Dr. Rick Hong is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and in Emergency Medical Services.  He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Cooper University Hospital and is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Economics in Health Care Management and Policy from the Wharton School.

During his time at Cooper as an attending emergency medicine physician since 2007, he established the Division of EMS/Disaster Medicine to focus on expansion of Cooper’s role regionally and state-wide.  He also has served in a variety of key leadership functions in Emergency Department/Health System/EMS and local/regional emergency management and became the Director of Special Projects and Operations within the Center of Urgent and Emergent Services (CUES), as well as the first Program Director of the ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.  Prior to 2007, he was an attending emergency medicine physician at Christiana Care Health System where his role included the Associate Chairman for Emergency Preparedness and a Clinical Assistant Professor with Jefferson Medical College.  He has a developed a niche in public health, including his responsibilities as the Medical Director for the Southern NJ Medical Coordination Center, previous Co-Chair for the Southern NJ Regional Healthcare Coalition, and Medical Director for Camden County Health Department. He has also served on a variety of Boards, Councils and Task Forces related to public health, emergency management, preparedness, and EMS. 

Dr. Hong has been part of Delaware’s Division of Public Health (DPH) team since 2005 as the Office of Preparedness Medical Director. In this role, he has provided medical expertise to fulfill the mission of statewide healthcare preparedness in the setting of mass-casualty incidents, including chemical, biological, radiation, nuclear, traumatic, and natural hazards; served as the Medical Director of the Delaware Medical Reserve Corp; acted as the Medical Liaison Officer in the Incident Command of the State Health Operations Center; and has chaired the Delaware Ethics Advisory Group. He has worked on numerous projects related to infectious diseases in both the public health and healthcare settings, such as H1N1 Influenza, Ebola, and Zika. In November 2018, he was appointed as the State Medical Director of DPH, bringing his expertise in healthcare logistics and operations, EMS and emergency preparedness, and public health to expand his responsibilities of protecting the public and the healthcare infrastructure from critical threats.

Dr. George Hsu grew up in Virginia and studied biology and psychology at the University of Virginia. He continued his pursuit of medicine at the school of medicine at the University of Virginia. He completed his anesthesiology residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, at which he later became faculty and practiced clinical anesthesiology. 

Dr. Hsu has since joined the faculty at the Department of Anesthesiology at Cooper University Hospital. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his family and playing outdoors. 

Dr. Hughes, a South Jersey native, studied psychology at Rutgers University. After a short career in sales he decided to pursue a career in medicine. Before attending medical school at UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, NJ, he earned a Master of Biomedical Sciences degree from UMDNJ School of Biomedical Sciences. After completing his Anesthesiology residency at Thomas Jefferson University hospital in Philadelphia, PA, he worked in private practice for a short time before joining Cooper University Hospital.

In his free time, Dr. Hughes enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, swimming, and golf.