MedCityNews nominates these smart, accomplished women for secretary of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and 7 more posts.

1. Nominations for a
Romney administration
We have selected 9
women doing
innovative, important
work to make
healthcare more
efficient, more
effective and more
compassionate.
Check out our
nominations for 7 key
healthcare jobs as
well as two new
czars.
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2. Secretary of Health and Human
Services - Dr. Molly Coye
Currently: Chief Innovation Officer of
the UCLA Health System, as of
September 20, 2010
Previously:
● Founder and CEO of the Health
Technology Center
● Commissioner of health for New
Why? Jersey
● Director of the department of health
She has the perfect
combination of services for California
● Head of the Division of Public Health
public health and
innovation. Practice at Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health
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3. Surgeon general -
Dr. Louise Liang
Currently:
● Healthcare consultant on electronic
information systems, quality, safety,
service and practice design
Previously:
● Senior vice president, Quality and
Clinical Systems Support, Kaiser
Why? She is a Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser
pediatrician and led Foundation Hospitals
Kaiser's transition to ● Chief operating officer and medical
EHRs. director of Group Health Cooperative
of Puget Sound
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Health Permanente

4. Chief Technology Officer –
Alexandra Drane
Currently: President and co-
founder of Eliza Corporation, founder
of Seduce Health and
Engage with Grace
Previously: Founder of three other
healthcare ventures, all focused on
products that promote individual
behavior change through
Why? She understands technology, including web-enabled
the power of data as well injury-tracking software system used
as how to turn it into by the US Olympic Committee,
information. software that automates dialysis
clinics across the U.S., and a
medical device to improve asthma
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treatment compliance

5. Innovation officer -
Sue Siegel
Currently: CEO of GE's $6 billion
healthymagination unit
Previously:
● General partner at MDV-Mohr
Davidow Ventures
● President and director of
Why? She Affymetrix, Inc.
understands startups, ● Responsible for
science, and commercializing key biomedical
commercialization. technologies at E. I. DuPont &
Co., Eastman Kodak Co. and
Bio-Rad Laboratories
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6. COO of CMS -
Sandra Fenwick
Currently: President and COO
of Boston Children's Hospital,
since 2008
Previously:
● Senior vice president of
Strategy, Business
Development and
Ambulatory Care Services at
Why? She got Boston Children's Healthcare
Children's out of the red ● Administration and strategic
and understands how to planning at Beth Israel
manage big Hospital and CareGroup
organizations.
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7. Advocate in chief -
Gwen Mayes
Currently:
Health policy consultant and writer
Previously:
● Director of Government
Relations and Reimbursement
for Abiomed
● First Executive Director of the
Office of Women's Physical and
Why? She has experience in Mental Health for the
law, medicine, and government, Commonwealth of Kentucky
and she has lived with a chronic
health condition for more than
● Chief of the Operations and
20 years. Analysis Branch of the Division
of Transplantation in HHS
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8. Food and Drug Administration –
Karen Talmadge, PhD
Currently:
● President of Nabu Health
Care Consulting
● Vice chair of national board
of American Diabetes
Association
● Board of directors, Velocity
Pharmaceutical
Why? Development
Previously:
The FDA could use an
entrepreneur's ● Co-Founder, Start-Up CEO,
perspective. and CSO of Kyphon
● Chief Science Officer,
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Kyphon Products at
Medtronic Spine

9. SAMSHA -
Kathleen Reynolds, MSW, ACSW
Currently:
● Senior consultant for the SAMHSA-
HRSA Center for Integrated Health
Solutions
● Vice President for Health Promotion
and Wellness at the National Council
Why? She knows how to Previously:
integrate mental health ● Director of the Washtenaw Community
and primary care to save
Health Organization
money and help people
get better care. ● Adjunct Clinical Instructor in the
University Of Michigan Department Of
Psychiatry
MedCityNews.com ● 30 years work in mental health

10. Office of the National Coordinator
– Naomi Fried, PhD
Currently:
● Boston Children’s Hospital’s
first Chief Innovation Officer
Previously:
● Vice President of Innovation
and Advanced Technology
at Kaiser Permanente
Why? She ● General Manager and Vice
understands President for Business
the O gap and Development of 1747, Inc
how to cross it.
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