Member Spotlight: Stuart J. Chow, DO, FACOS

Stuart J. Chow, DO, FACOS

COTS Trauma Steering Committee
Genesis Hospital

April 2025

• Where were you born and/raised? Pearl City, Hawaii

• What was your first job? Cook at McDonalds

• You have two weeks off and a plane ticket to go anywhere. Where would you go? Maldives

• What would you like your fellow COTS partners to know about you? I always feel like I’m not doing enough so I am always trying to learn.

• What made you decide to be a physician/nurse/EMT/emergency manager (whatever your chosen career path)? I worked as an anesthesia tech at Queen’s Medical Center and found medicine interesting and rewarding.

• What hobbies do you participate in your free time? Reading, flyfishing, Kayak fishing, and try to catch up on sleep.

• If you could be any superhero, who would you be? Thor.

• What is your favorite thing to do in the Winter season? Travel to someplace warm.

• If you won the Powerball, what’s the first thing you would do? Hire a lawyer to increase my liability insurance.

• What was the first concert you attended? Cheap trick.