President & CEO, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)

Dr. Kyu (“Q”) Rhee is a mission-driven physician leader, educator, scientist, and innovator who has led and developed transdisciplinary teams across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors to improve the health system, particularly for underserved populations.Dr. Rhee serves as the President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). Since the nation’s first Community Health Centers (CHCs) opened in 1965, CHCs have delivered high-quality, affordable, patient-governed primary care for communities in every state, U.S. territory, and the District of Columbia. Employing over 310,000 people and serving over 32.5 million patients in over 16,000 locations, CHCs provide value-based care to patients – regardless of their ability to pay.Prior to joining NACHC, Dr. Rhee held the position of Senior Vice President & Aetna Chief Medical Officer at CVS Health, where he led a team of over 1,500 doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals in the integration and delivery of clinical and population health solutions to improve health for up to 65 million people. Before CVS Health, Dr. Rhee was the Chief Health Officer at IBM for a decade, where he held global responsibilities for IBM’s efforts to transform health through the use of data, analytics, artificial intelligence, services, and research for providers, health plans, employers, governments, and life science companies across the world. During the Affordable Care Act, Dr. Rhee served in the public sector at HHS as Chief Public Health Officer within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured or medically vulnerable. He was also the Director of the Office of Innovation and Program Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary federal agency for health research.Before his public service, Dr. Rhee worked in the nonprofit sector as a National Health Service Corps physician and Chief Medical Officer for CHCs in the Washington, DC/Baltimore area. He served as Chief Resident and completed his medical residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, earning dual board certification. He earned his MD from the University of Southern California, a Master in Health Policy from Harvard, and a Bachelor in Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale, where he also served as president of the student body.