Save the date: June 8.
That's when Modern Healthcare will honor the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare for 2016 at a gala in Chicago.
The awards, sponsored by Furst Group, honor 25 of the most powerful executives in the healthcare industry, in addition to 10 additional diverse leaders selected as People to Watch.
The Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare were announced in today's issue of Modern Healthcare. They are:
Kelvin Baggett, SVP and chief clinical officer, Tenet
Georges Benjamin, executive director, American Public Health Association
Ruth Brinkley, president and CEO, KentuckyOne Health
Ben Carson, presidential candidate, author, speaker
Lloyd Dean, president and CEO, Dignity Health
Kenneth Frazier, CEO, Merck
Trent Haywood, SVP and CMO, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
John Kapoor, chairman, president and CEO, Insys Therapeutics
Joe Kiani, chairman and CEO, Masimo Corp.
Wright Lassiter III, president, Henry Ford Health system
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Kevin Lofton, CEO, Catholic Health Initiatives
Patricia Maryland, president of healthcare operations and COO, Ascension Health
Tauana McDonald, SVP of clinical business operations, Trinity Health
Carlos Migoya, president and CEO, Jackson Health System
Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general
Philip Ozuah, EVP and chief operating officer, Montefiore Medical Center
Ram Raju, president and CEO, NYC Health & Hospitals
Prem Reddy, chairman and CEO, Prime Healthcare Services
Bruce Siegel, president and CEO, America’s Essential Hospitals
Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder, NantHealth
Bernard Tyson, chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente
A. Eugene Washington, president and CEO, Duke University Health System; chancellor for health affairs, Duke University
Eugene Woods, incoming president and CEO, Carolinas Healthcare System
Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, U.S. Defense Department
In addition, here are the 10 leaders chosen as People to Watch:
Debra Canales, EVP and chief people and experience officer, Providence Health and Services
Leon Clark, chairman, research administration department, Mayo Clinic
Claudia Fegan, executive medical officer, Cook County Health and Hospital System
Delvecchio Finley, CEO, Alameda Health System
Sachin Jain, COO and chief medical officer, CareMore Health System
Sumit Nagpal, co-founder and CEO, LumiraDx USA
Ketul Patel, CEO, CHI Franciscan Health, and SVP of division operations for the Pacific Northwest Region, Catholic Health Initiatives
Pamela Sutton-Wallace, CEO, University of Virginia Medical Center
Nicholas Tejeda, CEO, The Hospitals of Providence, East Campus
Ije-Enu Udeze, chief of staff, office of the CEO, Kaiser Permanente
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