Rebekah Gee, MD

Medicaid Medical Director
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Dr. Rebekah Gee is the Medicaid Medical Director for the state of Louisiana. She is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Louisiana State University (LSU). Dr. Gee completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania and there received a Master of Science in Health Policy Research.  She studied history and obtained her M.P.H. at Columbia University in Health Policy and Management, obtained her medical degree at Cornell, and trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals.

Since moving to Louisiana in 2009, she served as the medical director for the maternity program of Title V, the state’s maternal health federal block grant program. In 2010, Dr. Gee was named Director of the Birth Outcomes Initiative, an Assistant Secretary level position in Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals aimed at improving the health of Louisiana’s women and children. In that role, Dr. Gee worked directly with the department Secretary on initiatives to improve the quality of care for mothers and infants and to reduce the risk of poor pregnancy outcomes in high-risk women. For this work, she received a national award for state leadership from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP).

Dr. Gee has served in both state and national leadership roles in public health policy.  She has advised the public health departments of several states including Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Massachusetts.  She currently chairs or co-chairs national committees on maternity quality and prematurity reduction for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA), and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO).

Dr. Gee has also held many national leadership roles in including at the Institute of Medicine, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the National Quality Forum and the National Association of Public Hospitals. Dr. Gee also serves on the editorial board for the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, the nations’ leading publication in the field. Dr. Gee is on the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Board of Health Care Services and is the inaugural recipient of a two-year Gant fellowship at the IOM.  

Dr. Gee is clinically active and is caring for patients at LSU.  She lives in New Orleans and is the mother of five energetic children -- twins Elizabeth and Eva (1), Ben (10), Eloisa (10) and Nathan (7) -- and is married to David Patrón.