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50 Most Influential Physician Executives – 2012

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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

    Eric Topol

    Chief academic officer / Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute

    Scripps Health

    Rank: 2

    Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO

    Virginia Mason Medical Center

    Rank: 3

    John Noseworthy

    President and CEO

    Mayo Clinic

    Rank: 4

    Farzad Mostashari

    National coordinator for healthcare IT

    Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

    Rank: 5

    Richard Gilfillan

    Director, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

    CMS

    Rank: 6

    Kelvin Baggett

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Tenet Healthcare Corp.

    Rank: 7

    Barbara Paul

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Community Health Systems

    Rank: 8

    Lanny Copeland

    CMO

    LifePoint Hospitals

    Rank: 9

    Reed Tuckson

    Executive vice president and chief of medical affairs

    UnitedHealth Group

    Rank: 10

    Robert Wah

    CMO / Board Chairman of American Medical Association

    Computer Sciences Corp.

    Rank: 11

    Susan Turney

    President and CEO

    MGMA-ACMPE

    Rank: 12

    Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO

    Intermountain Healthcare

    Rank: 13

    Georges Benjamin

    Executive director

    American Public Health Association

    Rank: 14

    Robert Wachter

    Chief of hospital medicine

    UCSF Medical Center

    Rank: 15

    David Pryor

    Executive vice president

    Ascension Health Alliance

    Rank: 16

    Regina Benjamin

    U.S. surgeon general

    U.S. Public Health Service

    Rank: 17

    Larry Wellikson

    CEO

    Society of Hospital Medicine

    Rank: 18

    David Nash

    Founding dean

    Jefferson School of Population Health

    Rank: 19

    Peter Pronovost

    Director, Quality and Safety Research Group / Medical Director, Center for Innovation aind Quality Patient Care

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Rank: 20

    John Koster

    President and CEO

    Providence Health and Services

    Rank: 21

    Jonathan Perlin

    President of clinical services and CMO

    HCA Healthcare

    Rank: 22

    Wiley Chip Souba

    Acting director / vice president of health affairs and dean, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

    Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

    Rank: 23

    Prem Reddy

    Founder, chairman

    Prime Healthcare Services

    Rank: 24

    Ralph de la Torre

    Chairman and CEO

    Steward Health Care System

    Rank: 25

    John Halamka

    CIO / CIO and dean for technology, Harvard Medical School

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Rank: 26

    Karen Bell

    Chairwoman

    Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)

    Rank: 27

    Paul Convery

    Senior vice president and CMO

    Baylor Health Care System

    Rank: 28

    Carolyn Clancy

    Director

    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    Rank: 29

    Jack Lewin

    Outgoing CEO

    American College of Cardiology

    Rank: 30

    Thomas Nasca

    CEO

    Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

    Rank: 31

    Glenn Steele Jr.

    President and CEO

    Geisinger Health

    Rank: 32

    Nicholas Turkal

    President and CEO

    Aurora Health Care

    Rank: 33

    Delos Toby Cosgrove

    President and CEO

    Cleveland Clinic

    Rank: 34

    Gary Gottlieb

    President and CEO

    Partners HealthCare

    Rank: 35

    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

    President and CEO

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    Rank: 36

    Brent James

    Executive director, chief quality officer - Institute for Health Care Delivery Research

    Intermountain Healthcare

    Rank: 37

    Mark Chassin

    President

    Joint Commission

    Rank: 38

    Charles Denham

    Chairman

    Texas Medical Institute of Technology

    Rank: 39

    Jack Cochran

    Executive director

    Permanente Federation

    Rank: 40

    Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO

    Association of American Medical Colleges

    Rank: 41

    Nicholas Wolter

    CEO

    Billings Clinic

    Rank: 42

    Francis Collins

    Director

    National Institutes of Health

    Rank: 43

    Harvey Fineberg

    President

    Institute of Medicine

    Rank: 44

    James Madara

    Executive vice president and CEO

    American Medical Association

    Rank: 45

    Dan Stultz

    President and CEO

    Texas Hospital Association

    Rank: 46

    Christine Cassel

    Outgoing president and CEO

    American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation

    Rank: 47

    Thomas Frieden

    Director

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Rank: 48

    Margaret Hamburg

    Commissioner

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration

    Rank: 49

    Steven Safyer

    President and CEO

    Montefiore Medical Center

    Rank: 50

    Bruce Siegel

    President and CEO

    National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems

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