Chairman, Professor Department of Otolaryngology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. John Rhee is the John C. Koss Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences (position held since 2011) and the Chief of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Professor of Dermatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). He is the past Chair of the Board and Interim CEO of the Medical College Physicians multispecialty practice and Interim Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs. He has also served as Interim Chair of the MCW Departments of Dermatology and Ophthalmology. He has held multiple funded grants as the Principal Investigator from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in various aspects of clinical care including skin cancer (R03, National Cancer Institute), surgical nasal airway correction (R01’s and R43, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering). He has served on NIH study sections and is a co-investigator and mentor on numerous NIH sponsored grants.Dr. Rhee served as a Board member and Coordinator for Research & Quality for the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF). He is past Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, the premier peer-reviewed medical journal for the subspecialty. He has held multiple leadership positions within the boards and committees of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Otolaryngology – Head Neck Surgery. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications and has served in the past as a residency program director for MCW. He served as a Director and President for the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (2011-2022). He also served as the member and Chair of the Otolaryngology Residency Review Committee of the ACGME (2014-2019). He completed the AAMC Council of Deans Fellowship program in 2016.