--- description: Bernard J. Tyson is on the TIME 100 2017 list. John Lewis wrote about the Kaiser Permanente CEO. title: Bernard J. Tyson by John Lewis: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2550d7c3ba8f7fe9/6988c33f8e06012656469fa2/time-100-2017-bernard-tyson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 19, 2017 # Bernard J. Tyson by John Lewis  Photograph by Jeff Singer—Redux Bernard J. Tyson is one of the leading authorities on public health in America. He is smart, gifted, thoughtful and a highly respected voice in the struggle to make high-quality health care affordable for every American. As the CEO of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health plans, Bernard addresses the medical needs of more than 11.3 million people. He has devoted more than 30 years of his professional life to Kaiser, managing all the major aspects of the company before he became the CEO. During his tenure, Bernard has focused on public health and preventive care, rather than just treating disease, seeking to provide high-quality, affordable, accessible health care to all of its members. And from his position of considerable influence, he has brought an often overlooked aspect of medicine to the forefront: mental and emotional health. Because of Bernard’s leadership, Kaiser’s 200,000 employees and 20,000 physicians have consistently delivered some of the best clinical outcomes in the nation. _Lewis is a U.S. Representative from Georgia_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742745/bernard-j-tyson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742745/bernard-j-tyson/"},"headline":"Bernard J. Tyson","datePublished":"2017-04-19T17:27:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:22:25.628Z","description":"Bernard J. Tyson is on the TIME 100 2017 list. John Lewis wrote about the Kaiser Permanente CEO.","url":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742745/bernard-j-tyson/","keywords":["TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2550d7c3ba8f7fe9/6988c33f8e06012656469fa2/time-100-2017-bernard-tyson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2550d7c3ba8f7fe9/6988c33f8e06012656469fa2/time-100-2017-bernard-tyson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742745/bernard-j-tyson/","name":"Bernard J. Tyson"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See All the TIME 100 Honorees in One Minute","description":"The TIME 100 honorees include actors, musicians, politicians, business leaders, activists and scientists, and together make a portrait of influence in 2017.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/zZCdrcRA/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-04-20T10:30:45.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/zZCdrcRA.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742745/bernard-j-tyson/","duration":"PT56S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4742745/bernard-j-tyson/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```