Rebekah Elizabeth Gee (born December 4, 1975) is an American physician and public health policy expert who is Founder and CEO of Nest Health and served as the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health from 2016 to 2020.[1] As Secretary, Gee led the expansion of Medicaid.
Rebekah Gee | |
|---|---|
 Secretary Gee in 2016 | |
| Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health | |
| In office January 11, 2016 – January 31, 2020 | |
| Governor | John Bel Edwards |
| Preceded by | Kathy Kliebert |
| Succeeded by | Courtney Phillips |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rebekah Elizabeth Gee December 4, 1975 Bountiful, Utah, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
Allan Moore
(m. 2006; died 2008)David Patrón (m. 2010) |
| Children | 5 |
| Relatives | E. Gordon Gee (father) |
| Education | Columbia University (BA, MPH) Cornell University (MD) University of Pennsylvania (MS) |
Early life and education
editGee was born in Bountiful, Utah, she is the daughter of Elizabeth (née Dutson) and E. Gordon Gee,[2] an academic administrator.[3] Gee is the parent of five children and mother of identical twins and lives in New Orleans.[4]
Gee attended Columbia College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in American History in 1997. She then received her Master of Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in 1998, focused in Health Policy and Management.[5] Gee went on to earn her medical degree from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in 2002, completing her residency in obstetrics and gynecology through Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2006.[6][7] Gee was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2009, Gee obtained her Master of Science in Health Policy Research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[8] Gee is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology.[9]
Career
editGee is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Founder and CEO of Nest Health.[10] Nest Health has been recognized as one of ten most promising hybrid health care companies and one of 150 most promising digital healthcare companies in the world by CB insights.[11] From 2020 to 2022, Gee was CEO of Health Care Services for Louisiana State University.[4]
From 2016 to 2020, she was Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health,[12] where she led the expansion of Medicaid and helped develop an innovative subscription drug payment model that allowed the state to provide unlimited access to highly active anti-hepatitis C medication (sofosbuvir/velpatasvir) for its HCV-infected Medicaid and incarcerated populations.[13][14]
References
edit- ^ "Louisiana health chief Dr. Rebekah Gee resigns". Modern Healthcare. January 7, 2020. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
- ^ DeMocker, Michael (January 27, 2016). "New Louisiana health secretary Rebekah Gee knows about tragedy". NOLA.com. The Times-Picayune. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
- ^ "President E. Gordon Gee | Bio". presidentgee.wvu.edu. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
- ^ a b "Rebekah E. Gee, MD - LSUHSC School of Medicine". www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu.
- ^ "Take Five with Dr. Rebekah Gee '97, PH'98". August 15, 2018.
- ^ "Dr. Rebekah Gee".
- ^ "Obstetrics and Gynecology Integrated Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital".
- ^ "Rebekah E. Gee, MD - LSUHSC School of Medicine". www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
- ^ "Rebekah Gee, MD Certification". Certification Matters. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
- ^ "About". Nest Health. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
- ^ "The Digital Health 150: The most promising digital health companies of 2022". CB Insights Research. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
- ^ Ballard, Mark, ed. (January 6, 2020). "Rebekah Gee, Louisiana health department head, resigns; read her letter to John Bel Edwards". The Advocate.
- ^ "Louisiana launches hepatitis C innovative payment model with Asegua Therapeutics, aiming to eliminate the disease". Louisiana Department of Health. June 26, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
- ^ Trusheim, Mark R.; Cassidy, William M.; Bach, Peter B. (November 20, 2018). "Alternative State-Level Financing for Hepatitis C Treatment—The "Netflix Model"". JAMA. 320 (19): 1977–1978. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.15782. ISSN 0098-7484. PMID 30383176.