Dr. David Rhew is the chief medical officer (CMO) and vice president (VP) and general manager of Enterprise (B2B) Healthcare for Samsung Electronics of America. David received his bachelor’s of science degrees in computer science and cellular molecular biology from the University of Michigan. He received his M.D. degree from Northwestern University and completed internal medicine residency at Cedars–Sinai Medical Center. He completed fellowships in health services research at Cedars–Sinai Medical Center and infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Rhew has served as CMO and VP for Global Healthcare at Samsung SDS, senior VP and CMO at Zynx Health Incorporated, clinician/researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and associate clinical professor of medicine at UCLA. Dr. Rhew has served on the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Steering Committee for Pulmonary and Critical Care quality indicators and NQF Consensus Standards and Approval Committee. He co–holds six U.S. technology patents that enable the authoring, mapping and integration of clinical decision support into the electronic health record.
Dr. Rhew’s interests include measurably improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care and applying technology to engage patients and consumers in their health.