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April 04, 2015 01:00 AM

50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders - 2015 (text list)

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    The ranking for Modern Healthcare's 11th annual 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders recognition program includes seven newcomers and a number of repeat honorees. To learn more about their individual career paths and achievements, view the photo gallery.

    1. Robert Wachter

    Associate chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; chief of the division of hospital medicine and chief of the medical service at UCSF Medical Center

    2. Richard Gilfillan

    President and CEO, Trinity Health, Livonia, Mich.

    3. Thomas Frieden

    Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

    4. Atul Gawande

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

    5. Jonathan Perlin

    President of clinical services and chief medical officer, HCA, Nashville; chairman, American Hospital Association

    6. John Noseworthy

    President and CEO, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

    7. James Madara

    Executive vice president and CEO, American Medical Association

    8. Karen DeSalvo

    National coordinator for healthcare IT, HHS, Washington

    9. Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City

    10. Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle

    11. Patrick Conway

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

    12. David Feinberg

    Incoming president and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.; outgoing CEO, UCLA Hospital System, Los Angeles

    13. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove

    President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic

    14. Prem Reddy

    Chairman and CEO, Prime Healthcare Services, Ontario, Calif.

    15. Steven Corwin

    CEO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

    16. Vivek Murthy

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

    17. Lynn Simon

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

    18. Peter Slavin

    President, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

    19. Ram Raju

    President and CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.

    20. Paul Rothman

    CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore

    21. David Blumenthal

    President, Commonwealth Fund, New York

    22. Elizabeth Nabel

    President, Brigham and Women's Health Care, Boston

    23. William Conway

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

    24. Robert Wah

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

    25. Kelvin Baggett

    Senior vice president of clinical operations and chief clinical officer, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas

    26. Benjamin Chu

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

    27. Victor Dzau

    President, Institute of Medicine, Washington

    28. Robert Grossman

    Dean and CEO, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York

    29. Tejal Gandhi

    President and CEO, National Patient Safety Foundation, Boston

    30. Ronald DePinho

    President, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

    31. William Roper

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

    32. Francis Collins

    Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

    33. Rodney Hochman

    President and CEO, Providence Health & Services, Renton, Wash.

    34. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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

    35. Christine Cassel

    President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington

    36. Steven Safyer

    President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

    37. Gary Gottlieb

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

    38. Patrick Soon-Shiong

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

    39. Eric Topol

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

    40. Bruce Siegel

    President and CEO, America's Essential Hospitals, Washington

    41. Richard Migliori

    Executive vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer, UnitedHealth Group

    42. Mark Chassin

    President and CEO, Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

    43. Barbara Levy

    Chair, American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC); vice president of health policy, advocacy division, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington

    44. Susan Desmond-Hellmann

    CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle

    45. Troyen Brennan

    Executive vice president and chief medical officer, CVS Health, Woonsocket, R.I.

    46. Glenn Steele Jr.

    Outgoing president and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.; chairman, xG Health Solutions

    47. Georges Benjamin

    Executive director, American Public Health Association, Washington

    48. Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington

    49. Steven Altschuler

    CEO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    50. Susan Turney

    President and CEO, Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic; former president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association

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