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April 20, 2013 01:00 AM

50 Most Influential Physician Executives - 2013 (text list)

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    The 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare are presented by order in this year's ranking.

    1. John Kitzhaber

    Governor of Oregon, Salem

    2. John Noseworthy

    President and CEO, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

    3. Thomas Frieden

    Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

    4. Brent James

    Chief quality officer, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City

    5. Peter Pronovost

    Senior vice president for patient safety and quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore

    6. Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle

    7. Mark Chassin

    President, Joint Commission, Oak Brook Terrace, Ill.

    8. Eric Topol

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

    9. Christine Cassel

    Incoming president and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington

    10. Patrick Conway

    Chief medical officer, CMS; director, CMS' Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Baltimore

    11. Farzad Mostashari

    National coordinator for healthcare information technology, Washington

    12. Regina Benjamin

    U.S. surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Washington

    13. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove

    President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic

    14. Francis Collins

    Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

    15. Elliott Fisher

    Director, Center for Population Health, Director of Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, N.H.

    16. Richard Gilfillan

    Director, CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Baltimore

    17. Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City

    18. Kelvin Baggett

    Senior vice president and chief medical officer, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas

    19. David Pryor

    Executive vice president, Ascension Health Alliance, St. Louis

    20. Samuel Nussbaum

    Executive vice president and chief medical officer, WellPoint, Indianapolis
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    21. Karen Bell

    Chair, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), Chicago

    22. Steven Safyer

    President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

    23. Ram Raju

    CEO, Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago

    24. James Madara

    Executive vice president and CEO, American Medical Association, Chicago

    25. Harvey Fineberg

    President, Institute of Medicine, Washington

    26. Robert Wachter

    Professor and associate chairman, department of medicine, University of California at San Francisco

    27. Barbara Paul

    Senior vice president and chief medical officer, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.

    28. Bruce Siegel

    President and CEO, America's Essential Hospitals, Washington

    29. Ralph de la Torre

    Chairman and CEO, Steward Health Care System, Boston

    30. Jonathan Perlin

    President of clinical services and chief medical officer, HCA, Nashville

    31. Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington

    32. Susan Turney

    President and CEO, MGMA-ACMPE, Englewood, Colo.

    33. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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

    34. Gary Gottlieb

    President and CEO, Partners HealthCare, Boston

    35. Larry Wellikson

    CEO, Society of Hospital Medicine, Philadelphia

    36. Prem Reddy

    Chairman, Prime Healthcare Services, Ontario, Calif.

    37. Glenn Steele Jr.

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

    38. Atul Gawande

    Professor of surgery and professor of healthcare policy and management, Harvard University; healthcare author

    39. John Hensing

    Executive vice president and chief medical officer, Banner Health, Phoenix

    40. Georges Benjamin

    Executive director, American Public Health Association, Washington

    41. Reed Tuckson

    Executive vice president and chief of medical affairs, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.

    42. Joe Selby

    Executive director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington

    43. William Bria

    President, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, Lake Almanor, Calif.

    44. William Conway

    CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group; chief quality officer, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit

    45. Richard Bankowitz

    Chief medical officer, Premier, Charlotte, N.C.

    46. Thomas Nasca

    President, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago

    47. Margaret Hamburg

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

    48. Michael Burgess

    U.S. representative (R-Texas), co-chairman, Congressional Health Care Caucus

    49. Emad Rizk

    President, McKesson Health Solutions, Newton, Mass.

    50. Robert Grossman

    CEO, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
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