Jaewon Ryu

Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD, has been the Chief Executive Officer of Risant Health since April 2024 when it acquired Geisinger. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Geisinger since June 2019, an integrated delivery system with a clinical enterprise, a health plan, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and research and innovation functions operating in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Dr. Ryu was previously President of integrated care delivery for Humana, responsible for Humana’s owned and joint ventured care delivery assets, including a management services organization (MSO) assisting affiliated practices to adopt a population health model. Prior to Humana, Dr. Ryu held various leadership roles at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Kaiser Permanente, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was also a practicing corporate healthcare attorney with the international firm McDermott, Will & Emery. 

Dr. Ryu has also served since 2018 as a commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). He is also a director on the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the Commonwealth Fund, and Teleflex, Inc. Dr. Ryu earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and his M.D. and J.D. from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at HarborUCLA Medical Center.