July 18, 2023

Northwest Kidney Centers

Reddy

Patel

Pappoe

Gardner

Northwest Kidney Centers recently added four new members to its board of trustees. Lauren Gardner is corporate vice president, global talent acquisition, at Microsoft. Gardner leads a team responsible for the company's university, industry, and executive-level hiring. She has worked in various human resources leadership roles at Microsoft since 1991, and serves as HR executive sponsor for Microsoft's Blacks at Microsoft employee resource group. Gardner earned her bachelor's degree and MBA from the University of Washington. Shika Pappoe is chief medical officer and nephrologist with Hill Physicians Medical Group. She previously worked for Strive Health, where she served as the renal and value-based care expert. She earned her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, her Master of Public Health from Harvard, and her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Hina Patel is chief growth officer, strategy & market development, healthcare at Microsoft. Patel earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Westminster. Sanjit Reddy, a transplant nephrologist and member of Swedish Medical Center's transplant program, joins the board of trustees and steps into the role of chairman of Northwest Kidney Centers' Foundation Board, where he has served since 2017. Reddy graduated from the University of the West Indies, completed his residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and completed fellowships in transplant nephrology and nephrology at California Pacific Medical Center and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, respectively. Raj Mehrotra, Rich Bloch, Russ Stepp, Chris Seel, and Meredith Matthews stepped down from the board when their terms ended on June 30th. Founded in Seattle in 1962, Northwest Kidney Centers is a not-for-profit, community-based provider of kidney dialysis, public health education and research into the causes and treatments of chronic kidney disease.