EVERETT — A rheumatologist has been elected to serve as president of the board of directors for The Everett Clinic.
Dr. Shawn Slack was elected by the clinic’s physician shareholders. He takes over for cardiologist Harold Dash, who served 11 years as president for the board.
Slack has served on the board of directors since 2002. He joined The Everett Clinic in rheumatology and also worked in the Walk-In Clinic until 2010.The Everett Clinic serves more than 300,000 patients in Snohomish County.
He was inspired to go into medicine by his grandmother, who suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis.
Slack is board certified in medicine and rheumatology. He earned his medical degree at the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in rheumatology there as well. He taught at the UW as a clinical associate professor of Medicine until last year.
A member of the American College of Rheumatology and the Northwest Rheumatology Society, Slack received Top Doc Awards from Seattle Metropolitan Magazine in 2014 and 2015, Seattle Magazine in 2015 and The Everett Clinic’s Patient Choice Award in 2014.
Dash, who left the board when his term expired in December, joined the clinic in 1984 to start its coronary angioplasty program and was among the first physicians to perform this lifesaving procedure in Snohomish County.
In December, The Everett Clinic’s physician shareholders voted to approve a merger with DaVita HealthCare Partners, the Denver, Colorado, based independent medical group and provider of kidney care.
The partnership is aimed at speeding the clinic’s growth and improving patient care, affordability and quality. The transaction is expected to close on or around March 1.
The clinic’s board will remain intact with Slack at its helm.
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