Jennifer E. Ho MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MassachusettsDr. Ho is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and faculty member of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation section and the Cardiovascular Research Center at MGH. She is a nationally recognized independent investigator and her laboratory is focused on clinical and translational research to understand mechanisms driving heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Specifically, her laboratory is focused on obesity-related changes that may lead to HFpEF, including inflammation and metabolic dysfunction. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed original investigations and is the recipient of multiple NIH awards and the MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award.
She plays an active role in the education of both residents and fellows and has mentored over 15 trainees in her laboratory. Dr. Ho has served as the Cardiology Subspecialty Core Educator to the MGH Medicine Residency program and is currently Associate Program Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship at MGH. She is the 2018 recipient of both the inaugural MGH Medicine Residence Excellence in Mentoring Award and the Brian McGovern Memorial Teaching Award.