Cho Kang-hee is the director of Chungnam National University Hospital.
While enhancing the professionalism of medical services, he is focusing on promoting medical research and advancing the bio-healthcare industry to prepare for future medicine.
As a rehabilitation specialist, his expertise lies in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and sports rehabilitation.
He was born on October 26, 1962.
He graduated from Chungnam National University College of Medicine and obtained his master's and doctoral degrees in medicine from Chungnam National University Graduate School.
In 1999, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Chungnam National University Hospital.
He has served as the director of the Medical Engineering Research Institute, the head of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the head of the Regional Medical Rehabilitation Center, and the chairman of the Sejong Chungnam National University Hospital Establishment Promotion Committee before being appointed as the director of Chungnam National University Hospital in 2023.
He has been the chairman of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine, the president of the Korean Society of Neuromusculoskeletal Ultrasound, and the president of the Korean Academy of Clinical Pain.
He is currently serving as the vice-chairman of the International Academic Affairs Committee of the Korean Hospital Association.
He is promoting the construction of a new cancer hospital with a capacity of 1,000 beds and is seeking to operate a public children's rehabilitation hospital effectively.
He is focusing on improving the hospital's weak financial structure.