John M. Cho

Brigadier General John M. Cho, MD, CPE, FAAPL, FACS, US Army (Retired), is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for AMSUS, The Society of Federal Health Professionals. Upon assuming his leadership role in January 2018, Cho executed a successful organization turnaround with six consecutive years of positive revenue and earnings, individual and corporate membership growth, and collective in-person and virtual event attendance growth. Organized in 1891 and chartered by Congress in 1903, AMSUS is a 501(c) (3) non-profit membership-based organization, the voice for federal health professionals and advocate for interagency healthcare collaboration among the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services and Homeland Security. The mission of AMSUS is to support the nation’s top federal healthcare leadership, support the federal health professional, and reinforce federal medicine’s role in advancing and improving health for all Americans and international coalition partners. Cho also serves as the Publisher for Military Medicine, the peer-reviewed International Journal of AMSUS.

From August 2017 until March 2023, Cho served as a Senior Executive Partner, Vice President (VP) and Executive Partner, and then VP and Team Manager for Gartner Inc. Gartner, Inc. is a Fortune 600 information technology (IT) research and advisory firm that delivers actionable, objective insights to federal and state government leaders and corporate executives from 70% of the Global Fortune 500 plus 10,000 additional companies. As an Executive Partner, he served as a trusted advisor, mentor and business partner for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs as well as physicians in strategic positions for the largest US Federal Government Departments and Agencies- to include the healthcare community. Given that there are over 20,000 associates at Gartner, he was truly humbled to serve as the Executive Programs Chair for (Chief Information Officer) CIO Leadership Forum, North America for three years (2020-2022). To date, he is the only physician to serve as a Vice President and Executive Partner and Chair, CIO Leadership Forum.

Cho has over 20 years of senior executive experience in healthcare operations, management, and administration and in leading the planning and direction of six military health management organizations - from clinics to large healthcare systems- as the Commander (CEO). He has a proven record of leading change, achieving value for large organizations through creative and strategic problem solving, and effective coaching and mentoring, leading to former subordinates serving as the CEO of medical centers and hospitals. BG Cho served as the US Army Medical Command’s (MEDCOM) first G-3/5/7 (aka Chief Operating Officer) and in his final assignment, he served as the MEDCOM 1/4/6 (General Officer responsible for Army medicine military and civilian human resources, medical logistics and information management, information technology and cybersecurity).

Cho is a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) of the American Association for Physician Leadership since 2011, achieved Board Certification in Cardiothoracic and General Surgery, American Board of Surgery, in 1998 and 1995 respectively, is a Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS) since 2000 and a Fellow, American Association for Physician Leadership (FAAPL) since 2020. He completed Cardiothoracic Surgery Training at Walter Reed, Washington DC, and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.