Kent’s Owen Applequist is among six new members named to the Northwest Kidney Centers board of trustees and its foundation board, which raises funds and helps build connections in the community.
Applequist, a supply operations analyst at REI, was one of the first kidney transplant recipients to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. An advocate in Olympia on behalf of issues affecting people with kidney disease, he receives dialysis at the Northwest Kidney Centers Renton clinic.
Other new trustees:
Lara Macklin recently joined Seattle Children’s Hospital as its campus design manager. She is deeply interested in ways to enhance patient, staff and family experiences in the built environment. She is Seattle chapter volunteer coordinator for the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation.
Dr. Meredith Mathews is a nephrologist and senior medical leader with extensive experience in health care, particularly in disease management. He has served as chief medical officer of DaVita VillageHealth, LifeMasters and Premera Blue Cross. The East Madison branch of the Seattle YMCA is named for him.
New foundation board members:
Dr. Raghu “Rags” Durvasula is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology and associate medical director for inpatient care and the medical director of dialysis services at University of Washington Medical Center. He works on process improvements to enhance the quality of care delivery and patient experience.
Christine Odegard is vice president and senior trust officer at Northern Trust Bank. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and a past board member of the Washington Planned Giving Council. With a family member who is on dialysis, she is interested in learning more about kidney health.
Dr. Sanjit Reddy is a transplant nephrologist at Swedish Medical Center. He has completed fellowships in transplant nephrology and nephrology at California Pacific Medical Center and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, respectively.
Northwest Kidney Centers, a nonprofit organization, provides 80 percent of the dialysis care in King and Clallam counties.
Learn more at www.nwkidney.org.
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