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April 02, 2016 01:00 AM

50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders - 2016 (text list)

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    1. Robert Califf

    Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Md.

    2. John Noseworthy

    President and CEO, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

    3. Patrick Conway

    Deputy administrator for innovation and quality, chief medical officer, CMS, Baltimore

    4. Robert Wachter

    Professor and interim chairman, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco

    5. Delos (Toby) Cosgrove

    President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic

    6. Richard Migliori

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

    7. David Torchiana

    President and CEO, Partners HealthCare, Boston

    8. Benjamin Chu

    Incoming president and CEO, Memorial Hermann, Houston

    9. David Feinberg

    President and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.

    10. Jonathan Perlin

    President of clinical services and chief medical officer,

    HCA, Nashville

    11. Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle

    12. David Shulkin

    Undersecretary for health, Veterans Affairs Department, Washington

    13. Steven Safyer

    President and CEO, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

    14. Rodney Hochman

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

    15. Prem Reddy

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

    16. Roy Beveridge

    Chief medical officer, Humana, Louisville, Ky.

    17. Atul Gawande

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

    18. Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO, Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City

    19. Elizabeth Nabel

    President, Brigham and Women's Health Care, Boston

    20. Mark Chassin

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

    21. Eric Topol

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

    22. Vivek Murthy

    U.S. surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Washington

    23. Peter Pronovost

    Director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality; senior VP for patient safety and quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore

    24. Ram Raju

    President and CEO, NYC Health & Hospitals, New York

    25. Bruce Siegel

    President and CEO, America's Essential Hospitals, Washington

    26. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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

    27. Francis Collins

    Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

    28. Humayun Chaudhry

    President and CEO, Federation of State Medical Boards, Euless, Texas

    29. Richard Gilfillan

    President and CEO, Trinity Health, Livonia, Mich.

    30. Tejal Gandhi

    President and CEO, National Patient Safety Foundation, Boston

    31. Penny Wheeler

    President and CEO, Allina Health, Minneapolis

    32. J. Mario Molina

    President and CEO, Molina Healthcare, Long Beach, Calif.

    32. Thomas Frieden

    Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

    33. David Pryor

    Executive VP and chief clinical officer, Ascension, St. Louis

    34. David Blumenthal

    President, Commonwealth Fund, New York

    35. Victor Dzau

    President, National Academy of Medicine, Washington

    36. Troyen Brennan

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

    37. Craig Samitt

    Executive VP and chief clinical officer, Anthem, Indianapolis

    38. Kenneth Davis

    President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System, New York

    39. Lynn Simon

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

    40. Francis Crosson

    Chairman, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Washington

    41. William Roper

    CEO, UNC Health Care, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    42. Susan Turney

    CEO, Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System

    43. James Madara

    Executive VP and CEO, American Medical Association, Chicago

    44. Craig Thompson

    President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

    45. William Conway

    Executive VP and chief quality officer, Henry Ford Health, System; CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group, Detroit

    46. Lynn Massingale

    Co-founder and executive chairman, TeamHealth, Knoxville, Tenn.

    48. Ronald DePinho

    President, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

    49. Karen DeSalvo

    National coordinator for health information technology, Washington

    50. David Bailey

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

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