Career & Background

Healthcare quality and patient safety have been a focus throughout my career as an Emergency Physician and ED Medical Director at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland, Washington.  I was active in Peer Review and Quality Assurance within our EM Department, especially during the 25 years that I served as Medical Director and Chair of the Department. I also served as Medical Director of Evergreen Medic I for 15 years and was commended as Washington State “EMS Medical Advisor of the Year” in 1994. In 1999 I also co-founded our Hospitalist Program and served as the Medical Director for 2 years. In 2010 when I was elected to the Governing Board of Evergreen, I created and still chair our hospital’s board level Quality and Safety Committee.

In 2010 I relinquished my partnership in our EM group to avoid a conflict of interest between that role and my service on our hospital’s Board. However, I continued on a per diem basis for another 3 years monitoring patients in our Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab Clinic. I remain on the Medical Staff of Evergreen in an administrative capacity only and continue to be certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine through 2022.

As an outgrowth of this interest in quality,  I have served as an Expert Witness for both defense and plaintiff attorneys since 1985.

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