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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

    Robert Wachter

    Associate Chairman

    University of California at San Francisco

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    Rank: 2

    Richard Gilfillan

    President and CEO

    Trinity Health

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    Rank: 3

    Thomas Frieden

    Director

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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    Rank: 4

    Atul Gawande

    Surgeon, professor, writer, researcher

    Brigham and Women's Hospital

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    Rank: 5

    Jonathan Perlin

    President

    HCA Healthcare

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    Rank: 6

    John Noseworthy

    President and CEO

    Mayo Clinic

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    Rank: 7

    James Madara

    Executive vice president and CEO

    American Medical Association

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    Rank: 8

    Karen DeSalvo

    Head, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

    HHS

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    Rank: 9

    Charles Sorenson

    President and CEO

    Intermountain Healthcare

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    Rank: 10

    Gary Kaplan

    Chairman and CEO

    Virginia Mason

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    Rank: 11

    Patrick Conway

    Deputy Principal Administrator

    CMS

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    Rank: 12

    David Feinberg

    CEO

    UCLA Hospital System

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    Rank: 13

    Toby Cosgrove

    President and CEO

    Cleveland Clinic

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    Rank: 14

    Prem Reddy

    Chairman, President and CEO

    Prime Healthcare Services

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    Rank: 15

    Steven Corwin

    CEO

    New York-Presbyterian

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    Rank: 16

    Vivek Murthy

    Surgeon General

    U.S. Public Health Service

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    Rank: 17

    Lynn Simon

    President and Chief Quality Officer

    Community Health Systems

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    Rank: 18

    Peter Slavin

    President

    Massachusetts General Hospital

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    Rank: 19

    Ram Raju

    President and CEO

    New York City Health and Hospitals Corp

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    Rank: 20

    Paul Rothman

    CEO

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

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    Rank: 21

    David Blumenthal

    President

    Commonwealth Fund

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    Rank: 22

    Elizabeth Nabel

    President

    Brigham and Women's Hospital

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    Rank: 23

    William Conway

    Executive Vice President

    Henry Ford Health System

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    Rank: 24

    Robert Wah

    Global Chief Medical Officer

    Computer Sciences Corp.

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    Rank: 25

    Kelvin Baggett

    Chief clinical officer

    Tenet Healthcare Corp.

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    Rank: 26

    Benjamin Chu

    Group President

    Kaiser Permanente

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    Rank: 27

    Victor Dzau

    President

    Institute of Medicine

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    Rank: 28

    Robert Grossman

    Dean and CEO

    NYU Langone Medical Center

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    Rank: 29

    Tejal Gandhi

    President and CEO

    National Patient Safety Foundation

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    Rank: 30

    Ronald DePinho

    Physician

    University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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    Rank: 31

    William Roper

    CEO

    University of North Carolina Healthcare System

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    Rank: 32

    Francis Collins

    Director

    National Institutes of Health

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    Rank: 33

    Rodney Hochman

    President and CEO

    Providence Health and Services

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    Rank: 34

    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

    President and CEO

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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    Rank: 35

    Christine Cassel

    President and CEO

    National Quality Forum

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    Rank: 36

    Steven Safyer

    President and CEO

    Montefiore Medical Center

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    Rank: 37

    Gary Gottlieb

    President and CEO

    Partners HealthCare

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    Rank: 38

    Patrick Soon-Shiong

    CEO

    Nantworks

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    Rank: 39

    Eric Topol

    Director

    Scripps Translational Science Institute

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    Bruce Siegel

    President and CEO

    America's Essential Hospitals

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    Rank: 41

    Richard Migliori

    Chief medical officer

    UnitedHealth Group

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    Rank: 42

    Mark Chassin

    President and CEO

    Joint Commission

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    Rank: 43

    Barbara Levy

    Vice president for health policy

    American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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    Susan Desmond-Hellmann

    CEO

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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    Troyen Brennan

    Executive vice president and chief medical officer

    CVS Health

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    Glenn Steele, Jr.

    President and CEO

    Geisinger Health

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    Georges Benjamin

    Executive Director

    American Public Health Association

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    Rank: 48

    Darrell Kirch

    President and CEO

    Association of American Medical Colleges

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    Steven Altschuler

    CEO

    Children's Hospital

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    Susan Turney

    CEO

    Marshfield Clinic Health System

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