Time magazine has released its first Health Care 50 list to honor physicians, scientists, and business and political leaders whose work is transforming healthcare.
To put together the list, Time's team of health editors and reporters nominated people who made significant contributions to the state of U.S. healthcare this year. The publication then evaluated their work on originality, impact and quality.
Here are the 50 leaders who made the list:
- Misty Vaughan Allen, Nevada's suicide prevention coordinator
- London Breed, mayor of San Francisco
- Susan Talamantes Eggman, California assembly member
- Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.
- Bill Gates, philanthropist
- Melinda Gates, philanthropist
- Scott Gottlieb, MD, FDA commissioner
- Maura Healey, Massachusetts attorney general
- Valter Longo, PhD, director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
- Chirlane McCray, writer, first lady of New York City
- Ann McKee, MD, professor of neurology and pathology
- Aaron Perry, founder of Men's Health & Education Center
- Tait Shanafelt, MD, chief wellness officer for Stanford (Calif.) Medicine
- Angie Truesdale, CEO of Centering Healthcare Institute
- Leana Wen, MD, Baltimore health commissioner
- Betti Wiggins, Houston's officer of nutrition services
- James P. Allison, PhD, immunologist
- Tasuku Honjo, immunologist
- Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory
- Orrin Devinsky, MD, director of the comprehensive epilepsy center at NYU Langone Health in New York City
- Helmy Eltoukhy, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Guardant Health
- AmirAli Talasaz, PhD, co-founder and president of Guardant Health
- Kristoffer Famm, PhD, president of Galvani Bioelectronics
- Mindy Grossman, CEO of Weight Watchers (now WW)
- Bjarne Hansen, PhD, clinical psychologist
- Gerd Kvale, PhD, clinical psychologist
- Sean Harper, MD, vice president of development at biotechnology company Amgen
- Shoukhrat Mitalipov, PhD, biologist
- David Sinclair, PhD, genetics professor
- Régine Sitruk-Ware, MD, distinguished scientist at the Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research
- Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, epidemiologist
- Giuliano Testa, MD, transplant surgeon
- Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences
- Atul Gawande, MD, surgeon tapped to be CEO of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture
- Robert Grossman, MD, dean of New York University School of Medicine in New York City
- Kenneth Langone, trustee chair of NYU Langone Health
- Larry Merlo, CEO of CVS Health
- Sean Parker, founder and chairman of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
- Kare Schultz, CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
- Rob Solomon, CEO of crowdfunding platform GoFundMe
- Bernard J. Tyson, chairman and CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente
- Yonatan Adiri, founder and CEO of diagnostic device startup Healthy.io
- Oren Frank, co-founder of therapist app Talkspace
- Roni Frank, co-founder of therapist app Talkspace
- Joshua Kushner, founder of the health insurance company and app Oscar
- Mario Schlosser, founder of the health insurance company and app Oscar
- Divya Nag, leader for Apple's health-focused projects
- Raj Panjabi, MD, co-founder of healthcare access organization Last Mile Health
- Todd Pope, president and CEO of medical device company TransEnterix
- Anne Wojcicki, CEO of biotechnology company 23andMe
To read the full profiles, click here.