Vivian Ho

Chief Development Officer
Medical Tourism Association

With over twenty five years of professional experience in the private and healthcare sectors, Vivian Ho serves as a Senior Advisor & Consultant to Ministries of Health, multinational corporations, private-public partnerships, and academic partnerships engaged in global health.  Presently, Ms. Ho is the Medical Tourism Association’s (MTA) Chief Development Officer; having served as Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region as well within this global trade association.  In this role, she is involved in facilitating and developing the medical tourism industry’s growth in this niche sector.  Ms. Ho also writes about issues related to medical travel and health and wellness tourism, and serves as a Board Advisor of the MTA’s Health Tourism and Medical Tourism magazines.

Prior to this, Ms. Ho was President & CEO of Queens International (QIC), a business development subsidiary of the Queens Health Systems based in Honolulu, Hawaii. QIC’s mission was to market Hawaii’s healthcare, health & wellness sectors and medical tourism programs internationally in Asia Pacific and the U.S.  Her professional experiences include a range of accomplishments in corporate strategy during her tenure as a Principal of Paradigm Consulting Group and a Management Consultant at Towers Perrin.  Ms. Ho has lived and worked in Asia Pacific, the U.S. and Europe.  She holds a BA in Economics, and an MBA in Finance & International Business. She is an alumnus of Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Washington and Whitman College. In 1998, Ms. Ho received the International Emerging Leaders Healthcare Award from the American Hospital Association - Health Forum; granted to five outstanding healthcare leaders nationally.  She has also received numerous other awards and recognition from the state of Hawaii, the national Leukemia Society, and the YWCA for her leadership and work in healthcare and philanthropy.  

Ms. Ho serves on several national health and Asian health Board of Directors; she has been an active member of the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC), Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) CEO Summit, Philanthropy Roundtable, the Asia Society, and the International Health Futures network.  In Palo Alto, she volunteers for Stanford University’s Alumni Consulting Team and the Palo Alto American Red Cross.