Jonathan Edelheit is Chairman & Co-founder of Global Healthcare Resources and the Medical Tourism Association. Mr. Edelheit helps governments, insurance companies and hospitals create strategies for medical travel and population health management and to execute on those strategies. Mr. Edelheit is the foremost expert in medical tourism having worked in over 60+ countries with the leading stakeholders, helping them envision their programs and then bringing them to life.

Mr. Edelheit is at the center of a corporate network connecting over 2.6 million executives and professionals through his portfolio of companies, magazines, events, and expansive presence on LinkedIn Groups with over 1 million members.

-Currently, Executive Director for KTO NY Office
- Executive Director for Tourism Infrastructure, KTO
- Director for KTO Singapore Office
- Ph.D.  Tourism Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Over30 years experience in tourism industry, Steve has profound knowledge of every aspects of tourism including medical tourism.

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Karen Timmons, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Healthcare Accreditation® (GHA) Program, leads an innovative and inaugural healthcare accreditation program designed specifically for healthcare organizations seeking to elevate the quality, patient experience, and excellence of care provided to medical travel, medical tourism and/or international patients. The program focuses specifically on an organization’s Medical Travel Cycle, encompassing the entire pathway of medical travel, as well as setting high expectations for transparency and cultural sensitivity.

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2011-2012 - Internship, Yonsei University Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea

2012-2015 - Residency, Department of Family Medicine,Yonsei University Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea

2015-2016 - Instructor of Family Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

2016-Present - Associative professor of Family Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, KoreaAssociative professor of International Clinic, Gangnam Severance hospital.

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-Medical Tourism Manager for KTO NY Office

-B.A Economics, State University of New York at Albany

Eve since Juri joined KTO NY Office in 2019, Juri has initiated aggressive promotion promoting South Korea as a medical tourism destination.

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Dr. Choh is currently the director of the International Healthcare Center at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, one of the largest and most prestigious academic medical centers in South Korea.
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Dr. Choh has been a cardiothoracic surgeon with training and practice background both in USA and South Korea until 2015 when he took the current position at his Alma Mater. Over 35 years he maintained an active cardiovascular surgical practice in Chicago area with the leadership role as the co-chair of Cardiovascular Division at Advocate Sherman Hospital System, Elgin, Illinois.
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Between 2003-2005, he served as the founding medical director of Cardiovascular Center of the new Seoul National University Bundang Hospital during its early phase.
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His area of main interest has been clinical coronary artery surgery, quality improvement in management of CV disease in general, and more recently global health care issues.