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

Malcolm, Elizabeth J., Zachary Brandon, Lauren E. Wilson, John Paul Shoup, Heather A. King, Allison Lewinski, Melissa A. Greiner, et al. “eConsults' Impact on Care Access and Wait Times in Rheumatology.” J Clin Rheumatol 28, no. 3 (April 1, 2022): 147–54. https://doi.org/10.1097/RHU.0000000000001825.

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35067514
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Seidenfeld, Justine, Caitlin Driscoll, Laura Germino, Elissa Nickolopoulos, Valerie Keck, Jan Dillard, Gregory Brown, Lynn Bowlby, and Alex Cho. “Two-year outcomes following the HIDOC program: expanding outpatient care delivery to meet the needs of medically complex, high-utilizing patients with a broader interprofessional care team.” J Interprof Care, February 26, 2022, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2022.2038550.

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35225140
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Park, Taehwan, Maureen Bresnahan, Scott K. Griggs, Jiajing Chen, Alex H. Cho, Yolene Gousse, and Mark Feinglos. “Comparative risk of musculoskeletal adverse reactions among new users of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors: A retrospective cohort study.” Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm 2 (June 2021): 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2021.100022.

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35481118
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Batch, Bryan C., Susan E. Spratt, Dan V. Blalock, Chad Benditz, Andi Weiss, Rowena J. Dolor, and Alex H. Cho. “General Behavioral Engagement and Changes in Clinical and Cognitive Outcomes of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Using the Time2Focus Mobile App for Diabetes Education: Pilot Evaluation.” J Med Internet Res 23, no. 1 (January 20, 2021): e17537. https://doi.org/10.2196/17537.

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33470947
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Driscoll, Caitlin, Alex H. Cho, Laura Germino, Valerie Keck, Elissa Nickolopolous, Lynn Bowlby, and L Ebony Boulware. “HIDOC: AN EXPANDED OUTPATIENT CARE DELIVERY MODEL TO MEET THE NEEDS OF MEDICALLY COMPLEX, HIGH-UTILIZING PATIENTS.” In Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35:S654–S654, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

Malcolm, Elizabeth, Zachary Brandon, John Paul Shoup, Lauren Wilson, Heather King, Allison Lewinski, Melissa Greiner, et al. “IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF RHEUMATOLOGY E-CONSULTS INTERVENTION TO REDUCE SPECIALIST WAIT TIMES.” In Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35:S167–S167, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

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, Alex H., Natasha T. Namdari, Lynn Bowlby, Daniella A. Zipkin, Lawrence Greenblatt, Holly E. Causey, Jan M. Dillard, Adia K. Ross, Jane Pendergast, and L Ebony Boulware. “Multiyear Outcomes of a Population-Oriented Care Redesign in an Internal Medicine Residency Continuity Clinic.” J Health Care Poor Underserved 31, no. 2 (2020): 724–41. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2020.0057.

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33410804
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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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