Dr. Benjamin Chu
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Bio
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is a public benefit corporation that oversees the operation of the largest public hospital system in the country. The system provides care to 1.3 million New Yorkers through eleven public hospitals, five skilled nursing facilities, six large diagnostic and treatment centers and scores of community based out-patient centers.
Before his appointment as President in the Bloomberg administration, Dr. Benjamin Chu was Senior Associate Dean at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he managed the University’s Harlem Hospital academic and professional affiliation contract. He has also served as Associate Dean and Vice president for Clinical Affairs at the NYU Medical Center managing and developing NYU’s clinical academic hospital network.
Dr. Chu is a primary care internist by training with extensive experience as a clinician, administrator and policy advocate for the public hospital sector. He was Senior Vice President for Medical and Professional Affairs at HHC from 1990-94. During that period he also served as Acting Commissioner of Health for the NYC Department of Health and Acting Executive Director for Kings Couny Hospital. Dr. Chu has taken care of patients at Kings County, Bellevue and Harlem Hospitals. He directed the Ambulatory Care and Adult Emergency Medical services at Kings County Hospital at the height of the crack epidemic in the 1980s and provided the foundation for the establishment of the Emergency Medicine training program based at Kings County. His compassion for his patients in each of these public hospitals stem from his own personal experiences as a child growing up in the lower east side being cared for by pediatric cardiologists in the Bellevue clinics.
Dr. Chu also has extensive experiences in crafting public policy. He served as legislative assistant for health for Senator Bill Bradley as a 1989-90 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow. His area of interests includes health care access and insurance, graduate medical education policy, primary care and public health issues. He has served on numbers of advisory and not-for-profit boards dealing with health care policy.
Appearances on CUNY TV
Keeping Relevant With Ronnie Eldridge
- Benjamin Chu, New York Health and Hospitals Corp.
October 8, 2002
