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August 23, 2004 01:00 AM

100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare (List)

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    1. David Brailer, National healthcare IT coordinator, HHS, Washington

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

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

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

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

    6. John Ashcroft, U.S. attorney general, U.S. Justice Department, Washington

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

    8. Tommy Thompson, Secretary, HHS, Washington

    9. Jack Bovender, Chairman, CEO, HCA, Nashville

    10. Linda Aiken, Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia

    11. Newt Gingrich, Former speaker of the House; founder, Center for Health Transformation, Washington

    12. John Kerry, U.S. senator (D-Mass.), Washington; Democratic nominee for president

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

    14. Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison professor of political economy; professor of economics and public affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

    15. Thomas Daschle, U.S. senator (D-S.D.), Senate minority leader, Washington

    16. Tom Ridge, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington

    17. Donald Berwick, President, CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston

    18. Doug Hawthorne, President, CEO, Texas Health Resources, Arlington

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

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

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

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

    23. Gail Wilensky, Senior fellow, Project HOPE, Milwood, Va.; former administrator, HCFA

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

    25. Barbara Blakeney, President, American Nurses Association, Washington

    26. Nancy Johnson, U.S. representative (R-Conn.), chairwoman, House Ways and Means health subcommittee, Washington

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

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

    29. Mark McClellan, Administrator, CMS, Washington

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    40. Suzanne Delbanco, Executive director, Leapfrog Group, Washington

    41. Jay Grinney, CEO, HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala.

    42. David Blumenthal, Samuel Thier Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; director, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

    43. Molly Coye, Founder, CEO, Health Technology Center, San Francisco

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

    45. Rev. Michael Place, President, CEO, Catholic Health Association, St. Louis

    46. Emily Friedman, Independent health policy analyst, Chicago

    47. Denny Shelton, Chairman, CEO, Triad Hospitals, Plano, Texas

    48. David Kessler, Dean, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; former commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Md.

    49. Rich Averill, Director of clinical research, 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, Conn.

    50. Doug Badger, Assistant to the president on health and economic policy, Washington

    51. Al Stubblefield, President, CEO, Baptist Health Care, Pensacola, Fla.

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

    53. Beth O'Brien, President, CEO, Baptist Health System, Birmingham, Ala.

    54. Gail Warden, Former president, CEO, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit

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

    56. Cheryl Johnson, President, United American Nurses, St. Louis

    57. Lynn Massingale, President, CEO, Team Health, Knoxville, Tenn.

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

    59. Eliot Spitzer, Attorney general, state of New York

    60. Diane Mancino, Executive director, National Student Nurses' Association, New York

    61. Margaret O'Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington

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

    63. Joanne Bauer, President, Kimberly-Clark Health Care, Roswell, Ga.

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

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

    66. David Fine CEO, St. Luke's Episcopal Health System, Houston

    67. Susan DeVore, President, Premier Purchasing Partners, San Diego

    68. Mary Grealy, President, Healthcare Leadership Council, Washington

    69. John Babiarz, President, Aramark Healthcare Management Services, Philadelphia

    70. David Vandewater, President, CEO, Ardent Health Services, Nashville

    71. Trevor Fetter, President, CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Santa Barbara, Calif.

    72. David Nash, Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon professor, chairman, department of health policy, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia

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

    74. Martha Marsh, President, CEO, Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, Palo Alto, Calif.

    75. Erich Reinhardt, President, CEO, Siemens Medical Solutions Erlangen, Germany

    76. Paul Wright, Executive director, American Medical Student Association Foundation, Reston, Va.

    77. Jeff Goldsmith, President, Health Futures; associate professor of medical education, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

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

    79. Lucian Leape, Adjunct professor of health policy, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

    80. Richard Davidson, President, American Hospital Association, Chicago

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

    82. Rick Wolfert, President, CEO, GE Healthcare Financial Services, Chicago

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

    84. Stuart Altman, Chairman, Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, Waltham, Mass.

    85. Lydia Reed, President, CEO, Association of University Programs in Health Administration, Arlington, Va.

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

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

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

    89. Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson professor of business administration, Harvard Business School, Boston

    90. Col. David Rubenstein, CEO, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Frankfurt, Germany

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

    92. Kenneth Kizer, President, CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington

    93. George Halvorson, Chairman, CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Oakland, Calif.

    94. Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia

    95. Anthony Principi, Secretary, U.S. Veterans Affairs Department, Washington

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

    97. Rupert Evans, President, CEO, Institute for Diversity in Health Management, Chicago

    98. Jordan Cohen, President, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington

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

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

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