Medical Student
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Emily Gao, BS, is a second-year medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on hearing loss, music engagement, and the patient and caregiver decision-making processes. She employs mixed-methods approaches that integrate quantitative analysis with qualitative and user-experience design techniques such as semi-structured interviews, persona development, and journey mapping to understand the lived experiences of individuals with hearing loss. Before medical school, she worked in management consulting at L.E.K. Consulting, advising life sciences companies, and earned her BS in Cognitive Science with a Specialization in Computing from the University of California, Los Angeles.