Howard Jeffries

Chief Financial Officer and board member of BlueBin, Howard has served in this position since BlueBin’s founding.

He is a pediatric cardiac intensivist at Seattle Children’s where he served as the Medical Director of Continuous Performance Improvement. Dr. Jeffries has been actively involved in the spread of lean concepts within healthcare as evidenced by his many lectures on the subject and his co-authored 2010 book, Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey.

Howard received his medical degree from Tulane School of Medicine, a Master’s in Public Health from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California.

Dr. Jeffries completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago and a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.