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- Advocate
Honours and awards
Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to radiology and nuclear medicine, as a practitioner and educator and through professional organisations.
About
Yvonne Ho AM is a general radiologist who has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors in Australia. She is an inspirational speaker, businesswoman, educator, musician, medical specialist and more.
As a medical doctor in her field of specialty, Yvonne diagnoses and treats diseases via cutting-edge, non-invasive imaging techniques to ensure patient quality of life is maintained. She has international medical research experience, cartilage imaging in particular and was also pivotal in introducing PET-CT imaging to Singapore.
Yvonne is the first Victorian and first Australian woman of Asian heritage to be dually qualified as a radiologist and nuclear medicine specialist, both male-dominated medical specialties. She is also the first female director of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.
Yvonne serves on many boards, councils and committees, and is co-founder of an international marketing firm. Some of Yvonne’s passions include inspiring our next generation; particularly women and minority groups and equal workforce participation. Her accolades include induction to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for her ground-breaking accomplishments.
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