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James Chang MD
Associate Professor
Robert A. Chase Hand & Upper Limb Center
Division of Plastic& Reconstructive Surgery
770 Welch Road, suite 400
Stanford, CA, USA 94304
Phone (650) 723-5824
Fax (650) 725-6605
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Specialty
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.
Education
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 ReconstructiveSurgery at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Chang was Clinical Instructor of Orthopedic Surgery and Hand Fellow at U.C.L.A. Medical Center from 1992-2000.
Interests
His research interests include modulation of Transforming Growth Factor Beta 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.
Clinical and Educational Responsibilities
- Attending Surgeon at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital.
- Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Director of the Plastic and Hand Surgery Laboratory
- Residency Program Director in Plastic Surgery at Stanford
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