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Amy Faith Ho

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Amy Faith Ho
BornUnited States
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🏫 EducationUT Austin (BS in Biology, 2010)
UT Southwestern Medical Center (MD, 2014)
University of Chicago (EM Residency, 2017)
UAB (MPH, 2020)
💼 Occupation
Emergency medicine physician, actress, writer, speaker
🌐 WebsiteOfficial website

Amy Faith Ho is a practicing board-certified emergency physician and is currently the Director of Clinical Informatics[1] at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.[2][3][4][5][6][7] She is also a writer and speaker in health policy and medical humanities, as well as an actress.

Writing and Speaking[edit]

Dr. Ho has authored opinion pieces in health policy and medical humanities in numerous national outlets, including NPR,[8] Forbes,[9] Chicago Tribune,[10][11][12][13] Los Angeles Times,[14] Stat,[15] Ms. Magazine,[16] The Blaze,[17] The Hill,[18][19][20][21] and Huffington Post.[22] In addition, she has delivered TEDx talks,[7][23][24] and is the current host of Medpage's podcast, "Anamnesis".

In 2020, she published an illustrated children's book "Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero?".[25]

Television[edit]

Dr. Ho appeared on The Today Show criticizing Spike Lee's portrayal of gun violence in the film Chi-Raq.[16][26] She has also been a featured physician in multiple episodes of TLC and Discovery Life's shows Untold Stories of the ER and Sex Sent Me To the ER.[27]

Education[edit]

Dr. Ho received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. She went on to earn her M.D. at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center in 2014, and completed residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago in 2017. In 2020, she completed her M.P.H. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Awards and honors[edit]

Current[edit]

She is also an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University - University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine,[28] a Clinical Assistant Professor at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine,[29] as well as a member of Medscape's editorial board[30] and MedPage Today's editorial board.[6]

References[edit]

  1. "Amy Ho MD". Fort Worth EM Residency Program. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  2. "Dr. Amy Ho". FemInEM. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  3. Calimbahin, Samantha (2018-03-27). "Doctor, Speaker and ... TV Actress? Meet Amy Ho". Fort Worth Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  4. "Dr. Amy Ho, MD – Fort Worth, TX | Emergency Medicine on Doximity". Doximity. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  5. "2016 SPEAKERS". TEDxOakPark. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Medpage Today Editorial Board". Information Center. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  7. 7.0 7.1 "TEDxOakParkWomen | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  8. "How Overcrowding In Emergency Rooms Has Impacted Patient Care". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  9. Ho, Amy. "How A Nobel Economist Ruined The Residency Matching System For Newly Minted M.D.'s". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  10. Ho, Amy Faith. "Bullets know no boundaries and gun violence doesn't stay in a lane". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  11. Ho, Amy Faith. "How the ER touches America's untouchables". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  12. Ho, Amy. "'Chi-Raq' trades real lives in Chicago for cheap laughs". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  13. Ho, Amy. "How our health care system makes ER doctors addiction enablers". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  14. Ho, Amy (2020-10-21). "Op-Ed: How COVID-19 caused the U.S. to implement universal healthcare". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  15. "Harm reduction as the new paradigm for health care". STAT. 2017-05-30. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  16. 16.0 16.1 "In "Chi-Raq," Women's Only Power is Between their Legs - Ms. Magazine". msmagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  17. "ER Doctor: What It's Like to Lose a Patient". TheBlaze. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  18. Ho, Amy (2016-09-02). "Iron curtain of drug pricing will topple the healthcare system". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  19. Ho, Amy (2016-09-07). "How 'privatization' may solve the VHA physician shortages". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  20. Ho, Amy (2016-09-14). "The importance of Planned Parenthood in the Zika epidemic". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  21. Ho, Amy (2016-09-21). "Pricing structure, not profits, are the problem in the EpiPen scandal". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  22. Ho, Amy (2018-09-02). "Opinion | Making Doctors Dumber Won't Make Our Health Care System Smarter". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-11-07. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  23. "TEDxUofIChicago | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  24. "TEDxSMU Talks 2020". TEDxSMU. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  25. "Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero?". Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero?. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  26. "Spike Lee on catching controversy with 'Chi-Raq'". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  27. "Untold Stories of the ER" Headache Fiasco/Heeled/Survival Dad (TV Episode 2016) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-11-08
  28. "Faculty Directory | Fort Worth School of Medicine | Fort Worth, Texas". Fort Worth School of Medicine. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  29. "Affiliate Faculty". medicine.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  30. "Medscape Emergency Medicine Editorial Board". www.medscape.com. Retrieved 2020-11-08.

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