Interim Health Officer of Public Health – Seattle & King County

Dr. Alice H. Tin

Alice H. Tin, MD, MPH (she/her) is the Interim Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County. She is board-certified in Family Medicine, and is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington.

Prior to arriving at Public Health – Seattle & King County, Dr. Tin was part of the faculty at the Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency, where she practiced and trained residents in full spectrum family medicine, caring for patients in the clinic, the hospital and attending deliveries. As part of her practice, she provided medication assisted therapy for substance use, including caring for patients with chemical dependency during pregnancy, and gender-affirming care.

She is working with partners at the University of Washington and Stanford University on developing and evaluating a case-based curriculum that incorporates concepts of climate change into graduate medical education. She is also part of a multi-institutional team that started the Seattle One Health Clinic, which provides co-located human and animal healthcare services to youth experiencing homelessness and their companion animals.

Prior to medical school, she co-founded a non-profit, Open Style Lab, that centers the expertise of clients with disabilities and matches them with a multidisciplinary team of designers, occupational therapists and engineers to create stylish and functional clothing. She looks forward to bringing her experience as a primary care provider into her public health work. She also served as a Regional Medical Officer at the Washington State Department of Health, working with nine counties in the southwestern part of the state.

Dr. Tin holds a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training at Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency, and her continuity clinic was at the International Community Health Services – ID clinic, where she provided culturally and linguistically concordant care to Cantonese and Mandarin speaking patients.