General Internal Medicine

Alex Han Cho, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute
Campus mail 3100 Tower Blvd, Suite 600, Box 80, Durham, NC 27707
Phone (919) 419-5049
Email address alex.cho@duke.edu

Population health; telehealth; primary care; implementation science; applied genomics; health behavior; patient self-management; health policy.

Education and Training

  • Primary Care Resident, Medicine, New York University, 2001 - 2004
  • M.B.A., Duke University, 2007
  • M.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2001

Publications

Wosik, Jedrek, Marat Fudim, Blake Cameron, Ziad F. Gellad, Alex Cho, Donna Phinney, Simon Curtis, et al. “Telehealth transformation: COVID-19 and the rise of virtual care.” J Am Med Inform Assoc 27, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 957–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa067.

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32311034
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Cho, A. H., N. T. Namdari, L. Bowlby, D. A. Zipkin, L. Greenblatt, H. E. Causey, J. M. Dillard, A. K. Ross, J. Pendergast, and L. Ebony Boulware. “Multiyear outcomes of a population-oriented care redesign in an internal medicine residency continuity clinic.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 31, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 724–41. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2020.0057.

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Schettini, Priscille, Kevin P. Shah, Colin P. O’Leary, Malhar P. Patel, John B. Anderson, Alex H. Cho, Andrea L. Long, Hayden B. Bosworth, and C Blake Cameron. “Keeping care connected: e-Consultation program improves access to nephrology care.” J Telemed Telecare 25, no. 3 (April 2019): 142–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357633X17748350.

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29285981
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Swan, B., C. Shevlin, A. Cho, and D. Phinney. “Simulation tool to evaluate electronic consultations in rheumatology.” In Proceedings  Winter Simulation Conference, 2018-December:2589–99, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2018.8632444.

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Shoup, John P., Robert Keenan, Alex H. Cho, Donna Phinney, John Anderson, and Kevin Shah. “IMPROVING PRIMARY CARE PATIENT ACCESS TO RHEUMATOLOGY VIA E-CONSULTS.” In Journal of General Internal Medicine, 33:S800–801. SPRINGER, 2018.

Scholars@Duke

Hardy, Morgan, Alex Cho, Alissa Stavig, Marigny Bratcher, Janice Dillard, Lawrence Greenblatt, and Kevin Schulman. “Understanding Frequent Emergency Department Use Among Primary Care Patients.” Popul Health Manag 21, no. 1 (February 2018): 24–31. https://doi.org/10.1089/pop.2017.0030.

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28609191
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Haga, Susanne B., Rachel Mills, Jivan Moaddeb, Nancy Allen LaPointe, Alex Cho, and Geoffrey S. Ginsburg. “Primary care providers' use of pharmacist support for delivery of pharmacogenetic testing.” Pharmacogenomics 18, no. 4 (March 2017): 359–67. https://doi.org/10.2217/pgs-2016-0177.

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28244812
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Wu, R Ryanne, Rachel A. Myers, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Allison Vorderstrasse, Alex Cho, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, and Lori A. Orlando. “Impact of Genetic Testing and Family Health History Based Risk Counseling on Behavior Change and Cognitive Precursors for Type 2 Diabetes.” J Genet Couns 26, no. 1 (February 2017): 133–40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10897-016-9988-z.

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27296809
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Haga, Susanne B., Rachel Mills, Jivan Moaddeb, Nancy Allen Lapointe, Alex Cho, and Geoffrey S. Ginsburg. “Patient experiences with pharmacogenetic testing in a primary care setting.” Pharmacogenomics 17, no. 15 (October 2016): 1629–36. https://doi.org/10.2217/pgs-2016-0077.

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27648637
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Bowlby, Lynn, Alex H. Cho, Natasha T. Cunningham, Lawrence Greenblatt, Adia K. Ross, Mark Sendak, and Daniella A. Zipkin. “A NEEDS-BASED RESIDENT CLINIC REDESIGN RESULTS IN IMPROVED PATIENT UTILIZATION OF CARE AND INCREASED RESIDENT SATISFACTION.” In Journal of General Internal Medicine, 31:S103–S103. SPRINGER, 2016.

Scholars@Duke

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