Karen J. Ho, MD

Are you interested in the human microbiome and vascular disease? We're recruiting postdoctoral fellows! Learn more on our website: sites.northwestern.edu/karenholab/ #vascular #vascularsurgery #microbiome #gutmicrobiome

Excited to share our new review in JACC:BTS on mitochondrial transplantation to treat vascular inflammation in cardiovascular disease! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #CardioTwitter #Mitochondria #VascularHealth #OpenAccess @JACCJournals

#NMbetter #Caturday #CaturdayEve #MedTwitter

Congratulations to the amazing Bekka Sobolewski, MSN, APN, ANP-BC for receiving a 2025 State Award for Outstanding Contributions from the American Assoc of Nurse Practitioners! She was the winner from IL @NMSurgery @NMCardioVasc @AANP_NEWS

As a son of a poor, Mexican immigrant family, I’m humbled to finish my vascular surgery training at @NMCardioVasc & start my job as Assistant Professor of Surgery at @Stanford @StanfordVasc & provide care to a diverse patient population at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center!

Honoured to receive the award!🙏 #PearceSymposium @karenholab

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Suhail Zeineddin, our graduating General Surgery Chief! What an amazing talk — we’re inspired by your resilience and all you’ve overcome in pursuit of pediatric surgery training. The kids will be lucky to have you! @NMSurgery

Very cool tool to assess our #AI literacy @PCASOLab

🎓 Felicidades @drpillado, our graduating Vascular Chief! I will miss you dearly 💞 Thank you for your insights on training, for inspiring us to support our vascular workforce, and for the beautiful tribute to your family. @StanfordVasc , here you go! 🚀

It’s Edelstone-Bendix Day @purplesurg @NorthwesternMed - great Pearce Research Symposium posters by some of the @LurieChildrens @LuriePedSurg fellows

🎓 Celebrating Dr. Audra Reiter as she delivers her graduation talk! ✨ We’ll miss her high energy, surgical talent, and — of course — those amazing curls! 💁‍♀️ Wishing her all the best as she heads off to pursue a Minimally Invasive Surgery fellowship! 💪 @NMSurgery #NMBetter

🎓@JessieHo_ has officially graduated! Welcome to our vascular family, we are lucky to have you! I can not wait to learn from and with you for the next 2 years. More soup breaks to come🥰@NMSurgery #NorthwesternVascular

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Bai, our graduating plastic surgery chief! We loved learning about your work in Medical Device Innovation. After 7 years of spreading positivity at Northwestern, we know you’ll shine in the world of aesthetic surgery! #NMBetter @NMSurgery

It was an honor to watch Eric’s Chief Resident talk, just as it’s been an honor to follow him the past 5 years in residency. His work is thoughtful, directed, & revolutionary, like him. Don’t mind the tears in the audience! @drpillado @NMSurgery @NorthwesternMed #nmbetter

Edelstone-Bendix Day is finally here! Chief surgery residents give their final presentation. I can’t believe it’s been 7 years!😃 @NMSurgery @NorthwesternU @NMCardioVasc

Congrats to all Allen B. Kanavel Surgical Scholars, recognizing their outstanding research achievements during lab years. #PearceSymposium

🎓 Excited to celebrate Dr. @JessieHo_, our very own, as she delivers her graduation talk regarding surgical education! We are thrilled that she’ll be staying on for Vascular Surgery fellowship! We can’t wait to have Dr. Ho squared on our service💪 #NMBetter @NMSurgery

🎓 Celebrating Dr. Sofia Aronson, our plastic surgery chief resident, as she delivers her graduation talk regarding translational breast cancer research! Thank you for all your dedication over the past years, we will miss our microsurgery queen! #NMBetter @NMSurgery

🎓 Chief Resident shout-out! Jenny Bai, Sofia Aronson, @drpillado @JessieHo_, @audra _reiter & Suhail Zeineddin deliver their capstone Pearce talks today—THE REAL TREASURE? THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY. See you at tonight graduation dinner! #PearceSymposium @NMSurgery

🥇 Pearce Fellow Award – 1st Place @hajirahimkhan, PhD (mentor: Dr. Seema Khan) ✨Fellow Research with Distinction • Yinan Guo, MD (mentor: Dr. Jenny Zhang) • Sarbjeet Niraula @pc_SjN, PhD (mentor: @karenholab) • @Rashi2S, MD (mentor: Dr. Swati Kulkarni). Congratulations! 🎉

🥇 Congratulations Dr Raheem Bell — Pearce Symposium Awardee! Studying how next-generation sequencing (NGS) is used across hospitals to help lung cancer patients access targeted therapies faster. Next steps? Streamlining NGS workflows to fight cancer! #PearceSymposium @NMSurgery