Health Care
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Medical Technology
Winner: Harlan Robins, Adaptive Biotechnologies
WINNERHarlan RobinsCofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, Adaptive Biotechnologies, Seattle Harlan Robins is solving scientific puzzles to improve the way the health care industry diagnoses, monitors and treats diseases around the globe. His company, Adaptive Biotechnologies, has pioneered a patented immunosequencing technology that leverages next-generation sequencing to profile T-cell and B-cell receptors of the adaptive immune…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Health Care Delivery
WINNERCHI Franciscan Health Care Transformation Services TeamTacoma Challenging the status quo of health care delivery is what the CHI Franciscan Health Care team likes to do. Led by Matt Levi, director of Virtual Health Services, and Lana Adzhigirey, Care Transformation Progam manager, the team plays a critical role in implementing modern technological initiatives at CHI…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Delivery of Digital Health
WINNERDavid BakerProfessor of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle Designing a whole new world of proteins to address 21st-century problems in biomedicine, energy and technology is all in a days work for David Baker.Baker, who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences, is leading a team of researchers…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Medical Research
Winner: Colleen Delaney, M.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research; Silver Award: Charles E. Murry, M.D., University of Washington
WINNERColleen Delaney, M.D.Associate Member, Clinical Research Division, and Madeleine Dabney Adams Endowed Chair in AML Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle The heart and soul of Colleen Delaneys medical practice is patient care. To provide meaningful hope to patients where their future is uncertain and to walk that path with them is what I…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Medical Director/Chief Medical Officer
WINNERMark Adams, M.D.Chief Medical Officer, CHI Franciscan, Tacoma Mark Adams is a change agent. He has been the catalyst for transforming the way CHI Franciscan delivers health care improving patient access to care and advancing patient outcomes through innovative tools. He led the creation of CHI Franciscans Health and Informatics Department in 2013 and managed…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Health Care Executive Outside Puget Sound Region
WINNERThomas MartinCEO, Lincoln Hospital, Davenport Thomas Martin, former CEO and superintendent of Lincoln County Hospital, has increased access to health care throughout his community and continues to remain an important advocate for rural health care and critical access hospitals all across the state. Martin promotes quality and access bringing essential health care services to people…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Health Care Executive, Puget Sound Region
WINNERJune AltarasSwedish Seattle Chief Executive and System Chief Executive for Acute Care, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle As chief executive of acute care for the Swedish Health Services system, June Altaras guides her team to deliver the most efficient, effective and reliable care in Swedish hospitals by working directly with chief executives at each campus. With…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Lifetime Achievement
WINNERRich UmbdenstockFormer President and CEO, American Hospital Association For the past 40 years his entire career Rich Umbdenstock has been leading change in a field where he says doing the extraordinary is the ordinary. Along the way, he has helped to improve the quality and safety of health care for Americans. As leader of the…
Bright Idea: Have You Heard?
Ear infections are conundrums for doctors. Failure to properly treat otitis media infection of the middle ear can lead to a permanent loss of hearing. That chilling possibility and the difficulty in making a correct diagnosis often leads doctors to overprescribe antibiotics, which can contribute to drug resistance. Seattles OtoNexus Medical Technologies has developed a…
Bright Idea: It Takes a (Virtual) Village
Taking care of an elderly adult living at home is a challenge. Increasingly, those duties fall to a number of people, including home-care workers, doctors, therapists and relatives. Is Grandma eating right? Is she taking her pills? Whos taking her to the dentist? How do you coordinate all those activities while ensuring nothing is forgotten?…
The Woman Behind M3 Biotechnology
At 30 years, Leen Kawas is president and CEO of a drug startup tackling diseases of the brain that have confounded far more experienced executives. An immigrant from Jordan, Kawas came across the research while pursuing her doctorate at Washington State University and boldly decided to take it to market. In conversations, shes charming and…
UW recieves $25m for trials on mental health and appendicitis care
In another big win for UW Medicine and for furthering evidence-based medicine, UW researchers received two of four grants awarded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Here’s a letter from UW Medicine CEO Paul Ramsey announcing the award. I am very pleased to announce that UW Medicine researchers will receive a total of $25 million…
Improved state database of health-care claims data should improve cost and quality transparency in health care.
The state has moved to amend legislation passed last year that created an All-Payer Claims Database but hobbled it in ways that made in incapable of providing all the information necessary to create true competition in the health-care market. The new changes are significant, and our story here helped put a spotlight on the issue….