UW Medicine Town Hall

Next Town Hall: March 28, 2025

Join the next UW Medicine Town Hall on March 28 at 9:30 a.m. Check your email for the Zoom link.

Discussion topics: Federal policy changes, their impact, our organization’s response and what to expect moving forward.

Please use the Federal Policy Updates Feedback Form to share your questions in advance of the Town Hall.

March 6, 2025: Check your email for the recording.
- Topics: Updates on federal policy changes, their impact, our organization’s response and what to expect moving forward.

June 18 recording and audio.
- Topics: Tim Dellit, MD, CEO of UW Medicine, reflects on the past 12 months and shares plans for the start of a new academic and fiscal year.

Dec. 15 recording, audio, transcript.
- Topics: Tim Dellit, MD, CEO of UW Medicine, shares his vision for UW Medicine and what he views as the opportunities and challenges ahead

May 19 recording and audio.
- Topics: end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and changes at the national, state and local levels; updates on Mission Forward

Jan. 13 recording, transcript and audio.
- Topics: new omicron variant, staffing and financial picture

Aug. 12 recording
- Guest: Shireesha Dhanireddy
- Topics: COVID-19 numbers, monkeypox, capacity management with the ongoing high censuses in our hospitals

June 24 recording, transcript and audio.
- Guest: Shaquita Bell
- Topics: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation for COVID-19 vaccines in children under five years of age

May 27 recording, transcript and audio.
- Topics: recent number of COVID-19 cases, COVID-19 vaccine boosters for kids, monkeypox

April 29 recording and transcript.
- Guest: Janna Friedly
- Topics: post-COVID-19 rehabilitation
April 8 recording, transcript and audio.
- Topics: omicron BA.2 subvariant, second COVID-19 vaccine booster

Feb. 25 recording, transcript and audio.
- Topics: masks, boosters, staffing
Feb. 11 recording and transcript and audio.
- Guest: Shireesha Dhanireddy
- Topics: Vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19, evolving policies, return of elective surgeries

Jan. 28 recording, audio and transcript.
- Topics: Impact of inpatient numbers starting to decline and case counts going down in King County, the omicron BA.2 subvariant
Jan. 21 recording, audio and transcript.
- Topics: Omicron
Jan. 14 recording, audio and transcript.
- Guest: Shaquita Bell
- Topics: Impact of omicron on children, the current census and state of care across the system, new policies
- Resources: Project N95 aims to help people find a credible source for buying N95 and KN95 masks
Jan. 7 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Impact of omicron

Dec. 29 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Omicron variant
Dec. 10 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Omicron variant, current impact on our system
Dec. 3 recording and transcript.
- Guest: Shaquita Bell
- Topics: Vaccines for kids ages 5-11, omicron variant

Nov. 19 recording and transcript.
- Guest: Paula Houston
- Topics: vaccines for kids, booster shots, new visitor policies and more.
Nov. 5 recording and transcript.
- Guest: Shaquita Bell
- Topics: Vaccines for kids ages 5-11

Oct. 22 recording and transcript.
- Guests: Chloe Bryce-Cahn and Tim Dellit (host)
- Topics: Boosters available for all three vaccines, new visitor policy at Harborview Medical Center
Oct. 15 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Vaccine mandate, boosters, visitor policy
Oct. 1 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Current surge, vaccine boosters, vaccine mandates, evolving policies

Sept. 17 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Current surge numbers and the impact of neighboring states, vaccine mandate and exemptions, third doses, visitor policies
Sept. 10 recording and transcript.
- Topics: current surge, third doses, vaccine exemptions
Sept. 3 recording and transcript.
- Guest: Janet Englund
- Topics: Return to school, vaccines for younger children

Aug. 20 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Third doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, masking mandates, the impact of the delta variant
Aug. 13 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Delta variant, the upcoming school year, vaccines
Aug. 4 Oncology Restructure Joint Town Hall recording.
- Guests: Lisa Brandenburg, Nancy Davidson, Tom Lynch, Paul Ramsey, Jeff Sperring
- Topics: Vision for the future, frequently asked questions

July 16 recording and transcript.
- Topics: Delta variant, new masking guidelines, vaccines
July 14 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Town Hall recording.
- Guests: Paul Ramsey, Lisa Brandenburg, Tim Dellit, Cindy Hecker
- Topics: Answers to submitted questions
July 13 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Town Hall recording.
- Guests: Paul Ramsey, Lisa Brandenburg, Tim Dellit, Cindy Hecker
- Topics: Answers to submitted questions