Michelle Hsiao Au (

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: 欧晓瑜) is an

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and politician from

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. Au has served in the

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as a Democratic member for District 50 since 2023. Au previously represented the 48th District in the

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and was the first

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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".

Early life and education

Au was born to

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immigrants in

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. She graduated from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

in 1999 with a

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in Psychobiology,

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in 2003 and a

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in 2019 from

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Electoral history

Personal life

Au lives in

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, and has three children.

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