Michelle Au
Michelle Au | |||||||
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Au in 2021 | |||||||
| Member of the Georgia House of Representatives for the 50th district | |||||||
| Assumed office January 9, 2023 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Angelika Kausche | ||||||
| Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 48th district | |||||||
| In office January 11, 2021 – January 9, 2023 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Zahra Karinshak | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Shawn Still | ||||||
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| Born | June 21, 1978 New York City, United States | ||||||
| Political party | Democratic | ||||||
| Children | 3 | ||||||
| Residence | Duluth, Georgia | ||||||
| Education | Wellesley College (B.A.) Columbia University (M.D., M.P.H.) | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 歐曉瑜 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 欧晓瑜 | ||||||
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Michelle Hsiao Au (Chinese: 欧晓瑜; pinyin: Ōu Xiǎoyú) is an American anesthesiologist and politician from Georgia. Au has served in the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democratic member for District 50 since 2023. Au previously represented the 48th District in the Georgia State Senate and was the first Asian American elected to that body. In December 2021, Au announced that she would not be running for re-election in Senate district 48 but instead would run for election in Georgia state House district 50 due to the Republican controlled state legislature re-drawing her district.
In 2011, Au published her book This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies), which according to a review, "exposes the reality of medical education and the irony within the practice of medicine that physicians are human, but our patients want us to be more".