Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare – 2008

As executive vice president and chief of medical affairs at insurer UnitedHealth Group, physician Reed Tuckson, 57, is charged with improving patient-physician relationships and healthcare quality. He has spent much of his career examining the link between health status and social environment, serving as the commissioner of public health in the District of Columbia and as president of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Central Los Angeles, one of four historically black academic medical centers.