Dr. Palazzo was appointed the Chief Executive Officer for EvergreenHealth and Superintendent of King County Public Hospital District No. 2 in December 2023. Prior to the Chief Executive role, he served for four and half years as EvergreenHealth’s Chief Medical and Quality Officer. In total, Dr. Palazzo has been on medical staff at EvergreenHealth for the past 21 years serving in multiple leadership positions including Internal Medicine Hospitalist Medical Director, Information Technology Medical Director, and Quality Medical Director. He received his Doctor of Medicine with honors from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1998 and remained at the University of Washington for internal medicine residency, ultimately serving as the Chief Medical Resident in 2001. Dr. Palazzo was on faculty at the University of Washington as an Acting Clinical Instructor teaching medical students and residents and serving as an attending physician in the Harborview Medical Center Emergency Department until 2003 when he came to EvergreenHealth to work as an internal medicine hospitalist.