Dr. Ho is an internist at the University of California, San Francisco fellowship trained and board-certified in palliative and addiction medicine. She attends on the Addiction consult service at the Zuckerberg General Hospital and UCSF, and is the site medical director for inpatient Palliative Care Services at Parnassus. She completed internal medicine training and chief residency at Yale, and fellowships in health services research, palliative care, and addiction medicine at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Her clinical and research interests lie at the intersection of serious illness, addiction, pain, chronic cancer pain, harm reduction, and the use of buprenorphine. Dr. Ho is dedicated to improving provider knowledge and confidence in primary palliative care and addiction medicine; improving disparate quality of life and care for patients with serious illness and addiction; promoting harm reduction in palliative care; understanding the role of buprenorphine in palliative care; and challenging stigma against patients who use drugs. She co-founded the SUPPORT-PC clinic (Substance use, Pain, and Promoting Opioid harm Reduction Together in Palliative Care) at UCSF, is core faculty of the national ECHO-like program MAPPIT (Managing Addiction and Pain in Palliative Interdisciplinary Teams), has been an invited speaker on this topic nationally, and has contributed to several book chapters and publications on addiction and serious illness.