BRANDfog’s 2015 list of The Top 20 Healthcare Leaders on Twitter shines a spotlight on some key leaders and thinkers who bring a fresh perspective to this rapidly evolving industry. Although this is certainly not an all-inclusive list, it is a good starting point for those who would like to find leaders in healthcare to follow on Twitter. The list includes a cross section of industry leaders that use social channels to engage in lively, interesting and engaging conversations about key industry trends in healthcare. We also included influencers who have something important to contribute to the larger conversations happening within the healthcare industry. There are some well-known leaders but we also included some “under the radar” individuals that you may not know were active on Twitter. In choosing these leaders, we sought those with a rich, insightful Twitter feed. Our selection criteria were Twitter feeds containing original content, graphics and video, an interesting point of view, and a vision for the future of healthcare. This list is far from comprehensive, so please feel free to send a direct message with any recommendations for our next list to @annmcharles on Twitter. The field of smart, social-savvy healthcare industry leaders continues to grow, so we will revisit and update this list in six months.

1. 2015 Top 20 Healthcare Leaders on Twitter
September 2015

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3. About This List
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BRANDfog’s 2015 list of The Top 20 Healthcare Leaders on Twitter shines a spotlight on
some key leaders and thinkers who bring a fresh perspective to this rapidly evolving
industry. Although this is certainly not an all-inclusive list, it is a good starting point for
those who would like to find leaders in healthcare to follow on Twitter. The list includes
a cross section of industry leaders that use social channels to engage in lively,
interesting and engaging conversations about key industry trends in healthcare. We
also included influencers who have something important to contribute to the larger
conversations happening within the healthcare industry.
There are some well-known leaders but we also included some “under the radar”
individuals that you may not know were active on Twitter. In choosing these leaders,
we sought those with a rich, insightful Twitter feed. Our selection criteria were Twitter
feeds containing original content, graphics and video, an interesting point of view, and
a vision for the future of healthcare.
This list is far from comprehensive, so please feel free to send a direct message with
any recommendations for our next list to @annmcharles on Twitter. The field of smart,
social-savvy healthcare industry leaders continues to grow, so we will revisit and
update this list in six months.

4. Brian Ahier
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Brian Ahier
https://twitter.com/ahier
Passionate about healthcare, technology and
government 2.0

5. Francis Collins
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Francis Collins
https://twitter.com/NIHDirector
M.D., Ph.D., and NIH Director (http://www.nih.gov)

6. Drex DeFord
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Drex DeFord
https://twitter.com/drexdeford
Indie Health care Consultant; former CIO Scripps Health

7. Susannah Fox
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Susannah Fox
https://twitter.com/SusannahFox
CTO, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

8. Abby Goodnough
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Abby Goodnough
https://twitter.com/abbygoodnough
Covers health care for The New York Times

9. Ben Hirschler
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Ben Hirschler
https://twitter.com/reutersbenhir
Health, pharma and science writer at Reuters

10. Joseph Kvedar
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Joseph Kvedar
https://twitter.com/jkvedar
Vice President, Partners Healthcare/ Connected
Health, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

11. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
https://twitter.com/Risalavizzo
Physician and President at RWJF

12. Donna Lencki
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Donna Lencki
https://twitter.com/DonnaKLencki
CMO, Capital BlueCross

13. Martin Loesch
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Martin Loesch
https://twitter.com/martin_loesch
Global leader McKinsey Pharma/Ops practice

14. Vivek Murthy
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Vivek Murthy
https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General
U.S. Surgeon General

15. John Nosta
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John Nosta
https://twitter.com/JohnNosta
Digital health philosopher, strategist &
advocate

16. John Romer
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John Romer
https://twitter.com/johndromer
Senior Vice President/General Manager (Interim)
DaVita Rx

17. Richard Schilsky
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Richard Schilsky
https://twitter.com/rschilsky
Medical oncologist and the Chief Medical Officer
of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

18. Wendy Sue Swanson
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Wendy Sue Swanson
https://twitter.com/SeattleMamaDoc
Executive Director of Digital Health at Seattle
Children's, author & KING5 News reporter

19. Liz Szabo
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Liz Szabo
https://twitter.com/LizSzabo
USA TODAY medical reporter

20. Andrew Thompson
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Andrew Thompson
https://twitter.com/@ProteusCEO
President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder
of Proteus Digital Health

21. Eric Topol
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Eric Topol
https://twitter.com/EricTopol
Cardiologist, researcher, Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

22. Bernard Tyson
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Bernard Tyson
https://twitter.com/BernardJTyson
Chairman & CEO of Kaiser Permanente

23. Andrew Ward
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Andrew Ward
https://twitter.com/andrew_ward1
Pharmaceutical correspondent for the Financial
Times

24. Thank You
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