Dr. Timothy Dellit is the CEO, UW Medicine, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, and Paul G. Ramsey Endowed Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Washington. UW Medicine is an integrated clinical, research and learning health system with a single mission to improve the health of the public. The clinically integrated parts of UW Medicine include the UW School of Medicine, three hospitals (Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center, and Valley Medical Center), a network of primary care clinics (UW Medicine Primary Care), a large physician practice plan (UW Physicians), a fixed wing and helicopter air ambulance service (Airlift Northwest), and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, which serves as UW Medicine’s cancer program. Previously Dr. Dellit served as Chief Medical Officer, UW Medicine; Executive Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs and Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Washington; and President, UW Physicians.
Dr. Dellit earned his undergraduate degree in cell biology at Northwestern University and graduated from medical school at Cornell University Medical College in New York. He completed his internal medicine residency training at New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center serving as chief resident at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He then moved to Seattle to complete his fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Washington before joining UW Medicine faculty in 2003. From 2003-2009 he served as medical director of the General Infectious Diseases Clinic and Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, as medical director of infection control at Harborview Medical Center from 2006-2014, as associate medical director at Harborview Medical Center from 2006-2018, and as associate dean for clinical affairs from 2014-2018.