Michelle Hsiao Au (Chinese: 欧晓瑜[1]) 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.
[2] Au previously represented the 48th District in the Georgia State Senate and was the first Asian American elected to that body.
[5] In 2011, Au published her book This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies),[6] 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".
[7] Au was born to Chinese-American immigrants, both physicians, in New York City.