Andy Chang, MD, Ms(epi)
About Andy Chang, MD, Ms(epi)
Fellow Physician in Advanced Echocardiography at the University of California San Francisco, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, PhD Candidate in Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences. Graduate of Stanford Internal Medicine / Global Health Residency / Chief Resident, and Cardiology Fellowship Programs. My clinical interests involve the use of echocardiography (ultrasound) to evaluate cardiac structure and function. My training includes evaluation of resting echocardiograms, stress tests augmented with echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and the use of TEE for minimally-invasive structural heart interventions. My investigative interests include epidemiology and health services research focused on heart disease and environmental determinants of cardiovascular health, particularly in global vulnerable populations. My dissertation work focuses on the effects of air pollution and wildfires on heart disease, but I am interested broadly in how the manifestations of climate change are impacting the cardiovascular system. I also have a longstanding interest in studying and improving the quality of care for neglected tropical heart diseases of low- and middle-income countries, chief among them rheumatic heart disease. I consider myself methodologically agnostic, and incorporate classic descriptive/analytic epidemiology, big data/outcomes analysis, health systems modeling, and geographic information services techniques in my work.