Peter Dillon

Dr. Peter Dillon is the executive vice president and chief clinical officer of Penn State Health. In addition, he serves as the John A. and Marian T. Waldhausen Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. His previous roles were the president and chief operating officer of Penn State Health Medical Group and vice dean for clinical affairs.

Dillon joined the faculty at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center as an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, in 1990. He was subsequently named professor in 2001.

In 2007, Dillon was appointed chair of the Department of Surgery, with responsibility for leading 14 divisions within the department involved in the clinical, research and academic missions of the institution. His research and scholarship interests are in surgical quality outcomes and relational coordination in health care delivery.

A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, Dillon received his general surgery training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where he also completed a fellowship in vascular surgery. He completed his training in pediatric surgery at Babies Hospital, also in New York.