sharing my values and passions, motivating youth and young adults to find theirs, and cultivating a community of future servant leaders.
Life Mission Statement: To positively impact individuals and community by cultivating personal values and passion, motivating progressive change, and realizing community potential.
Ho Chie Tsai, MD is currently a Board-certified urgent care pediatrician and hospitalist working around the San Francisco Bay area. He is on staff as an Attending Physician at the Children’s Hospital and Research Center of Oakland, which primarily serves an ethnically diverse yet under-privileged patient population. Additionally, he holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a Master’s Degree in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
During the 1990's, Ho Chie was actively involved with various pan-ethnic organizations at UIUC and throughout Chicago, including serving as Co-president (92-93) and Internal Vice-president (91-92) of the Asian American Association, co-founding the Taiwanese American Students Club (90-91), creating the Coalition of APA Organizations (91-92) now known as the Asian Pacific American Coalition, and helping to organize the Asian American Alumni Association of UIUC (94-95). Ho Chie was one of the original 15 founding "seeds" who met in the summer of 1991 on the East Coast and returned to their home campuses with the intention of creating an intercollegiate Taiwanese American students network, now known as ITASA. In his post-graduate years, he was a long-time Program Director for the grade school programs at the Taiwanese American Foundation Summer Conference and a former chapter president of the Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (98-99).
Today, he remains proactively involved in various Asian Pacific American community grassroots and leadership development organizations, especially within the Taiwanese American community. He is well known for his contributions to Taiwanese American youth summer camp programs across the country. Since 1996, he has also served as a Taiwanese American Foundation Board Member, and currently, he is a core organizer of the North American Taiwanese Medical Association 2G, an allied healthcare professionals organization, a director of Taiwanese American Professionals in San Francisco, and the creator / manager of TaiwaneseAmerican.org, a national web portal site dedicated to connecting and highlighting the new generation of Taiwanese Americans.
Ho Chie continues to enjoy speaking on the workshop circuit at various Asian Pacific American conferences across the nation and being surrounded by youthful people with a vision for the future. He is always searching for creative ways to fulfill his life mission and hopes you might be inspired to pursue your passions in life as well.
"Back in my day, we walked to school. Uphill. Both ways." Workshop co-facilitator.
"From Then to Now: The United State of Taiwanese America," Keynote speaker.
"Career Panel," Moderator and Panelist.
"Building Community Through TaiwaneseAmerican.org," Workshop speaker.
"Taiwanese Americans in Action, Career Panel," Organizer and Panelist.
"Whose Story is it Anyways? an interactive identity exploration workshop," Facilitator.
"Passion, Purpose, and People: Ingredients For Your Amazing Life Soup," Workshop speaker.
"Superhero Series: Lessons in Teamwork and Leadership," Workshop series for grade school and junior high kids.
Need a speaker or workshop facilitator?
Contact Ho Chie Tsai at hochie@hochie.net to check availability for your conference and to arrange a session that suits the theme of your programming.