Overview

Work History

Education

Timeline

Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Physician Instructor

Sierra Nevada Family Medicine, Grass Valley

11.2024 - Current

Rehabilitation Physician

University of California

San Francisco

08.2023 - Current

Sports & Interventional Spine Medicine, Cohost of Sensibly Curious about Vaccines Podcast

Physician

03.2022 - Current

Of Governor Ron DeSantis’ Public Health Integrity Committee Including two in-person roundtable meetings and regular virtual meetings

Physician Instructor

Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program

Sacramento

12.2021 - Current

Scientific writer

Wilderness Medical Society Research Council

01.2016 - Current

Race

01.2013 - Current

Physician volunteer at multiple ultramarathons in Denmark and the US including yearly involvement in the Western States Endurance Run 100 Miler.

Northern California Orthopaedic Associates, Sacramento Surgical Institute

01.2006 - 01.2024

LLC
Telephone: (218) 391-9640
Email tbhoeg@mit.edu or tracybethhoeg@gmail.com
Citizenships: USA and Denmark, Guest on WBUR’s On Point “Why the US needs a Reckoning on Lockdowns Before the Next Pandemic.” https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/06/11/pandemic-covid-lockdown-public-health-physician

Policy Analyst

University of California

San Francisco

09.2023 - 12.2023

Volunteer Epidemiology Consultant

County of Marin Health & Human Services

01.2022 - 01.2023

Clinical Professor and Associate Researcher

University of California

Davis

07.2018 - 06.2022

Project Policy Analyst

Department of Health

03.2019 - 01.2022

Invited Speaker/Expert Panelist on “Censorship of Science by Academia”
Censorship of Science: A Conference of the Academy for Science and Freedom
Washington, DC

Researcher

Runners

01.2018 - 01.2022

Epidemiologist

03.2004 - 01.2022

Guest on Dr
Drew show
Myocarditis in Teen Boys:, Dr
Tracy Høeg.”24/2022: Cofounder of Urgency of Normal: evidence-based physician child advocacy group and public toolkit
Https://www.urgencyofnormal.com/ 1/22: Accad & Koka Podcast: Episode 193: Tracy Høeg on the Anti-Science of School Closures
Https://accadandkoka.com/episodes/episode193/

Journalist

UltraRunning Magazine

12.2019 - 12.2021

Authoring the “Ultra Doc” column

Research Scientist

Regenerative Sports Medicine for Napa Medical Research Foundation and University of California, Davis

01.2018 - 01.2021

Expert Panel Member

01.2009 - 01.2021

For American Federation for Teachers and Open Schools USA “COVID Safety in Schools.”
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhoSq8HwyU4 12/2021: Expert testimony for House Committee on Labor and Education
School Reopening Roundtable”26/21: Plenary Session Podcast 3.46 COVID-19 Risk, Cases, and Transmission in K-12 Schools with Dr
Tracy Høeg
Https://soundcloud.com/plenarysession/ep346

Journalist

01.2017 - 01.2020

At iRunFar for the column “Running on Science”

Enrolled

Wilderness Medical

01.2015 - 01.2019

The Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program

Elected Resident and Fellows Council Research Representative

Oak Hill Athletics Track

01.2016 - 01.2017

Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP)

Owner and Head Athletic Coach

My Little

01.2015 - 01.2016

Physiology endurance sports consulting service

Physician research advisor

Care. Aalborg University, Denmark

01.2014 - 01.2015

Physician

Næstved Hospital

, Denmark

01.2009 - 01.2015

Urgent Care Physician

Gundersen Lutheran

La Crosse, WI

01.2007 - 01.2009

Physician moonlighter

Gundersen Lutheran

La Crosse, WI

01.2007 - 01.2008

French interpreter

Columbia - St. Mary’s

Milwaukee, WI

01.2005 - 01.2006

For victims of foreign torture

Saturday Free Clinic

Milwaukee, WI

01.2002 - 01.2006

Over 50 hours of volunteer work as a medical student

Adjunct Associate Professor

Sloan School of

01.2004 - 01.2005

Over 100 hours tutoring in Neuroscience to medical students at The Medical College of Wisconsin

Junior high English teacher

Toulouse, France

01.2001 - 01.2002

Lab assistant

Madison

01.2000 - 01.2001

Consultant Epidemiologist

University of Southern Denmark

10.2025

21: Guest on WBUR’s On Point “The Importance of Fixing Bad Covid Math” https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/10/25/the-importance-of-fixing-covid-math

Guest

01.2023

Høeg TB

04.2021

Gandhi M, Brown L
Widespread Coronavirus Surveillance Testing in Schools is a Bad Idea
The Washington Post
Https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/19/schools-covid-testing-cost/
Høeg TB, Henderson T, Johnson D, Gandhi M
Our next national priority should be to reopen all America's schools for full time in-person learning
The Hill
March 20th, 2021
Https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/544142-our-next-national-priority-should-be-to-reopen-all-americas-schools-for
Henderson T, Gandhi M, Høeg TB, Johnson D
CDC misinterpreted our research on opening schools
It should loosen the rules now
Keeping schools closed or even partially closed, based on what we know now, is harming children
USA Today
March 9th, 2021
Https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/09/cdc-school-opening-covid-rules-guidance-column/4628552001/
Relevant Work, Volunteer Experience & Select Recent Presentations and Recordings

Physicians

Squaw Valley, CA

10.2019

Expert speaker on Regenerative Medicine at California Society of Interventional Pain, 10th Annual Conference.

Physician expert

Trail Runner Magazine

01.2016

Novartis

01.2015

Marathon Sport

Copenhagen, Denmark

01.2014

Paid speaker for Sparta Athletic Club and

endurance vision loss physician researcher

Western States Endurance Run

, USA

01.2013

Associate Editor

Kazemi

Reviewer at Epidemiology & Infection, Annals of Internal Medicine, European Journal of Paediatrics, Wellcome Open Research, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, EDiabetes Care, Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, Ophthalmology, Strabismus
At PM&R
Congressional Testimonies
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S
House of Representatives
Looking Back Before Moving Forward: Assessing CDC’s Failures in Fulfilling its Mission” with Tracy Beth Høeg
June 7th, 2023
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Consequences of School Closures: Intended and Unintended” with Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD Tuesday March 28th, 2023
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations U.S
House of Representatives “Putting Kids First: Addressing COVID-19’s Impacts on Children” with Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
September 22nd, 2021 Washington, DC
Scientific Editorials
Makary, M and Høeg, TB
The real data behind the new COVID vaccines the White House is pushing
New York Post
9/14/2023
Https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/the-real-data-behind-the-new-covid-vaccines-the-white-house-is-pushing/
Høeg, TB
New study looks at vaccine-associated cardiac deaths in young people
Sensible Medicine
4/16/2023
Https://www.sensible-med.com/p/new-study-looks-at-vaccine-associated
Høeg TB
Opinion: California gave up on mandating COVID vaccines for schoolchildren
Here’s why that’s wise
LA Times
3/2/2023
Høeg TB
New England Journal of Medicine’s Disappointing Decision to Publish the Boston School Mask Study
Sensible Medicine
11/12/2022
Https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/nejms-disappointing-decision-to-publish
Høeg TB
A Level-Headed Look at the Florida Vaccine Study
Sensible Medicine
10/16/2022
Https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/a-level-headed-look-at-the-florida-81a
Høeg TB
Sacrificing children’s health in the name of ‘Health’
Sensible Medicine
8/12/2022
Https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/sacrificing-childrens-health-in-the
Makary M, Høeg TB
US Public Health Agencies aren’t ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say
Common Sense
7/14/2022
Https://www.commonsense.news/p/us-public-health-agencies-arent-following
Bienen L, Høeg TB
The CDC is Breaking Trust in Childhood Vaccination
Tablet
7/5/2022
Https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/cdc-is-endangering-childhood-vaccination-progress
Høeg TB
California wants to listen in at your next doctor’s appointment
4/28/22
SF Gate
Https://www.sfgate.com/politics-op-eds/article/argument-against-California-AB-2098-17130301.php
Høeg TB & Duriseti R
We Need to Stop Indiscriminately Testing for COVID
It’s Harming our Children
Newsweek
4/25/22 https://www.newsweek.com/we-need-stop-indiscriminately-testing-covid-its-harming-our-kids-opinion-1699723
Høeg TB & Prasad V
We’re pro-vaccine but can’t support California Lawmakers’ COVID school vaccine mandate
Https://www.sfgate.com/politics-op-eds/article/California-vaccine-mandate-schools-COVID-omicron-16832461.php
SF Gate
2/8/, P, Høeg TB, Grant J, Fulford M
Opinion: Time for Kids to Get Back to Normal
Natinoal Post
11/26/21
Https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-time-for-kids-to-get-back-to-normal
Balsitis S & Høeg TB
How other countries can teach the Bay Area about the COVID-19 engdame
Https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/A-winter-COVID-surge-is-coming-How-other-16556423.php
San Francisco Chronicle
10/23/21
Bienen L, Happel E, Høeg TB
How to Fix our Broken Relationship with COVID Math
Persuasion
10/11/2021
Https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-fix-our-broken-relationship
Høeg TB, Gandhi M, Johnson D
We Must Fully Reopen Schools This Fall
Here’s How
The New York Times
June 8th, 2021
Https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/opinion/blueprint-reopening-schools.html
Høeg TB, McBride L, Krug A, Gandhi M
It’s Time for Children to Finally get back to Normal Life
The Washington Post
Https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/26/its-time-children-finally-get-back-normal-life/
Høeg TB, Prasad V, Gandhi M, American Kids Can Wait
The Atlantic
May 12th, 2021
Https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/vaccinate-adults-in-india-before-american-children/618849/

Visiting Scholar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education

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Timeline

Consultant Epidemiologist

University of Southern Denmark

10.2025

Physician Instructor

Sierra Nevada Family Medicine, Grass Valley

11.2024 - Current

Policy Analyst

University of California

09.2023 - 12.2023

Rehabilitation Physician

University of California

08.2023 - Current

Guest

01.2023

Physician

03.2022 - Current

Volunteer Epidemiology Consultant

County of Marin Health & Human Services

01.2022 - 01.2023

Physician Instructor

Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program

12.2021 - Current

Høeg TB

04.2021

Journalist

UltraRunning Magazine

12.2019 - 12.2021

Physicians

10.2019

Project Policy Analyst

Department of Health

03.2019 - 01.2022

Clinical Professor and Associate Researcher

University of California

07.2018 - 06.2022

Researcher

Runners

01.2018 - 01.2022

Research Scientist

Regenerative Sports Medicine for Napa Medical Research Foundation and University of California, Davis

01.2018 - 01.2021

Journalist

01.2017 - 01.2020

Scientific writer

Wilderness Medical Society Research Council

01.2016 - Current

Elected Resident and Fellows Council Research Representative

Oak Hill Athletics Track

01.2016 - 01.2017

Physician expert

Trail Runner Magazine

01.2016

Enrolled

Wilderness Medical

01.2015 - 01.2019

Owner and Head Athletic Coach

My Little

01.2015 - 01.2016

Novartis

01.2015

Physician research advisor

Care. Aalborg University, Denmark

01.2014 - 01.2015

Marathon Sport

01.2014

Race

01.2013 - Current

endurance vision loss physician researcher

Western States Endurance Run

01.2013

Expert Panel Member

01.2009 - 01.2021

Physician

Næstved Hospital

01.2009 - 01.2015

Urgent Care Physician

Gundersen Lutheran

01.2007 - 01.2009

Physician moonlighter

Gundersen Lutheran

01.2007 - 01.2008

Northern California Orthopaedic Associates, Sacramento Surgical Institute

01.2006 - 01.2024

French interpreter

Columbia - St. Mary’s

01.2005 - 01.2006

Epidemiologist

03.2004 - 01.2022

Adjunct Associate Professor

Sloan School of

01.2004 - 01.2005

Saturday Free Clinic

01.2002 - 01.2006

Junior high English teacher

01.2001 - 01.2002

Lab assistant

01.2000 - 01.2001

Associate Editor

Kazemi

Visiting Scholar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology