Kyong-Mi Chang, MD, FAASLD

Biography

Kyong-Mi Chang MD FAASLD is Professor of Medicine (in GI/Hepatology) at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Associate Chief of Research (ACOS/R&D) and Associate Dean for Research at the Penn-affiliated Philadelphia Corporal Michael J Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC). For over three decades, Dr. Chang has been studying mechanisms of acute and chronic liver disease in humans. As a clinical hepatologist and cellular immunologist, Dr. Chang developed and studied well-defined liver disease patient cohorts to better understand the role of immune regulatory and immunogenetic factors in the outcome of hepatitis B and C +/- HIV-coinfection—using high dimensional approaches including imaging mass cytometry. She is also conducting population-based genetic epidemiology studies to understand the genetic basis of cardiometabolic diseases including metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and other liver-related comorbidities, using data from Veterans in the Million Veteran Program (MVP). As the ACOS/R&D, Dr. Chang leads VA-based research at the CMCVAMC and is committed to mentoring and sponsoring VA-based researchers both locally and nationally. Dr. Chang received M.D. and Internal Medicine residency training from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Gastroenterology fellowship training at the University of California San Diego and postdoctoral research training in viral immune pathogenesis at the Scripps Research Institute.