100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2007
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 | Sister Carol Keehan | President | Catholic Health Association | Rank 1 |
| 2 | Mitt Romney | Former Massachusetts governor, republican presidential candidate | U.S. Senate | Rank 2 |
| 3 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Governor | State of California | Rank 3 |
| 4 | Deborah Peel | Founder, Chairman | Patient Privacy Rights Foundation | Rank 4 |
| 5 | Andy Stern | President | Service Employees International Union | Rank 5 |
| 6 | Dennis Rivera | Chairman | SEIU Healthcare | Rank 6 |
| 7 | Bill Gates | Board chairman - Microsoft; co-chair | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Rank 7 |
| 8 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | U.S. senator (D-N.Y.), presidential candidate | U.S. Senate | Rank 8 |
| 9 | George W. Bush | President | United States | Rank 9 |
| 10 | Barack Obama | U.S. senator (D-Ill.), presidential candidate | U.S. Senate | Rank 10 |
| 11 | Mike Leavitt | Secretary | HHS | Rank 11 |
| 12 | Edward Ted Kennedy | U.S. senator (D-Mass.) | U.S. Senate | Rank 12 |
| 13 | Nancy Pelosi | Speaker of the House (D-Calif.) | U.S. House of Representatives | Rank 13 |
| 14 | Jack Bovender | Chairman and CEO | Hospital Corporation of America | Rank 14 |
| 15 | Anthony Tersigni | President and CEO | Ascension Health | Rank 15 |
| 16 | Richard Foster | Chief actuary | CMS | Rank 16 |
| 17 | Andrew von Eschenbach | Commissioner | U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Rank 17 |
| 18 | Robert Kolodner | National coordinator for healthcare information technology | HHS | Rank 18 |
| 19 | William Novelli | CEO | AARP | Rank 19 |
| 20 | James Mongan | President and CEO | Partners HealthCare System | Rank 20 |
| 21 | Chris Van Gorder | President and CEO | Scripps Health | Rank 21 |
| 22 | Joseph Swedish | President and CEO | Trinity Health | Rank 22 |
| 23 | Edward Murphy | President and CEO | Carilion Clinic | Rank 23 |
| 24 | Donald Berwick | President and CEO | Institute for Healthcare Improvement | Rank 24 |
| 25 | Newt Gingrich | Founder (former Speaker of the House (R-Ga.)) | Center for Health Transformation | Rank 25 |
| 26 | Joel Allison | President and CEO | Baylor Health Care System | Rank 26 |
| 27 | Ron Anderson | President and CEO | Parkland Hospital | Rank 27 |
| 28 | Elias Zerhouni | Director | National Institutes of Health | Rank 28 |
| 29 | Max Baucus | U.S. senator (D-Mont.), chairman, Senate Finance Committee | U.S. Senate | Rank 29 |
| 30 | Pete Stark | U.S. representative (D-Calif.), chairman, House Ways and Means health subcommittee | U.S. House of Representatives | Rank 30 |
| 31 | Carolyn Clancy | Director | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Rank 31 |
| 32 | Janet Corrigan | President | National Quality Forum | Rank 32 |
| 33 | Angela Braly | President and CEO | WellPoint Inc | Rank 33 |
| 34 | Kenneth Raske | President | Greater New York Hospital Association | Rank 34 |
| 35 | Herbert Pardes | President and CEO | New York-Presbyterian | Rank 35 |
| 36 | Harry Reid | Senate Majority Leader (D-Nev.) | U.S. Senate | Rank 36 |
| 37 | Douglas Hawthorne | President and CEO | Texas Health Resources | Rank 37 |
| 38 | John Hammergren | Chairman, president and CEO | McKesson Corp. | Rank 38 |
| 39 | Richard Averill | Senior vice president, clinical and economic research | 3M Health Information Systems | Rank 39 |
| 40 | Julie Gerberding | Director | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Rank 40 |
| 41 | Quentin Young | Co-founder and national coordinator | Physicians for a National Health Program | Rank 41 |
| 42 | Chuck Grassley | U.S. senator (R-Iowa), ranking member, Senate Finance Committee | U.S. Senate | Rank 42 |
| 43 | Richard Clarke | President and CEO | Healthcare Financial Management Association | Rank 43 |
| 44 | G. Richard Hastings | President and CEO | St. Luke's Health System | Rank 44 |
| 45 | Michael McCallister | President and CEO | Humana | Rank 45 |
| 46 | Stuart Altman | Chairman | Council on Health Care Economics and Policy | Rank 46 |
| 47 | Jonathan Lord | Senior vice president, chief innovation officer | Humana | Rank 47 |
| 48 | Richard Salluzzo | President and CEO | Wellmont Health System | Rank 48 |
| 49 | Sister Mary Jean Ryan | President and CEO | SSM Health Care | Rank 49 |
| 50 | John Ferguson | President and CEO | Hackensack University Medical Center | Rank 50 |
| 51 | Sidney Wolfe | Director | Public Citizen's Health Research Group | Rank 51 |
| 52 | Wayne Smith | Chairman, president and CEO | Community Health Systems | Rank 52 |
| 53 | Rose Ann DeMoro | Executive director | California Nurses Association/Nurses Organizing Committe | Rank 53 |
| 54 | Uwe Reinhardt | Professor of healthcare economics | Princeton University | Rank 54 |
| 55 | Alan Aviles | President and CEO | New York City Health and Hospitals Corp | Rank 55 |
| 56 | Michael Maves | Executive vice president and CEO | American Medical Association | Rank 56 |
| 57 | Linda Kloss | CEO | American Health Information Management Association | Rank 57 |
| 58 | Drew Altman | President and CEO | Kaiser Family Foundation | Rank 58 |
| 59 | Thomas Dolan | President and CEO | American College of Healthcare Executives | Rank 59 |
| 60 | George Halvorson | Chairman and CEO | Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Kaiser Foundation Hospitals | Rank 60 |
| 61 | Karen Ignagni | President and CEO | America's Health Insurance Plans | Rank 61 |
| 62 | Darrell Kirch | President | Association of American Medical Colleges | Rank 62 |
| 63 | Linda Aiken | Professor, director | Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research | Rank 63 |
| 64 | Alan Miller | President and CEO | Universal Health Services | Rank 64 |
| 65 | Karen Davis | President | Commonwealth Fund | Rank 65 |
| 66 | Gary Kaplan | Chairman and CEO | Virginia Mason Medical Center | Rank 66 |
| 67 | Molly Coye | Founder and CEO | Health Technology Center | Rank 67 |
| 68 | Trevor Fetter | President and CEO | Tenet Healthcare Corp. | Rank 68 |
| 69 | Suzanne Delbanco | CEO | Leapfrog Group | Rank 69 |
| 70 | Dan Wolterman | President and CEO | Memorial Hermann Health System | Rank 70 |
| 71 | Paul Ginsburg | President | Center for Studying Health System Change | Rank 71 |
| 72 | A. David Jimenez | COO | Catholic Healthcare Partners | Rank 72 |
| 73 | Lloyd Dean | President and CEO | Catholic Healthcare West | Rank 73 |
| 74 | Helen Darling | President | National Business Group on Health | Rank 74 |
| 75 | Georges Benjamin | Executive director | American Public Health Association | Rank 75 |
| 76 | Denis Cortese | President and CEO | Mayo Clinic | Rank 76 |
| 77 | Nancy Schlichting | President and CEO | Henry Ford Health System | Rank 77 |
| 78 | Olympia Snowe | U.S. senator (R-Maine) | U.S. Senate | Rank 78 |
| 79 | Mark Leavitt | Chairman | Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) | Rank 79 |
| 80 | William Jessee | President and CEO | Medical Group Management Association | Rank 80 |
| 81 | Delos Toby Cosgrove | President and CEO | Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Rank 81 |
| 82 | Carolyn Scanlan | President and CEO | Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania | Rank 82 |
| 83 | Jay Grinney | President and CEO | HealthSouth Corp. | Rank 83 |
| 84 | Chip Kahn | President | Federation of American Hospitals | Rank 84 |
| 85 | Brent James | Executive director | Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare | Rank 85 |
| 86 | Michael Dowling | President and CEO | North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System | Rank 86 |
| 87 | Mary Grealy | President | Healthcare Leadership Council | Rank 87 |
| 88 | Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | President and CEO | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Rank 88 |
| 89 | Richard Umbdenstock | President | American Hospital Association | Rank 89 |
| 90 | Scott Wallace | President and CEO | National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology | Rank 90 |
| 91 | Scott Serota | President and CEO | Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association | Rank 91 |
| 92 | Fred Hobby | President and CEO | Institute for Diversity in Health Management | Rank 92 |
| 93 | Kevin Lofton | President and CEO | Catholic Health Initiatives | Rank 93 |
| 94 | Ronald Williams | Chairman and CEO | Aetna | Rank 94 |
| 95 | Patrick Quinlan | President and CEO | Ochsner Health System | Rank 95 |
| 96 | Regina Herzlinger | Nancy R. McPherson professor of business administration; healthcare researcher | Harvard Business School | Rank 96 |
| 97 | Harry Jacobson | Vice chancellor for health affairs | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Rank 97 |
| 98 | Larry Gage | President | National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems | Rank 98 |
| 99 | Glenn Hackbarth | Chairman | Medicare Payment Advisory Commission | Rank 99 |
| 100 | Stephen Lieber | President and CEO | Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society | Rank 100 |
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