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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