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August 22, 2011 01:00 AM

100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (text list)

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    This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 27 newcomers as well as 10 honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.

    1. Paul Ryan

    U.S. representative (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, Washington

    2. Peter Shumlin

    Governor, state of Vermont, Montpelior

    3. Barack Obama

    President of the United States, Washington

    4. Donald Berwick

    Administrator, CMS, Washington

    5. Kathleen Sebelius

    Secretary, HHS, Washington

    6. Newt Gingrich

    Founder, Center for Health Transformation, Washington; former House speaker

    7. John Wennberg

    Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, professor of evaluative clinical sciences

    8. William Weldon

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

    9. Farzad Mostashari

    National coordinator for healthcare information technology, Washington

    10. Therese "Terri" Vaughan

    CEO, National Association of Insurance Commissioners Kansas City, Mo.

    11. Carolyn Clancy

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

    12. Robert Wah

    Vice president and chief medical officer, CSC, Falls Church, Va.; board chairman, American Medical Association

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    13. Kent Thiry

    CEO, DaVita, Denver

    14. Paul Diaz

    President and CEO, Kindred Healthcare, Louisville, Ky.

    15. Sister Carol Keehan

    President and CEO, Catholic Health Association, St. Louis

    16. Richard Umbdenstock

    President and CEO, American Hospital Association, Chicago

    17. Wayne Smith

    Chairman, president and CEO, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.

    18. Chris Van Gorder

    President and CEO, Scripps Health, San Diego

    19. Lloyd Dean

    President and CEO, Catholic Healthcare West, San Francisco

    20. Alan Miller

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

    21. John Boehner

    Speaker of the House (R-Ohio), Washington

    22. Stephen Hemsley

    President and CEO, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.

    23. Karen Daley

    President, American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, Md.

    24. John Hammergren

    Chairman and CEO, McKesson Corp., San Francisco

    25. Trevor Fetter

    President and CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas

    26. Regina Benjamin

    U.S. surgeon general, Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, Rockville, Md.

    27. Thomas Zenty

    CEO, University Hospitals, Cleveland

    28. Anthony Tersigni

    President and CEO, Ascension Health, St. Louis

    29. Michael Dowling

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

    30. Drew Altman

    President and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif.

    31. Rose Ann DeMoro

    Executive director, National Nurses United, AFL-CIO, Washington

    32. Chip Kahn

    President and CEO, Federation of American Hospitals, Washington

    33. Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Hospital & Medical Center, Seattle

    34. Richard Bracken

    Chairman and CEO, HCA, Nashville

    35. Patricia Hemingway Hall

    President and CEO, Health Care Service Corp., Chicago

    36. Richard Afable

    President and CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, Calif.

    37. Maureen Bisognano

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

    38. Scott Armstrong

    President and CEO, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle

    39. Aneesh Chopra

    U.S. chief technology officer, White House, Washington

    40. Angela Braly

    Chairwoman, president and CEO, WellPoint, Indianapolis

    41. Stuart Altman

    Sol C. Chaikin professor of national health policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.

    42. Gail Wilensky

    Senior fellow, Project HOPE, Washington; former administrator of HCFA, predecessor to the CMS

    43. Janet Corrigan

    President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington

    44. Judith Faulkner

    Founder and CEO, Epic Systems, Verona, Wis.

    45. Kevin Lofton

    President and CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives, Englewood, Colo.

    46. Margaret "Peggy" O'Kane

    President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington

    47. Chuck Grassley

    U.S. senator (R-Iowa), Washington

    48. Leah Binder

    CEO, Leapfrog Group, Washington

    49. Rick Scott

    Governor of Florida, Tallahassee

    50. Jay Grinney

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

    51. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

    President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.

    52. Deborah Peel

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

    53. Joseph Swedish

    President and CEO, Trinity Health, Novi, Mich.

    54. Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City

    55. Eric Holder

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

    56. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove

    President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic

    57. Karen Ignagni

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

    58. Karen Davis

    President, Commonwealth Fund, New York

    59. Francis Collins

    Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

    60. George Halvorson

    Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.

    61. Richard Clarke

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

    62. Alan Aviles

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

    63. Mark Chassin

    President, Joint Commission, Oak Brook Terrace, Ill.

    64. Georges Benjamin

    Executive director, American Public Health Association, Washington

    65. John Bardis

    Chairman, President and CEO, MedAssets, Alpharetta, Ga.

    66. Christine Cassel

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

    67. Michael McCallister

    Chairman and CEO, Humana, Louisville, Ky.

    68. Stephen Bonner

    President and CEO, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Schaumburg, Ill.

    69. Eric Topol

    Chief academic officer, Scripps Health; director Scripps Translational Science Institute, San Diego

    70. Thomas Frieden

    Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

    71. John Noseworthy

    President and CEO, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

    72. Thomas Dolan

    President and CEO, American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago

    73. Margaret Hamburg

    Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Md.

    74. Richard Feinstein

    Director, Bureau of Competition, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Washington

    75. Nicholas Wolter

    CEO, Billings (Mont.) Clinic

    76. Paul Ginsburg

    President, Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington

    77. Gary Gottlieb

    President and CEO, Partners HealthCare System, Boston

    78. Jack Lewin

    CEO, American College of Cardiology, Washington

    79. Teri Fontenot

    President and CEO, Woman's Hospital, Baton Rouge, La.

    80. Helen Darling

    President and CEO, National Business Group on Health, Washington

    81. Glenn Steele Jr.

    President and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.

    82. Alan Morgan

    CEO, National Rural Health Association, Washington

    83. Harvey Fineberg

    President, Institute of Medicine, Washington

    84. Eric Shinseki

    Secretary, Veterans Affairs Department, Washington

    85. Peter Fine

    President and CEO, Banner Health, Phoenix

    86. Bruce Siegel

    CEO, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Washington

    87. Richard Foster

    Chief actuary, CMS, Washington

    88. Rulon Stacey

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

    89. Charles Martin

    Chairman and CEO, Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville

    90. Scott Serota

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

    91. Stephen Lieber

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

    92. Howard Koh

    Assistant secretary for health, HHS, Washington

    93. Steven Safyer

    President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

    94. Daniel Levinson

    Inspector general, HHS, Washington

    95. Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington

    96. Ron Pollack

    Founder and executive director, Families USA, Washington

    97. Richard Gilfillan

    Acting director, CMS' Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Washington

    98. Kenneth Raske

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

    99. James Guest

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

    100. A. Barry Rand

    CEO, AARP, Washington

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