50 Most Influential Physician Executives – 2011
The 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives program (previously 50 Most Influential Physicians Executives and Leaders) honors physicians working in the healthcare industry who are deemed by their peers and an expert panel to be the most influential in terms of demonstrating leadership and impact. It took power to make reform happen; now, it will take influential leaders to make reform work.
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Rank: 20
William Bria
Chief medical information officer / president, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
Shriners Hospital for Children
Rank: 24
Robert Wachter
Professor and chief of the division of hospital medicine
University of California at San Francisco
Rank: 27
Peter Pronovost
Medical director, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Rank: 30
Christine Cassel
President and CEO
American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation
Rank: 37
Robert Brook
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program / Distinguished chair, healthcare services, RAND Corp.
RAND Corp.
Rank: 48
David Shulkin
President and CEO / Vice President - Atlantic Health
Morristown (N.J.) Memorial Hospital
Rank: 50
Sam Nussbaum
Executive vice president of clinical health policy and chief medical officer
WellPoint Health Networks