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18 Powerful individuals are presented in alphabetical order. Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD. Director of the Pediatric Residency Pro- gram at Hurley Medical Center (Flint, Mich.). Dr. Hanna-Attisha first blew the whistle over lead in the drinking water for Flint, Mich., in Sep- tember 2015 when she confirmed the proportion of children with elevat- ed lead levels in their blood doubled since the city switched its source of water from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Nancy Howell Agee. President and CEO of Carilion Clinic (Roanoke, Va.). In addition to her work as head of 685-physician Carilion, which attracted national attention this year for its work against caregiver burn- out, Ms. Agee is preparing for her role as chairman of the American Hos- pital Association, which will take effect in 2018. John Bates. U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia. Judge Bates will rule on the proposed $37 billion Aetna-Humana merger, which would combine two of the largest providers of Medicare Advan- tage plans. Mark T. Bertolini. Chairman and CEO of Aetna (Hartford, Conn.). Mr. Bertolini is leading Aetna, which generated $60 billion in 2015 oper- ating revenue, through a $37 billion deal with Louisville, Ky.-based Hu- mana, which would create the largest player in the Medicare Advantage market. Leah Binder. President and CEO of e Leapfrog Group (Washing- ton, D.C.). Ms. Binder has led Leapfrog since 2008. e patient safety organization releases an annual report card that assigns letter-grades to more than 2,500 hospitals reflecting their rates of medical errors, infec- tions and other adverse events. Deborah Burger, RN; Jean Ross, RN; Karen Higgins, RN. Co-Presi- dents of National Nurses United (Silver Spring, Md.). Ms. Burger, Ms. Ross and Ms. Higgins co-lead the largest union of registered nurses in the country. In 2016, NNU played a part in the 37-day nursing strike affecting Allina Health hospitals throughout Minnesota. Sylvia Mathews Burwell. 22nd Secretary of Health and Human Ser- vices (Washington, D.C.). Ms. Burwell marked her second-year anni- versary as HHS secretary in June and oversaw Healthcare.gov during the busiest day of its existence in November as more than 100,000 people selected health plans in a single day during open enrollment. Bruce D. Broussard. President and CEO of Humana (Louisville, Ky.). Mr. Broussard is leading Humana, which recorded $54 billion in revenue in 2015, through a $37 billion deal with Aetna that would create the larg- est player in the Medicare Advantage market. Robert M. Califf, MD. Commissioner of the Food and Drug Admin- istration (Silver Spring, Md.). e Senate confirmed Dr. Califf as head 60 of the Most P O W E R F U L People in Healthcare By Molly Gamble and Heather Punke Power can be measured by size, expertise, revenue, political authority or social influence. Becker's Healthcare believes the following 60 men and women possess and exhibit power in all of the aforementioned ways, if not more. From the pediatrician who sounded the alarm on the water crisis in Flint to the journalist who exposed one of healthcare's most volatile startups, each of the year's most powerful people exercised their unique expertise, authority and position to bring about change.