Modern Healthcare has released its 12th annual list of the "Most Influential People in Healthcare," which includes dozens of executives at hospitals and health systems nationwide.
Forty of the individuals named to the list are leaders at Advisory Board member organizations:
4. Stephen Hemsley, president and CEO of UnitedHealth Group (Minnetonka, Minn.)
7. Richard Bracken, chairman and CEO of HCA (Nashville)
9. George Halvorson, outgoing chair of Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.)
11. Kent Thiry, co-chairman and CEO of DaVita HealthCare Partners (Denver)
13. Judith Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems Corp. (Verona, Wis.)
15. Dr. John Noseworthy, president and CEO of Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
16. Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic
17. Wayne Smith, chair, president and CEO of Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.)
18. Trevor Fetter, president and CEO of Tenet Healthcare Corp. (Dallas)
19. Joel Allison, president and CEO of Baylor Health Care System (Dallas)
20. David Cordani, president and CEO of Cigna Corp. (Philadelphia)
22. Paul Diaz, CEO of Kindred Healthcare (Louisville, Ky.)
24. John Hammergren, chair, president, and CEO of McKesson Corp. (San Francisco)
25. Michael Dowling, president and CEO of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (Great Neck, N.Y.)
26. Dr. Gary Gottlieb, president and CEO of Partners HealthCare (Boston)
30. Kevin Lofton, president and CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives (Englewood, Colo.)
31. Dr. Gary Kaplan, chair and CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
34. Lloyd Dean, president and CEO of Dignity Health (San Francisco)
38. Dan Wolterman, president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston)
40. Bill Carpenter, chair and CEO of LifePoint Hospitals (Brentwood, Tenn.)
42. Pat Fry, president and CEO of Sutter Health (Sacramento, Calif.)
46. Alex Gorsky, chair and CEO of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, N.J.)
49. Dr. Charles Sorenson, president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City)
51. Dr. Atul Gawande, professor of surgery of Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, Mass.)
53. Alan Miller, chairman and CEO of Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.)
56. Dr. Glenn Steele Jr., president and CEO of Geisinger Health System (Danville, Pa.)
57. James Skogsbergh, president and CEO of Advocate Health Care (Oak Brook, Ill.)
59. Jay Grinney, president and CEO of HealthSouth Corp. (Birmingham, Ala.)
61. Anthony Tersigni, president and CEO of Ascension Health Alliance (St. Louis)
62. Alan Aviles, president and CEO of New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.
63. Doug Hawthorne, CEO of Texas Health Resources (Arlington)
66. Mary Brainerd, president and CEO of HealthPartners (Minneapolis)
69. Jeffrey Romoff, president and CEO of UPMC (Pittsburgh)
74. Nancy Schlichting, CEO of Henry Ford Health System (Detroit)
86. Dr. Ralph de la Torre, chair and CEO of Steward Health Care System (Boston)
87. Dr. Benjamin Chu, group president of Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif) and board chair of the American Hospital Association
90. Dr. Eric Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health; director of Scripps Translational Science Institute (San Diego)
94. Dr. James Weinstein, president and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock (Lebanon, N.H.)
99. Dr. Brent James, chief quality officer and executive director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City)
100. James Hinton, president and CEO of Presbyterian Healthcare Services (Albuquerque)