Following a national search, Dr. Timothy H. Dellit has been appointed to lead UW Medicine and the University of Washington School of Medicine, UW President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Tricia Serio announced today.   

Dellit will serve as the CEO of UW Medicine, the Paul G. Ramsey Endowed Dean of the UW School of Medicine and the university’s executive vice president for medical affairs, positions he has held on an interim basis since July 2022.  

“Tim has proven himself to be a leader in the most difficult of times, including during the COVID-19 pandemic and as UW Medicine addresses the challenges caused by the changing healthcare landscape. He is an adept listener and communicator who is dedicated to serving all communities,” Cauce said. “Tim is also committed to advancing excellence and equity in education and our workforce and healthcare outcomes, all of which are core to UW Medicine’s mission to improve the health of all people.
“And even as someone who has more than two decades of service to UW Medicine, Tim still brings new perspectives. I’m so pleased that he’ll be the one leading our healthcare enterprise into a new era.”  

As UW Medicine CEO, Dellit leads an integrated clinical, research and learning health system with more than 39,000 faculty, staff, trainees and students across eight clinically integrated organizations, including Airlift Northwest, Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center (Montlake and Northwest campuses), UW Medicine Primary Care clinics, the UW School of Medicine, UW Physicians practice plan, Valley Medical Center and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, which serves as UW Medicine’s cancer program. UW Medicine shares in the ownership of Children’s University Medical Group and has strong, comprehensive affiliations with Seattle Children’s, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Boise VA Medical Center.   

As dean of the School of Medicine, Dellit oversees one of the nation’s leading medical schools, which educates more than 9,000 students and trainees each year through an innovative medical education program for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI). The UW School of Medicine is a leader in regional medical education and conducts world-leading research across 32 clinical and biomedical research departments and multiple research institutes and centers with areas of focus including behavioral health, neuroscience and Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and stroke, infectious diseases, cancer, health metrics, genomics and precision medicine, protein design and regenerative medicine.  

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