Thursday, Mar. 19, 2009

Peter Pronovost

AGE: 44
OCCUPATION: Johns Hopkins physician
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1

PRO: By distilling a convoluted set of hospital guidelines into a five-item checklist — designed for use with intensive-care patients — he helped save thousands of lives and millions of dollars in hospital costs.

CON: Hmm. For this guy? We got nothing.