Dr. Jaewon Ryu


 

 

Geisinger President and CEO

Geisinger

Dr. Jaewon Ryu is Geisinger’s new president and chief executive officer. A diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medi­cine, Ryu previously served as Geisinger’s executive vice president and chief medical officer since 2016.

Ryu has cultivated a spirit of innovation and transformation across Geisinger, driving non-traditional approaches to some of health care’s most com­plex problems. Initiatives like primary care redesign, which expanded appointment times for patients 65 and older from 20 to 40 minutes; Geisinger at Home, which brings health care services to patients in their home; and 65 Forward, Geisinger’s senior-fo­cused health care centers, are all examples of Ryu’s commitment to improving patient outcomes, engagement and costs.

Ryu, 45, came to Geisinger from Humana, where he was president of integrated care delivery and was responsible for Humana’s owned and joint-ventured care delivery as­sets.

Ryu held leadership roles at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences Sys­tem in Chicago, Kaiser Permanente and in government, at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and serving as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was also a corporate health care attorney in Los Angeles.

Ryu was appointed to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in 2018. He also sits on the board of directors of My Health Direct, Inc. Ryu earned his un­dergraduate degree from Yale University, and his medical degree and law degrees from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California.

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