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<p>DANVILLE &#8212; Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., has been named the seventh chief executive officer in Geisinger&#8217;s 104-year history, it was announced Thursday.</p><p>Geisinger&#8217;s Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Ryu as president and chief executive officer, after he had been serving as interim president and CEO since November 2018. Dr. Ryu&#8217;s appointment is effective July 1.</p><p>Ryu also served as executive vice president and chief medical officer at Geisinger since September 2016. He succeeds David T. Feinberg, M.D., MBA, who left Geisinger earlier this year to assume a leadership role at Google.</p><p>&#8220;On behalf of the Geisinger Board of Directors, I am thrilled to appoint Jaewon Ryu as Geisinger&#8217;s next president and CEO,&#8221; Board Chairman John C. Bravman, Ph.D., said in an emailed news release. &#8220;We conducted an exhaustive national search that included some of the brightest, most accomplished health care leaders in the country.&#8221;</p><p>Bravman said 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, Bravman said Dr. Ryu has fostered a culture at Geisinger &#8220;that pushes us to bring the most innovative care to our patients and communities.&#8221;</p><p>Bravman added, &#8220;He has driven tremendous progress here, and we are confident he will continue to do an excellent job leading our path forward.&#8221;</p><p>Dr. Ryu said he is honored by the appointment and he feels blessed to lead an organization that is making better health easier for Geisinger&#8217;s patients, members and communities.</p><p>&#8220;The country looks to Geisinger as a leader in bringing world-class care and coverage to everyone we serve,&#8221; Dr. Ryu said. &#8220;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.&#8221;</p><p>Prior to joining Geisinger, Dr. Ryu served as President of Integrated Care Delivery for Humana in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was responsible for Humana&#8217;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.</p><p>Prior to that, he served as the chief medical officer at the University of Illinois Hospital &amp; 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.</p><p>Dr. Ryu 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. More about Dr. Ryu can be found here.</p><p><strong>About Geisinger</strong></p><p>One of the nation&#8217;s most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.</p><p>The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.</p><p>A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies.</p><style>
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Geisinger appoints Jaewon Ryu, MD, as President/Chief Executive Officer