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1. Barack ObamaPresident of the United States,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

2. Kathleen SebeliusSecretary, HHS, Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Pelosi

Baucus

Keehan

Orszag

7. Carolyn ClancyDirector,Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,Rockville, Md.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

8. Bill GatesChairman, Microsoft Corp.; co-founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,Seattle 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

9. Henry WaxmanU.S. representative (D-Calif.); chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee,U.S. House of Representatives,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Ginsburg

Grassley

Reid

Berwick

16. Arnold SchwarzeneggerOutgoing governor,State of California,Sacramento 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Gingrich

18. Mary Kay HenryPresident,Service Employees International Union,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

19. Sister Mary Jean RyanChairwoman and CEO,SSM Health Care,St. Louis 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

20. Nancy-Ann DeParleDirector,White House Office of Health Reform,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

21. Karen IgnagniPresident and CEO,America's Health Insurance Plans,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

22. Bruce YarwoodPresident and CEO, American Health Care Association, Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

23. Joel AllisonPresident and CEO, Baylor Health Care System,Dallas 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

24. Lloyd DeanPresident and CEO,Catholic Healthcare West,San Francisco 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Fetter

26. Richard FeinsteinDirector, Bureau of Competition,Federal Trade Commission,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

27. Mary WakefieldAdministrator,Health Resources and Services Administration,Rockville, Md.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Williams

29. Beverly MaloneCEO,National League for Nursing,New York 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

White

Surgeon General Regina Benjamin is among the 18 newcomers this year.

Hackbarth

33. Pamela ThompsonCEO,American Organization of Nurse Executives,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

President and CEO,Kaiser Family Foundation,Menlo Park, Calif.100 Most Influential Home Page »

Wolterman

37. Rebecca PattonPresident,American Nurses Association,Silver Spring, Md.

38. Scott ArmstrongPresident and CEO,Group Health Cooperative,Seattle 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

39. Gary NewsomePresident and CEO,Health Management Associates,Naples, Fla.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Smith

41. William CarpenterPresident and CEO,LifePoint Hospitals,Brentwood, Tenn.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Kahn

43. Stuart AltmanSol C. Chaikin professor of national health policy,Brandeis University,Waltham, Mass.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

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Shinseki

46. Kathy WaryeCEO,Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Bates

48. Barbara Crane President,National Federation of Nurses,Seattle 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

49. Richard Bracken Chairman and CEO,HCA,Nashville 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

President, Institute of Medicine, Washington 100 Most Influential Home Page »

52. Angela BralyChairman, president and CEO,WellPoint,Indianapolis 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

54. Richard ClarkePresident and CEO,Healthcare Financial Management Association,Westchester, Ill.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Varney

Benjamin

Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark

59. Karen DavisPresident, Commonwealth Fund,New York 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

60. Michael ConnellyPresident and CEO,Catholic Healthcare Partners,Cincinnati 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

61. Mark ChassinPresident,Joint Commission,Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

62. Christine CasselPresident and CEO,American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation,Philadelphia 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

63. Uwe ReinhardtJames Madison professor of political economy,Princeton (N.J.) University 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

President and CEO,Scripps Health,San Diego 100 Most Influential Home Page »

McCallister

66. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey President and CEO,Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

67. Rose Ann DeMoroExecutive director,National Nurses United;national vice president, AFL-CIO,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

68. Linda AikenDirector, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research,University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

69. John GoodmanPresident and CEO,National Center for Policy Analysis,Dallas 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Halvorson

Foster

72. Robert WachterChief, division of hospital medicine,University of California at San Francisco 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

73. Robert Moffit Senior fellow,Heritage Foundation, Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Tersigni

Corrigan

Halamandaris

79. Charles MartinChairman and CEO,Vanguard Health Systems,Nashville 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Thiry

81. Paul DiazPresident and CEO,Kindred Healthcare,Louisville, Ky.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

83. Angela GardnerPresident, American College of Emergency Physicians,Irving, Texas 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Dolan

Jessee

Maves

Lieber

Serota

Swedish

90. James GuestPresident and CEO,Consumers Union,Yonkers, N.Y.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Frieden

93. Alan MillerChairman and CEO,Universal Health Services,King of Prussia, Pa.100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Grinney

Roubideaux

Binder

97. Geraldine “Polly” BednashCEO and executive director,American Association of Colleges of Nursing,Washington 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

Roper

99. Emad RizkPresident,McKesson Health Solutions,Boston 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

100. Sanjay GuptaMedical/healthcare correspondent,CNN,Atlanta 100 Most Powerful Home Page »

100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare - 2010