Swedish Board of Trustees welcomes five new members
We are pleased to welcome our new board members and express our gratitude to the entire board for their work on behalf of the Swedish community.
Swedish Health Services is governed by a board of trustees whose dedicated members volunteer their time for the essential work of policy establishment and organizational management and planning, including the performance improvement promotion and the provision of resources.
Recently, our Swedish Health Services Board of Trustees welcomed five new members: Ron Berenstain, Esq., Bruce Blume, Darryl Elmouchi, M.D., Samuel Nadler, M.D., and Tina Pappas.
Ron Berenstain, Esq., has been practicing law with Perkins Coie in Seattle for more than 45 years where he has served as lead defense counsel in scores of high-stakes securities and corporate governance cases. Ron has defended public companies and large private companies and their officers and directors, as well as underwriters and accountants, in shareholder class action litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, merger and acquisition litigation, ERISA class action litigation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement proceedings and internal investigations. Ron has extensive experience with matters involving accounting irregularities, financial restatements, disclosure regulation compliance and insider trading claims.
Ron has been recognized with many awards and recognition, including being ranked by Chambers USA as “America’s Leading Lawyer” for Commercial Litigation from 2012-2025; named Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year for ERISA Litigation, named multiple times by Best Lawyers’ for Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, ERISA Litigation and Merger and Acquisition Litigation; listed as a Washington Super Lawyer 2003-2025; and is a Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America.
Ron received a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College and a JD from Yale Law School.
Bruce Blume is the founder and Chairman of Blume Company Real Estate, a Seattle-based real estate development and management business. Over the past 40 years, Blume Company Real Estate has helped transform Seattle’s skyline. Representative building occupants have included the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Amazon.com, AT&T Wireless and the University of Washington.
Mr. Blume graduated from the University of Washington and attended Georgetown Law School. During law school, Mr. Blume was a legislative assistant to Sen. Warren Magnuson (D-WA), where he met his wife, Ann, a Cornell University graduate working for Sen. Bob Packwood (R-OR). Mr. Blume then clerked for Chief Walter T. McGovern of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. In 1982, he moved into the real estate field and, with Ann, founded Blume Company Real Estate.
Mr. Blume served on the Georgetown University Board of Directors and currently serves on the Seattle Art Museum Board. He previously served on the boards of the University of Washington Foundation, the Henry Art Gallery, and served as President of the Seattle Parks Foundation. Mr. and Mrs. Blume recently founded the Blume Public Leadership Institute at Georgetown Law. The institute will train and position Blume scholarship recipients for lives of service as public officials, policymakers, thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries.
The Blumes hosted the President Barak Obama at their home in 2012 and 2014.They are the parents of five children and three grandchildren, and share a passion for family, public policy, and philanthropy.
Darryl Elmouchi, M.D., serves as the chief operating officer for Providence. Responsible for operational oversight and strategy, he works to ensure access to a portfolio of vital, high-quality and affordable services across the Providence footprint while also leading the organization’s care transformation strategies. Additionally, he oversees home and community care, compliance, real estate, facilities, supply chain and key clinical care functions.
Prior to this role, Dr. Elmouchi served as chief operating officer of Corewell Health, which is headquartered in Michigan, where he oversaw strategy, operations, clinical care delivery and financial performance for the organization’s entire clinical enterprise of hospitals, ambulatory portfolio and post-acute care network.
A practicing physician until 2020, Dr. Elmouchi earned his medical degree from University of Michigan Medical School, an MBA from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and a certificate in biostatistics from University of Michigan School of Public Health. He completed his internship, residency and chief residency at University of California, San Francisco, and fellowships in cardiac electrophysiology and cardiovascular medicine at University of Michigan Health System.
Samuel Nadler, M.D., is a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician and current Providence Swedish system chief of staff. He grew up in Michigan before studying chemistry and playing rugby at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He completed his M.D. as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison earning a Ph.D. in biochemistry before moving to Seattle for his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington. After working as a hospitalist at Swedish Medical Center, he completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington.
In 2011, he joined the Polyclinic working in the pulmonary clinic and attending in the ICU at Swedish Medical Center. While at Polyclinic he served as the medical director for pulmonary medicine and the pulmonary function lab as well as serving on the Polyclinic finance committee and the board of directors of the Polyclinic Network. He joined Swedish Medical Center in 2021 continuing his work with outpatient pulmonary medicine, inpatient pulmonary consultation and attending in the intensive care unit. While at Swedish he chaired the professional behavioral quality review committee and has been an active participant in the medical quality review committee as well as the ethics committee. He has consistently been named by his peers as a Seattle’s Top Doctor.
Throughout his career, Samuel has been invested in learning and education that has been recognized by awards for undergraduate education at MIT and resident education at both the University of Washington and Swedish Medical Center. He had numerous publications of original research, invited reviews as well as two patents. His most recent efforts revolve around chasing after active two teenage sons and baking for friends and family.
Tina Pappas is a respected leader in the Puget Sound commercial real estate community with extensive experience in executive leadership and strategic growth. She has held senior leadership roles across brokerage, development, and property management platforms, including serving as President of TPS, where she led both commercial and multifamily real estate teams.
Tina is currently President of NAI Puget Sound Properties and has been consistently recognized for her leadership and community impact. In 2024, she was named one of the Puget Sound region’s 100 Most Influential Leaders and is a member of Seattle’s 40 Under 40 Hall of Fame. She has also been recognized by Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) as a Woman of Influence, reflecting her commitment to advancing women in leadership.
Her dedication to service spans both business and philanthropy. Tina served as 2020 Board President of NAIOP, is an active member of the International Women’s Forum (IWF), and has been involved with the Seattle Theater Group for almost 20 years, supporting arts access, education, and community engagement.
About Providence Swedish
Providence Swedish has served the Puget Sound region since the first Providence hospital opened in Seattle in 1877 and the first Swedish hospital opened in 1910. The two organizations affiliated in 2012 and today comprise the largest health care delivery system in Western Washington, with 24,000 caregivers, eight hospitals and 244 clinics throughout Western Washington – from Everett to Centralia. A not-for-profit family of organizations, Providence Swedish provides more than $545 million in community benefit in the Puget Sound region each year. The health system offers a comprehensive range of services and specialty and subspecialty care in a number of clinical areas, including cancer, cardiovascular health, neurosciences, orthopedics, digestive health and women’s and children’s care. For more information, visit providence.org/swedish.
