The 100 Most Influential People In Healthcare
1. BARACK OBAMA
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
2. BERNARD TYSON
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, Calif.
3. ANTHONY TERSIGNI
President and CEO
Ascension
St. Louis
4. MARK BERTOLINI
Chairman and CEO
Aetna
Hartford, Conn.
5. SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL
HHS secretary
Washington, D.C.
6. R. MILTON JOHNSON
Chairman and CEO
HCA
Nashville
7. STEPHEN HEMSLEY
President and CEO UnitedHealth Group
Minnetonka, Minn.
8. RICK POLLACK
President and CEO
American Hospital Association
Chicago
9. MARILYN TAVENNER
President and CEO
America's Health Insurance Plans
Washington, D.C.
10. ANDY SLAVITT ACTING CMS ADMINISTRATOR, BALTIMORE
After decades in the private sector with healthcare technology and consulting companies, Andy Slavitt joined the CMS in 2014 as principal deputy administrator before being appointed acting administrator last year. Philosophically, Slavitt believes the CMS’ promotion of bundled payments is consistent with a team approach to medicine that requires communication, data and smooth patient handoffs. The CMS touches the healthcare needs of about 140 million Americans. “We all want our payment system to pay for what we value. At the highest level, it’s all the things we want from our own healthcare experiences—high-quality coordinated care that ties the fragmented system together for us and allows us to get back to our lives.”
11. LORETTA LYNCH
U.S. attorney general
U.S. Justice Department
Washington, D.C.
12. JOSEPH SWEDISH
Chairman, president and CEO
Anthem
Indianapolis
13. REP. PAUL RYAN
Speaker of the House
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
14. TREVOR FETTER
Chairman and CEO
Tenet Healthcare Corp.
Dallas
15. BERNIE SANDERS
U.S. senator (I-Vt.), former Democratic candidate for president U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
16. LLOYD DEAN
President and CEO
Dignity Health
San Francisco
17. STEPHEN UBL
President and CEO
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Washington, D.C.
18. KENT THIRY
Chairman and CEO
DaVita HealthCare Services
Denver
19. JOHN ROBERTS
Chief justice
U.S. Supreme Court
Washington, D.C.
20. KEVIN LOFTON
CEO
Catholic Health Initiatives
Englewood, Colo.
21. CHIP KAHN
President and CEO
Federation of American Hospitals
Washington, D.C.
22. JUDITH FAULKNER
Founder and CEO
Epic Systems Corp.
Verona, Wis.
23. WAYNE SMITH
Chairman and CEO
Community Health Systems
Franklin, Tenn.
24. PAMELA CIPRIANO PRESIDENT, AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION SILVER SPRING, MD.
As head of the nation’s largest nurses association since 2014, Cipriano holds nothing back when defending the interests of the more than 3 million registered nurses practicing in myriad settings across the nation. Cipriano, who holds a doctorate in executive nursing administration, is a familiar voice in op-eds on issues involving the profession. She has defended nurse practitioners providing primary care in the Veterans Affairs Department amid criticism that without physicians overseeing the nurses, veterans would receive second-class care from them. And in a May statement, she applauded the U.S. Navy for not pursuing further action against a Navy nurse who refused to continue force-feeding detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
25. PETER FINE
President and CEO Banner Health Phoenix
26. DR. PATRICK CONWAY
Deputy administrator for innovation and quality, chief medical officer CMS Baltimore
27. DR. ANDREW GURMAN
President
American Medical Association
Chicago
28. DR. THOMAS FRIEDEN
Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
29. DR. TOBY COSGROVE
President and CEO
Cleveland Clinic
30. DR. JOHN NOSEWORTHY
President and CEO
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn.
31. DR. KAREN DESALVO
Acting assistant secretary for health and former national coordinator for health information technology, HHS Washington, D.C.
32. MITCH MCCONNELL
Senate majority leader U.S. Senate Washington, D.C.
33. SISTER CAROL KEEHAN
President and CEO Catholic Health Association St. Louis
34. JAMES SKOGSBERGH
President and CEO Advocate Health Care Downers Grove, Ill.
35. JOHN BEL EDWARDS
Governor of Louisiana Baton Rouge
36. ROBERT MCDONALD
Secretary U.S. Veterans Affairs Department Washington, D.C.
37. DR. DAVID TORCHIANA
President and CEO Partners HealthCare System Boston
38. DR. RICHARD GILFILLAN
President and CEO Trinity Health Livonia, Mich.
39. BEVERLY MALONE
CEO National League for Nursing Washington, D.C.
40. ALAN MILLER
Chairman and CEO Universal Health Services King of Prussia, Pa
41. DR. ATUL GAWANDE AUTHOR, SPEAKER, PROFESSOR AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BOSTON
No one quite embodies the phrase “triple-threat” like Gawande. He’s a physician who also holds a Master of Public Health and practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He serves as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health’s health policy and management department and in Harvard Medical School’s surgery department. In his spare time, he’s a world-renowned writer, penning multiple New York Times bestsellers; his most recent, Being Mortal, was published in 2014. He’s also a frequent speaker and a staff writer for the New Yorker, as well as a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
42. DR. RODNEY HOCHMAN
President and CEO Providence St. Joseph Health Renton, Wash.
43. DONALD FISHER
President and CEO American Medical Group Association Alexandria, Va.
44. DR. GARY KAPLAN
Chairman and CEO Virginia Mason Health System Seattle
45. SCOTT SEROTA
President and CEO Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago
46. ROSEANN DEMORO
Executive director National Nurses United Oakland, Calif.
47. DR. GEORGES BENJAMIN
Executive director American Public Health Association Washington, D.C.
48. DEBORAH BOWEN
President and CEO American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago
49. KENNETH RASKE
President and CEO Greater New York Hospital Association, New York
50. SUSAN DEVORE
President and CEO Premier Charlotte, N.C.
51. DR. HALEE FISCHER-WRIGHT
President and CEO Medical Group Management Association, Englewood, Colo.
52. DR. RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY
President and CEO Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Princeton, N.J.
53. DR. FRANCIS COLLINS
Director National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Md.
54. ANTHONY KENNEDY
Associate justice U.S. Supreme Court Washington, D.C.
55. DR. RAM RAJU
President and CEO NYC Health & Hospitals New York
56. BILL CARPENTER
Chairman and CEO LifePoint Health Brentwood, Tenn.
57. DAVID CORDANI
President and CEO Cigna Corp. Bloomfield, Conn.
58. SARAH KREVANS
President and CEO Sutter Health Sacramento, Calif.
59. WRIGHT LASSITER III PRESIDENT AND INCOMING CEO, HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM, DETROIT
As the CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Alameda Health System, Lassiter rebuilt the $865 million safety net system, a testament to his decades of experience across the country working on major, complex health systems. His achievements also caught the eye of Nancy Schlichting, president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System. Impressed by his turnaround leadership, she suggested Lassiter as her successor when she announced her intention to retire at the end of 2016.
60. NEAL PATTERSON
Chairman and CEO Cerner Corp. Kansas City, Mo.
61. DR. ROBERT CALIFF
Commissioner U.S. Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, Md.
62. DR. J. MARIO MOLINA
President and CEO Molina Healthcare Long Beach, Calif.
63. BENJAMIN BREIER
President and CEO Kindred Healthcare Louisville, Ky.
64. JOSEPH MULLANY
CEO Detroit Medical Center
65. DR. MARK CHASSIN
President and CEO Joint Commission Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.
66. DR. DAVID BLUMENTHAL
President Commonwealth Fund New York
67. EUGENE WOODS
President and CEO Carolinas HealthCare System Charlotte, N.C.
68. JOHN HAMMERGREN
Chairman, president and CEO McKesson Corp. San Francisco
69. MARGARET “PEGGY” O’KANE
Founder and president National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, D.C.
70. CECILE RICHARDS
President Planned Parenthood Federation New York
71. SCOTT WHITAKER
President and CEO Advanced Medical Technology Association, Washington, D.C.
72. DAVID HEBERT
CEO American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Austin, Texas
73. DR. VIVEK MURTHY
U.S. surgeon general U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Washington, D.C.
74. CHRIS VAN GORDER
President and CEO Scripps Health San Diego
75. JOEL ALLISON
CEO Baylor Scott & White Health Dallas
76. MICHAEL DOWLING
President and CEO Northwell Health Great Neck, N.Y.
77. DR. TEJAL GANDHI PRESIDENT AND CEO, NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION, BOSTON
Long before being named CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation in 2013, Gandhi was already one of the nation’s leading patient-safety experts and advocates. She has been instrumental in leading the organization through a three-year strategic plan that includes fostering more engagement between patients, families and providers on ways to improve patient safety. Some of the key issues that have been the focus of the NPSF’s work include lowering diagnostic errors and reducing the threat of healthcare-associated infections. Previously, Gandhi served as executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and chief quality and safety officer of the hospital’s parent, Partners HealthCare System.
78. DR. JONATHAN PERLIN
President of clinical services and chief medical officer HCA, Nashville
79. DR. PREM REDDY
Chairman and CEO Prime Healthcare Services Ontario, Calif.
80. JOSEPH FIFER
President and CEO Healthcare Financial Management Association, Westchester, Ill.
81. DREW ALTMAN
President and CEO Kaiser Family Foundation Menlo Park, Calif.
82. DR. BENJAMIN CHU
President and CEO Memorial Hermann Health System Houston
83. DR. ROBERT WACHTER
Chief, division of hospital medicine University of California at San Francisco
84. BARCLAY BERDAN
CEO Texas Health Resources Arlington
85. DR. DAVID FEINBERG
President and CEO Geisinger Health System Danville, Pa.
86. JAY GRINNEY
President and CEO HealthSouth Corp. Birmingham, Ala.
87. SUZANNE DELBANCO
Executive director Catalyst for Payment Reform Berkeley, Calif.
88. DR. A. EUGENE WASHINGTON
President and CEO Duke University Health System Durham, N.C.
89. MATT BEVIN
Governor of Kentucky Frankfort
90. DR. STEVEN SAFYER
President and CEO Montefiore Health System New York
91. ERNIE SADAU
President and CEO Christus Health Irving, Texas
92. MARY BRAINERD
President and CEO HealthPartners Minneapolis
93. DR. RONALD DEPINHO
President MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston
94. DR. BRUCE SIEGEL
President and CEO, America’s Essential Hospitals, Washington, D.C.
95. LEAH BINDER
President and CEO Leapfrog Group Washington, D.C.
96. DR. PATRICK SOON-SHIONG, CEO, NANTHEALTH
Best known for amassing wealth after inventing cancer drug Abraxane and being a part-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Soon-Shiong took NantHealth public in 2016 with the hopes of commercializing new whole-genome-sequencing technology. The ultimate goal, he has said, is to give providers and patients real-time data: “If a patient is deathly ill, the best thing is to figure out the right treatment in the 21st century of molecular medicine.” The core piece of NantHealth is GPS Cancer, a test that costs about $11,000 and creates personalized treatment plans for cancer patients.
97. DR. VICTOR DZAU
President National Academy of Medicine Washington, D.C.
98. DR. TROYEN BRENNAN
Executive vice president and chief medical officer CVS Health, Woonsocket, R.I.
99. DEBRA CAFARO
Chairman and CEO Ventas Chicago
100. NANCY HOWELL AGEE
President and CEO Carilion Clinic Roanoke, Va.