University of Washington Medical Center
Surgery Box 35-6410
Department of Surgery
Seattle
WAUSA
98195-0001
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Dellinger graduated from Swarthmore College and from Harvard Medical School. During surgical training at the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA, Dr. Dellinger completed an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center. He is past president of the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). He was first author of the IDSA “Quality standard for prophylactic antimicrobial use in surgical procedures” and an author of the IDSA “Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections,” and is currently IDSA representative to SCIP. He is a member of the American Surgical Association, the Society of University Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He was on HICPAC from 2004 to 2007. He represents SIS in the current effort to produce a coordinated surgical antibiotic prophylaxis guideline jointly from the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP), SIS, IDSA, and SHEA. He was recently appointed to the Working Group on preventing surgical site infection as part of the second Global Patient Safety Challenge