Howard Chang

Biography

 Biography:  Dr. Howard Chang graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor degree in biology in 1976.  He worked for approximately 9 months as a research technician in the Endocrine Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then began graduate studies in the Department of Anatomy at Wayne State University in Detroit. Upon the relocation of his mentor, Dr. Kitai, who became the chairman of Anatomy at Michigan State University, Howard also became a Spartan in 1978 and earned his Ph.D. degree in Anatomy (neuroanatomy) from MSU in 1981.  Dr. Chang moved to Memphis in 1982, first as a postdoctoral fellow, and later, a tenure tract faculty in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Tennessee in Memphis doing neuroanatomy and neurophysiology research studies of the basal forebrain in laboratory animals (degeneration of these areas are seen in dementia patients).  After his promotion to tenured Associated Professor in 1991, Dr. Chang decided to change his career path to become a medical student in 1992 in the same school.  Upon graduating with a medical degree in 1996, he began 3 years of Anatomic Pathology residency training at Mass General Hospital and followed with 2 years of Neuropathology fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, RI).  He was hired in 2001 as a neuropathologist at the SUNY-Upstate Medical University in Syracuse where he collaborated on spinal cord injury-repair research projects.  Through a fortuitous opportunity, Dr. Chang was recruited by Dr. David Kaufman back to East Lansing in 2006 as a faculty member of the Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Michigan State University, and as a Neuropathologist at Sparrow Hospital, where he has happily remained since. 

Research Interest

 opthalmology