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Jeff Sconyers is Adjunct Faculty in Health Management and Policy in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, and Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health, with adjunct appointments in the Department of Pediatrics of the UW School of Medicine, and the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital. In the HMP Program, he has taught courses in Health Policy and in Leadership and Governance. In his former role at UW, he taught Health Policy, Health Law, Ethical Issues in Health Services, and Critical Thinking, among other courses. He was the first General Counsel at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle; founding co-editor-in-chief of the Washington Health Law Manual (first published 1996); and co-author of “Pediatric Risk Management” in ASHRM’s Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, and is a Fellow of the American Health Lawyers Association. Sconyers is a former member of the AHLA Board of Directors, and past president of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys. He served on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, including two terms as Chair, and currently serves on the ethics committees of Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and MultiCare Medical System – West Pierce Region. He served on the boards of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Center, Evergreen Treatment Services, Solid Ground, and Northwest Healthcare Response Network (where he was also a founder and former chair). He was admitted to practice law in Washington in 1982, in Connecticut in 1984, and in Massachusetts in 1985, but has since retired from the active practice of law. Sconyers is married with two children, both of whom live in the Portland area; he and his wife Debra Godfrey are proud grandparents of Santiago, born 2022, and stepgrandparents of Jessica his sister, born 2009. On a good day he can spin gold from straw.

Education, Degrees

A.B. with High Honors, College of William and Mary
Studies towards D.Min. degree, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond
J.D., Yale Law School