Kathryn Ko, M.D., MFA
Medical School: University of Hawaii, class of 1983
Specialty: Neurosurgery
Career Highlights:
Service with AMWA: Curator, StudioAMWA
Quote: My medium is Neurosurgery.
Biography:
Dr. Ko, a self taught ambidexter, completed neurosurgery training at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City and earned a MFA from the Academy of Art University. During residency she also launched her complementary career in art by using the pulsed ruby laser to create medical holograms of the human brain in collaboration with Holographics, Inc. Ko regards art as a necessary continuation of her surgical practice. The operating theater is her studio; the treatment of the subject begins with the scalpel and ends with the brush.