Rachel is a Consultant Clinical Scientist at Synnovis, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital where she is Director of South East Thames Regional Newborn Screening Laboratory, Scientific Head of Service and Clinical Lead for Biochemical Sciences.  She is also Chair of the UK Metabolic Biochemistry Network and a Screening Professional Clinical Advisor (ANNB laboratory) to NHSE.

Her main area of interest is inherited metabolic disease with a particular focus on the application of tandem mass spectrometry to the measurement of small molecules. She is passionate about science, an advocate of A3 thinking and committee to service improvement.

Dr Ho served as a Scientific Officer (Medical) in the Department of Chemical Pathology at Price of Wales Hospital from 1983 until his retirement in 2014. He was appointed an Honorary Staff Member of CUHK in 1986 and has held this role since then. In 1995, he because Scientist-in-Charge of the Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Unit at CUHK, where he established and advanced the application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry in both clinical research and routine diagnostic laboratory services.

Throughout his career, Dr Ho has made significant contributions to postgraduate education, supervising research projects for MSc (Clinical Biochemistry), MPhil, and PhD students at CUHK. His Professional Services include being a Fellow and Past President of the Hong Kong Society of Clinical Chemistry, as well as a founding Council Membre of the Hong Kong Society of Mass Spectrometry. He is also an active Technical Assessor for the Hong Kong Accreditation Service for Medical Testing.