Janet Ho, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
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.
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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.
Education & Training
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- Fellowship, Palliative Care Dana Farber/ Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship Harvard Fellowship in General Internal Medicine
- MPH Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
- Fellowship, Addiction Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital
- BA/BA Molecular and cellular biology; Psychology UC Berkeley
- MD UC Irvine School of Medicine
- Residency, Chief Residency Yale Internal Medicine, Primary Care
Interests
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- Buprenorphine
- Stigma
- Harm reduction
- Serious illness
- Opioid use disorder
- opioid misuse
- Addiction
- Palliative care
- Cancer Pain
- Chronic cancer pain
Publications (15)
Top publication keywords:
LanguageAdministrative PersonnelPalliative MedicineEsophageal and Gastric VaricesPatient NavigationBuprenorphineHospice and Palliative Care NursingHospicesHospice CareAddiction MedicineIndians, North AmericanAnalgesics, OpioidSocial StigmaPalliative CareOpioid-Related Disorders
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Empowering Oncologists to Successfully Address Non-Medical Opioid use During Cancer Treatment: A Review of Best Practices
J Oncology 2023 Holbein MM, Walter M, Ho JJ, Tapper C, Case AA. -
Compassionate Care for People with Cancer and Opioid Use Disorder.
The American journal of nursing 2023 Jones KF, Broglio K, Ho JJ, Rosa WE -
Buprenorphine initiation: low-dose methods# 457
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2023 Ho, J.J., Jones, K.F., Merlin, J.S., Sager, Z. and Childers, J. -
Opioid-prescribing considerations in patients with cancer and substance misuse or substance use disorder: a scoping review protocol.
JBI evidence synthesis 2023 Jones KF, Malinowski J, Paice J, Childers J, Bulls HW, Morrison J, Ho JJ, Alsbrook K, Nugent S, Broglio K, Nickels K, Holbein M, Parajuli J, Merlin JS -
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Buprenorphine.
Journal of palliative medicine 2022 Neale KJ, Weimer MB, Davis MP, Jones KF, Kullgren JG, Kale SS, Childers J, Broglio K, Merlin JS, Peck S, Francis SY, Bango J, Jones CA, Sager Z, Ho JJ
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Sublingual Buprenorphine Initiation: The Traditional Method #441.
Journal of palliative medicine 2022 Fitzgerald Jones K, Ho J, Sager Z, Broglio K, Wilson Childers J -
The X Waiver to Prescribe Buprenorphine: The Why and How.
Journal of palliative medicine 2022 Fitzgerald Jones K, Ho JJ, Merlin JS, Weimer M, Sager Z, Kapo J, Childers J -
Barriers to Buprenorphine Prescribing for Opioid Use Disorder in Hospice and Palliative Care.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2022 Janet Ho J, Jones KF, Sager Z, Neale K, Childers JW, Loggers E, Merlin JS -
De-Stigmatizing the Language of Addiction #429.
Journal of palliative medicine 2022 Ho JJ, Jones KF, Sager Z, Wakeman S, Merlin JS -
Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness.
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2021 Jones KF, Ho JJ, Sager Z, Childers J, Merlin J -
Primary Addiction Medicine Skills for Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physicians: A Modified Delphi Study.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2021 Chua IS, Fratt E, Ho JJ, Roldan CS, Gundersen DA, Childers J -
Timeliness of Surveillance Colonoscopy in Underserved Populations: Association with Patient Navigation for Initial Screening Colonoscopy.
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021 Percac-Lima S, Ashburner JM, Enogieru I, Ho JJ, Mitton J, Richter JM, He W, Whited EC, Atlas SJ -
Opioid and Amphetamine Treatment Trends Among American Indians in the Great Plains.
Journal of addiction medicine 2020 Mitton JA, Jackson S, Ho JJ, Tobey M -
Health Care Utilization and End-of-Life Care Outcomes for Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis Based on Transplant Candidacy.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2019 Ufere NN, Halford JL, Caldwell J, Jang MY, Bhatt S, Donlan J, Ho J, Jackson V, Chung RT, El-Jawahri A -
An International Collaboration for the Training of Medical Chief Residents in Rwanda.
Annals of global health 2017 Walker T, Dusabejambo V, Ho JJ, Karigire C, Richards B, Sofair AN