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Dr. David Ho (何大一醫師)

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Dr. David Ho (何大一醫師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. David Ho
  • Chinese: 何大一醫師
  • Era: 1952
  • Geography: Taichung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: scientist, physician
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. The First T. A. to be the front cover of Time Magazine as the man of the Year: forefront researcher for AIDS 1996

Education

  • California Institute of Technology — 1974 — B.S., Physics
  • Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology — 1978 — M.D.

Employment

  • UCLA School of Medicine — Clinical Training — (1978-) — Massachusetts General Hospital — Clinical Training — (1982-) — Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center — Director

Family

  • Wife: Susan Kuo Ho
  • Daughter: Kathryn、Jaclyn
  • Son: Jonathan
  • Father: Paul Ho (何步基)
  • Mother: Sonia Ho (江雙如)

Role in the Community

  • Cited within the Taiwanese American community record as the leading figure of the Taiwanese-American medical field, part of the community’s case that Taiwanese Americans are “small in population but outstanding in many fields” — see 台美人公民社會觀察 (Taiwan Justice).
  • Public-health messaging during the 2020 coronavirus panic (how the public should overcome panic and cope) was carried in the community press — see Tag: 何大一 archive stub in Taiwan Justice tag page.
  • In the 2012 presidential-election U-Chan (宇昌案) controversy, he was attacked alongside Tsai Ing-wen and 翁啟惠 by the KMT investigative push; the case was later closed with no wrongdoing — see 宇昌案社論 (Taiwan Justice).
  • TAH honors him as the first Taiwanese American on the cover of Time magazine (Person of the Year 1996, AIDS research).
  • Corpus records: his own TAH encyclopedia entries exist in the corpus as [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/118-dr-david-ho|TAH #118 Dr. David Ho 何大一醫師]] (2018) and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-196-david-ho|TAH #196 Dr. David Ho 何大一醫師]] (2015), and the community’s own tribute series profiles him as the 7th entry of 台美人的榮耀 (Pride of Taiwanese American): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/228-e5-8f-b0-e7-be-8e-e4-ba-ba-e7-9a-84-e6-a6-ae-e8-80-80-ef-bc-88pride-of-taiwa|TAH #228 台美人的榮耀：7, 何大一博士 (2015/04)]], with an additional profile at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/32-dr-da-yi-david-ho-e4-bd-95-e5-a4-a7-e4-b8-80-e5-8d-9a-e5-a3-ab-the-first-fron|TAH #32 Dr. Da-yi, David Ho 何大一博士]]. The community record frames his Time cover explicitly as Taiwanese American pride, not merely personal achievement.
  • HOLD: name-collision — corpus hit [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1892-david-hong|TAH #1892 Dr. David Hong 洪德生博士]] is a different person (洪德生, romanized Hong); do not merge.

Sources

Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slice 09160500-17)

  • 2026-09-16: hit set unchanged — own already-linked TAH records + works/index catalog rows only. No new community/corpus facts absorbable. SKIP-with-reason; no conflicts to HOLD.

Corpus re-grep (deepen-x slices 09160600-12, 09160700-8)

  • 2026-09-16: hit set unchanged — own already-linked TAH records (#118、#196、#228、#32) + the HOLD-flagged name-collision #1892 (洪德生, different person) + works/index catalog rows only. No new community/corpus facts absorbable. SKIP-with-reason; HOLD (David Hong name collision) still stands; last_reviewed already 2026-09-16.

Corpus re-grep (slice 09162138-5)

  • 2026-09-16: re-grep 何大一 / David Ho — hit set unchanged (#118、#196、#228、#32、#1892 HOLD、works/index), plus one false positive in a 2025-04 Taiwan Justice article about a Jeff Koons-class oil-painting auction: the substring “David Ho” matched David Hockney, not this person — no fact to absorb, no new HOLD. SKIP-with-reason.

Corpus re-grep (slice 09170130-1)

  • 2026-09-17: re-grep 何大一 / David Ho — hit set unchanged: own already-linked TAH records (#118、#196、#228、#32), the HOLD-flagged name-collision [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1892-david-hong|#1892 洪德生 (different person)]], works/index rows, and the known David Hockney false positive in the 2025-04 Taiwan Justice auction article. No new community/corpus facts absorbable. SKIP-with-reason; HOLD (David Hong collision) still stands.

Corpus re-grep (slice 10101322-9)

  • 2026-10-11: re-grep 何大一 / David Ho / 何步基 / 江雙如 across all 5 corpus dirs — hit set unchanged: own already-linked TAH records (#118、#196、#228、#32), #1892 HOLD collision (洪德生, different person), the 何大一 tag page, Taiwan Justice articles already cited on this page, works/index rows, and the two known substring false positives (David Hockney in the 2025-04 auction article, David Holsten in the 2025-06 Joyce Lin/MAF article). No new community/corpus facts absorbable. SKIP-with-reason; HOLD (David Hong collision) still stands; last_reviewed bumped.

Corpus re-grep (slice 10090500-26)

  • 2026-10-10: re-grep 何大一 / David Ho / 何步基 / 江雙如 across all 5 corpus dirs — hit set unchanged: own already-linked TAH records (#118、#196、#228、#32), #1892 HOLD collision, tag page, works/index rows. Two substring false positives confirmed as non-matches: the 2025-06-14 Joyce Lin / MAF crash article matches David Holsten (MAF chair), not this person. No new community/corpus facts absorbable. SKIP-with-reason; last_reviewed bumped.

Corpus re-grep (slice 10120100-30)

  • 2026-10-12: re-grep 何大一 / David Ho / 何步基 / 江雙如 across all 5 corpus dirs — hit set unchanged: own already-linked TAH records (#118、#196、#228、#32), #1892 HOLD collision (洪德生, different person), the 何大一 tag page, Taiwan Justice articles already cited on this page, works/index rows, and the known substring false positives (David Hockney auction article, David Holsten MAF article). No new community/corpus facts absorbable. SKIP-with-reason; HOLD (David Hong collision) still stands; last_reviewed bumped.

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