Northwest Kidney Centers recently added Russ Stepp of Sequim as a new member to its board of trustees.

Stepp, former Discovery Gala co-chair and current chair of Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation Board, is a retired CEO of R.W. Beck. He was elected to the foundation board in 2015 and began a two-year term as its chair in July 2020. He will serve concurrently on both boards.

Northwest Kidney Centers is a regional, not-for-profit, community-based provider of kidney dialysis, public health education and research into the causes and treatments of chronic kidney disease. Founded in Seattle in 1962, it was the world’s first dialysis organization. See nwkidney.org.