Modern Healthcare, the leading source of healthcare business in the US, has announced 2020’s Top 25 Minority Leaders in the nation’s healthcare sector. It has also revealed the industry’s ‘minority leaders to watch’.
The biennial recognition programme honours the top minority healthcare executives who are influencing policy and care delivery models across the country, said the expert. It also highlights the continued need to nurture diversity in healthcare organisations.
A gala event to celebrate the honourees and their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in healthcare will take place in Chicago on 13th August 2020.
TOP 25 MINORITY LEADERS
The Top 25 Minority Leaders (in alphabetical order) include:
- Dr Jerome Adams, US Surgeon, General HHS
- Debra Canales, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Providence
- Genevieve Caruncho-Simpson, President and Chief Operating Officer, Texas Health Aetna
- Dr Augustine Choi, Dean, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Dr Bechara Choucair, Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente
- Dr Imelda Dacones, President and CEO, Northwest Permanente
- Garth Graham, President, Aetna Foundation and Vice President, Community Health and Impact, CVS Health
- Danielle Gray, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
- Audrey Gregory, CEO, Detroit Medical Center
- Dr Patrice Harris, President, American Medical Association
- Dr Sachin Jain, President and CEO, CareMore Health
- Dr Vivian Lee, President of Health Platforms, Verily Life Sciences
- Dr Ana Pujols McKee, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Joint Commission
- Dr Rhonda Medow, CEO, Ayin Health Solutions and President of Population Health, Providence
- Dr Phillip Ozuah, President and CEO, Montefiore Medicine
- Ketul Patel, President, Pacific Northwest Division, CommonSpirit Health and CEO, CHI Franciscan
- Dennis Pullin, President and CEO,Virtua Health
- Javier Rodriquez, CEO, DaVita
- Dr Jaewon Ryu, President and CEO, Geisinger Health
- Ninfa Saunders, CEO, Navicent Health
- Dr. Thomas Sequist, Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Partners HealthCare
- Rajesh Shrestha, Chief Operating Officer, Community-based Care, Intermountain Healthcare and CEO, Castell
- Nicole Thomas, Hospital President, Baptist Medical Center South
- Michael Ugwueke, President and CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
- Dr Kimberlydawn Wisdom, Senior Vice President of Community Health and Equity, and Chief Wellness & Diversity Officer, Henry Ford Health System
Click here for more information on the Top 25 Minority Leaders, as well as the Minority Leaders to Watch, in the US healthcare profession.
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