50 Most Influential Physician Executives – 2015

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is CEO of Nantworks, a Culver City, Calif.-based family of companies dedicated to creating a global network for the secure sharing of genetic and medical information. Soon-Shiong, 62, is also global director of cancer services and bioinformatics at Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services and chairman of the Chan Soon-Shiong Foundation as well as CEO of its Institute for Molecular Medicine, a not-for-profit medical research organization. He performed the world's first encapsulated human islet transplant and invented Abraxane, a groundbreaking nanoparticle technology for the treatment of cancer.