Advisory Board
Committee Officers
Paul Lin, MD, FACS, Associate Chair of SCOAP Advisory Board Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital Spokane, WA
WA State Chapter ACS Officers
Morrie Johnson, MD, FACS President, WA State Chapter, ACS Skagit Valley Medical Center Mount Vernon, WA
Members at Large
John Bramhall, MD, PhD Harborview Medical Center Seattle, WA
Karin D. Bussard, RN, CCRN Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital Spokane, WA
Patch Dellinger, MD, FACS Chair, Safer Surgery Checklist Coalition Professor & Vice Chair, Dept. of Surgery University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
David Flum, MD, MPH CERTAIN Medical Director University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
Denise Fowler, RN, MS Whitman Hospital and Medical Center Colfax, WA
Eric J. Froines, MD, FACS Group Health Cooperative Seattle, WA
Adam Goldin, MD, MPH Associate Medical Director, Pediatric SCOAP Seattle Children’s Seattle, WA
John Gore, MD, MS Associate Medical Director, Urology SCOAP University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
Peter Grigas, RN, BHSA, CTQM, CPHQ Valley Medical Center Renton, WA
Valerie J. Halpin, MD Legacy Good Samaritan Weight Management Institute Portland, OR
Darren Hess, MD Central Washington Hospital Wenatchee Valley Medical Center Wenatchee, WA
Marc Horton, MD, FACS Swedish Medical Center Seattle, WA
Sarah Javid, MD Associate Medical Director, Breast Cancer SCOAP University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
John Kisala, MD Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Yakima, WA
Juris Macs, MD Grays Harbor Community Hospital Aberdeen, WA
Louis Martin, MD, FACS, FCCM Samaritan Healthcare Moses Lake, WA
Mark Meissner, MD Associate Medical Director, Vascular Interventional SCOAP University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
Emma Patterson, MD Legacy Health System Portland, OR
Kristin Peterson, JD Washington State Department of Health Seattle, WA
Terry Quigley, MD, FACS Northwest Hospital Medical Center Seattle, WA
William Raum, MD, PhD Legacy Health System Portland, OR
Robert Rush, MD, COL MIL USA MAMC Madigan Army Medical Center Tacoma, WA
Carolina Salcedo-Wasicek, MD, FACS St. Francis Hospital Federal Way, WA
Neal Shonnard, MD Associate Medical Director, Spine SCOAP Good Samaritan Hospital Puyallup, WA
Mark Smith, MD, MBChB, MMedSci, FRACS Legacy Health System Portland, OR
Benjamin W. Starnes, MD Harborview Medical Center Seattle, WA
Scott Steele, MD, FACS, FASCRS Madigan Army Medical Center Tacoma, WA
Richard C. Thirlby, MD, FACS Virginia Mason Medical Center Seattle, WA
Tom Varghese, MD Associate Medical Director, Lung Cancer SCOAP University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
Hunter Wessels, MD Associate Medical Director, Prostate Cancer SCOAP University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
Advisors to SCOAP
Bernice Hecker, MD, MHA, FACC Medical Director, Part A Noridian Administrative Services Seattle, WA
Emeritus Member
SCOAP Medical Director
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Terry Rogers, MD Chief Executive Officer
Vickie A. Kolios-Morris, MSHSA, CPHQ
SCOAP Program Director
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