Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD

Jaewon Ryu is president/CEO of Geisinger, an integrated delivery system comprising a medical group, hospitals and clinics, a health plan, and a medical school in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Prior to his current role, he served as president of Integrated Care Delivery at Humana. He has also held various leadership roles at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He also served as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Outside of Geisinger, Dr. Ryu serves on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a body legislatively tasked with advising Congress on payment and other policies governing health plans and providers serving Medicare beneficiaries. He has also served in other advisory roles, including board positions with My Health Direct Inc., a provider of digital care coordination solutions (acquired by Experian), as well as MCCI and JenCare, which are organizations focused on managing the financing and delivery of care. He has also served on the board of directors of the White House Fellows Foundation and Association.

Dr. Ryu earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and his medical degree and Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.