Lisa Brandenburg, who has been named the new chief health system officer for UW Medicine, is a nationally recognized innovator in healthcare.

In her new position, Brandenburg will oversee operations of the UW Medicine clinical entities, including Harborview Medical Center, Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, University of Washington Medical Center, Valley Medical Center, UW Neighborhood Clinics, UW Physicians and Airlift Northwest.

“Lisa is an innovative leader who is recognized locally and nationally for her expertise in strategy development, quality improvement, program expansion and financial management,” said Dr. Paul Ramsey, chief executive officer, UW Medicine. “Her vision and expertise will further enhance our outstanding care in support of our mission to improve the health of the public.”

Brandenburg currently leads the academic medical center and pediatric healthcare practice at Simpler Consulting, an IBM company, where she works with hospitals and health systems across the country. In addition to her management experience, she is a national expert on the use of lean methodology to redesign healthcare. This is done from the perspective of the patient to improve outcomes and reduce cost.

“I am very excited to build on UW Medicine’s rich history of innovation in research, teaching and patient care,” Brandenburg said. “We have a unique opportunity to be a national leader for healthcare reform by developing new approaches to keeping people healthy. I am also committed to creating a workplace environment that continues to attract top talent and supports employee development, engagement and wellness.”

Brandenburg will begin her new position at UW Medicine in mid-December. During her previous, 17-year career at UW Medical Center from 1990 to 2007, her leadership positions included chief operating officer from 2004 to 2006, and interim executive director from 2006 to 2007. She also played a major role in the formation of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. In 2007, she became a senior vice president at Seattle Children’s Hospital. From 2012 to 2016, she served as president of the hospital.

Brandenburg holds a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance and a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. In recognition of her contributions to healthcare and her mentoring of women, the Puget Sound Business Journal selected her as one of its Women of Influence in 2016.

Mike Glenn joined Jefferson Healthcare as CEO in October 2010. He also served as CEO of Olympic

Medical Center in Port Angeles from 1999 to 2006.

Mike spent two+ years as Sr. Vice President of Business Development and Product Line Management at

Valley Medical Center, a 303-bed, public hospital district in Renton.

Prior to Valley Medical Center, Mike was the COO at Providence St. Peter Hospital, a 364-bed hospital in

Olympia.

A native Washingtonian, Mike was born in Olympia and earned a degree in Political Science from Linfield

College in McMinnville, Oregon, and a Masters of Health Administration from Xavier University in

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Affiliations include:

Peninsula College, Board of Trustees

WSHA Safety and Quality Committee, Co-chair

Washington State Hospital Association, Board Member

AHA Regional Policy Board, Alternate Member

Rural Hospital Committee

Association of Washington Public Hospital District, Past President

Foundation for Health Care Quality, Past Board Member

Northwest Hospital Council, Past President

American College of Healthcare Executives

William (Bill) Foulkes currently serves as the National Vice President for Cumming Corporation and has more than 30 years of development, program management, and consulting experience.

During his career, Bill has led teams in the successful completion of numerous types of developments including hotel/condo, office, mixed use, commercial, and healthcare projects. With his vast experience working for major national organizations, he has a unique understanding of strategy and master planning as well as design and construction management. Bill is often consulted on various matters related to real estate development, planning, design and construction. Bill’s list of clients includes Providence St. Joseph Health, Kaiser Permanente, Catholic Health Initiatives/Franciscan Health System, Amazon, Facebook, Marriott, and TDA Investment Group.

Bill holds a bachelor’s degree in construction management from Colorado State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado. He is a past Chapter President and National Board Member of the Healthcare Institute, and an active member in ASHE, NAHSE, and The Commission

Duncan Griffin, AIA, LEED AP is a registered architect with 30 years of experience. As Managing Principal

of HDR’s Architecture Studio in Seattle, he leads a practice focused on bringing regenerative design

principals to our diverse clients in Health, Community, and Education markets.

Particularly targeting the Human Experience in the built environment, he finds synergies that also make

projects more efficient and less expensive to operate. A successful outcome for him delivers healthy

experiences for building occupants, a flexible built infrastructure, and facilities that serve the community

through reduced water, energy and carbon impacts.

Dr. Davidson is a world-renowned breast cancer researcher who serves as President and Executive

Director of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Senior Vice President and Director of the Clinical Research

Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Head of the Division of Medical Oncology

at the University of Washington.

Dr. Davidson has published key findings on the role of hormones, particularly estrogen, on gene

expression and cell growth in breast cancer. She has guided several important national clinical trials of

new therapies for breast cancer, including chemo-endocrine therapy for premenopausal breast cancer.

Her research has been supported by a portfolio of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),

Department of Defense, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and Susan Komen for the Cure.

An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians,

Dr. Davidson is a member of the scientific advisory boards as well as external advisory boards of many

foundations and cancer centers. She has also served as President of both the American Association of

Cancer Research (AACR) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) - the two largest

organizations for cancer researchers and oncology professionals in the world.

Dr. Davidson earned her MD degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her internal medicine

internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and internal medicine residency at Johns

Hopkins Hospital. Subsequently, Dr. Davidson completed a medical oncology fellowship at the NIH’s

National Cancer Institute. She was a faculty member in the Department of Oncology at the Johns

Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1986 to 2009, serving as Director of the Breast Cancer

Program and as the Breast Cancer Research Chair of Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of

Medicine. From 2009-2016 she served as Hillman Professor of Medicine and associate vice chancellor

for cancer research at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer

Institute.

Rhonda has been devoted to healthcare design solutions for over 20 years with clients from across the country. Beginning her career in Louisville, Kentucky, leading healthcare projects with such clients as Norton Healthcare and Children’s Hospitals across multiple states, she has become an expert in bringing together design, technology, and real estate to help clients deliver optimal care while achieving their business goals. Today, Rhonda is the Director of Workspace Consulting for OpenSquare, leading a specialized team and the strategic vision for the health and wellness division. She has consulted with nearly all major healthcare providers in the region, including Kaiser Permanente, Providence St. Joseph Health, Evergreen Healthcare, Swedish, Virginia Mason, UW Medical Center, and many others. She is also a trusted advisor for multiple healthcare best practice groups.

Whether large or small, Rhonda is passionate about helping clients to fulfill their goals by providing environments that support patients, families, and caregivers. As a leader in healthcare design Rhonda has a front line view of how technology, real estate, mergers and the execution of healthcare is changing communities and how people receive healthcare services.

With a dual background as a nurse and architect, Tammy specializes in planning, programming, and designing for healthcare facilities. She is widely recognized for her behavioral health expertise and often presents and educates leaders on the dramatic impact design can have on patient outcomes. Tammy utilizes Lean principles and transparent communication to translate the needs of patients, staff, and stakeholders into high-performance facilities. Her portfolio ranges from new hospitals in suburban and urban settings, to local and familiar healthcare clinics. Regardless of size or location, Tammy introduces design elements that promote a sense of normalcy and healing, while balancing patient and staff safety considerations.

Clayton is a 35 year veteran of health & aging, public policy and government relations. He serves as MedSpace Innovations Vice President of Development and Real Estate.

Previously, Clayton served as a senior member of the White House staff of George HW Bush. He is the former CEO of NAPCA, a national aging and health organization. He also served as Executive VP of US Operations and Member of the Board of L&L Energy, which was a NASDAQ listed international energy company. He was instrumental in the growth of both organizations from regional to national and international footprints.

President George W Bush tapped Clayton to serve on The White House Fellows Commission, The White House Conference on Aging and as a Member of the US delegation to the World Conference on Aging.

Clayton has served on advisory boards for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and AT&T and Chaired the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

Clayton is a graduate of UC Berkeley and is an avid but not very good golfer.

J. Michael Marsh joined Overlake Medical Center in April 2014 to serve as the organization's president and CEO. With 33 years of experience in strategy, business development and operations supporting hospitals and health systems, Marsh has demonstrated success at all levels of management within different markets and across the entire continuum of care.

Prior to joining Overlake, Marsh spent 26 years with Providence Health and Services, with 14 of those years in senior executive positions. In his most recent role he served as chief administrative officer for Providence’s Western Washington region.

From 2006-2011, Marsh served as both chief operating officer and chief strategic officer for Providence’s Washington/Montana region supporting five markets (1,700 beds, 500 physicians, 25,000 employees) and a full continuum of post-acute services. In this role, he was additionally responsible for information services, communications, advocacy/government relations, strategy/business development and physician services.

Marsh is known and well respected for his proven ability to provide strategic leadership at all levels of the organization and across diverse markets. He is a skilled negotiator and consensus builder who is able to synthesize complex topics quickly and galvanize commitment in order to consistently achieve desired and targeted results.

Marsh holds a master’s degree in Health Services Administration from the University of Washington. He is married and has one grown daughter and a grandson.

Kyle Raschkow has been in the construction industry since 1996 and brings expertise in healthcare construction. After earning a dual degree in Construction Management and Business Administration from Washington State University, he built a diverse portfolio of projects including healthcare, critical environments, corporate office, and retail facilities. Kyle believes in a project-first mentality and team accountability that allows our clients to depend on us.

Victoria Nichols is a partner at ZGF Architects with more than two decades of experience managing the planning, programming, and design of a variety of projects in the healthcare sector. Her focus is on collaboration—working closely with project teams and stakeholders to deliver patient-focused facilities that provide clients with optimal value. Victoria’s holistic approach to each phase of the design process has led to highly flexible, award-winning healthcare environments for clients such as Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, consistently ranked among the U.S. News & World Report’s list of the Best Children’s Hospitals.

Von Lambert is a Senior Project Manager for Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) with more

than 30 years’ experience and specialized expertise in the planning, operation,

design and construction of healthcare facilities. As a Certified Healthcare Facilities

Manager, Von is able to take the owner’s perspective to comprehensively assess

a project’s needs and expertly navigate the preconstruction, construction,

closeout and turnover phases to achieve optimal design and engineering intent.

Clients rely on Von for his proactive approach to complex challenges and

thoughtful solutions that expedite project delivery, reduce operational

costs and realize facility efficiencies while ensuring requirements of all

Authority Having Jurisdictions, stakeholders, and end users are met. His

proven track record comprises landmark healthcare facilities and commercial

developments across North America in both private and public sectors.

Prior to joining RLB, Von served two decades as a Hospitals System Facilities

Director where he leveraged technology utilization, human resources development

and problem solving skills to improve patient and provider experience. He

then went on to lead the Technology Solutions group at HDR Architecture,

enhancing facility designs by utilizing contemporary and innovative technology

to improve the experience and outcomes in clinical and operational processes.

Von is a forward-thinking, client-focused professional with the ability to

develop concepts and put them into practice. He is a problem-solver, a

resourceful and accomplished leader and is recognized for doing what it takes

to get the job done. He is also known as a quick learner who easily bridges

the gap between administrative initiatives and workplace solutions.

Austen directs projects for corporate clients in health & wellness, home products, digital mobility, vehicle innovation, and experiential environments. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of design direction and management at Modern Edge, Inc. including design quality, program management, client contact, human factors, detail design engineering, ethnographic research, product positioning and service design.

CEO Modern Edge INc.

VP Board: Health Technology Collaborative in Beaverton Oregon, current

Board Member: Design Museum Foundation Portland / Boston / San Francisco, current

Chair of the Board: Industrial Designers Society of America, 2013 - 2015

Former Board member and original trustee: the Design Foundation 501_C3

Prior to founding Modern Edge he worked as the Corporate Director of Design Research & Innovation for the Intel Corporation. His teams have developed new products, new categories, and new markets for industry leaders such as John Deere, Harley Davidson, AGCO, Palmer Johnson Yachts, SC Johnson Wax, BMW, Gillette, St Jude Medical, Sunbeam, and others. Mr Angell was voted one of the fifty most influential designers in the last fifty years by the membership of the Industrial Design Society in 2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Fellows by IDSA in 2015.

Ben leads strategy engagements with national governments, providers and the biotech community. For most of the last decade, he worked across Asia helping to address market access, technology incubation strategies, and regulatory reform for healthcare providers, pharma and medtech companies. He is a Senior Associate for International Health at the think tank NBR, where he works on questions around healthcare policy and innovation.

Bill Cox is the Senior Director of Planning & Growth for Microsoft’s Healthcare business. He co-founded Microsoft’s Health Next team in 2016 to create an applied research organization focused on innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology, and has helped grow that organization and Microsoft’s health investment through its recent $19 billion acquisition of Nuance Communications. In addition to other leadership roles at Microsoft in corporate strategy and marketing, Bill has served in several leadership positions at Silicon Valley software companies, including Vice President of Corporate Communications at Informatica, and Director of Strategic Marketing at PeopleSoft.

Molly Wolf is a healthcare market leader, licensed architect, and Principal at Ankrom Moisan Architects. Based in Seattle, Washington, and serving as an active board member on the AIA Architecture for Health Committee, Molly is dedicated to improving healthcare facilities through patient-focused design solutions and progressive delivery methods. Her experience includes time on the owner’s side as a Construction Project Manager for Swedish Medical Center and has expanded over the past decade to include medical center planning and design, acute care facility renovations, and community based care integration. Nothing more clearly demonstrates her care and passionate support for others than her role as mom to two young boys.

As a life-time systems thinker, Melissa thrives in facilitating social design experiences that guide groups through the process of divergent creative and critical thinking to convergent implementation. She brings a refreshing and healthy disruption as she inspires people to stretch their thinking and shift mindsets, opening the gateway to designing effective and innovative ways to engage, behave and work together.

Melissa has an insatiable desire for learning, curiosity, critical thinking and creativity and relies on these superpowers to drive her unwavering approach. She facilitates engagements that empower teams to make visible the many inter-related parts of a presenting challenge and helps them realize their interconnections, strengthen their relationships, leverage their strengths, and synthesize learning into innovative, effective, actionable, and achievable improvements.

Melissa has a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership with a focus in Organizational Systems Design. She has been an active designer for over 25 years.

David M. Boitano brings 25 years of healthcare investment

experience. His capital allocation and underwriting are informed by

over $15 billion of real estate transactions, complemented by a

unique operating perspective gained as part of the senior leadership

for a national senior housing provider. He’s secured relationships

and invested across the healthcare spectrum including seniors

housing, long-term care and medical offices as both a REIT and

operating executive.

At Lument 1 Mr. Boitano is a Managing Director offering a broad array of debt and structured

products to senior housing and healthcare partners who seek flexible, innovative financing

solutions to their capital needs. Prior to Lument he was a Senior Investment Officer for a large

reit where he identified and initiated numerous transactions including the sponsor’s then largest

investment - a new relationship with a publicly traded operator secured via the acquisition of a

$187 million, 24 property portfolio. For another new client he facilitated a $59 million recap and

then more than quadrupled the relationship with follow-on acquisitions and the provision of a

development facility. A growing regional operator was aided by a creative takeout structure

which enabled the new customer to finance the construction of a $60 million campus. This

development was soon joined by additional investments, more than doubling the relationship.

Mr. Boitano’s capital formation efforts at Alterra Healthcare included over $1.5 billion of

mortgage originations and sale-leaseback financing. His healthcare experience began in 1994

as Chief Financial Officer for a regional assisted living provider where he led a recapitalization

and merger with Alterra (pre-IPO), then joined the fast-growing national operator’s management

team, participating in the initial and secondary public offerings and rising to Senior Vice

President of Finance & Acquisitions and Treasurer.

Mr. Boitano is active in several organizations and is a frequent industry speaker. He’s the

immediate past Chairman of the Finance Council for the Archdiocese of Seattle and also serves

on the Council’s Executive and Real Estate Subcommittees. He is a past board member for the

National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC), the California Assisted Living

Association (CALA) and Eclipse Senior Living.

His career began at Ernst & Young (audit) and includes a background in various transactional

advisory and corporate finance roles. Mr. Boitano earned his B.A. in Business Administration

summa cum laude from Pacific Lutheran University and he is a Certified Public Accountant

Mark Jones is the Senior Vice President, Partnerships and Strategy at PMB. Mark brings a dedication to work that is the stuff of legend, being famous for emails starting at 4:00 AM.

At PMB, Mark oversees partnerships, and strategic growth for the organization. He has more than 20 years of healthcare related experience in development, design, construction, consulting, strategy and operations.

Prior to joining PMB, Mark held several positions at ERDMAN, a design build firm located in Madison, Wisconsin, most recently as SVP of Senior living. His project experience includes senior living, on and off campus master planning, new hospital construction, market analysis, ambulatory surgery centers and community health facilities.

Mark received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington State University.

Margaret McCormick, PhD, serves as executive director and chief operating officer of Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) and also as vice president of research for Virginia Mason Medical Center. Dr. McCormick joined BRI in 2017 and previously served as BRI’s chief administrative officer, with direct oversight of operational functions including human resources, finance, facilities and safety.

Over the past two decades, Dr. McCormick’s work has centered on launching, managing and investing in life science companies, frequently at the start-up level. Most recently, she served as CEO of Matrix Genetics, an industrial biotechnology company, spun out of Targeted Growth, Inc. Prior to that role, she held positions as chief operations officer at Targeted Growth, as a principal at Integra Ventures, as a consultant for McKinsey & Company and as Director of Business Development for the biomedical incubator and technology investment fund at Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. McCormick received a PhD in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Recently, she served as a trustee for both the Pacific Northwest Research Institute and the Life Science Discovery Fund Authority and is currently the Vice Chair and member of the Executive Committee of the Life Sciences Washington board.

As a principal and project director at OAC Services, Derek oversees major capital projects for healthcare

and biomedical clients ranging from multimillion dollar new facilities to complete hospital system

upgrades. A recognized authority on project/construction management and owner’s representative

services in the medical construction market, Derek leads OAC’s specialized team of architects, engineers,

and construction managers on some of the most complex and most demanding projects. His 20+ years

of experience, coupled with his technical acumen and collaborative project management focus has given

him the opportunity to lead multi-year projects for Virginia Mason, the Benaroya Research Institute,

BioMed Realty, Mason General Hospital, Swedish Medical Center, and several other healthcare

institutions and biotech companies throughout the Pacific Northwest and California.