Dr. Ho is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Director of Research, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, faculty member of the Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation section at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT. She completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley, Harvard Medical School, followed by internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, cardiology fellowship at University of California San Francisco, and heart failure/transplant fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

She is a nationally recognized physician-scientist focused on clinical and translational research to understand mechanisms driving obesity-related cardiovascular disease including heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Specifically, her work has focused on elucidating clinical and biochemical antecedents of heart failure subtypes, highlighting the central role of obesity, metabolic dysfunction, and inflammatory pathways unique to HFpEF. Dr. Ho has published over 140 peer-reviewed original investigations and is the recipient of multiple NIH awards including a K24 mid-career mentoring award to support this work.

Dr. Ho is passionate about mentoring, and co-directs the Cardiovascular T32 training grant at BIDMC and serves on the Board of Directors of the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation. She is the recipient of multiple teaching and mentoring awards including the 2021 MGH Cardiology Fellowship Mentoring Award and the 2023 A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award at Harvard Medical School.