Alex Cho MD, MBA is a research-trained general internist with 20 years of varied experience in healthcare, who began his career in clinical research, later serving in diverse educational, administrative and clinical leadership roles.
He was founding clinical director for the telehealth program at Duke University Health System (DUHS), a role he held for a decade. He also served as associate and then medical director of the largest adult medicine safety-net clinic in the health system, where he helped lead clinic-based innovation and population health efforts before leaving to join Medical and Scientific Affairs at the medical diagnostics firm Cepheid, part of the Danaher family of companies.
Alex also worked clinically in the emergency department of the Durham VA for two decades, where he had the distinction of being one of the longest-serving Medical Officers of the Day (MOD). In addition, he was the primary care liaison for the Primary Care Research Consortium (PCRC) and associate program director for the top-ranked Duke internal medicine residency program.
Previously, Alex served as Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Health Affairs for Duke University, and core faculty for the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, where he collaborated on studies of genomic testing in primary care. He was also an affiliate of the Duke Global Health Institute. He received his MBA at Duke from the Fuqua School of Business and did a health services research fellowship, also at Duke.
Alex completed a primary care internal medicine residency at NYU and Bellevue Hospital Center, attended medical school at the University of Minnesota, and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard. He also spent a year working in media and health policy at the healthcare consumer nonprofit Families USA in Washington, DC.
