Progress through collaboration | Peter Rutherford | TEDxWenatchee

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Progress through Collaboration

Dr. Pete Rutherford is an Internal Medicine Physician and the CEO of Confluence Health, with branches in Wenatchee, and throughout North Central Washington. Dr. Rutherford graduated from Wenatchee High School in 1974, and then attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, graduating with a BA in Chemistry. He then attended the University of Washington Medical School, and following that completed an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He and his wife Karen then moved Cody Wyoming where Dr. Rutherford was in a two person private Internal Medicine practice. In 1990, Dr. Rutherford returned to Wenatchee, and has practiced medicine here since that time. In 1/2011, Dr. Rutherford became the Board Chairman of the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center, and then assumed the CEO role of Confluence Health when it was formed as an affiliation of WVMC and Central Washington Hospital in 2013.
Dr. Rutherford also volunteers on the Mission Ridge Physician Ski Patrol, and serves on the boards of The Community Foundation of North Central Washington, and the Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Rutherford has two sons who graduated from the University of Washington, and are currently working in the software industry in Seattle. Dr. Rutherford and his wife Karen, live in the same house they bought in 1990 with their dog Ernie.
Title Let’s all work together


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