Ho Chie Tsai

Ho Chie Tsai, MD is the founder of TaiwaneseAmerican.org, a non-profit organization and website whose mission is to connect and highlight the next generation of Taiwanese America. He has spent most of his life working to build organizations and networks that serve the Asian and Taiwanese American communities. A popular speaker among youth audiences, his personal mission is to inspire young people to discover their values and passions so that they can make a positive impact in this world. He is currently the board president of the Taiwanese American Foundation and a past founder of Taiwanese American Professionals in San Francisco. He has been involved with the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association since its formation in the early 1990’s and remains a frequent speaker for their regional conferences. In 2012, Ho Chie was recognized with the Outstanding Asian American Alumni Award from his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for his influential community-organizing work, which ultimately led to the establishment of both an Asian American Studies Department and Cultural Center. Professionally, Ho Chie is a board-certified pediatrician at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland, which serves an ethnically diverse and mostly under-privileged patient population. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering.