Dr. Chang received both his B.A. (Magna cum laude) and M.D. degrees from Brown University where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa as well as Sigma Xi. He subsequently completed post-doctoral training at Yale-Waterbury and Cornell-New York Hospitals, and was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1995.
Dr. Chang, internationally respected and uniquely trained in conventional Western medicine and traditional Eastern medicine, is known as one of the earliest pioneers in the field of alternative cancer therapies. Hailed by New York Magazine as early as 1999 as a “New Healer“; Dr. Chang has been interviewed on the Today Show, cited by Reuters, Foxnews, ABC News, WebMD , the Townsend letter and appeared as a guest of Dr. Ralph Moss of the Moss Reports.
His cancer career began with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1987 where he was associated until 1997. He also served as a faculty member of Weill Cornell School of Medicine from 1986 to 2014 where he was an attending physician at New York Presbyterian hospital from 1987 to 2014.
In the past two decades, Dr. Chang has been devoting his efforts to call for a different paradigm to treat cancer using a cocktailed approach (see his book “Beyond the Magic Bullet – The Anti-Cancer Cocktail“), with an emphasis on the use of “off-label” or re-purposed drugs which he publicly proposed as early as 2008. He has also published books on fertility, the integration of Eastern and Western medicine, as well as contributed to important textbooks in the field. Currently, he is co-editing an open access textbook on repurposed drugs against cancer with Professor Angus Dalgleish of St. George’s, University of London. Hear Dr. Chang discuss his thoughts on repurposed drugs with Dr. Ralph Moss in a recent podcast and watch him discuss his cocktail approach in the award winning “Surviving Terminal Cancer” film featuring Dr. Ben William’s successful battle against glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer.
Another interest area of Dr. Chang’s is the use of cell-based therapies against cancer and for degenerative diseases. He has been collaborating with Dr. Thomas Nesselhut of the Institute of Cell Therapy, and Professor Fred Fandrich of the University of Kiel in Germany in researching dendritic cell therapies for cancer and regenerative stem cell therapies for degenerative diseases since 2004, and has jointly published multiple reports in these areas.
Dr. Chang is a member of academic medical societies including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), and a member of the Royal Society of Medicine . He has served on the editorial boards of the international journal “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” and the peer reviewed “Integrative Cancer Therapies”, and also served as an advisory board member of the PDQ Database of the National Cancer Institute as well as the Continuum Center for Health and Healing at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York. He is founder and current president of the 501(c)3 Institute of East-West Medicine since 1997. See a listing of Dr. Chang’s publications and current research interests here.
Books by Dr. Chang on Cancer and Fertility
