David Tate is the Executive Director of the Northwest Osteopathic Medical Foundation. A native of the Portland, Oregon area and graduate of Whitman College in Walla, Walla, WA, David spent 26 years working for the Boy Scouts of America in local offices in Kennewick, WA; Pasadena, CA; Santa Barbara, CA and New York City, NY. He has a vast array of not-for-profit management and leadership experience. In 2012, David left the BSA to move back to the Portland area to help with inevitable opportunities that come with aging parents and in-laws. Osteopathic medicine had been part of David’s family for generations and several of the his parents and grandparents doctors had been involved with the Foundation over the years.