Ping Ho

Ping Ho, MA, MPH, is Founder and Director of UCLArts & Healing, which offers training in the use of creative expression for self-discovery, connection, and empowerment. UCLArts & Healing lives within the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine, of which Ping is a steering committee member and was founding administrator. She was also founding administrator for the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, which led to the privilege of writing for Norman Cousins and co-writing the professional autobiography of George F. Solomon, M.D., founder of the field.

She has a BA in psychology with honors from Stanford—where she was appointed to spearhead the still-thriving Health Improvement Program for faculty and staff, an MA in counseling psychology with specialization in exercise physiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MPH in community health sciences from UCLA School of Public Health.

Ping is a member of the council of advisers for the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health and associate editor for the Creative Arts Therapies section of the Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She developed the Certificate Program in Social Emotional Arts (SEA) and the Medical SEA Program for any population, setting or budget. In addition, she co-developed and served as principal investigator for the evidence-based program, Beat the Odds®: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming.

She also co-chairs the annual UCLArts & Healing conference on Creativity & the Arts in Healing, which offers 150+ experiential and continuing education workshops in the use of a variety of art forms for facilitating communication, building connection, promoting positive emotions, fostering engagement, enhancing mindfulness, reducing stress, and managing the impact of trauma. She is co-author, with Erica Curtis, of The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art (Ohio University/Swallow Press, March 2019).