This year ’s most influential people in health care

Among the attorneys general, administrators, justices, senators and representatives, many physicians madeModern Healthcare ’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. This year, 17 AMA members were honored. AMA President Andrew W. Gurman, MD, made the list at No. 27 just two months after hisinauguration. Dr. Gurman recently spoke out against themergers of four major health insurers and will lead AMA efforts as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act begins next year. Robert Wachter, MD, made the list at No. 58. Dr. Wachter is an associate chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California —San Francisco, which is a founding member of the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. These physicians and AMA members joined such notables as President Barack Obama at the No. 1 spot, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt came in at No. 10, and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell at No. 5. The honorees were nominated by their peers and voted on by both readers and senior editors of  Modern Healthcare. Other AMA members include: No. 29: Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, MD, president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic No. 30: John Noseworthy, MD, president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. No. 41: Atul Gawande, surgeon, professor, writer and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health ...
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