Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP

Dr. Kyu ("Q") Rhee serves as senior vice president and chief medical officer of Aetna at CVS Health. He and his team lead the integration and delivery of clinical and population health solutions. He is passionate and grateful about working for a health care innovation company with a simple and clear purpose: "to help people on their path to better health" from the community to the home to the palm of their hand.

Prior to joining CVS Health, Dr. Rhee was chief health officer of IBM for a decade. He and his team had global responsibility for IBM’s efforts to transform health through the use of data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and services for hospitals, health systems, providers, health plans, employers, governments, and life science companies across the world. He was also accountable for the health and safety of the global workforce, innovating health plan design for billions of dollars of global health care spending and ensuring a culture of health.

Before his tenure at IBM, Dr. Rhee was chief public health officer at the Health Resources and Services Administration, the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. Dr. Rhee also served as director of the Office of Innovation and Program Coordination at the National Institutes of Health, the primary federal agency for medical research.

Prior to his public service, Dr. Rhee worked as a primary care physician for the National Health Service Corps and chief medical officer in community health settings in Washington, DC, and Baltimore. During that time, he taught at the George Washington University School of Public Health, where he received a Best Teacher award for his classes in community health leadership and health disparities.

Dr. Rhee performed his medical residency training in both internal medicine and pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He obtained his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Sothern California. Dr. Rhee also holds a master's degree in health care policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He acquired his bachelor of science degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University.

Connect with Dr. Rhee on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kyurheemd.