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Leadership

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) is organized as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation under Chapter 24.06 of the Revised Code of Washington.

Governance

  • Robert Bakemeier, Chair; Chair, Board Compensation Committee; Chair, Board Executive Committee; Seattle Children’s Board of Trustees; President, Bakemeier Law Firm
  • Carl Behnke, Vice Chair; Chair, Board Governance Committee; President, REB Enterprises, Inc.
  • Kimberly McNally, MN, RN, Secretary; Chair, Board Patient Quality, Safety & Service Committee; President, McNally & Associates 
  • Bob Gerth, Treasurer; Chair, Board Finance, Investment & Audit Committee; Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP (retired)
  • Brooks Ragen, Immediate Past Chair; Chair, Board of Directors, McAdams Wright Ragen & Manzanita Capital 
  • Lisa Brandenburg, President, Seattle Children’s Hospital
  • Mike Delman, Seattle Children’s Board of Trustees; Corporate Vice President, Microsoft (retired)
  • Mark Groudine, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President & Deputy Director, FHCRC; Professor, Radiation Oncology, UW School of Medicine
  • Jonelle Johnson, Chair, Board Facility Committee
  • Rich Jones, UW Medicine Board; President and CEO, Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants; Partner, Ernst & Young (retired) 
  • Robert MacAulay, Principal, Meriwether Partners LLC (retired)
  • Ruth Mahan, Chief Business Officer, UW Medicine; Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Washington
  • Linda Mattox, Chair, Board Development Committee; Seattle Children’s Research Advisory Board
  • Richard McCune, Chair, Board Integrity Committee; FHCRC Board of Trustees; Partner, KPMG LLP (retired)
  • Shan Mullin, UW Medicine Board; Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
  • Johnese Spisso, Chief Health System Officer, UW Medicine; Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Washington
  • Bruder Stapleton, MD, Chief Academic Officer & Senior VP, Seattle Children’s; Ford/Morgan Professor & Chair, Department of Pediatrics, UW School of Medicine; Associate Dean, UW School of Medicine
  • Myra Tanita, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, FHCRC

Member Representatives

  • Larry Corey, MD, President and Director, FHCRC; Professor, UW Department of Laboratory Medicine
  • Thomas Hansen, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Seattle Children’s
  • Paul Ramsey, MD, Chief Executive Officer, UW Medicine; Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Washington

SCCA Executive Management Team

  • Fred Appelbaum, MD, Executive Director and President: responsible for general administration and management of SCCA operations; Director, Clinical Research Division and Member, FHCRC; Professor and Head, Division of Medical Oncology, UW School of Medicine
  • Norm Hubbard, Executive Vice President: responsible for overall strategic leadership and management of SCCA
  • David Ackerson, Chief Information Officer and Vice President: responsible for Information Technology, Clinical Information Systems, Information Security, Health Information Management, Project Management, Continuous Performance Improvement, and Decision Support
  • Madeline Buelt, MSN, RN, Chief Nurse Executive and Vice President of Operations: responsible for the administrative and clinical operations of SCCA
  • Debby Gentzen, Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President: responsible for Strategy, Business Development, Marketing, the SCCA Network, Program Management, and Radiation Therapy
  • F. Marc Stewart, MD, Medical Director and Vice President: oversees clinical care and conducts quality monitoring of medical practice on behalf of SCCA
  • Jonathan Tingstad, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President: responsible for Finance, Revenue Cycle and Payor Relations, Patient Accounting, Facilities, and Patient Access