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50 Most Influential Physician Executives – 2014

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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

    President and CEO

    CHE Trinity Health

    Rank: 2

    John Noseworthy

    President and CEO

    Mayo Clinic

    Rank: 3

    Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO

    Virginia Mason

    Rank: 4

    Margaret Hamburg

    Commissioner

    Food and Drug Administration

    Rank: 5

    Ardis Dee Hoven

    President

    American Medical Association

    Rank: 6

    Patrick Conway

    Deputy administrator for innovation and quality, chief medical officer

    CMS

    Rank: 7

    John Kitzhaber

    Governer

    State of Oregon

    Rank: 8

    Glenn Steele Jr.

    President and CEO

    Geisinger Health

    Rank: 9

    Jonathan Perlin

    President, clinical services, Chief medical officer of HCA and Chairman Elect of American Hospital Association

    HCA Healthcare

    Rank: 10

    Toby Cosgrove

    CEO

    Cleveland Clinic

    Rank: 11

    Gary Gottlieb

    President and CEO

    Partners HealthCare

    Rank: 12

    Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO

    Intermountain Healthcare

    Rank: 13

    Susan Desmond-Hellmann

    Incoming CEO

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    Rank: 14

    Mark Chassin

    President and CEO

    Joint Commission

    Rank: 15

    Prem Reddy

    Chairman, president and CEO

    Prime Healthcare Services

    Rank: 16

    Christine Cassel

    President and CEO

    National Quality Forum

    Rank: 17

    Steven Corwin

    CEO

    New York-Presbyterian

    Rank: 18

    Thomas Frieden

    Director

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Rank: 19

    Victor Dzau

    Incoming president of Institute of Medicine and President and CEO

    Duke University Health System

    Rank: 20

    Ronald Paulus

    President and CEO

    Mission Health

    Rank: 21

    Samuel Nussbaum

    Executive VP- clinical health policy, Chief medical officer

    WellPoint Health Networks

    Rank: 22

    Robert Wah

    Chief medical officer /President of American Medical Association

    Computer Sciences Corp.

    Rank: 23

    Richard Baron

    President and CEO

    American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation

    Rank: 24

    David Blumenthal

    President Commonwealth Fund

    Commonwealth Fund

    Rank: 25

    Rodney Hochman

    President and CEO

    Providence Health and Services

    Rank: 26

    Georges Benjamin

    Executive director

    American Public Health Association

    Rank: 27

    Robert Wachter

    Professor and associate chairman, Department of medicine

    University of California at San Francisco

    Rank: 28

    Susan Turney

    President and CEO

    Medical Group Management Association

    Rank: 29

    Ram Raju

    President and CEO

    New York City Health and Hospitals Corp

    Rank: 30

    Peter Angood

    CEO

    American College of Physician Executives

    Rank: 31

    Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO

    Association of American Medical Colleges

    Rank: 32

    Richard Migliori

    Executive VP of medical affairs, chief medical officer

    UnitedHealth Group

    Rank: 33

    Ralph de la Torre

    Chairman and CEO

    Steward Health Care System

    Rank: 34

    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

    President and CEO

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    Rank: 35

    Steven Safyer

    President and CEO

    Montefiore Medical Center

    Rank: 36

    Reid Blackwelder

    President

    American Academy of Family Physicians

    Rank: 37

    Eric Topol

    Chief academic officer

    Scripps Health

    Rank: 38

    Richard Bankowitz

    Chief medical officer

    Premier

    Rank: 39

    Francis Collins

    Director

    National Institutes of Health

    Rank: 40

    Kelvin Baggett

    Senior VP of clinical operations, chief clinical officer

    Tenet Healthcare Corp.

    Rank: 41

    Karen DeSalvo

    National coordinator for health information technology

    HHS

    Rank: 42

    William Conway

    CEO/ Executive VP, Chief Quality Officer of Henry Ford Health Systems

    Henry Ford Medical Group

    Rank: 43

    Peter Pronovost

    Senior VP for patient safety and quality, director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Rank: 44

    David Bailey

    President and CEO

    Nemours

    Rank: 45

    Bruce Siegel

    President and CEO

    America's Essential Hospitals

    Rank: 46

    Peter Slavin

    President

    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Rank: 47

    Russell Holman

    Chief medical officer

    LifePoint Hospitals

    Rank: 48

    Andrew Sussman

    Senior VP and associate chief medical officer / President of MinuteClinic

    CVS Caremark Corp.

    Rank: 49

    David Feinberg

    CEO / President of UCLA Health System

    UCLA Hospital System

    Rank: 50

    Barbara Paul

    Senior VP, chief medical officer

    Community Health Systems

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