ICHS Provider Honored as Healthcare Hero by Puget Sound Business Journal
Rebecca Calderara, FNP-C, Advanced Practice Provider has been honored with the 2025 Healthcare Heroes Award from the Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ).
This award recognizes those who have made an impact on health care in Puget Sound through their concern for patients, their research and inventions, innovative programs and other efforts that go above and beyond. Calderara received the PSBJ award for her direct patient care and research on the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.
“Rebecca Calderara has been a tremendous advocate in the fight to eliminate tuberculosis,” said Dr. Jeffrey Gibbs, ICHS Chief Medical Officer. “Her energy, enthusiasm, and leadership inspires us all to think big about caring for our patients.”
Last year, Calderara led an ICHS campaign to screen, diagnose, and treat 900 low-income substance use disorder (SUD) patients with TB care. Her advocacy and efforts helped at-risk, marginalized patients receive TB testing, chest x-rays, diagnosis, and treatment across ICHS’ primary medical and dental clinics.
Rebecca Calderara has been caring for patients at International Community Health Services International District Medical & Dental clinic since 2018.
Calderara graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before completing her Master of Science in Nursing at Seattle University. Calderara joined ICHS’ trailblazing Advanced Practice Provider Residency in 2018 and has been caring for patients at ICHS’ International District Medical & Dental clinic since then. She’s also taken on a leadership role in the residency program. Concurrently, Calderara serves as a nurse practitioner at the Public Health – Seattle & King County TB Control Program in Seattle Downtown, providing direct care for high-risk pediatric and adolescent patients exposed to TB.
Calderara’s work advancing TB research and treatment led to her selection as one of the 2024 Bloomberg Fellows from across the country. In June 2024, Calderara was selected to join the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s eighth cohort of Bloom Fellowship to earn a master of public health degree.
She will be honored with the award at the Health Care Heroes luncheon in Seattle on July 8, 2025 during a lunchtime awards ceremony.