10 TO WATCH

Dr. Jandel Allen-Davis

President and CEO

Craig Hospital

Allen-Davis is working with government leaders to expand research and access to care for people with disabilities.

Dr. Miguel Benet

Division chief medical officer

Medical City Healthcare, North Texas Division of HCA Healthcare

He oversaw efforts to combat overuse of opioids, resulting in a 21% drop in use of the drugs in the emergency department and launched a drug take-back program.

Dr. Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee

Senior vice president and chief community impact officer

Ascension

Duperval-Brownlee is leading transformation of Ascension’s Washington, D.C., market, which improved operating performance by 50% over nine months.

Ahmed Haque

Senior vice president of network performance and strategy

Aledade

Under his leadership, Aledade generated more than $ 69 million in savings in 2018 as part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Barbara Johnson

Executive vice president and chief operating officer

Premier Health

Johnson was promoted to the role in August 2019 after serving as chief human resources officer. She led diversity and inclusion strategies for years, which have resulted in 60% of top leadership roles being held by women and increasing racial diversity.

Angelleen Peters-Lewis

Vice president of patient care services and chief nurse executive

Barnes- Jewish Hospital

Under Peters-Lewis, nurse leaders now round on 90% of patients, up from 42%. She got senior management to commit $ 2 million in support of a recruitment campaign for targeted markets to hire more nurses in 2020.

Dr. Stella Safo

Chief clinical transformation officer and vice president of prospective research

Premier

Safo joined Premier in 2019 from Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. She’s using her experience in HIV/AIDS medicine to inform Premier’s work on population health.

Dr. Airica Steed

System chief operating officer and executive vice president

Sinai Health System

The first minority to hold the position at Sinai, Steed is leading a turnaround strategy aimed at achieving $ 75 million in margin improvements.

Cassandra Willis-Abner

Senior vice president of diversity and inclusion and chief experience officer

Trinity Health

Willis-Abner implemented diversity and inclusion councils in all regional health ministries and increased diversity on boards and in the executive ranks.

Nichole Wilson

Vice president of retail health services

Community Health Network

Appointed to lead the newly created division in 2017, Wilson has grown retail visits and improved the overall net promoter score of the system’s urgent-care sites.