100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2003

The 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare awards & recognition program honors individuals in healthcare who are deemed by their peers and the senior editors of Modern Healthcare to be the most influential individuals in the industry, in terms of leadership and impact. This program allows for readers to vote for their top choices and selected honorees will be published in Modern Healthcare's annual ranking.

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Rank	Name	Job Title	Organization Name	Winner Title
1	George W. Bush	President	United States	Rank 1
2	Bill Frist	U.S. senator (R-Tenn.), Senate majority leader	U.S. Senate	Rank 2
3	Tommy Thompson	Secretary	HHS	Rank 3
4	Edward Kennedy	U.S. senator (D-Mass.), ranking minority member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committe	U.S. Senate	Rank 4
5	John Ashcroft	U.S. attorney general	Justice Department	Rank 5
6	Tom Scully	Administrator	CMS	Rank 6
7	Richard Gephardt	U.S. representative (D-Mo.), presidential candidate	U.S. House of Representatives	Rank 7
9	Gail Wilensky	Senior fellow	Project HOPE	Rank 9
10	Dennis O'Leary	President	Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations	Rank 10
11	Uwe Reinhardt	James Madison professor of political economy; professor of economics and public affairs	Princeton University	Rank 11
12	Thomas Frist Jr.	Retired chairman	Hospital Corporation of America	Rank 12
13	Neal Patterson	Chairman and CEO	Cerner Corp.	Rank 13
14	Donald Berwick	President and CEO	Institute for Healthcare Improvement	Rank 14
15	Gary Mecklenburg	President and CEO	Northwestern Memorial HealthCare	Rank 15
16	Tom Ridge	Secretary	U.S. Department of Homeland Security	Rank 16
17	Pete Stark	U.S. representative (D-Calif.), ranking minority member, Ways and Means Committee's health subcommittee	U.S. House of Representatives	Rank 17
18	Jeff Goldsmith	President	Health Futures	Rank 18
19	Newt Gingrich	Founder	Center for Health Transformation	Rank 19
20	John Hammergren	Chairman and CEO	McKesson Corp.	Rank 20
21	Pamela Thompson	CEO	American Organization of Nurse Executives	Rank 21
22	Barbara Blakeney	President	American Nurses Association	Rank 22
23	G. Edwin Howe	President	Aurora Health Care	Rank 23
24	Donald Young	President	Health Insurance Association of America	Rank 24
25	Elias Zerhouni	Director	National Institutes of Health	Rank 25
26	Nancy Johnson	U.S. representative (R-Conn.), chairwoman, House Ways and Means Committee health subcommittee	U.S. House of Representatives	Rank 26
27	Sidney Wolfe	Director	Public Citizen's Health Research Group	Rank 27
28	Diane Appleyard	President and CEO	Healthcare Research and Development Institute	Rank 28
29	Arthur Wong	Director	Standard & Poor's	Rank 29
30	Douglas Hawthorne	President and CEO	Texas Health Resources	Rank 30
31	Carolyn Clancy	Director	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality	Rank 31
32	Gail Warden	Outgoing president and CEO	Henry Ford Health System	Rank 32
33	Mary Foley	Past president	American Nurses Association	Rank 33
34	Erich Reinhardt	President and CEO	Siemens Medical Solutions	Rank 34
35	Alan Miller	Chairman, president and CEO	Universal Health Services	Rank 35
36	David Blumenthal	Director, Institute for Health Policy	Massachusetts General Hospital	Rank 36
37	John Breaux	U.S. senator (D-La.), ranking minority member, Special Committee on Aging	U.S. Senate	Rank 37
38	Julie Gerberding	Director	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Rank 38
39	Rick Wolfert	President and CEO	GE Healthcare Financial Services	Rank 39
40	Michael Cohen	President	Institute for Safe Medication Practices	Rank 40
41	Ron Anderson	President and CEO	Parkland Hospital	Rank 41
42	Charles Grassley	U.S. senator (R-Iowa), chairman, Senate Finance Committee	U.S. Senate	Rank 42
43	Karen Ignagni	President and CEO	American Association of Health Plans	Rank 43
44	Kathy Buto	Vice president of health policy	Johnson & Johnson	Rank 44
45	Stuart Altman	Chairman	Council on Health Care Economics and Policy	Rank 45
46	Jeffrey McWaters	Chairman and CEO	Amerigroup Corp.	Rank 46
47	Allen Wise	President and CEO	Coventry Health Care	Rank 47
48	Polly Bednash	Executive director	American Association of Colleges of Nursing	Rank 48
49	Wayne Smith	Chairman, president and CEO	Community Health Systems	Rank 49
50	David Kessler	Dean	Yale University School of Medicine	Rank 50
51	Linda Stierle	CEO	American Nurses Association	Rank 51
52	Barbara Hill	President	Express Scripts	Rank 52
53	Molly Coye	Founder and CEO	Health Technology Center	Rank 53
54	Thomas Adams	CEO	Association of Clinical Research Professionals	Rank 54
55	Max Baucus	U.S. senator (D-Mont.), ranking minority member, Senate Finance Committee	U.S. Senate	Rank 55
56	Jack Bovender	Chairman and CEO	Hospital Corporation of America	Rank 56
57	Margaret O'Kane	President	National Committee for Quality Assurance	Rank 57
58	Risa Lavizzo-Mourey	President and CEO	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	Rank 58
59	Gary Gottlieb	President	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Rank 59
60	Rose Ann DeMoro	Executive director	California Nurses Association	Rank 60
61	Billy Tauzin	U.S. representative (R-La.), chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee	U.S. House of Representatives	Rank 61
62	Suzanne Delbanco	Executive director	Leapfrog Group	Rank 62
63	Rev. Michael Place	President and CEO	Catholic Health Association	Rank 63
64	David Bates	Chief of general medicine	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Rank 64
65	Catherine McLaughlin	Professor, health management and policy	University of Michigan	Rank 65
66	Stephen Wilhide	Executive director	National Rural Health Association	Rank 66
67	Kathleen Long	President	American Association of Colleges of Nursing	Rank 67
68	Mary Grealy	President	Healthcare Leadership Council	Rank 68
69	Cheryl Johnson	President	United American Nurses	Rank 69
70	Linda Kloss	Executive vice president and CEO	American Health Information Management Association	Rank 70
71	Thomas Dolan	President and CEO	American College of Healthcare Executives	Rank 71
72	Richard Davidson	President	American Hospital Association	Rank 72
73	Chip Kahn	President	Federation of American Hospitals	Rank 73
74	Doug Badger	Assistant to the president on health and economic policy	White House	Rank 74
75	Richard Clarke	President and CEO	Healthcare Financial Management Association	Rank 75
76	Drew Altman	President and CEO	Kaiser Family Foundation	Rank 76
77	Bill Thomas	U.S. representative (R-Calif.), chairman, House Ways and Means Committee	U.S. House of Representatives	Rank 77
78	Regina Herzlinger	Nancy R. McPherson professor of business administration	Harvard Business School	Rank 78
79	Denny Shelton	Chairman and CEO	Triad Hospitals	Rank 79
80	David Nash	Director, Office of Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes	Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University	Rank 80
81	Paul Ginsburg	President	Center for Studying Health System Change	Rank 81
82	Helen Darling	President	Washington Business Group on Health	Rank 82
83	Richard Carmona	U.S. surgeon general	U.S. Public Health Service	Rank 83
84	Col. David Rubenstein	CEO	Landstuhl Regional Medical Center	Rank 84
85	Jack Wennberg	Director	Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School	Rank 85
86	Ron Pollack	Executive director	Families USA	Rank 86
87	George Halvorson	Chairman and CEO	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Kaiser Foundation Hospitals	Rank 87
88	Benjamin Chu	President	New York City Health and Hospitals Corp	Rank 88
89	Martin Arrick	Managing director	Standard & Poor's	Rank 89
90	Mark McClellan	Commissioner	U.S. Food and Drug Administration	Rank 90
91	John Rother	Director of policy and strategy	AARP	Rank 91
92	Trevor Fetter	Acting CEO	Tenet Healthcare Corp.	Rank 92
93	Leonard Schaeffer	Chairman and CEO	WellPoint Health Networks	Rank 93
94	Anthony Principi	Secretary	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs	Rank 94
95	William Jessee	President and CEO	Medical Group Management Association	Rank 95
96	Kenneth Kizer	President and CEO	National Quality Forum	Rank 96
97	Larry Glasscock	Chairman, president and CEO	Anthem	Rank 97
98	Scott Serota	President and CEO	Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association	Rank 98
99	Glenn Hackbarth	Chairman	Medicare Payment Advisory Commission	Rank 99
100	Michael Maves	Executive vice president	American Medical Association	Rank 100