50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders for 2015 - nominees

This year's 150 nominees for the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders in 2015 are presented in alphabetical order.

Steve Allen

CEO Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, Ohio

Steven Altschuler

CEOChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia

Peter Angood

CEO American Association for Physician Leadership Tampa, Fla.

Elliott Antman

President American Heart Association Boston

Timothy Babineau

President and CEO Lifespan Providence, R.I.

Kelvin Baggett

Chief clinical officer Tenet Healthcare Corp. Dallas

Bruce Bagley

CEO TransforMED Leawood, Kan.

David Bailey

President and CEO Nemours Children's Health System Jacksonville, Fla.

Richard Bankowitz

Enterprise-wide chief medical officer Premier Charlotte, N.C.

Richard Baron

President and CEO American Board of Internal Medicine/ABIM Foundation Philadelphia

Howard Bauchner

Editor-in-chief JAMAChicago

Georges Benjamin

Executive director American Public Health Association Washington

Don Berwick

Former president and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Mass.; former CMS administrator

Roy Beveridge

Executive VP and chief medical officer Humana Louisville, Ky.

Daniel Blue

President Sanford Clinic Sioux Falls, S.D.

David Blumenthal

President Commonwealth Fund New York

Marc Boom

President and CEO Houston Methodist

William Bornstein

Chief medical officer, chief quality officer Emory Healthcare Atlanta

Akram Boutros

President and CEO MetroHealth System Cleveland

Otis Brawley

Chief medical officer American Cancer Society Atlanta

Troyen Brennan

Executive VP and chief medical officer CVS HealthWoonsocket, R.I.

William Bria

Chairman Association of Medical Directors of Information SystemsLake Almanor, Calif.

George Brown

President and CEO Legacy Health Portland, Ore.

John Brumsted

President and CEO Fletcher Allen Health Care Burlington, Vt.

Robert Carlson

CEO National Comprehensive Cancer Network Fort Washington, Pa.

Christine Cassel

President and CEO National Quality Forum Washington

Fred Cerise

CEO Parkland Health & Hospital System Dallas

Mark Chassin

President and CEO Joint Commission Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

Humayun Chaudhry

President and CEO Federation of State Medical Boards Washington

John Chessare

CEO GBMC HealthCare Baltimore

Benjamin Chu

Executive VP, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan; group president, Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Georgia regions; president, Kaiser Permanente Southern California Oakland, Calif.

Carolyn Clancy

Interim undersecretary for health Veterans Affairs Department Washington

Dexanne Clohan

Chief medical officer HealthSouth Corp. Birmingham, Ala.

Francis Collins

Director National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Md.

Patrick Conway

Deputy administrator for innovation and quality, chief medical officer; director, CMS, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

William Conway

Executive VP, Henry Ford Health System; CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group Detroit

Steven Corwin

CEO New York-Presbyterian Hospital New York

Toby Cosgrove

President and CEO Cleveland Clinic

Kenneth Davis

President and CEO Mount Sinai Health System New York

Ralph de la Torre

Chairman and CEO Steward Health Care System Boston

Ronald DePinho

President MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston

Karen DeSalvo

National coordinator for health information technology HHSWashington

Susan Desmond-Hellmann

CEO Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle

T. Clifford Deveny

Senior VP, physicians services and clinical integration Catholic Health Initiatives Englewood, Colo.

James Downing

Chairman, president and CEO St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, Tenn.

Jeffrey Drazen

Editor-in-chief New England Journal of Medicine Boston

Victor Dzau

President Institute of Medicine Washington

Melinda Estes

CEO St. Luke's Health System Kansas City, Mo.

Anthony Fauci

Director National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases Bethesda, Md.

David Feinberg

President, UCLA Health System; CEO, UCLA Hospital System; associate vice chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences Los Angeles

Harvey Fineberg

President Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Palo Alto, Calif.

Elliott Fisher

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

Thomas Frieden

Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta

Tejal Gandhi

President and CEONational Patient Safety Foundation Boston

Atul Gawande

Surgeon, professor, writer, researcher Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health Boston

Michael Gerardi

President American College of Emergency Physicians Irving, Texas

Richard Gilfillan

President and CEO Trinity Health Livonia, Mich.

Jeffrey Gold

Chancellor University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha

Larry Goodman

President and CEO Rush University Medical Center Chicago

Gary Gottlieb

Outgoing president and CEO, Partners HealthCare, Boston; incoming CEO, Partners in Health

Howard Grant

President and CEO Lahey Health Burlington, Mass.

Ron Greeno

Co-founder, executive VP of strategy and innovation Cogent Healthcare Brentwood, Tenn.

Harry Greenspun

Director Deloitte Center for Health Solutions Washington

Robert Grossman

Dean and CEO NYU Langone Medical Center New York

Dean Gruner

President and CEO ThedaCare Appleton, Wis.

Margaret Hamburg

Commissioner Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, Md.

John Hensing

Executive VP and chief medical officer Banner Health Phoenix

Rodney Hochman

President and CEO Providence Health & Services Renton, Wash.

Russell Holman

Chief medical officer LifePoint Hospitals Brentwood, Tenn.

Richard Insel

Chief scientific officer Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation New York

Brent James

Executive director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research; chief quality officer Intermountain Healthcare Salt Lake City

Ashish Jha

Director Harvard Global Health Institute Boston

Larry Kaiser

President and and CEO Temple University Health System Philadelphia

Gary Kaplan

Chairman and CEO Virginia Mason Medical Center Seattle

M. Narendra Kini

President and CEO Miami Children's Hospital

Darrell Kirch

President and CEO Association of American Medical Colleges Washington

John Kitzhaber

Former Governor of Oregon Salem

Stephen Klasko

President and CEO Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health System Philadelphia

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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

Thomas Lee

Chief medical officer Press Ganey South Bend, Ind.

Barbara Levy

Chair American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) Federal Way, Wash.

Allen Lichter

CEO American Society of Clinical Oncology Alexandria, Va.

William Lunn

President and CEO Tulane Medical Center New Orleans

James Madara

Executive VP and CEO American Medical Association Chicago

Lynn Massingale

Executive chairman TeamHealth Knoxville, Tenn.

Mark McClellan

Director Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative Brookings Institution Washington

Richard Migliori

Executive VP of medical affairs and chief medical officer UnitedHealth Group Minnetonka, Minn.

J. Mario Molina

President and CEO Molina Healthcare Long Beach, Calif.

Stephen Moore

Senior VP and chief medical officer Catholic Health Initiatives Englewood, Colo.

Farzad Mostashari

Founder, Aledade, Bethesda, Md.; former national coordinator for health information technology, HHS

Vivek Murthy

U.S. surgeon general U.S. Public Health Service Rockville, Md.

Elizabeth Nabel

President Brigham and Women's Health Care Boston

Thomas Nasca

CEO Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Chicago

David Nash

Founding dean, Jefferson School of Population Health Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia

Janice Nevin

President and CEO Christiana Care Health System Wilmington, Del

John Noseworthy

President and CEO Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minn.

Samuel Nussbaum

Executive VP, clinical health policy and chief medical officer Anthem Indianapolis

Patrick O'Gara

President American College of Cardiology Washington

Christopher Olivia

President Continuum Health Alliance Marlton, N.J.

David Pate

President and CEO St. Luke's Health System Boise, Idaho

Ronald Paulus

President and CEO Mission Health Asheville, N.C.

Harold Paz

Executive VP and chief medical officer Aetna Hartford, Conn.

Jonathan Perlin

President of clinical services and chief medical officer HCA Nashville

C. Wright Pinson

CEO, Vanderbilt Health System; senior associate dean, Vanderbilt University Nashville

Irving Prengler

Chief medical officer Baylor Scott & White Dallas

Tom Price

U.S. representative (R-Ga.), House Budget Committee chairman Washington

Peter Pronovost

Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Johns Hopkins Medicine Baltimore

David Pryor

Executive VP, Ascension; president and CEO, Ascension Clinical Holdings St. Louis

Ram Raju

President and CEO New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.

Paul Ramsey

CEO, UW Medicine; dean, University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle

Robert Ratner

Chief scientific and medical officer American Diabetes Foundation Alexandria, Va.

Prem Reddy

Chairman and CEO Prime Healthcare Services Ontario, Calif.

Emad Rizk

President and CEO Accretive Chicago

William Roper

CEO, UNC Health Care; dean, school of medicine; vice chancellor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Rothman

Dean and CEO Johns Hopkins Medicine Baltimore

Yvette Roubideaux

Acting director U.S. Indian Health Service Rockville, Md.

Lee Sacks

Executive VP and chief medical officer Advocate Health Care Downers Grove, Ill.

Steven Safyer

President and CEO Montefiore Medical Center New York

Michael Schatzlein

CEO St. Thomas Health Services Nashville

Joe Selby

Executive director Patient-Centered Outcomes and Research Institute Washington

John Shannon

CEO Cook County Health & Hospitals System Chicago

David Shulkin

VP, Atlantic Health; president, Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center

Bruce Siegel

President and CEO America's Essential Hospitals Washington

Lynn Simon

President of clinical services and chief quality officer Community Health Systems Franklin, Tenn.

Adam Singer

Chairman and CEO IPC-the Hospitalist Co. North Hollywood, Calif.

Peter Slavin

President Massachusetts General Hospital Boston

Anthony Slonim

President and CEO Renown Health Reno, Nev.

Lynda Ann Smirz

Chief medical officer, acute-care division Universal Health Services King of Prussia, Pa.

Joe Smith

Chief medical and science officer West Health San Diego

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Chairman, Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation; CEO, NantHealth, Los Angeles; global director, cancer services and bioinformatics, Providence Health & Services, Renton, Wash.

Charles Sorenson

President and CEO Intermountain Healthcare Salt Lake City

Glenn Steele Jr.

President and CEO Geisinger Health System Danville, Pa.

Somava Stout

VP for patient-centered medical home development, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; lead transformation adviser, Cambridge (Mass.) Alliance

Andrew Sussman

Senior VP and associate chief medical officer, CVS Health; president, MinuteClinic division Woonsocket, R.I.

Kevin Tabb

President and CEO Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston

Paul Tang

Chief technology and innovation officer Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation/Sutter Health

John M. Tedeschi

Chairman and CEO Continuum Health Alliance Marlton, N.J.

Jeffrey Thompson

Chairman and CEO Gundersen Health System La Crosse, Wis.

Eric Topol

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

Nick Turkal

President and CEO Aurora Health Care Milwaukee

Susan Turney

President and CEO Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic

Robert Wachter

Professor and chief of the division of hospital medicine University of California at San Francisco

Robert Wah

President, American Medical Association; chief medical officer, Computer Sciences Corp., Falls Church, Va.

Michael Waldrum

President and CEO University of Arizona Health Network Tucson

Steven Weinberger

Executive VP and CEO American College of Physicians Philadelphia

James Weinstein

President and CEO Dartmouth-Hitchcock Lebanon, N.H.

Larry Wellikson

CEO Society of Hospital Medicine Philadelphia

Robert Wergin

President American Academy of Family Physicians Leawood, Kan.

Penny Wheeler

President and CEO Allina Health Minneapolis

Nicholas Wolter

CEO Billings (Mont.) Clinic