Dr. Hong has been in Charlottesville since 1989 when he began medical school at the University of Virginia (UVA). He is a graduate of Denison University. He completed his internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai/UCLA (1993-1996), and became board certified in internal medicine in 1996. From 1996-1998, Dr. Hong completed a fellowship in general medicine at UVA and earned a Master’s Degree in Epidemiology at UVA's HES. During his fellowship, Dr. Hong developed his passion for teaching.

After fellowship in 1998, Dr. Hong both taught and practiced medicine at Washington Hospital Center for one year until his return to Charlottesville in 1999. From 1999-2000, he worked for one year in the Emergency Department at Medical College of Virginia (MCV) while working as Research Director at John Jane Brain Injury Center (JJBIC). From 2000-2002, Dr. Hong began work full time as Medical Director of JJBIC, became adjunct faculty in the PM&R Department at MCV, and started again as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at UVA.

August 5, 2002, Dr. Hong started full-time his own solo Primary Care Practice. He shares office space with Christopher G. Zitnay, MD who is an endocrinologist.

He thrives on making healthcare issues easy and fun to learn. Dr. Hong first appeared regularly on the news with WUSA (CBS) in Washington, DC in 1999 and in Richmond as well. He has been discussing health topics on WVIR since January 2001. Dr. Hong has also discussed health topics on the radio in DC, Charlottesville, and local NPR.

Lastly, Dr. Hong has been writing a weekly, fun, and informative medical column, "Health in the City" since November 2004. This article currently appears in The Hook as "Dr. Hook" Dr. Hong also is trying to have books published to empower the patient. He has received emails from all around the world in response to his articles for both the information as well as his whit.

Dr. Zitnay has been in Charlottesville since 1987 when he began medical school at University of Virginia (1987-1991). He is a graduate of Bowdoin College (1986) and earned his master’s degree at Georgetown University (1987). After completing his internship at University of Vermont (1992), he finished his internal medicine residency at University of Virginia (1994). After working one year at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles in general medicine (1994-1995), Dr. Zitnay returned to UVA to complete his endocrinology fellowship (1995-1998). During his fellowship, he had several research papers published and he served as Medical Director of the Charlottesville Free Clinic.

After fellowship, Dr. Zitnay worked as an endocrinologist in Washington, DC for one year (1998-1999) and returned to Charlottesville in 1999 to open his own solo endocrinology practice. During this first year, he served as Medical Director of the John Jane Brain Injury Center.

Dr. Zitnay is a lecturer for diabetes and is a strong advocate of diabetes prevention and treatment. He is an expert with insulin pumps and has started many patients on them. He himself uses an insulin pump! He is a member of the American Diabetes Association, Endocrine Society, American College of Physicians, and American Medical Association.