Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare – 2006

As president and chief executive officer of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., or HHC, Aviles, 55, is responsible for management of the largest municipal healthcare system in the nation. Under his leadership, HHC has implemented a $1.3 billion program to rebuild and modernize New York's public hospitals. Before his tenure as a healthcare administrator, Aviles was a practicing lawyer and served as an assistant attorney general in the civil rights bureau of New York.