100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2009
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 6
David Blumenthal
National coordinator for health Information technology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Rank 21
Henry Waxman
U.S. representative (D-Calif.), chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
Rank 30
Pete Stark
U.S. representative (D-Calif.), chairman, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee
U.S. House of Representatives
Rank 34
Christine Cassel
President and CEO
American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation
Rank 35
Rose Ann DeMoro
Executive director,
California Nurses Association/Nurses Organizing Committe
Rank 64
Paul Tang
Vice president and chief medical information officer
Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation
Rank 72
Betsy McCaughey
Founder and chairman, RID: Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, adjunct fellow
Hudson Institute