Kendall Ho, MD

Kendall Ho, MD

Dr. Kendall Ho is an emergency medical specialist, a professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, and leads the Digital Emergency Medicine Unit (https://digem.med.ubc.ca/). He is the medical director of BC Ministry of Health Healthlink BC virtual physician program. He conducts digital health research in home health monitoring, data analytics, virtual care, and raising digital health literacy. He is the executive director of the inter-Cultural Online health Network (www.iconproject.org), a non-profit and award winning program sponsored by BC Ministry of Health to support the Multicultural community members to optimize their self-management of chronic diseases through multi-channel engagement. He is a member of the BC Digital Health Clinical leadership committee, Health Canada Scientific Advisory Committee on Digital Health Technologies, National Research Council Medical Devices Research Advisory Council. He chairs the Canadian Association of Emergency Medicine Digital Emergency Medicine Committee, is a member of the Canadian Virtual Care Task Force, the International Medical Informatics Association Telehealth Working Group, and the International Federation of Emergency Medicine Novel and Advanced Technologies Special Interest Group. Dr. Ho’s digital health work has been recognized with provincial and national awards.