Sheila Rege, MD, FACRO, is an experienced board member, Chair and CEO in the healthcare sector with expertise in tech savvy solutions, brand development, and regulatory issues.

She has founded companies that outperformed larger established entities. At Northwest Cancer Clinic LLC, her team developed a unique brand with disruptive thinking, incorporation of automated virtual software systems, and national certification recognition of customer service. Northwest Cancer Clinic LLC created a strategic partnership with an international entity. Currently, Sheila owns privately held companies in the healthcare and real estate industries.

Sheila’s inclusive and visionary approach as well as a 360-degree view of healthcare has led to leadership roles within clinical care delivery, regulatory, payor and data privacy boards and committees. Sheila has received numerous awards including Top Oncologist for her contributions to healthcare.

Sheila is currently Chair of the Board of the American College of Radiation Oncology and serves on the boards of directors of Washington State Medical Association and Benton Franklin County Medical Society. She serves on the committee member of the health policy committee at the American Medical Association. She is Chair of the Washington State Health Technology Committee.

She has served as Nom/Gov Chair and Compensation Committee member for Physicians Insurance, a mutual company. She advises CEOs of computational health start-ups at the University of Washington Foster School of Business Creative Destruction Laboratory Program. She is a Life Science Committee member at the Seattle Alliance of Angels. She teaches leadership and analytic thinking as Associate Professor at WSU Medical School.

Sheila has a passion for corporate governance best practices, regulatory compliance, and diversity issues. She believes that “the best board members have humility, mental toughness and learning agility. Diversity within boards strengthens independent thinking amidst a culture of trust. This allows board discussions to have an element of creative tension, that is hard to define but you know it when you experience it.”