Meet Dr. Chang

Prior to joining CHOC, Dr. Chang was medical director of the pediatric cardiac intensive care service and chief of critical care cardiology at Texas Children's Hospital, and a tenured associate professor in pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine. He has held faculty appointments at the Harvard University School of Medicine, the University of Southern California School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, in Philadelphia. He also directed the cardiac intensive care programs at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and Miami Children's Hospital.

Dr. Chang completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and his residency at Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, he received his undergraduate degree at Johns- Hopkins University, in Baltimore.

In addition to his many published articles and presentations, Dr. Chang is the chief editor of the textbooks Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care and Heart Failure in Children and Young Adults. He is an associate editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and serves on the editorial board of Cardiology in the Young. Dr. Chang has also served as program director for several large international conferences and symposia.

One of Dr. Chang's most recent articles details his teamwork philosophy. "The Neonatal Cardiac Intensive Care Service: Developing a Collaborative Neonatology-Cardiology-Nursing Team in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit" was published in the May 2005 issue of Neonatology Today. This article may be viewed online at www.NeonatologyToday.net