Dr. Kyu (“Q”) Rhee is a mission-driven physician executive dedicated to improving the health system, especially for underserved communities. Since 2023, he has served as President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), leading efforts to support the nation’s largest primary care network of 1,512 Community Health Centers nationwide providing care in 17,000 sites serving up to 52 million patients.

Dr. Rhee's career spans the nonprofit, public, and private sectors. He previously held roles as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at CVS Health, and as Chief Health Officer at IBM, where he led global initiatives to transform health through data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Earlier, he served as Chief Public Health Officer at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Director of the Office of Innovation and Program Coordination at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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 did his medical residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with dual-board certification. He earned his MD from USC, 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.