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September 14, 2021
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has hired Tao Kwan-Gett, MD, MPH, as the agency's chief science officer. In his new role, Kwan-Gett will serve as DOH's primary science expert and a key spokesperson on public health issues. Currently, Kwan-Gett is a primary care pediatrician at Virginia Mason Sand Point Pediatrics at University Village in Seattle and serves as the faculty lead for the Northwest Public Health Primary Care Leadership Institute. He attended Harvard University for college and medical school and moved to Seattle in 1990 to complete his pediatric residency. After earning his MPH at the University of Washington, Kwan-Gett practiced pediatrics at Virginia Mason while also serving Seattle refugee and immigrant communities at Harborview Medical Center's Community House Calls Program. He spent several years as a medical epidemiologist at Public Health – Seattle & King County and, in 2013, joined UW's Department of Health Systems and Population Health as the director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. In 2017, he returned to primary care pediatrics. Kwan-Gett's first day with the department is October 1.