Expertise

Professor Ho receives referrals of heart specimens and cases from all over the UK and overseas. She is an expert in the postmortem examination of normally structured hearts with conduction disturbance (arrhythmia) and hearts with congenital malformations.

Her research interests include correlating morphology with imaging techniques such as echocardiography, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and CT (computed tomography) as well as the anatomy of the heart relevant to interventional cardiology;  electrophysiology in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias; and surgical treatment.

International reputation

Professor Ho is a regular speaker at international conferences and teaches courses in cardiology, electrophysiology, paediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, pathology and veterinary science.

She has represented the Trust at events including the Heart Rhythm Society (USA), the European Congress of Cardiology, the European Heart Rhythm Association review course and the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons.

She also worked as a visiting professor at the University of Padova, Italy, in the 1980s.

Teaching

Professor Ho's human anatomy and morphology short courses are recognised internationaly, attracting participants from all corners of the world. In particular, her annual course 'Hands on Cardiac Morphology' has become so in demand that she is running it twice a year to increasing numbers of participants. Read more information on Prof Ho's courses.

She has run several of her short courses abroad, e.g. in Singapore, Turkey and Italy, and has more courses planned for the future. In addition to giving regular morphology seminars at the Trust for staff and visiting fellows, she conducts workshops on cardiac anatomy and morphology at the Trust that are designed to suit the training programmes of external institutions. 

She teaches international students at the Trust and is currently mentoring two visiting fellows from Japan.

Societies

Professor Ho is a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the current chair of its working group on Developmental Anatomy and Pathology.

She is also an honorary member of the Italian Group of Cardiovascular Pathology, a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and a member of the British Cardiac Society.

Published work

Professor Ho is on the editorial board of Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Annals and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology.

She has written eight books, including:

• Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease made simple

• Manual de Cardiopatías Congénitas Congenital Heart Disease in Mammals

• Anatomy of the Heart by Multislice Computed Tomography

• Atlas of Real Time 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography

She has also had more than 300 papers published in peer reviewed journals.