50 Most Influential Physician Executives - 2013 (text list)

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

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