HLC Members Named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare
This past year, the U.S. healthcare sector experienced increasing and major cyber-attacks, explored artificial intelligence (AI) applications to enhance services, endeavored to increase the adoption of value-based care, and continued achieving breakthrough innovations for patients. Amidst a shifting policy environment and these sectoral opportunities and challenges, the healthcare industry’s resilience can be attributed to strong and committed leadership.
Such leadership was recognized in Modern Healthcare’s 2024 list, “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare,” in which several HLC members were included. Our organization has and will continue to benefit greatly from the perspectives lent by these individuals and congratulates them on this achievement.
“HLC is fortunate to have the voices of these respected professionals contribute to our policy work throughout the year. I am glad to see their outstanding talents honored,” said HLC President and CEO Maria Ghazal, “As the only D.C. association representing leaders from across the U.S. healthcare sector, HLC prioritizes fostering productive dialogue for all our members to continue innovating and enhancing healthcare delivery for patients nationwide.”
HLC’s members featured include (listed in alpha order by first name):
- Judy Faulkner, Founder and CEO, Epic Systems
- Michael Alkire, President and CEO, Premier
- Robert Stone, CEO, City of Hope
- Seema Verma, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences
- Terry Shaw, President and CEO, AdventHealth
Additionally, HLC extends congratulations to leaders honored at our members’ companies, such as:
- Advocate Health
- Ascension
- Baxter International
- Elevance Health
- UnitedHealth Group
- Vizient
Modern Healthcare’s “The 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” list honors the leaders shaping the industry through policies, regulations, lobbying, and business decisions. The executives guide their organizations and discern where to make investments to best serve the public while also boosting their bottom lines to keep the doors open.
