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August 22, 2005 01:00 AM

100 Most Powerful (List)

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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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