Dr. Chang is internationally known as a pioneer in the
field of complementary and alternative medicine who has
developed a unique and progressive integrative practice
specializing in unconventional cancer care. Dr. Chang is
originally from Hong Kong. He received his B.A. (Magna cum
laude) and M.D. from Brown University and trained at a Yale
affiliated residency as well as completing a Kaiser Fellowship
at Cornell-New York Hospital before joining Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center as an attending from 1987 to 1997. He is currently
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical College
and directs the Meridian
Medical Group for alternative cancer care in
New York City. He lectures and publishes widely on various
aspects of integrative cancer care, and chaired the first
International
Asian Therapies for Cancer Conference. He is
an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians,
member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and
the European Society for Medical Oncology as well as Founding
President of the Institute
of East-West Medicine. He has served as NCI
investigator and is on the board of the CAM
PDQ database at the National Cancer Institute
and currently directs the non-profit Asian
Anticancer Materia database project which is
supported by the Gray Charitable Trust. He has served on
the editorial boards of such peer-reviewed alternative journals
as Integrative Cancer Therapies, Journal of Alternative
and Complementary Medicine, and Clinical Acupuncture &
Oriental Medicine. Recently, he contributed a chapter on
Integrative Cancer Care in the new textbook Integrative
Medicine : Principles for Practice.
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