ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Medicine, Hospital Medicine

Dr. Hyung (Harry) Cho, MD, FHM, FACP is the Director of Quality, Safety, & Value for the Division of Hospital Medicine at Mount Sinai and Senior Fellow at the Lown Institute. At Mount Sinai, he bridges high value care education with systems improvement. This includes the award-winning OCCAM’s Conference, a systems-based morbidity & mortality conference aimed at understanding and preventing overuse. He also created the nationally-recognized Student High Value Care Initiative, supporting student teams with skills development, mentorship, and institutional support to reduce overuse in real healthcare settings. Nationally, he leads the dissemination of Right Care Rounds, now implemented in over 75 residency programs. He is Chair of Society of Hospital Medicine High Value Care Committee, Chair of the Right Care Alliance Hospital Medicine Council and Director of Cross-Institutional QI Implementation at High Value Practice Academic Alliance. He leads the development of overuse guidelines, including the next SHM Choosing Wisely recommendations. Since he became an academic hospitalist in 2011, he has received over 40 awards and recognition in value, safety, and education. These include the Choosing Wisely Award from Society of Hospital Medicine, American Medical Association Leadership Award, Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Award from Costs of Care and ABIM Foundation, Comcast NBCUniversal Leadership Award, and the Top Hospitalist honor from ACP Hospitalist magazine.