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Dr. James Chang is currently Professor and Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University. 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, Peopleâ??s Republic of China. Following this, he graduated from Yale Medical School with Alpha Omega Alpha and Cum Laude honors. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Sarnoff Laboratory Research Fellow 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 a Clinical Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery and the Hand & Microsurgery Fellow at U.C.L.A. Medical Center from 1999-2000. He is currently Professor of Plastic Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center. He is also an Attending Surgeon at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, where he serves as Director of the Plastic and Hand Surgery Laboratory. His basic science research interests include modulation of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta in scarless flexor tendon wound healing and tissue engineered flexor tendon grafts for hand reconstruction. He has expertise in molecular biology and tissue engineering techniques and their applications to plastic and hand surgery research. Dr. Chang is the recipient of numerous grants including two recent multi-year Federal Merit Review Awards on â??Tissue Engineered Flexor Tendon Grafts for Extremity Reconstructionâ?? and â??Optimization of Bioengineered Tendons Using Bioreactors and Stem Cellsâ??. Dr. Chang is the past Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of Hand Surgery and an Associate Editor for the journals, Journal of Hand Surgery, Annals of Plastic Surgery, Hand, and Microsurgery. He was the Royal College of Surgeons Foundation traveling fellow and was awarded the 2006 Sterling Bunnell Traveling Fellowship by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was Research Director for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and managed the grant portfolio and programs of this national organization. He is a member of the Plastic Surgery Residency Review Committee of the ACGME and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He was elected to the American Surgical Association in 2010. Dr. Chang's main surgical interests are in reconstructive surgery of the hand and extremities including microsurgical reconstruction. He also has interest in pediatric hand and microsurgery, post-oncologic head and neck reconstruction, and lower extremity reconstruction. He is married to Dr. Harriet Walker Roeder, a psychiatrist. They live on Stanford campus with their three daughters, Julia, Kathleen, and Cecilia. In his spare time, Jim enjoys traveling, running marathons, flyfishing, cycling, watching baseball, and coaching his daughtersâ?? sports teams. Currently teaching
SURG 70Q: Surgical Anatomy of the Hand: From Rodin to Reconstruction
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ORTHO 199: Undergraduate Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) SYMSYS 190: Senior Honors Tutorial (Autumn, Winter, Spring) SURG 199: Undergraduate Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) SURG 370: Medical Scholars Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) SURG 208: Plastic Surgery Tutorial (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) SURG 399: Graduate Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) SURG 299: Directed Reading in Surgery (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) ORTHO 370: Medical Scholars Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) ORTHO 280: Early Clinical Experience in Orthopedic Surgery (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) ORTHO 299: Directed Reading in Orthopedic Surgery (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) ORTHO 399: Graduate Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer) |