From the debate stage to the bedside to the database.
Amy Faith Ho, M.D., M.P.H. is a nationally recognized emergency physician, healthcare executive, and on-air medical expert whose work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, health technology, and storytelling. Double board-certified in Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and Clinical Informatics (ABPM), Dr. Ho continues to practice as an attending emergency physician in Dallas–Fort Worth while also serving as Chief Systems & Informatics Officer of a national emergency medicine group. In that role, she leads strategy across electronic medical records, clinical data and analytics, and revenue cycle — where she watches every healthcare-AI pitch meet the operational floor — and she remains active as faculty, teaching resident physicians and medical students.
A sought-after voice in medicine and media, Dr. Ho has served as an on-air medical expert for CNN and NewsNation, and her work has been featured by NPR, Newsweek, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, and KevinMD. Her speaking credits include TEDx, Medscape, and MedPage, along with keynote and lecture appearances for the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Texas Medical Association, and the Texas Department of State Health Services. Her peer-reviewed publications span clinical outcomes, health policy, and emergency department operations.
She also appears as a recurring featured physician on Untold Stories of the ER (TLC, Discovery), Sex Sent Me to the ER (TLC), and I Got Lucky: Survival Stories (Roku, Tubi). Off-stage and off-shift, Dr. Ho is a proud mother of two toddlers and the author of the children’s book “Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero?”, available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and DoctorMommyBook.com.
The through-lines
From Betty Ford to a new paradigm
The harm-reduction thesis traces to a 2011 internship at the Betty Ford Institute — six years before the STAT essay that argued for it as medicine’s new paradigm. What started as a medical student’s question about addiction became the through-line of her writing, her policy work, and a decade of talks.
From the chart to the story
Medicine gets documented in charts; the human part survives in stories. That conviction runs through everything off-shift — hosting MedPage Today’s Anamnesis, where physicians tell the unvarnished stories behind the medicine; narrative essays from the emergency department; scripted television built on real cases; and a children’s book told from a kid’s-eye view of a doctor-mom.
From the debate stage to the database
She grew up a policy debater, impressed by the economics of healthcare and troubled by its ethics. She became a doctor because the people explaining the system had rarely worked inside it — and became an informaticist because the system’s next decade will be written in data.
Bios you can copy
For producers, conference organizers, and editors — three lengths, ready to paste.
Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH is a nationally recognized emergency physician, healthcare executive, and on-air medical expert. Double board-certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics, she practices in Dallas–Fort Worth while serving as Chief Systems & Informatics Officer of a national emergency medicine group.
Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH is a nationally recognized emergency physician, healthcare executive, and on-air medical expert whose work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, health technology, and storytelling. Double board-certified in Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and Clinical Informatics (ABPM), she practices as an attending emergency physician in Dallas–Fort Worth while serving as Chief Systems & Informatics Officer of a national emergency medicine group. She has served as an on-air medical expert for CNN and NewsNation; her work has been featured by NPR, Newsweek, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, and KevinMD. She hosts the ACEP Nowcast and MedPage Today’s Anamnesis storytelling podcast, and is the author of the children’s book “Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero?”
Amy Faith Ho, M.D., M.P.H. is a nationally recognized emergency physician, healthcare executive, and on-air medical expert whose work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, health technology, and storytelling. Double board-certified in Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and Clinical Informatics (ABPM), Dr. Ho continues to practice as an attending emergency physician in Dallas–Fort Worth while also serving as Chief Systems & Informatics Officer of a national emergency medicine group. In that role, she leads strategy across electronic medical records, clinical data and analytics, and revenue cycle — where she watches every healthcare-AI pitch meet the operational floor — and she remains active as faculty, teaching resident physicians and medical students. A sought-after voice in medicine and media, Dr. Ho has served as an on-air medical expert for CNN and NewsNation, and her work has been featured by NPR, Newsweek, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, and KevinMD. Her speaking credits include TEDx, Medscape, and MedPage, along with keynote and lecture appearances for the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Texas Medical Association, and the Texas Department of State Health Services. Her peer-reviewed publications span clinical outcomes, health policy, and emergency department operations. She also appears as a recurring featured physician on Untold Stories of the ER (TLC, Discovery), Sex Sent Me to the ER (TLC), and I Got Lucky: Survival Stories (Roku, Tubi). Off-stage and off-shift, Dr. Ho is a proud mother of two toddlers and the author of the children’s book “Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero?”, available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and DoctorMommyBook.com.