Robert H. Cho, M.D, FAAOS, FAOA is a board certified and fellowship trained pediatric orthopedic and spine surgeon and Clinical Assistant Professor of orthopedic surgery at UCLA. He graduated from Cornell University with honors in 2000 with a degree in chemistry, and minors in biochemistry and near Eastern studies. He went to medical school and residency at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He completed his fellowship in 2010 in pediatric orthopedics and scoliosis at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. Dr. Cho then took on a staff position at Shriners Children's Southern California as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon with subspecialty in scoliosis and spinal surgery. He became Chief of Staff in 2015, and led the medical center for a decade, with a subsequent leadership role in the Shriners Children’s Medical Group. He left Shriners in 2025 to start his own practice in the Greater Los Angeles area.  

Dr. Cho has presented papers, posters and presentations all over the United States as well as internationally including in Switzerland, France, Mexico, Japan and China.  As a social media expert, Dr. Cho was invited to give the inaugural symposium at the 2015 American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons meeting on Orthopedic Surgery in the Digital Age: Using Social Media and the Internet to Improve Patient Care and Grow Your Practice.

He is also involved in healthcare advocacy – he was an invited member to the National Orthopedic Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. to discuss the state of healthcare and orthopedic surgery with the United States Congress. He recently served on the board of directors of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America as the Communications Council Chair.  He was also selected for the prestigious Scoliosis Research Society Dawson Traveling Fellowship in 2024.

Dr. Cho believes that every child deserves individualized care, regardless of their medical challenge. Innovation is key to his practice; he is the only surgeon in the Los Angeles area that performs Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering for children with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. He has also helped to design many implants, instruments, and robotic devices to help children with scoliosis and spinal deformity. He helped to create a method to decrease pain in surgical patients by developing a novel preoperative pain protocol that minimizes the use of narcotics.

Dr. Cho lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two beautiful daughters, and his rescue dog, Sticky Rice. He enjoys playing the guitar, cars, smoking meats, playing video games with his children, dining out and traveling.