Geisinger announced Thursday that its Board of Directors has appointed Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., as president and chief executive officer.
Dr. Ryu, who has served as interim president and CEO since November 2018 and executive
vice president and chief medical officer since September 2016, becomes the seventh chief executive officer in Geisinger’s 104-year history. He succeeds David T. Feinberg, M.D., MBA, who left Geisinger earlier this year to assume a leadership role at Google.
“On behalf of the Geisinger Board of Directors, I am thrilled to appoint Jaewon Ryu as Geisinger’s next president and CEO,” Board Chairman John C. Bravman, Ph.D., said, “We conducted an exhaustive national search
that included some of the brightest, most accomplished health care leaders in the country. Dr. Ryu has a strong understanding of the Geisinger organization, in addition to broad clinical and management expertise. In his recent roles as Chief Medical Officer
and as interim CEO, Dr. Ryu has fostered a culture at Geisinger that pushes us to bring the most innovative care to our patients and communities. He has driven tremendous progress here, and we are confident he will continue to do an excellent job leading our
path forward.”
“I am honored by this appointment and feel blessed to lead an organization that is making better health easier for our patients, members and communities,” Dr. Ryu said. “The country looks to Geisinger
as a leader in bringing world-class care and coverage to everyone we serve. I am incredibly proud of the progress we are driving in expanding our value-based care model. Geisinger has a bright future ahead, and I am committed to building upon our legacy working
with our dedicated and talented physicians and staff.”
Prior to joining Geisinger, Dr. Ryu served as President of Integrated Care Delivery for Humana in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was 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 under value-based reimbursement. Before this, he served as the chief medical officer at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences
System in Chicago. He has held various leadership roles at Kaiser-Permanente, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is an emergency medicine physician with a license to practice
in Pennsylvania and California, and serves as a diplomate on the American Board of Emergency Medicine.