institute of Medicine,
Washington
51. Michael Dowling
CEO,
North Shore-Long Island,
Jewish Health System,
Great Neck, N.Y.
52. Angela Braly
Chairman, president and CEO,
WellPoint,
Indianapolis
53. Gail Boudreaux
President, UnitedHealthcare;
executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group,
Minnetonka, Minn.
54. Richard Clarke
President and CEO,
Healthcare Financial Management Association,
Westchester, Ill.
55. Christine Varney
Assistant attorney general, antitrust division,
U.S. Justice Department,
Washington
56. Georges Benjamin
Executive director,
American Public Health Association,
Washington
57. Pete Stark
U.S. representative (D-Calif.);
chairman, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee,
U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington
58. Kevin Lofton
President and CEO,
Catholic Health Initiatives,
Denver
59. Karen Davis
President,
Commonwealth Fund,
New York
60. Michael Connelly
President and CEO,
Catholic Healthcare Partners,
Cincinnati
61. Mark Chassin
President,
Joint Commission,
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.
62. Christine Cassel
President and CEO,
American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation,
Philadelphia
63. Uwe Reinhardt
James Madison professor of political economy,
Princeton (N.J.) University
64. Chris Van Gorder
President and CEO,
Scripps Health,
San Diego;
chairman, American College of Healthcare Executives
65. Michael McCallister
President and CEO,
Humana,
Louisville, Ky.
66. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Princeton, N.J.
67. Rose Ann DeMoro
Executive director,
National Nurses United;
national vice president, AFL-CIO,
Washington
68. Linda Aiken
Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research,
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
69. John Goodman
President and CEO,
National Center for Policy Analysis,
Dallas
70. George Halvorson
Chairman and CEO,
Kaiser Permanente,
Oakland, Calif.
71. Richard Foster
Chief actuary,
CMS,
Washington
72. Robert Wachter
Chief, division of hospital medicine,
University of California at San Francisco
73. Robert Moffit
Senior fellow,
Heritage Foundation,
Washington
74. Anthony Tersigni
President and CEO,
Ascension Health,
St. Louis
75. Gary Gottlieb
President and CEO,
Partners HealthCare System,
Boston
76. Janet Corrigan
President and CEO,
National Quality Forum,
Washington
77. Val Halamandaris
President,
National Association for Home Care & Hospice,
Washington,
78. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove
President and CEO,
Cleveland Clinic
79. Charles Martin
Chairman and CEO,
Vanguard Health Systems,
Nashville
80. Kent Thiry
Chairman and CEO,
DaVita,
Denver
81. Paul Diaz
President and CEO,
Kindred Healthcare,
Louisville, Ky.
82. Francis Collins
Director,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Md.
83. Angela Gardner
President,
American College of Emergency Physicians,
Irving, Texas
84. Thomas Dolan
President and CEO,
American College of Healthcare Executives,
Chicago
85. William Jessee
President and CEO,
Medical Group Management Association,
Englewood, Colo.
86. Michael Maves
Executive vice president and CEO,
American Medical Association,
Chicago
87. Stephen Lieber
President and CEO,
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society,
Chicago
88. Scott Serota
President and CEO,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association,
Chicago
89. Joseph Swedish
President and CEO,
Trinity Health,
Novi, Mich.
90. James Guest
President and CEO,
Consumers Union,
Yonkers, N.Y.
91. Thomas Frieden
Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta
92. Barry Straube
Director,
office of clinical standards and quality;
chief medical officer,
CMS,
Washington
93. Alan Miller
Chairman and CEO,
Universal Health Services,
King of Prussia, Pa.
94. Jay Grinney
President and CEO,
HealthSouth Corp.,
Birmingham, Ala.
95. Yvette Roubideaux
Director,
Indian Health Service,
Rockville, Md.
96. Leah Binder
CEO,
Leapfrog Group,
Washington
97. Geraldine “Polly” Bednash
CEO and executive director,
American Association of Colleges of Nursing,
Washington
98. William Roper
CEO,
UNC Health Care System;
dean, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Medicine
99. Emad Rizk
President,
McKesson Health Solutions,
Boston
100. Sanjay Gupta
Medical/healthcare correspondent,
CNN,
Atlanta
