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50 Most Influential Physician Executives – 2011

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    The 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives program (previously 50 Most Influential Physicians Executives and Leaders) honors physicians working in the healthcare industry who are deemed by their peers and an expert panel to be the most influential in terms of demonstrating leadership and impact. It took power to make reform happen; now, it will take influential leaders to make reform work. 

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    Rank: 1

    Richard Gilfillan

    Acting director, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

    CMS

    Rank: 2

    Donald Berwick

    Administrator

    CMS

    Rank: 3

    Carolyn Clancy

    Director

    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    Rank: 4

    Regina Benjamin

    U.S. surgeon general

    U.S. Public Health Service

    Rank: 5

    Thomas Frieden

    Director

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Rank: 6

    Francis Collins

    Director

    National Institutes of Health

    Rank: 7

    Margaret Hamburg

    Commissioner

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration

    Rank: 8

    Harvey Fineberg

    President

    Institute of Medicine

    Rank: 9

    Mark Chassin

    President

    Joint Commission

    Rank: 10

    Delos Toby Cosgrove

    President and CEO

    Cleveland Clinic

    Rank: 11

    John Noseworthy

    President and CEO

    Mayo Clinic

    Rank: 12

    Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO

    Virginia Mason

    Rank: 13

    Glenn Steele Jr.

    President and CEO

    Geisinger Health

    Rank: 14

    Nicholas Wolter

    CEO

    Billings Clinic

    Rank: 15

    Frank Byrne

    President

    St. Mary's Hospital

    Rank: 16

    Patricia Gabow

    CEO

    Denver Health

    Rank: 17

    Edward Murphy

    Outgoing president and CEO

    Carilion Clinic

    Rank: 18

    Gary Gottlieb

    President and CEO

    Partners HealthCare

    Rank: 19

    Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO

    Intermountain Healthcare

    Rank: 20

    William Bria

    Chief medical information officer / president, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems

    Shriners Hospital for Children

    Rank: 21

    Paul Tang

    Chief medical information officer

    Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation

    Rank: 22

    James Kipp Lassetter

    Founder, chairman and CEO

    Medicity

    Rank: 23

    Karen Bell

    Chairwoman

    Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)

    Rank: 24

    Robert Wachter

    Professor and chief of the division of hospital medicine

    University of California at San Francisco

    Rank: 25

    Tadataka Tachi Yamada

    President, global health program

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    Rank: 26

    Brent James

    Chief quality officer

    Intermountain Healthcare

    Rank: 27

    Peter Pronovost

    Medical director, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Rank: 28

    Cecil Wilson

    Outgoing president

    American Medical Association

    Rank: 29

    Steven Waldren

    Director

    Center for Health IT at the American Academy of Family Physicians

    Rank: 30

    Christine Cassel

    President and CEO

    American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation

    Rank: 31

    Georges Benjamin

    Executive director

    American Public Health Association

    Rank: 32

    Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO

    Association of American Medical Colleges

    Rank: 33

    Jonathan Perlin

    President, clinical and physician services group

    HCA Healthcare

    Rank: 34

    Lanny Copeland

    Chief medical officer

    LifePoint Hospitals

    Rank: 35

    William Roper

    CEO

    UNC Health Care System

    Rank: 36

    Steven Altschuler

    President and CEO

    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Rank: 37

    Robert Brook

    Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program / Distinguished chair, healthcare services, RAND Corp.

    RAND Corp.

    Rank: 38

    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

    President and CEO

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    Rank: 39

    Arlen Meyers

    Founder, president and CEO

    Society of Physician Entrepreneurs

    Rank: 40

    Arnold Milstein

    Director

    Clinical Excellence Research Center

    Rank: 41

    David Blumenthal

    Former national coordinator for health information technology

    HHS

    Rank: 42

    Harry Greenspun

    Former Chief Medical Officer at Dell

    Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

    Rank: 43

    Emad Rizk

    President

    McKesson Health Solutions

    Rank: 44

    Bruce Siegel

    CEO

    National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

    Rank: 45

    Thomas Nasca

    CEO

    Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

    Rank: 46

    Steven Safyer

    President and CEO

    Montefiore Medical Center

    Rank: 47

    Richard Afable

    President and CEO

    Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian

    Rank: 48

    David Shulkin

    President and CEO / Vice President - Atlantic Health

    Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital

    Rank: 49

    Prem Reddy

    Founder and chairman

    Prime Healthcare Services

    Rank: 50

    Sam Nussbaum

    Executive vice president of clinical health policy and chief medical officer

    WellPoint Health Networks

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