In 2013, Dr. Cho was honored to be nominated and later elected by her fellow ophthalmology Diplomates to the prestigious Board of Regents of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ACVO), the leadership body of the national ophthalmology specialty college. She served as an ACVO Regent from 2013-2018, and was President of the ACVO in 2017-8. She was a longstanding Editorial Board member of the journal Veterinary Ophthalmology, and has served on the ACVO Examination Committee, Nominating Committee, and the national ACVO annual conference Planning Committee. She was most recently elected to serve as a Board Member of the American Board of Veterinary Ophthalmology (ABVO), the accreditation arm of the ACVO, and will serve a 4 year term starting in 2022. She is also a member of the Executive Board of the Westchester-Rockland Veterinary Medical Association (and is the current Chair of Continuing Education of that group) and the Mercy College Advisory Board. She is a Diplomate and a Board Certified Member of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists, as well as a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Westchester-Rockland Veterinary Medical Association and the New York State Veterinary Medical Society.
Dr. Cho is originally from New York and earned her DVM from Cornell University, where she graduated in the top 10% of her class. She completed an internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York and then worked in a general small animal practice in Manhattan before returning to Cornell for a 3-year residency in Comparative Ophthalmology. Specializing in ophthalmology for over 20 years, she has also worked as a clinical ophthalmologist in New Jersey and Alaska, and has lectured on diverse topics in ophthalmology at meetings across the country. She has published in both veterinary journals and in veterinary textbooks, including a chapter in the textbook Focused Ultrasound Techniques for the Small Animal Practitioner (second edition published in April 2021), and a chapter in the well-loved Veterinary Clinical Advisor textbook whose 4th edition was published in 2019. She was a collaborative author on the chapter on Ophthalmic Surgery in the newest edition of Fossum's Small Animal Surgery textbook, and was chosen in 2021 to write a chapter in the popular textbook series Veterinary Clinics in North America. In addition to academic writing, she has served as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals in Ithaca. She lectures regularly at Mercy College, where she has been teaching students in the Veterinary Technology program since 2008.
Veterinary Surgery
Laser Surgery
A full range of surgery, including eyelid and third eyelid surgery, corneal microsurgery, lens/cataract surgery, cryosurgery, and Iridex diode laser surgery (focal retina, glaucoma)