James Guanming Lo (“James”) is a PGY-3 resident physician at HealthPartners Occupational and
Environmental Medicine Residency Program (HP Occ Med). He was born and raised in Taiwan before
coming to the United States in May 2008 while he was a high school junior student. He has been living in
both Southern and Northern California during his years in high school and college (UC Berkeley), Iowa
while in medical school (Des Moines University), one year in Southwest Virginia (PGY-1 Internship), and
now in Minnesota finishing his residency training at HealthPartners, as well as his Master of Public
Health at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Coming from an everchanging living experience
during his seventeen years in the United States, he is known for his inclusiveness to different cultures,
flexibility to learn as he goes, and this disposition is also reflected in his hobby in traveling around places
(e.g. in his fourth year medical school, he planned for his road-trip during his 6-month-long away-
rotations in Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska). In fact, he was fascinated with the
fact that there are approximately 3000 Japanese citizens living in Lexington, Kentucky, mostly working
for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK, which is the largest Toyota plant in the United
States), and later learned about the existence of occupational medicine while rotating in Birmingham,
Alabama.
He is now serving as a chief resident at HP Occ Med, helping coordinating schedules, and assisting in
learning experiences for the junior resident physicians. After his upcoming graduation in June 2025, he
anticipates practicing in clinical occupational medicine, and seeing patients for workers’ compensation,
return-to-duty, fitness-for-duty, Commercial Driver Medical Examiner (CDME), Medical Review Officer
(MRO), employee health, and preplacement exams for firefighters, police officers and other workers.