ATA CEO ANN MOND JOHNSON RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF MODERN HEALTHCARE’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
Thirty Executives from ATA Member Organizations Also Recognized for Their Impact
WASHINGTON, DC, DECEMBER 10, 2025 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) is proud to announce that its CEO, Ann Mond Johnson, was recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare of 2025. Ann made the list three times: 2020, 2024, and 2025.
The ATA also applauds the executives recognized for their impact from 30 of our member organizations: Advocate Health, Amazon, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, Ascension, Banner Health, Baylor Scott & White Health, Cigna Group, Cleveland Clinic, CommonSpirit Health, Corewell Health, CVS Health, Federation of American Hospitals, Geisinger, HCA Healthcare, Hims & Hers, Humana, Intermountain Health, Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Novant Health, Ochsner Health, Oscar Health, Philips, Providence, Sanford Health, Sutter Health, Texas Health Resources, Trinity Health, and URAC.
“The ATA proudly serves as the nexus and trusted voice of the telehealth and virtual care industry, representing leading healthcare systems, prominent solution providers, clinicians across the health continuum, pharmaceutical/life sciences companies, and digital health technology innovators. We are honored to have so many of our ATA members recognized for their extraordinary vision and ongoing efforts to transform our healthcare system,” said Ann Mond Johnson, who is retiring as CEO of the ATA on December 10, 2025. “It is a great privilege to have our collective work recognized by Modern Healthcare, and a personal honor to be acknowledged alongside these thought leaders and trailblazers. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have guided the work of the ATA through an unprecedented period, and proud of our incredible accomplishments to help organizations improve access to needed care.”
The complete ranking can be found in the December issue of MH magazine, and profiles of all the honorees are available online at ModernHealthcare.com/100MostInfluential.
“It is most fitting for Ann to be recognized for her leadership, vision, and passion for advancing telehealth and digital health solutions as she prepares for retirement. Her leadership has transformed the ATA and established telehealth as an indispensable part of our healthcare system,” added Kyle Zebley, senior vice president, public policy, and executive director of ATA Action. He will succeed Ann as CEO, effective December 10, 2025.
This prestigious recognition program acknowledges and honors individuals who are deemed by the Modern Healthcare newsroom to be the most influential figures in the industry in terms of leadership and impact.
“Influence can be exerted in many ways but regardless of whether it is used to internally shape organizations, the healthcare industry as a whole or both, playing a positive role benefits patients and the professionals responsible for their health,” said Mary Ellen Podmolik, editor-in-chief of Modern Healthcare. “Our ranked list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare highlights the executives in all corners of the industry who are striving to advance medicine and how care is delivered — and succeeding in doing so.”
Ann Mond Johnson joined the ATA as CEO in 2018, bringing with her significant experience as both an entrepreneur and executive leader. During her tenure, she led the ATA and the wider industry through the unprecedented challenges of a global pandemic. Ann transformed the ATA, expanded its scope beyond a professional society and formed a more representative board, to drive real change and best address evolving patient and clinician needs and the realities of today’s healthcare market. She built a more expansive and engaged member network across major healthcare systems, innovative solution providers, and thought leading organizations, key stakeholder groups and alliances.
With the goal of establishing telehealth as an indispensable modality of care, Ann established a number of member-led initiatives, including councils, advisory groups and coalitions, and revitalized the ATA’s Special Interest Groups, uniting members to advance virtual care and harness the collective experience of these leading organizations to define what good looks like.
An important part of her legacy, Ann also convened industry leaders over the past five years to develop a first-of-its-kind, data-driven tool to benchmark U.S. communities’ digital access, empowering health, policy, and community leaders to make smarter, more informed decisions about the deployment of digital health services. Her vision for a unified digital health community, more broadly defined, informed the acquisition of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance earlier this year. This prestigious recognition program acknowledges and honors individuals who are deemed by their peers and the senior editors of Modern Healthcare to be the most influential figures in the industry in terms of leadership and impact.
About the ATA
As the only organization completely focused on advancing telehealth and digital health, the American Telemedicine Association is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to safe, affordable, and appropriate care when and where they need it, enabling the system to do more good for more people. The ATA represents a broad and inclusive member network of leading healthcare delivery systems, academic institutions, life sciences companies, technology solution providers and payers, as well as partner organizations and alliances, working to advance industry adoption of technology-enabled care, promote responsible policy, advocate for government and market normalization, and provide education and resources to help integrate virtual care into emerging value-based delivery models.
