Clinical Focus

• Infectious Disease
• Infectious Diseases
• Immunocompromised Host

Honors and Awards

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Huntington’s Disease Society of America (1991-1993)
• Morris Alex, M.D. Prize for clinical medicine, Washington University School of Medicine (1999)
• Dr. Lee B. & Virginia G. Harrison Scholarship for internal medicine, Washington University School of Medicine (1999 & 2000)
• Gene transfer using herpes virus vectors as a tool for neuroprotection, US Patent No: 5661033 (1997)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Infectious Diseases

Current Research Interests

Dr. Ho did her PhD work in HSV pathogenesis and postdoctoral research in CNS gene therapy with viral vectors. Her current interests are in viral and fungal infections in immunocompromised patients and her research focuses on infection complications in neutropenic patients. In collaboration with Dr. C. Dekker of the Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program and with Dr. J. Brown of the BMT Division, she is also conducting clinical trials on vaccines, antivirals and antifungals as a co-investigator.

Clinical Trials

• 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Study No longer recruiting
• A Study of an Investigational V212/Heat-Treated Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) Vaccine in Immunocompromised Adults No longer recruiting
• An Observational Study of Fungal Biomarkers No longer recruiting
• Phase III of 2 Dosing Regimens of Caspofungin in the Treatment of Invasive Candidiasis in Adults Completed
• Prophylactic Use of Maribavir for the Prevention of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Disease in Stem Cell Transplant Recipients Completed

Publications

• Early CMV viremia is associated with impaired viral control following nonmyeloablative hematopoietic cell transplantation with a total lymphoid irradiation and antithymocyte globulin preparative regimen. Schaenman JM, Shashidhar S, Rhee C, Wong J, Navato S, Wong RM, Ho DY, Arai S, Johnston L, Brown JM. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011; 17 (5): 693-702
• Treatment of acyclovir-resistant herpes simplex virus with continuous infusion of high-dose acyclovir in hematopoietic cell transplant patients. Kim JH, Schaenman JM, Ho DY, Brown JM. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011; 17 (2): 259-64
• Yield of diagnostic procedures for invasive fungal infections in neutropenic febrile patients with chest computed tomography abnormalities. Ho DY, Lin M, Schaenman J, Rosso F, Leung AN, Coutre SE, Sista RR, Montoya JG. Mycoses. 2011; 54 (1): 59-70
• Varicella Zoster Virus Ho DY, Arvin Am, Newland JG. In: Yu VL, Weber R, Raoult D (eds.), Antinicrobial Therapy and Vaccines 3rd edition. 2009
• Immunogenicity, safety and consistency of new trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine. Talbot HK, Keitel W, Cate TR, Treanor J, Campbell J, Brady RC, Graham I, Dekker CL, Ho D, Winokur P, Walter E, Bennet J, Formica N, Hartel G, Skeljo M, Edwards KM. Vaccine. 2008; 26 (32): 4057-61