Seattle Biomed

A successful business and community leader with particular commitment to healthcare, Rosemary Barker Aragon has been instrumental in putting together partnerships between organizations, both public and private, and has a proven ability to communicate with business leaders, elected officials, and a wide range of professionals. Rosemary was the found... ing Executive Director of the Pacific Hospital PDA (a public development authority and a healthcare foundation that owned the landmark building on Beacon Hill that served as Amazon.coms initial corporate headquarters). The organization used its funds to fund organizations providing healthcare to low income and uninsured/underinsured persons. In the capacity of a building owner, she was responsible for the amicable termination of a long-term lease and for negotiation of a new 30-year lease. One key tenant of the property, leased to the State of Washington, is now the Seattle Colleges healthcare training program. Prior to that she held a number of high level positions at Group Health Cooperative. During her over 25 years at GHC, she was the delivery system leader for a number of clinical information systems implementations, she had overall responsibility for 6 primary care clinics, and she led an internal consulting group. Prior to her healthcare career, she held management positions with King County, the Puget Sound Regional Council, and the City of Seattle. Rosemary has a BA, with honors, from the University of Washington. She also holds a Masters of Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance (University of Washington). Rosemary served as a Rotary District Governor in 2002-03. Since then, she has had many appointed leadership responsibilities within the 10 west-coast Districts that comprise Rotary Zones 25/26. This included Public Image and PR. In 2016 she chairs a major conference for Rotary leaders from 7 states and British Columbia Canada. She has most recently served on the Canadian Landmine Foundation, the Rotary-Malaria ...Read More