15 Facts About Kevin Pho

Kevin Pho is an American physician of internal medicine, media commentator, public speaker, and author.

Kevin Pho's writings have been published in USA Today, CNN.

Kevin Pho is the co-author of the book Establishing, Managing, and Protecting Your Online Reputation: A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices.

Kevin Pho grew up in Sarnia, Ontario, where he attended Gregory A Hogan Catholic School, then moved to Richmond Hill, Ontario, where he went to high school at University of Toronto Schools.

In 2004, Pho started the blog, KevinMD, in response to positive feedback from patients who read his blog post about the Vioxx recall.

Kevin Pho had previously worked as a researcher for Google Answers, where he would answer questions by patients, and realized that patients did not seem to be getting the information they needed in the examination room.

Kevin Pho frequently writes about the benefits of physicians using social media as a way to help patients locate reliable information about healthcare and to communicate issues with medicine to the public and among colleagues.

That year, Kevin Pho raised $1,000 to support the United Way of Greater Nashua by using his Twitter and Facebook profiles.

Kevin Pho received criticism for posting an article about a surgeon whose supervisor intentionally harmed a patient during vascular surgery in order to provide a teaching opportunity.

Kevin Pho removed the story after it was determined to be fiction and apologized for not vetting its truth.

Kevin Pho has appeared as a keynote speaker and panel member for the Massachusetts Medical Society, The New England Journal of Medicine, Texas Medical Association, BlogWorld, New Media Expo, the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters, The Pri Med South Annual Conference, The American Orthopaedic Association, Pain Week, the WSMA 2016 Annual Meeting, Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care, and the College of American Pathologists Pathologists' Meeting.

Kevin Pho is a contributor to The New York Times' "Room for Debate" and CNN.

In 2013, Kevin Pho published Establishing, Managing, and Protecting Your Online Reputation: A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices.

In February 2010, Kevin Pho was listed in the New Hampshire Union Leader's 'Top 40 Under 40.

Kevin Pho was again named a top doctor by the publication in 2019.