Dr. Kyu Rhee

Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Rhee served 5 years as a National Health Service Corps scholar, primary care physician, and Medical Director of community health centers in both Washington, DC and Baltimore. Most recently, he served as the Chief Medical Officer of Baltimore Medical System (BMS), the largest network of community health centers and school-based health sites serving the underserved in Baltimore.

Dr. Rhee also teaches as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health in the Departments of Prevention and Community Health and Health Policy. He teaches on Health Disparities and Community Health Leadership and Management. He currently serves on: the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtables on Health Literacy and Health Disparities; the American Medical Association's (AMA) Commission to End Health Disparities; the editorial board of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU). He recently finished service on the Institute of Medicine Committee that published "Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health: Unfinished Business."

Dr. Rhee is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He did his residency and served as a Chief Resident in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. His medical school training occurred at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He also finished a Masters degree in Public Policy with a concentration in Health Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His undergraduate education was at Yale University where he received a Bachelor degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry