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Janet J. Ho, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
UCSF/ SFGH, California

Dr. Ho is a palliative medicine and addiction medicine physician at the University of California, San Francisco. 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, buprenorphine, chronic cancer pain, and harm reduction. Dr. Ho is dedicated to improving provider knowledge and skills 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 pain and palliative care; and challenging stigma against patients who use drugs. She has been an invited speaker at several national conferences, is a co-leader of a national buprenorphine peer mentorship support group for palliative and hospice providers, and has contributed to manuscripts and authored several book chapters on addiction, pain, and serious illness.

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