Harborview Board of Trustees

Eileen Cody was appointed to the 11th Legislative District in 1994. The district included the Duwamish, I-5 corridor from Pioneer Square in Seattle south to Tukwila. She served five terms in that role until 2002. She won a seat in the 34th Legislative District in 2002, representing Burien, Vashon Island and West Seattle. She chaired the House’s Health Care and Wellness Committee and championed patient safety, behavioral health parity and public health issues in Olympia. She led the effort to implement the Affordable Care Act at the state level. Ms. Cody was a Registered Nurse for 40 years and is a founding member and former Treasurer of 1199 Northwest Hospital and Health Care Workers, SEIU/AFL-CIO.

Maple Valley native and Newcastle resident Paul Graves has served as a state representative, an appointed commissioner to both the state and King County redistricting commissions, and on the board of several non-profits, including HopeLink and the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition.

A lawyer by trade, Paul is in-house counsel for an Auburn-based trucking company. He is also president of Enterprise Washington, a nonprofit working for a thriving business community in Washington state. He regularly represents foster kids pro bono in trial courts, and was named the pro bono attorney of the year by King County’s leading foster youth and advocacy organization.

Paul and his wife, Jenny, have three young boys: Patrick, Danny, and John.

David Grossman, MD, MPH, is currently Clinical Professor of Health Systems and Population Health and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine, respectively. He is also Adjunct Professor of Health System Sciences at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard Tyson School of Medicine.

Dr. Grossman recently retired from Kaiser Permanente as Vice President of Social Health and Equity for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals and Professor of Health, where he led Kaiser Permanente’s national social health strategy in partnership with the Permanente Medical Groups as well efforts to address health equity population health goals under Kaiser Permanente’s quality program.

Dr. Grossman brings more than 30 years of medical and community health experience. He has served in a variety of executive leadership roles for in quality, preventive services, health policy and government relations, health plan business development and community health. He also was a senior research investigator for Group Health Cooperative prior to its transition to Kaiser Permanente.

Before joining Group Health Cooperative and Kaiser Permanente in 2004, Dr. Grossman was a professor of pediatrics and adjunct professor of health services at the University of Washington and was the director of the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center in Seattle. He has published over two hundred articles related to motor vehicle and firearm injury prevention, Native American health and clinical preventive services. He has served as member chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force from 2008-18 and also served on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the CDC.

Dr. Grossman received his undergraduate education in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A board-certified pediatrician, he completed his residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle.

David Hadley had provided executive leadership for research and development organizations throughout his 30 year career in both entrepreneurial start-ups and large public companies. He has extensive experience in building successful organizations, mergers, acquisitions, venture financing and initial public offerings. Technologies managed include projects for the Department of Defense for nuclear detection and discrimination, software systems in support of oil and gas exploration, enterprise-wide software systems for customer management and medical device development for diagnostic cardiology (ECG). Hadley retired from Quinton / Cardiac Science in 2007 and continues to pursue cardiac research interests with Stanford colleagues. Hadley holds a PhD in geophysics from Caltech and is the author of ~40 papers published in peer reviewed journals.

Sharon Maeda has decades of public policy experience in both her career and community service. Her career has included Deputy Secretary for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington DC, Deputy General Secretary for the United Methodist Church Board of Ministries and Director of the Ford Foundation’s Seattle Community Development Partnership. Serving on numerous committees and community organizations, such as the Alaska Way Viaduct Replacement Program Advisory Committee on Tolling and Traffic Management, Sharon has supported public policy, advocacy initiatives, referenda, and legislation on local, state and, national levels.

Sharon holds a BA and MAT from the University of Washington. She completed the Advanced Management Seminar Program at Harvard University.

Dr. Mathews retired as Sr. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Blue Shield of California a $10B health plan with 3 million members. He has extensive experience in health plans, disease and medical group management. In the areas of Disease and population health management Dr. Mathews served as Chief Medical Officer of Davita VillageHealth and LifeMasters Supported Self Care. As a health plan executive, in addition to Blue Shield of California Dr. Mathews has been a senior executive in other health plans with 1 million members or greater. These include: Sr. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Premera Blue Cross in Washington and Alaska, as well as President of Premera HealthPlus, the company’s Health Maintenance Organization and Medica Health Plan in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Mathews was a surveyor and instructor for the National Committee for Quality Assurance and a member of the Review Oversight Committee, which made the final decisions on individual health plan accreditation. Dr. Mathews was in practice as a specialist in Nephrology and as a general internist for 18 years at Pacific Medical Center at the time a 110 member multi-specialty practice affiliated with the University of Washington in Seattle where he rose to the level of Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. Administratively at Pacific Medical Center, Dr. Mathews was Vice President of Operations. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology, and M.D. and Master of Public Health from the University of Washington.

David McDonald practices technology-related intellectual property litigation at K&L Gates in Seattle. He graduated form Harvard Law School in 1973. He is a member of the American Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association and the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association.

Dave is a past president of the Harborview Board and has served as a Trustee since 1998.

Dorothy Teeter is a nationally recognized health systems chief executive and innovator with a history of successfully leading health system transformation in both public and private health sectors. Dorothy was previously the Director of the Washington State Health Care Authority and a Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. She spent ten years as the Director for Seattle/King County Public Health.

Sheryl Whitney is a Partner of Whitney Jennings, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping institutions be more effective and build stronger communities. She comes to this frim after building a record of leadership and creativity in public service. Sheryl served for seven years as Deputy County Executive in King County. In this role she supervised and managed the Departments of Adult and Juvenile Detention, Community and Human Services, Development and Environmental Services, Executive Services, Information Technology, Natural Resources and Parks, Public Health and Transportation, a workforce totaling 13,000 employees. This position also placed Sheryl in a leadership role for numerous transformative initiatives in King County, including those focused on advancing equity and social justice, sustainable housing solutions, policies to slow the rate of climate change, alternatives to incarceration, the quality of rural area service provision and improved program performance measurement and accountability. Utilizing this experience Sheryl provides assistance to local governments seeking innovation through engaging diverse communities and navigating budgetary constraints. She also provides governmental relations services.

Sheryl has provided equitable development consultation to the Ford, Kresge and Open Society Foundations and well as New York University. She has also worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and played a key role in helping rethink approaches to fair housing to foster greater inclusion and better influence planning and development patterns in communities.

Sheryl's passions extend beyond effective public administration, fair/affordable housing, and equitable economic development. She actively advocates for child welfare reform and an improved foster care system. She is also an advocate for homelessness services through a "housing first" model.

Sheryl has a Masters Degree in International Economic Development from American University in Washington, D.C., a Bachelor's Degree in International Studies from the Jackson School of the University of Washington, and a certificate in Executive Leadership from Seattle University.

The child of two nurses, Laura Kate Zaichkin brings nearly 15 years of passion for and experience in health reform and health systems transformation. Her roles have included leading health care affordability policy for Washington state’s health insurance marketplace, serving as deputy chief policy officer for the Washington State Health Care Authority, leading health benefit purchasing strategy for the state’s long-term home caregiving workforce, and convening a multi-sector partnership of national health care quality entities in Washington, DC.

Laura Kate has a master’s degree in public health policy from The George Washington University, and early in her career worked as a journalist. Born in King County and a Pacific Northwest native, Laura Kate lives in White Center with her spouse and rescue dog.