The 150 nominees for the 2016 ranking of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders are presented in alphabetical order.
Paul Allen
Chief quality officer
Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance
Peter Angood
CEO
American Association for Physician Leadership
Tampa, Fla.
Kelvin Baggett
Chief clinical officer
Tenet Healthcare Corp.
Dallas
David Bailey
President and CEO
Nemours Children's Health System
Jacksonville, Fla.
Richard Baron
President and CEO
American Board of Internal Medicine/ABIM Foundation
Philadelphia
David Battinelli
Senior VP and chief medical officer
Northwell Health (Formerly North Shore-Long Island Jewish)
New York
Eric Beck
CEO
Evolution Health
Dallas
Georges Benjamin
Executive director
American Public Health Association
Washington
Roy Beveridge
Executive VP and chief medical officer
Humana
Louisville, Ky.
Joseph Bisordi
Chief medical officer
Ochsner Health System
New Orleans
Daniel Blue
President
Sanford Clinic
Sioux Falls, S.D.
David Blumenthal
President
Commonwealth Fund
New York
Marc Boom
President and CEO
Houston Methodist Hospital
Akram Boutros
President and CEO
MetroHealth System
Cleveland
Otis Brawley
Chief medical officer
American Cancer Society
Atlanta
Troyen Brennan
Executive VP and chief health officer
CVS Caremark
Woonsocket, R.I.
George Brown
President and CEO
Legacy Health
Portland, Ore.
John Brumsted
CEO
University of Vermont Health Network
Burlington
Robert Califf
Deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco; commissioner designate
Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, Md.
Robert Carlson
CEO
National Comprehensive Care Network
Fort Washington, Pa.
Ben Carson
Republican candidate for president; author, lecturer
Christine Cassel
Former president and CEO, National Quality Forum, Washington; Kaiser Permanente medical school team
Oakland, Calif.
Fred Cerise
President and 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
President and CEO
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Benjamin Chu
Executive VP, Kaiser Hospitals and Health Plan; group president, Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Georgia regions
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, Calif.
Mandy Cohen
COO and chief of staff
CMS
Baltimore
Francis Collins
Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Md.
Patrick Conway
Deputy administrator for innovation and quality, chief medical officer
CMS
Baltimore
William Conway
Executive VP, Henry Ford Health System; CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group
Detroit
Steven Corwin
CEO
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Toby Cosgrove
President and CEO
Cleveland Clinic
Ravin Davidoff
Senior VP and chief medical officer
Boston Medical Center
Kenneth Davis
President and CEO
Mount Sinai Health System
New York
Ralph de la Torre
Chairman and CEO
Steward Health Care System
Boston
Jacqueline Delmont
Chief medical officer
Beacon Health Partners
Westbury, N.Y.
Ronald DePinho
President
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston
Karen DeSalvo
National coordinator for health information technology
ONC
Washington
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
President and CEO
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle
T. Clifford Deveny
Senior VP, physicians services and clinical integration
Catholic Health Initiatives
Englewood, Colo.
James Downing
President and CEO
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tenn.
Victor Dzau
President
National Academy of Medicine
Washington
Melinda Estes
President and CEO
St. Luke's Health System
Kansas City, Mo.
Anthony Fauci
Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases
Bethesda, Md.
David Feinberg
President and CEO
Geisinger Health System
Danville, Pa.
Wanda Filer
President
American Academy of Family Physicians
Leawood, Kan.
Harvey Fineberg
President
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Palo Alto, Calif.
Halee Fischer-Wright
President and CEO
Medical Group Management Association
Englewood, Colo.
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 CEO
National Patient Safety Foundation
Boston
Atul Gawande
Surgeon, professor, writer, researcher
Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health
Boston
Richard Gilfillan
President and CEO
Trinity Health
Livonia, Mich.
Laurie Glimcher
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and provost of medical affairs
Weil Cornell Medical College
New York
Larry Goodman
CEO
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago
Gary Gottlieb
President and CEO
Partners in Health
Boston
Howard Grant
President and CEO
Lahey Health
Burlington, Mass.
Harry Greenspun
Director
Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
Washington
Robert Grossman
Dean and CEO
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York
John Halamka
Chief information officer
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston
John Hensing
Executive VP and chief medical officer
Banner Health
Phoenix
Rodney Hochman
President and CEO
Providence Health & Services
Renton, Wash.
Lawrence "Rusty" Hofmann
Professor and chief, interventional radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Co-founder, Grand Rounds, San Francisco
Russell Holman
Chief medical officer
LifePoint Hospitals
Brentwood, Tenn.
William Jackson Jr.
Executive VP and chief medical officer
Erlanger Health System
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Sachin Jain
Chief medical officer
CareMore
Cerritos, Calif.
Brent James
Executive director, Institute for Health Care Quality Research, chief quality officer
Intermountain Healthcare
Salt Lake City
Larry Kaiser
Dean, Temple University School of Medicine; president and CEO Temple University Health System
Philadelphia
Gary Kaplan
Chairman and CEO
Virginia Mason Health System
Seattle
Jay Kaplan
President
American College of Emergency Physicians
Irving, Texas
Michael Kelleher
Chief medical officer
Lurie Children's Hospital
Chicago
Darrell Kirch
President and CEO
Association of American Medical Colleges
Washington
Stephen Klasko
President and CEO
Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health
Philadelphia
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Princeton, N.J.
Thomas Lee
Chief medical officer
Press Ganey
South Bend, Ind.
Jonathan Lewin
Incoming CEO
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta
Allen Lichter
CEO
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Alexandria, Va.
James Madara
Executive VP and CEO
American Medical Association
Chicago
Lynn Massingale
Executive chairman
TeamHealth
Knoxville, Tenn.
John Mazziotta
Vice chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences; CEO, UCLA Health
Los Angeles
Mark McClellan
Director
Duke-Robert J. Margolis MD Center for Health Policy at Duke University
Durham, N.C.
Richard Migliori
Executive vice president, 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
CEO
Aledade
Bethesda, Md.
Michael Murphy
Co-founder and CEO
ScribeAmerica
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Vivek Murthy
U.S. surgeon general
U.S. Public Health Service
Washington
Elizabeth Nabel
President and CEO
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston
Thomas Nasca
CEO
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Chicago
David Nash
Founding dean and professor, Jefferson College of Population Health
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia
Janice Nevin
President and CEO
Christiana Care Health System
Wilmington, Del.
Kurt Newman
President and CEO
Children's National Health System
Washington
John Noseworthy
President and CEO
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn.
Samuel Nussbaum
Executive VP, clinical health policy, and chief medical officer
Anthem
Indianapolis
Stephen Ondra
Senior VP and enterprise chief medical officer
Health Care Service Corp.
Chicago
David Pate
President and CEO
St. Luke's Health System
Boise, Idaho
Rand Paul
U.S. senator (R-Ky.), Republican candidate for president
Ronald Paulus
President and CEO
Mission Health
Asheville, N.C.
Jonathan Perlin
President of clinical services and chief medical officer
HCA
Nashville
C. Wright Pinson
CEO
Vanderbilt Health System
Nashville
Tom Price
U.S. representative (R-Ga.), House Budget Committee chairman
House of Representatives
Washington
Peter Pronovost
Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore
Bob Pryor
President and chief medical officer
Baylor Scott & White Health
Dallas
David Pryor
Executive VP, Ascension; president and CEO, Ascension Clinical Holdings
St. Louis
Ram Raju
President and CEO
NYC Health+Hospitals
New York
Paul Ramsey
Dean, UW School of Medicine; CEO, UW Medicine
Seattle
Scott Rathgaber
President and CEO
Gundersen Health System
La Crosse, Wis.
Prem Reddy
Chairman and CEO
Prime Healthcare Services
Ontario, Calif.
Joshua Riff
Senior VP, consumer products
Optum
Eden Prairie, Minn.
Emad Rizk
President and CEO
Accretive Health
Chicago
William Roper
Dean, school of medicine; CEO, UNC Health Care
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul Rothman
Dean and CEO
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore
Marschall Runge
Executive VP for medical affairs and dean of the University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor
Lee Sacks
EVP and chief medical officer, Advocate Health Care; CEO, Advocate Physician Partners
Downers Grove, Ill.
Steven Safyer
President and CEO
Montefiore Medical Center
New York
Michael Schatzlein
President and CEO
St. Vincent's HealthCare
Jacksonville, Fla.
Joe Selby
Executive director
Patient-Centered Outcomes and Research Institute
Washington
John Jay Shannon
President and CEO
Cook County Health & Hospitals System
Chicago
David Shulkin
Undersecretary for health
Veterans Affairs Department
Washington
Bruce Siegel
President and CEO
America's Essential Hospitals
Washington
Lynn Simon
President of clinical services and chief quality officer, acute-care division
Community Health Systems
Franklin, Tenn.
Adam Singer
Chairman and CEO
IPC Healthcare
North Hollywood, Calif.
Peter Slavin
President
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Anthony Slonim
President and CEO
Renown Health
Reno, Nev.
Lynda Ann Smirz
VP and chief medical officer
Universal Health Services
King of Prussia, Pa.
Joseph Smith
Chief medical and science officer
West Health
San Diego
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Chairman, Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation; CEO, NantHealth, Los Angeles
Charles Sorenson
President and CEO
Intermountain Healthcare
Salt Lake City
Steven Stack
President, American Medical Association; emergency physician, Lexington, Ky.
Glenn Steele Jr.
Board chairman
xG Health Solutions
Columbia, Md.
Andrew Sussman
Executive VP and associate chief medical officer, CVS Health; president of MinuteClinic division
CVS Caremark
Woonsocket, R.I.
Paul Tang
VP, chief technology and innovation officer
Sutter Health/Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation
John Tedeschi
Chairman and CEO
Continuum Health Alliance
Marlton, N.J.
Craig Thompson
President and CEO
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York
Eric Topol
Chief academic officer, Scripps Health; director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
San Diego
David Torchiana
President and CEO
Partners HealthCare
Boston
Nick Turkal
President and CEO
Aurora Health Care
Milwaukee
Susan Turney
President and CEO
Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic
Robert Wachter
Professor, chief of the medical service and chief of hospital medicine
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco
Robert Wah
Global chief medical officer
Computer Sciences Corp.
Falls Church, Va.
Alan Wang
CEO
Salude
Suwanee, Ga
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
Penny Wheeler
CEO
Allina Health
Minneapolis
Robert Wiebe
Executive VP and chief medical officer
Dignity Health
San Francisco
Kim Williams
President
American College of Cardiology
Washington
Nicholas Wolter
CEO
Billings (Mont.) Clinic
David Wood
Executive VP and chief medical officer
Beaumont Health
Royal Oak, Mich.
