Ryu named Geisinger chief medical officer

DANVILLE — Dr. Jaewon Ryu has been named executive vice president and chief medical officer at Geisinger Health System. He will join the organization in this role at the end of September.

“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 Dr. David T. Feinberg. “His career accomplishments are extensive, and I look forward to working closely with him to enhance patient care throughout Geisinger.”

A board-certified emergency medicine physician, Ryu joins Geisinger from Humana in Louisville, Ky., where he has been president of integrated care delivery. In this capacity, he is responsible for Humana’s owned and joint-ventured care delivery practices, as well as Transcend, a management services organization assisting affiliated practices to adopt population health.

Prior to Humana, he served as chief medical officer at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System in Chicago. 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, he was a practicing emergency medicine physician and previously a corporate health care attorney.

Originally from Chicago, Ryu earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical and law degrees from the University of Chicago. He completed his internship and residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

“I have always admired Geisinger and its national reputation for professional, compassionate and innovative care, and I am honored and excited to become a member of the Geisinger family,” Ryu said. “I value this opportunity to work with my new colleagues to continually advance the care and experience we provide.”