William Tettelbach

Currently Dr. William Tettelbach serves as the system-wide Medical Director of Wound & Skin Care for Intermountain Healthcare, as well as Program Director of the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship in Salt Lake City for Duke University School of Medicine. He also has served as an active member of the Intermountain Healthcare Infection Control Guidance Council and has been involved in the development of institutional policies that have resulted in a system-wide reduction in central line associated blood stream infections and the creation of an antimicrobial stewardship program. Under his medical directorship the Intermountain Centers for Comprehensive Wound Care have continued to expand their outreach while positively impacting patient outcomes and increasing collaboration across multiple specialties.

Dr. Tettelbach, MD, FACP, FIDSA, CWS earned his medical degree from The University of Tennessee School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship, as well as received formal training in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. He currently holds boards in Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine and retains an academic appointment at Duke University School of Medicine.

He served as Medical Director for TheraDoc and provided infectious diseases guidance for the development of integrated clinical surveillance/decision support software modules that are now utilized in over 600 hospitals across the nation.

Previously Dr. Tettelbach also led the development of a Cerner rules based electronic sepsis alert module, also known as the “St. John Sepsis Agent”. This module has been has been adopted by several healthcare systems such as Toronto East General Hospital in Canada, the Henry Ford Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Center and Catholic Healthcare West in California.