Modern Healthcare has released its 17th annual ranking of the "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare," which includes dozens of executives at hospitals and health systems nationwide.
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Nearly two-thirds of the organizations led by these executives are Advisory Board members, including:
2. Larry Renfro, vice chair, UnitedHealth Group; founder and managing partner, Optum Ventures;
2. Anthony Tersigni, president and CEO, Ascension;
2. Bernard Tyson, chair and CEO, Kaiser Permanente;
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2. David Feinberg, president and CEO, Geisinger Health;
2. Rod Hochman, president and CEO, Providence St. Joseph Health;
2. Mark Bertolini, chair and CEO, Aetna;
2. Bruce Broussard, president and CEO, Humana;
2. Marc Harrison, president and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare;
14. R. Milton Johnson, chair and CEO, HCA Healthcare;
16. Nick Turkal, co-president and co-CEO, Advocate Aurora Health;
16. Jim Skogsbergh, co-president and co-CEO, Advocate Aurora Health;
20. Lloyd Dean, president and CEO, Dignity Health;
22. Richard Gilfillan, CEO, Trinity Health;
23. Gail Boudreaux, president and CEO, Anthem;
24. Stefano Pessina, executive vice chair and CEO, Walgreens Boots Alliance;
25. Eugene Woods, president and CEO, Atrium Health;
26. David Cordani, president and CEO, Cigna;
27. Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO, Carilion Clinic;
29. Andrea Walsh, president and CEO, HealthPartners;
30. Jim Hinton, CEO, Baylor Scott & White Health;
34. David Wichmann, CEO, UnitedHealth Group;
36. Sachin Jain, president and CEO, CareMore Health;
38. William Carpenter III, chair and CEO, LifePoint Health;
39. John Noseworthy, president and CEO, Mayo Clinic;
41. Judith Faulkner, founder and CEO, Epic Systems Corp.;
44. Michael Dowling, president and CEO, Northwell Health;
46. Patricia Maryland, EVP, Ascension; president and CEO, Ascension Healthcare;
48. Laurie Glimcher, president and CEO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute;
51. Peter Fine, president and CEO, Banner Health;
52. Patrick Conway, president and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina;
53. David Torchiana, president and CEO, Partners HealthCare;
54. Wright Lassiter III, president and CEO, Henry Ford Health System;
57. Madeline Bell, president and CEO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia;
58. Howard Kern, president and CEO, Sentara Healthcare;
60. Paul Rothman, CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine;
61. Thomas Zenty III, CEO, University Hospitals;
62. Steve Nelson, CEO, UnitedHealthcare;
63. Alan Miller, chair and CEO, Universal Health Services;
64. Kent Thiry, chair and CEO, DaVita;
65. Mark Ganz, president and CEO, Cambia Health Solutions;
67. Gary Kaplan, chair and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System;
71. Michael Neidorff, chair and CEO, Centene Corp.;
72. Laura Kaiser, president and CEO, SSM Health;
73. Wayne Smith, chair and CEO, Community Health Systems;
74. Mario Schlosser, CEO, Oscar Health;
75. Eric Topol, founder and director, Scripps Translational Science Institute;
76. Joanne Conroy, president and CEO, Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health;
77. Kevin Lofton, CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives;
78. Susan DeVore, president and CEO, Premier;
82. Randy Oostra, president and CEO, ProMedica;
83. Tomislav Mihaljevic, president and CEO, Cleveland Clinic;
85. Brent Shafer, chair and CEO, Cerner Corp.;
87. Steven Corwin, president and CEO, New York-Presbyterian;
88. Penny Wheeler, president and CEO, Allina Health;
89. Mark Tarr, president and CEO, Encompass Health;
91. Mitchell Katz, president and CEO, NYC Health & Hospitals;
93. Olivier Brandicourt, president and CEO, Sanofi;
94. Kenneth Davis, president and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System; and
100. Mark Schuster, founding dean and CEO, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine (Modern Healthcare, accessed 8/20; "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" list, Modern Healthcare, 8/18).
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