Chief, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Professor of Plastic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center
Attending Surgeon, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System
Chief, Section of Plastic Surgery, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System
Director, Plastic and Hand Surgery Laboratory (Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System)
Patient Appointments (Adults)
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Clinic
900 Blake Wilbur Dr., Room W1083
Palo Alto, CA 94304-2205
(650) 723-7001
Patient Appointments (Children)
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto , CA 94304
(650) 497-8201 or 1-800-756-9000
Clinical Interests
Replantation of the upper extremity
Complex hand reconstruction
Reconstructive surgery of the hand and extremities, including microsurgical reconstruction
Pediatric hand and microsurgery
Facial paralysis surgery
Clinics
Pediatric Hand and Upper Extremity Clinic (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford)
Hand Clinic (Blake Wilbur Clinic)
Education
B.A., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
B.S., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
M.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT
Residency: General Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
Fellowship: Sarnoff Laboratory Research Fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Hand and Microsurgery Fellow, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Professional Societies
Association of Academic Chairmen of Plastic Surgery
Diplomate, American Board of Plastic Surgery
American Society for Surgery of the Hand
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American College of Surgeons, Associate Fellow
California Society of Plastic Surgeons
Plastic Surgery Research Council
Certificate of Added Qualification in Hand Surgery
American Association of Hand Surgery
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Chang graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences with joint degrees in Biology and Economics. He spent a year as a lecturer in English at the Beijing University of Science and Technology in Beijing , Peoples Republic of China . Following this, he graduated from Yale Medical School with Alaph Omega Alpha and Cum Laude honors. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Sarnoff Laboratory Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Michael R. Harrison and Michael T. Longaker at the University of California , San Francisco Medical Center . He then completed a residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center . Dr. Chang was Clinical Instructor of Orthopedic Surgery and Hand Fellow at U.C.L.A. Medical Center from 1999-2000. He is currently the Chief and Professor of Plastic Surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center . He is also an Attending Surgeon at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital. Dr. Chang is Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Director of the Plastic and Hand Surgery Laboratory.
His research interests include modulation of Transforming Growth Factoreta in Scarless flexor tendon wound healing, control of Angiogenesis in human hemangiomas, and tissue engineered cartilage grafts in the hand. He has expertise in Molecular Biology techniques and their applications in Plastic Surgery Research. Dr. Chang is the recipient of numerous grants from the Plastic Surgery Educational Surgery Foundation, the American Association of Hand Surgery, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. He has also received a 3-year Federal Merit Review Grant. Dr. Chang's main surgical interests are reconstructive surgery of the hand and extremities including microsurgical reconstruction. He also has interest in Pediatric Hand and Microsurgery.
