Stephanie Bouchard

Respected around the country as an instructor and researcher, Julie Freischlag, MD, is also one of the country's leading women surgeons.

Maine is gearing up for a statewide survey of doctors that will measure patients' experience of care and provide the state and its healthcare industry with important metrics.

A veteran of the speaker circuit, Maureen Bisognano is a vocal supporter of the Triple Aim. She has spent nearly two decades at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, where she is currently the president and CEO.

Ana Pujols McKee, MD, has long promoted the importance of patient safety and healthcare quality improvement. Today, she takes those causes to the national level in her role as executive vice president and chief medical officer of the Joint Commission.

Mary Naylor has a national reputation for her work as a geriatric scholar and for her examination of the contributions of nurses to the healthcare system.

Kativa Patel, MD, has her feet planted in both the clinical world of healthcare and the policy one. She is a primary care internist who shaped policy at the White House and continues to shape the conversation around healthcare on a national level in a variety of roles.

Before Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) got to Washington, D.C., she made a name for herself as a state legislator who co-sponsored legislation that later became the footprint for the federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Before her election last fall to head the Medical Group Management Association, Susan Turney was recognized as a champion for healthcare information technology.

Teri Fontenot is one of the few women who head a hospital and the one she leads is considered one of the largest freestanding women's hospitals in the country.

Barbara McNeil, MD, has spent a lifetime researching quality of care issues. Her work led the Department of Veterans Affairs to change how care is provided to veterans.