Dr. Hou is an Instructor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in the Section of Emergency Medicine Critical Care ​(EMCC), Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is dual boarded in Emergency ​Medicine and Anesthesia critical care medicine and practices clinically in both the ​emergency department  and surgical intensive care unit.

He participated ​as site principal investigator (PI) for the NIH-sponsored “Protocolized Care for ​Early Septic Shock” trial, with the results published in The New England​ Journal of Medicine in 2014. He recently founded the Brigham Critical Care​ Research Collaborative (BCCRC) with the medical ICU and EMCC section.