Hilary Ong, MD, is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow, 2020, coming to CNHS from the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Dr. Ong began her education with a Bachelors of Arts in Asian Studies and a Bachelors of Science in Nutrition at University of California, Berkeley. Following her undergraduate experience, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, during which she conducted an independently formulated research project examining the rise of childhood obesity in China.
While in medical school at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, she continued her global health interests, completing further research on child health in China through the Global Health Pathways program. During her residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Dr. Ong elected for the Global Health track, beginning an environmental epidemiology project examining the influence of air pollution on child health in Mongolia. Here at Children’s, she is looking forward to continuing her global health work, and to furthering her investigation into the relationship between child health and environmental change.
Read Dr. Ong’s recently published narrative piece on her experiences working in Mongolia.