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May 11, 2015 01:00 AM

100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, 2015 - nominees (titles and affiliations)

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    The 300 nominees for Modern Healthcare's annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare for 2015 are presented in alphabetical order.

    Kirk Adams

    International 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 Ebert

    President 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 Singer

    Chairman 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

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    U.S. senator (D-Ore.), Washington

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