The 300 nominees for Modern Healthcare's annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare for 2015 are presented in alphabetical order.
Kirk AdamsInternational executive vice president, Service Employees International Union; director, SEIU Healthcare, Washington
Joel Allison
President and CEO, Baylor Scott & White, Dallas
Drew Altman
President and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif.
Stuart Altman
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Dr. Steven Altschuler
Outgoing CEO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Dr. Peter Angood
President and CEO, American Association for Physician Leadership, Tampa, Fla.
Anthony Armada
CEO, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle
Carl Armato
President and CEO, Novant Health, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Scott Armstrong
President and CEO, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle
Dr. Kelvin Baggett
Senior vice president of clinical operations and chief clinical officer, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas
Dr. David Bailey
President and CEO, Nemours Children's Health System, Jacksonville, Fla.
Dr. Neal Barnard
Founder and president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington
Dr. Richard Baron
President and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation, Philadelphia
George Barrett
Chairman and CEO, Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio
Dr. Howard Bauchner
Editor-in-chief, JAMA
Dr. Georges Benjamin
Executive director, American Public Health Association, Washington
Barclay Berdan
CEO, Texas Health Resources, Arlington
David Bernd
CEO, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Va.
Mark Bertolini
Chairman, president and CEO, Aetna, Hartford, Conn.
Steve Beshear
Governor of Kentucky (D), Frankfort
Leah Binder
President and CEO, Leapfrog Group, Washington
Maureen Bisognano
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Mass.
Paul Black
President and CEO, Allscripts, Chicago
Dr. David Blumenthal
President, Commonwealth Fund, New York
John Boehner
House speaker (R-Ohio), Washington
Dr. Marc Boom
President and CEO, Houston Methodist
Jennifer Covich Bordenick
CEO, eHealth Initiative, Washington
Marna Borgstrom
CEO, Yale New Haven Health System, New Haven, Conn.
Dr. Akram Boutros
President and CEO, MetroHealth System, Cleveland
Deborah Bowen
President and CEO, American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago
Robert Bradway
Chairman and CEO, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Mary Brainerd
President and CEO, HealthPartners, Bloomington, Minn.
Russell Branzell
President and CEO, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, Chicago
Ben Breier
President and CEO, Kindred Healthcare, Louisville, Ky.
Dr. William Bria
Chairman, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, Lake Almanor, Calif.
Ruth Brinkley
President and CEO, KentuckyOne Health, Louisville
Lynn Britton
President and CEO, Mercy, Chesterfield, Mo.
Bruce Broussard
President and CEO, Humana, Louisville, Ky.
Dr. George Brown
President and CEO, Legacy Health, Portland, Ore.
Nancy Brown
CEO, American Heart Association, Washington
Dr. John Brumsted
President and CEO, University of Vermont Health Network (formerly Fletcher Allen Health Care), Burlington
Chet Burrell
President and CEO, CareFirst Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Baltimore
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Secretary, HHS, Washington
Jonathan Bush
President and CEO, Athenahealth, Watertown, Mass.
David Cade
CEO, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington
Debra Cafaro
Chair and CEO, Ventas, Chicago
Gary Campbell
President and CEO, Centura Health, Englewood, Colo.
Dr. Robert Carlson
CEO, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Fort Washington, Pa.
William Carpenter
Chairman and CEO, LifePoint Health, Brentwood, Tenn.
Dr. Christine Cassel
President and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington
John Castellani
President and CEO, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Washington
Dr. Fred Cerise
President and CEO, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas
Thomas Chapman
Chairman, HSC Health Care System, Washington
Dr. Mark Chassin
President and CEO, Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.
Dr. Humayun Chaudhry
President and CEO, Federation of State Medical Boards, Washington
David Chernow
President and CEO, Select Medical, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Dr. Benjamin Chu
Executive VP, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plans; group president, Kaiser Southern California, Georgia, Kaiser Permanente Oakland, Calif.
Steven Churchill
President and CEO, Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, Falls Church, Va.
Pamela Cipriano
President, American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, Md.
Ian Clark
CEO, Genentech, South San Francisco, Calif.
Michael Cohen
President and founder, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, Pa.
Dr. Francis Collins
Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Steven Collis
President and CEO, AmerisourceBergen, Chesterbrook, Pa.
Dr. Patrick Conway
Acting deputy principal administrator; deputy administrator for innovation and quality; chief medical officer, CMS Baltimore
Dr. William Conway
Executive vice president, Henry Ford Health System; CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group, Detroit
David Cordani
President and CEO, Cigna Corp., Bloomfield, Conn.
Dr. Steven Corwin
CEO, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Dr. Toby Cosgrove
President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic
Mark Covall
President and CEO, National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems, Washington
C. Duane Dauner
President and CEO, California Hospital Association, Sacramento
Dr. Kenneth Davis
President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System, New York
Dr. Ralph de La Torre
Chairman and CEO, Steward Health Care System, Boston
Lloyd Dean
CEO, Dignity Health, San Francisco
Suzanne Delbanco
Executive director, Catalyst for Payment Reform, Berkeley, Calif.
RoseAnn DeMoro
Executive director, National Nurses United, Silver Spring, Md.
Dr. Ronald DePinho
President, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Dr. Karen DeSalvo
National coordinator for healthcare IT; nominee for assistant secretary, HHS, Washington
Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann
CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle
Susan DeVore
President and CEO, Premier, Charlotte, N.C.
Michael Dowling
President and CEO, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New York
Dr. James Downing
CEO, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.
Dr. Jeffrey Drazen
Editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Dr. Victor Dzau
President Institute of Medicine (will become National Academy of Medicine), Washington
Todd EbertPresident and CEO, Amerinet, St. Louis
Dan Evans
President and CEO, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md.
Judith Faulkner
President and CEO, Epic Systems Corp., Verona, Wis.
Dr. David Feinberg
Incoming president and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.; outgoing CEO, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles
Deborah Feinstein
Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, Washington
Trevor Fetter
President and CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas
Joseph Fifer
President and CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Westchester, Ill.
Anne Filipic
President, Enroll America, Washington
Peter Fine
President and CEO, Banner Health, Phoenix
Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright
President and CEO, Medical Group Management Association, Englewood, Colo.
Donald Fisher
President and CEO, American Medical Group Association, Alexandria, Va.
Dr. Elliott Fisher
Director, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, N.H.
John Flannery
President and CEO, GE Healthcare
John Fox
President and CEO, Beaumont Health System, Troy, Mich.
Kenneth Frazier
Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, N.J.
Dr. Thomas Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
Patrick Fry
President and CEO, Sutter Health, Sacramento, Calif.
Dr. Tejal Gandhi
President and CEO, National Patient Safety Foundation, Boston
Mark Ganz
President and CEO, Cambia Health Solutions, Portland, Ore.
Dr. Atul Gawande
Surgeon, professor, researcher, author, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
Jay Gellert
President and CEO, Health Net, Woodland Hills, Calif.
Dr. Richard Gilfillan
President and CEO, Trinity Health, Livonia, Mich.
Dr. Gary Gilliland
President and director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Paul Ginsburg
Professor of the practice of health policy and management and the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy, University of California at Los Angeles
Dr. Jeffrey Gold
Chancellor, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
Richard Gonzalez
Chairman and CEO, AbbVie, North Chicago, Ill.
Dr. Larry Goodman
President and CEO, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Lynne Thomas Gordon
CEO, American Health Information Management Association, Chicago
Alex Gorsky
Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.
Dr. Gary Gottlieb
Outgoing CEO, Partners HealthCare, incoming CEO, Partners in Health Boston
Dr. Howard Grant
CEO, Lahey Health, Burlington, Mass.
Jay Grinney
President and CEO, HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala.
Dr. Robert Grossman
Dean and CEO, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
Val Halamandaris
President, National Association for Home Care & Hospice, Washington
John Hammergren
Chairman, president and CEO, McKesson Corp., San Francisco
Dean Harrison
President and CEO, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Chicago
Orrin Hatch
U.S. senator (R-Utah), chairman, Senate Finance Committee, Washington
David Hebert
CEO, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Austin, Texas
Patricia Hemingway Hall
President and CEO, Health Care Service Corp., Chicago
Bob Hemker
President and CEO, Palomar Health, Escondido, Calif.
Stephen Hemsley
CEO, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.
Douglas Henley
Executive vice president and CEO, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan.
James Hinton
President and CEO, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Albuquerque
Dr. Rodney Hochman
President and CEO, Providence Health & Services, Renton, Wash.
David Holmberg
President and CEO, Highmark Health, Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Holmes
CEO, Theranos, Palo Alto, Calif.
Nancy Howell Agee
President and CEO, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, Va.
John Iglehart
Founding editor, Health Affairs
Karen Ignagni
Outgoing president and CEO, America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington; incoming president and CEO, EmblemHealth, New York
Omar Ishrak
Chairman and CEO, Medtronic, Dublin, Ireland
Shalom Jacobovitz
CEO, American College of Cardiology, Washington
Jo Ann Jenkins
CEO, AARP, Washington
Reynold Jennings
CEO, WellStar Health System, Marietta, Ga.
Dr. Ashish Jha
Director, Harvard Global Health Institute, Boston
R. Milton Johnson
Chairman and CEO, HCA, Nashville
Chip Kahn
President and CEO, Federation of American Health Systems, Washington
Dr. Gary Kaplan
Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle
John Kasich
Governor of Ohio (R), Columbus
Kenneth Kaufman
Chairman, Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Chicago
Sister Carol Keehan
President and CEO, Catholic Health Association, Washington
Brian Keeley
President and CEO, Baptist Health South Florida, Coral Gables
Anthony Kennedy
U.S. Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington
Todd Ketch
Executive director, American Health Quality Association, Washington
Joe Kiani
Founder, chairman and CEO, Masimo Corp., Irvine, Calif.
Dr. M. Narendra Kini
President and CEO, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami
Dr. Darrell Kirch
President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington
Dr. Stephen Klasko
President and CEO, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health System, Philadelphia
Kelby Krabbenhoft
President and CEO, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, S.D.
Richard Kronick
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Md.
Paul Kusserow
President and CEO, Amedisys, Baton Rouge, La.
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.
Bruce Lawrence
President and CEO, Integris Health, Oklahoma City
Bill Leaver
CEO, UnityPoint Health, West Des Moines, Iowa
John Lechleiter
Chairman, president and CEO, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis
Peter Lee
Executive director, Covered California, Sacramento
Manuel Tomas Leon
President and CEO, Institute for Diversity in Health Management, Chicago
Jeffrey Lerner
President and CEO, ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
Alan Levine
President and CEO, Mountain States Health Alliance, Johnson City, Tenn.
Daniel Levinson
Inspector general, HHS, Washington
Dr. Barbara Levy
VP for health policy, advocacy division, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington; chair, American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC)
Dr. Allen Lichter
CEO, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, Va.
H. Stephen Lieber
President and CEO, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Chicago
Steven Lipstein
President and CEO, BJC HealthCare, St. Louis
Kevin Lofton
CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives, Englewood, Colo.
Dr. Douglas Lowy
Director, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md.
Dr. William Lunn
President and CEO, Tulane Health System, New Orleans
Loretta Lynch
U.S. attorney general, Department of Justice, Washington
Dr. James Madara
Executive vice president and CEO, American Medical Association, Chicago
Beverly Malone
CEO, National League for Nursing, Washington
Michael Mandl
President and CEO, Emory Healthcare, Atlanta
Stephen Mansfield
President and CEO, Methodist Health System, Dallas
John Martin
Chairman and CEO, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, Calif.
Dr. Mark McClellan
Senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative, Brookings Institution, Washington
Mitch McConnell
Senate majority leader (R-Ky.), Washington
Robert McDonald
Secretary, Veterans Affairs Department, Washington
Lisa McGiffert
Director, Consumers Union's Safe Patient Project, Austin, Texas
Gail McGovern
President and CEO, American Red Cross, Washington
Howard Messing
President and CEO, Meditech, Westwood, Mass.
Dr. Arlen Meyers
CEO, Society of Physician Entrepreneurs; professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Alan Miller
Chairman and CEO, Universal Health Services, King of Prussia, Pa.
Dr. J. Mario Molina
President and CEO, Molina Healthcare. Long Beach, Calif.
Stephen Mooney
President and CEO, Conifer Health Solutions, Frisco, Texas
Tracey Moorhead
President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Associations of America, Arlington, Va.
Alan Morgan
CEO, National Rural Health Association, Leawood, Kan.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari
Co-founder and CEO, Aledade, Bethesda, Md.; former national coordinator for healthcare IT
Michael Murphy
President and CEO, Sharp HealthCare, San Diego
Dr. Vivek Murthy
U.S. surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service, Rockville, Md.
Robert Musslewhite
Chairman and CEO, Advisory Board Co., Washington
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel
President, Brigham and Women's Healthcare, Boston
Dr. Thomas Nasca
CEO, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago
Dr. David Nash
Founding dean, Jefferson School of Population Health, Philadelphia
Michael Neidorff
Chairman, president and CEO, Centene Corp., St. Louis
Dr. Janice Nevin
President and CEO, Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, Del.
Curt Nonomaque
President and CEO, VHA/UHC Irving, Texas
Dr. John Noseworthy
President and CEO, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Barack Obama
President of the United States, Washington
Margaret "Peggy" O'Kane
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington
Randy Oostra
President and CEO, ProMedica, Toledo, Ohio
Debra Osteen
Senior vice president, Universal Health Services; president, behavioral health division, King of Prussia, Pa.
Dr. Stephen Ostroff
Acting commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Md.
Mark Parkinson
President and CEO, American Health Care Association, Washington
Dr. David Pate
CEO, St. Luke's Health System, Boise, Idaho
Neal Patterson
Founder, chairman and CEO, Cerner Corp., Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Ronald Paulus
President and CEO, Mission Health, Asheville, N.C.
George Paz
Chairman and CEO, Express Scripts, St. Louis
Nancy Pelosi
House minority leader (D-Calif.), Washington
Mike Pence
Governor of Indiana (R), Indianapolis
Dr. Jonathan Perlin
President of clinical services and chief medical officer, HCA, Nashville
Dr. C. Wright Pinson
CEO, Vanderbilt University Health System, Nashville
Rick Pollack
Executive vice president for policy; incoming president and CEO, American Hospital Association, Chicago
Dr. Tom Price
U.S. representative (R-Ga.), chairman, House Budget Committee, Washington
Thomas Priselac
President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Dr. Peter Pronovost
Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality; senior vice president for safety and quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore
Dr. Ram Raju
President and CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.
Kenneth Raske
President and CEO, Greater New York Hospital Association, New York
Ian Read
Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, New York
Dr. Prem Reddy
Chairman and CEO, Prime Healthcare Services, Ontario, Calif.
Gary Reedy
CEO, American Cancer Society, Atlanta
Larry Renfro
Vice chairman, UnitedHealth Group; CEO, Optum, Minnetonka, Minn.
Cecile Richards
President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York
John Roberts
Chief Justice of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington
Ginni Rometty
Chair, president and CEO, IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y.
Jeffrey Romoff
CEO, UPMC, Pittsburgh
Curtis Rooney
President, Healthcare Supply Chain Association, Washington
Dr. William Roper
Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; CEO, UNC Health Care; dean, UNC School of Medicine
Dr. Paul Rothman
President and CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore
Patrick Ryan
CEO, Press Ganey, South Bend, Ind.
Paul Ryan
U.S. representative (R-Wis.), chairman, House Ways and Means Committee, Washington
Ernie Sadau
CEO, Christus Health Irving, Texas
Dr. Steven Safyer
President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center, New York
Kenneth Samet
President and CEO, MedStar Health System, Columbia, Md.
Nancy Schlichting
CEO, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit
Rick Scott
Governor of Florida (R), Tallahassee
Dr. Joe Selby
Executive director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington
Scott Serota
President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago
Walter "Ted" Shaw
President and CEO, Texas Hospital Association, Austin
Charles Shields
President and CEO, Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, Mo.
Gary Shorb
CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis, Tenn.
Dr. David Shulkin
President, Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center; nominee, undersecretary of health, Veterans Affairs Department
Dr. Bruce Siegel
President and CEO, America's Essential Hospitals, Washington
Dr. Lynn Simon
President of clinical services and chief quality officer, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.
Dr. Adam SingerChairman and CEO, IPC Healthcare, North Hollywood, Calif.
J. Knox Singleton
CEO, Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va.
James Skogsbergh
President and CEO, Advocate Health Care, Downers Grove, Ill.
Dr. Peter Slavin
President, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Andy Slavitt
Acting CMS administrator, Baltimore
Ronald Sliwinski
President and CEO, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison
Wayne Smith
Chairman and CEO, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.
Michael Snow
President and CEO TeamHealth Knoxville, Tenn.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
CEO, NantHealth, Los Angeles; chairman, Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, San Francisco
Dr. Gregory Sorensen
President and CEO, Siemens Healthcare North America, Malvern, Pa.
Dr. Charles Sorenson
President and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City
Anthony Spezia
President and CEO, Covenant Health, Knoxville, Tenn.
Richard Statuto
President and CEO, Bon Secours Health System, Marriottsville, Md.
Dr. Glenn Steele Jr.
Outgoing president and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.; chairman, xG Health Solutions
Quint Studer
Founder, Studer Group, now part of Huron Healthcare, Pensacola, Fla.
Cheryl Sullivan
CEO, American Academy of Nursing, Washington
Dr. Andrew Sussman
Senior vice president, CVS Health; president, MinuteClinic division, Woonsocket, R.I.
Joseph Swedish
President and CEO, Anthem, Indianapolis
Dr. Kevin Tabb
President and CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Michael Tarwater
CEO, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C.
Dr. John Tedeschi
Chairman and CEO, Continuum Health Alliance, Marlton, N.J.
Anthony Tersigni
President and CEO, Ascension, St. Louis
Kent Thiry
Co-chairman and CEO, DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver
Warner Thomas
President and CEO, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans
Craig Thompson
President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
William Thompson
CEO, SSM Health, St. Louis
Dr. Eric Topol
Chief academic officer, Scripps Health; director, Scripps Translational Science Institute San Diego
Dr. David Torchiana
Incoming CEO, Partners HealthCare, Boston
Dr. John Toussaint
CEO, ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, Appleton, Wis.
Deborah Trautman
CEO, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington
Dr. Nick Turkal
President and CEO, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee
Dr. Susan Turney
CEO, Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System
Bernard Tyson
Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.
Stephen Ubl
President and CEO, Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), Washington
Richard Umbdenstock
Outgoing president and CEO, American Hospital Association, Chicago
Nicholas Valeriani
CEO, West Health and West Health Institute, San Diego
Chris Van Gorder
President and CEO, Scripps Health, San Diego
David Vandewater
President and CEO Ardent Health Services Nashville
Dr. Robert Wachter
Professor and chief of the division of hospital medicine, University of California at San Francisco, UCSF Medical Center
Dr. Robert Wah
Chief medical officer, Computer Sciences Corp., Falls Church, Va.
Mary Wakefield
Acting deputy secretary, HHS, Washington
Kate Walsh
President and CEO, Boston Medical Center
Dr. A. Eugene Washington
President and CEO, Duke University Health System, chancellor for health affairs, Duke University, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Dr. James Weinstein
President and CEO, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Hanover, N.H.
Dr. Laurence Wellikson
CEO, Society of Hospital Medicine, Philadelphia
Marla Weston
CEO, American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, Md.
Dr. Penny Wheeler
President and CEO, Allina Health, Minneapolis
Miles White
Chairman and CEO, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Ill.
W. Carl Whitmer
President and CEO Iasis Healthcare Franklin, Tenn.
Michael Wiechart
President and CEO, Capella Healthcare, Franklin, Tenn.
Dean Wilkerson
Executive director, American College of Emergency Physicians, Washington
R. Halsey Wise
Chairman and CEO, MedAssets, Alpharetta, Ga.
Dr. Nicholas Wolter
CEO, Billings (Mont.) Clinic
Dan Wolterman
President and CEO, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston
Ron Wyden
U.S. senator (D-Ore.), Washington