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50 Most Influential Physician Executives - titles and organizations

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    Titles and organization affiliations for the 100 nominees in the 2012 Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare competition. Vote now!

    Richard Afable

    President and CEO

    Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

    Newport Beach, Calif.

    Steven Altschuler

    President and CEO

    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    James Avery

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Golden Living

    Plano, Texas

    Kelvin Baggett

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Tenet Healthcare Corp.

    Dallas

    Karen Bell

    Chairwoman

    Certification Commission for Health Information Technology

    Chicago

    Georges Benjamin

    Executive director

    American Public Health Association

    Washington

    Regina Benjamin

    U.S. surgeon general

    U.S. Public Health Service

    Rockville, Md.

    Donald Berwick

    Former administrator

    CMS

    Baltimore

    William Bria

    President

    Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems

    Lake Almanor, Calif.

    Robert Brook

    Distinguished chair, healthcare services

    RAND Corp.

    Santa Monica, Calif.

    George Brown

    President and CEO

    Legacy Health

    Portland, Ore.

    Frank Byrne

    President

    St. Mary's Hospital

    Madison, Wis.

    T. Brian Callister

    National medical director

    LifeCare Hospitals

    Plano, Texas

    Christine Cassel

    President and CEO

    American Board of Internal Medicine; ABIM Foundation

    Philadelphia

    Mark Chassin

    President

    Joint Commission

    Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

    Carolyn Clancy

    Director

    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    Washington

    Jack Cochran

    Executive director

    Kaiser Permanente, the Permanente Federation

    Oakland, Calif.

    Francis Collins

    Director

    National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, Md.

    Paul Convery

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Baylor Health Care System

    Dallas

    Patrick Conway

    Director and CMO

    Office of Clinical Standards and Quality

    CMS

    Baltimore

    Lanny Copeland

    CMO

    LifePoint Hospitals

    Brentwood, Tenn.

    Delos "Toby" Cosgrove

    President and CEO

    Cleveland Clinic

    Ralph de la Torre

    Chairman and CEO

    Steward Health Care System

    Boston

    Charles Denham

    Chairman

    Texas Medical Institute of Technology

    Austin

    Ronald DePinho

    President

    University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston

    Karen DeSalvo

    Vice dean for community affairs and health policy

    Tulane University;

    health commissioner, city of New Orleans

    T. Clifford Deveny

    Senior vice president, physician practice management

    Catholic Health Initiatives

    Englewood, Colo.

    Jeffrey Drazen

    Editor-in-chief

    New England Journal of Medicine

    Waltham, Mass.

    Melinda Estes

    President and CEO

    St. Luke's Health System

    Kansas City, Mo.

    Harvey Fineberg

    President

    Institute of Medicine

    Washington

    Thomas Frieden

    Director

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Atlanta

    Tracy Gaudet

    Director

    Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation

    Veterans Affairs Department

    Washington

    Richard Gilfillan

    Director

    CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

    Washington

    Gary Gottlieb

    President and CEO

    Partners HealthCare System

    Boston

    Howard Grant

    President and CEO

    Lahey Clinic

    Burlington, Mass.

    Harry Greenspun

    Senior adviser, healthcare transformation and technology

    Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

    Washington

    John Halamka

    Chief information officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center;

    CIO and dean for technology, Harvard Medical School

    Boston

    Margaret Hamburg

    Commissioner

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration

    Silver Spring, Md.

    Ziad Haydar

    Vice president of clinical excellence and physician integration

    Ascension Health

    St. Louis

    John Hensing

    Executive vice president and CMO

    Banner Health

    Phoenix

    Rodney Hochman

    President and CEO

    Swedish Hospital

    Seattle

    Brent James

    Executive director, chief quality officer

    Institute for Health Care Delivery Research

    Intermountain Healthcare

    Salt Lake City

    Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO

    Virginia Mason Medical Center

    Seattle

    Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO

    Association of American Medical Colleges

    Washington

    Thomas Knight

    Senior vice president and chief quality officer

    Methodist Hospital System

    Houston

    John Koster

    President and CEO

    Providence Health & Services

    Renton, Wash.

    Harlan Krumholz

    Director

    Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

    Yale-New Haven Medical Center

    New Haven, Conn.

    James Lassetter

    Founder, chairman and CEO

    Medicity

    Salt Lake City

    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

    President and CEO

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    Princeton, N.J.

    Linda Leckman

    CEO

    Intermountain Medical Group

    Salt Lake City

    Jack Lewin

    CEO

    American College of Cardiology

    Washington

    H. Eugene Lindsey

    President and CEO

    Atrius Health

    Newton, Mass.

    Andrew Litt

    Chief medical officer

    Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences Services

    Round Rock, Texas

    James Madara

    Executive vice president and CEO

    American Medical Association

    Chicago

    Sanne Magnan

    President and CEO

    Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

    Bloomington, Minn.

    Philip Mehler

    Director of quality and CMO

    Denver Health

    Denver

    Arlen Meyers

    Founder, president and CEO

    Society of Physician Entrepreneurs

    Steven Miller

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Express Scripts

    St. Louis

    Arnold Milstein

    Director, Clinical Excellence Research Center

    Stanford University

    Palo Alto, Calif.

    Farzad Mostashari

    National coordinator for healthcare IT

    ONC

    Washington

    Thomas Nasca

    CEO

    Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

    Chicago

    David Nash

    Founding dean

    Jefferson School of Population Health

    Philadelphia

    John Noseworthy

    CEO

    Mayo Clinic

    Rochester, Minn.

    Sam Nussbaum

    Executive vice president of clinical health policy and CMO

    WellPoint

    Indianapolis

    David Pate

    President and CEO

    St. Luke's Health System

    Boise, Idaho

    Barbara Paul

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Community Health Systems

    Franklin, Tenn.

    Ronald Paulus

    President and CEO

    Mission Health

    Asheville, N.C.

    Deborah Peel

    Founder and chairwoman

    Patient Privacy Rights Foundation

    Austin, Texas

    Jonathan Perlin

    President of the clinical and physician services group and CMO

    HCA

    Nashville

    Peter Pronovost

    Director, Quality and Safety Research Group

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Baltimore

    David Pryor

    Chief medical officer

    Ascension Health

    St. Louis

    Ana Pujols-McKee

    Executive vice president and CMO

    Joint Commission

    Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

    Prem Reddy

    Founder, chairman

    Prime Healthcare Services

    Ontario, Calif.

    William Roper

    CEO

    UNC Health Care System

    Chapel Hill, N.C.

    Lee Sacks

    Executive vice president and CMO

    Advocate Health Care

    Oak Brook, Ill.

    Steven Safyer

    President and CEO

    Montefiore Medical Center

    New York

    Mike Schatzlein

    CEO

    St. Thomas Health

    Nashville

    M. Michael Shabot

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

    Houston

    David Shulkin

    President and CEO

    Morristown Medical Center

    Morristown, N.J.

    Jeffrey Shuren

    Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration

    Silver Spring, Md.

    Bruce Siegel

    CEO

    National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

    Washington

    Charles Sorensen

    President and CEO

    Intermountain Healthcare

    Salt Lake City

    Wiley "Chip" Souba

    Acting director, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice;

    vice president of health affairs, Medical School of Dartmouth College

    Lebanon, N.H.

    Erik Steele

    Vice president and CMO

    EMHS

    Brewer, Maine

    Glenn Steele Jr.

    President and CEO

    Geisinger Health System

    Danville, Pa.

    Dan Stultz

    President and CEO

    Texas Hospital Association

    Austin

    Erik Swensson

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Capella Healthcare

    Franklin, Tenn.

    Paul Tang

    Vice president and chief innovation and technology officer

    Palo Alto Medical Foundation

    Palo Alto, Calif.

    Eric Topol

    Chief academic officer

    Scripps Health

    San Diego

    Reed Tuckson

    Executive vice president and chief of medical affairs

    UnitedHealth Group

    Minnetonka, Minn.

    Nicholas Turkal

    CEO

    Aurora Health Care

    Milwaukee

    Susan Turney

    President and CEO

    Medical Group Management Association

    Englewood, Colo.

    Thomas Valuck

    Senior vice president of strategic partnerships

    National Quality Forum

    Washington

    Robert Wachter

    Chief of hospital medicine

    UCSF Medical Center

    San Francisco

    Robert Wah

    CMO, Computer Sciences Corp., Falls Church, Va.;

    board chairman, American Medical Association

    Steven Waldren

    Director of the Center for Health IT

    American Academy of Family Physicians

    Leawood, Kan.

    Scott Weingarten

    Co-founder, president and CEO

    Zynx Health

    Los Angeles

    Larry Wellikson

    CEO

    Society of Hospital Medicine

    Philadelphia

    Nicholas Wolter

    CEO

    Billings Clinic

    Billings, Mont.

    Tadataka Yamada

    President of Global Health Program

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    Seattle

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