100 Most Powerful (Text List)

1. Steve Case

Founder, chairman, CEORevolution Health GroupWashington

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