Former Humana executive Jaewon Ryu named Geisinger chief medical officer

Jaewon Ryu, MD, of Humana will join the Geisinger Health System as executive vice president and chief medical officer at the end of September, Geisinger has announced.

At Humana in Louisville, Ryu served as president of Integrated Care Delivery and was responsible for Humana's owned and joint ventured care delivery practices and for Transcend, a management services organization assisting affiliated practices adopt population health, according to Geisinger.

Ryu is a board certified emergency medicine physician. Prior to working at Humana, he served as CMO at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago.

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He has also held various leadership roles at Kaiser-Permanente, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In addition to practicing emergency medicine, Ryu previously worked as a corporate healthcare attorney.

"We completed an extensive search to find our new chief medical officer and are pleased to welcome Dr. Ryu to our health system," said Geisinger President and Chief Executive Officer David T. Feinberg, M.D.

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The physician-led Geisinger serves parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 12 hospital campuses, two research centers and a 510,000-member health plan.

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