Melissa Ho

Dr. Ho is an ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia expert with advanced training in continuous peripheral nerve blockade techniques.  During her regional anesthesia fellowship and clinical associateship year at St. Michael’s Hospital, Dr. Ho successfully completed the Certificate Course at the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS) at the University of Toronto.  Her research interests include perioperative efficiency, continuous quality improvement and patient safety.  She initiated an efficiency audit at St. Michael’s Hospital to reduce sources of delay in regional anesthesia related orthopedic surgeries.  Following her fellowship year, Dr. Ho joined the Department of Anesthesia at North York General Hospital as active staff.

Recent Publications

Niazi, A., Peng, P., Ho, M., Tiwari, A., Chan, VW.  The Future of Regional Anaesthesia Education: Lessons Learned from the Surgical Specialty.  Can J Anaesth. 2016 Aug;63(8):966-72.

Kaustov, L., Lukin, J., Lemak, A., Duan, S., Ho, M., Doherty, R., Penn, L.Z., and Arrowsmith, C.H.  The conserved CPH domains of Cul7 and PARC are protein-protein interaction modules that bind the tetramerization domain of P53.  J. Biol. Chem., 2007; 282:11300-7.

Honours and Awards