Hospital CEOs, health IT experts and medical researchers made Modern Healthcare’s annual list of the 50 most influential physician executives in health care. More than one-half of this year’s honorees are AMA members.
AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD, came in at No. 7, while AMA President Robert M. Wah, MD, took the No. 24 spot. Barbara Levy, MD, chair of the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee and vice president of health policy at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, also made the list at No. 42.
These physician leaders joined such notables as Thomas Frieden, MD, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Karen DeSalvo, MD, national coordinator for health information technology. The honorees were nominated by their peers and voted on by both readers and senior editors of the publication.
Other AMA members include:
- No. 1: Robert Wachter, MD, associate chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; chief of the division of hospital medicine and chief of the medical service at UCSF Medical Center
- No. 4: Atul Gawande, MD, surgeon, professor, writer and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health in Boston
- No. 5: Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, president of clinical services and chief medical officer of HCA in Nashville and chair of the American Hospital Association
- No. 6: John Noseworthy, MD, president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
- No. 10: Gary Kaplan, MD, chair and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle
- No. 13: Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, MD, president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic
- No. 15: Steven Corwin, MD, CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- No. 17: Lynn Simon, MD, president of clinical services and chief quality officer for Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tennessee
- No. 23: William Conway, MD, executive vice president for Henry Ford Health System and CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group in Detroit
- No. 25: Kelvin Baggett, MD, senior vice president of clinical operations and chief clinical officer of Tenet Healthcare Corp. in Dallas
- No. 27: Victor Dzau, MD, president of the Institute of Medicine
- No. 28: Robert Grossman, MD, dean and CEO of the New York University Langone Medical Center
- No. 29: Tejal Gandhi, MD, president and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation in Boston
- No. 31: William Roper, MD, CEO of University of North Carolina Health Care and dean of the school of medicine and vice chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- No. 32: Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland
- No. 39: Eric Topol, MD, chief academic officer of Scripps Health and director of Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego
- No. 41: Richard Migliori, MD, executive vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer of UnitedHealth Group
- No. 42: Mark Chassin, MD, president and CEO of the Joint Commission in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
- No. 45: Troyen Brennan, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer of CVS Health in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
- No. 46: Glenn Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, outgoing president and CEO of Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, and chairman of xG Health Solutions
- No. 47: Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association
- No. 48: Darrell Kirch, MD, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges
- No. 50: Susan Turney, MD, president and CEO of the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin and former president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association
Read about this year’s top physician leaders and see the full list at Modern Healthcare.
