AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, and AMA President-elect Robert M. Wah, MD, along with 19 more AMA members, have been recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine as two of the nation’s 50 most influential physician executives in health care for 2014.
The other AMA members on the list (in alphabetical order by last name) are:
- Kelvin Baggett, MD, senior VP of clinical operations, chief clinical officer, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas
- Richard Baron, MD, president and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation, Philadelphia
- Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director, American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.
- Reid Blackwelder, MD, president, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan.
- Mark Chassin, MD, president and CEO, Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill..
- Francis Collins, MD, director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
- William Conway, MD, CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group; executive vice president, chief quality officer, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit
- Toby Cosgrove, MD, CEO, Cleveland Clinic
- Gary Kaplan, MD, chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle
- Darrell Kirch, MD, president and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C.
- Richard Migliori, MD, executive vice president of medical affairs, chief medical officer, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, Minn.
- John Noseworthy, MD, president and CEO, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
- Barbara Paul, MD, senior vice president, chief medical officer, Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.
- Jonathan Perlin, MD, president, clinical services; chief medical officer, HCA, Nashville and chairman-elect, American Hospital Association
- Peter Pronovost, MD, senior vice president for patient safety and quality and director, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore
- Glenn Steele, Jr., MD, president and CEO, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa.
- Andrew Sussman, MD, president, MinuteClinic; senior vice president and associate chief medical officer, CVS Caremark; Woonsocket, R.I.
- Susan Turney, MD, president and CEO, Medical Group Management Association, Englewood, Col.
- Robert Wachter, MD, professor and associate chairman, department of medicine, University of California at San Francisco
Honorees are nominated by readers and voted on by both readers and senior editors. The list demonstrates how physicians are assuming leadership roles and shaping the course of U.S. health care.
Find the full list on the Modern Healthcare website (login required).
