Dr. Chang is internationally known as a pioneer in the field of complementary and alternative medicine who has developed a unique and progressive integrative practice specializing in unconventional cancer care. Dr. Chang is originally from Hong Kong. He received his B.A. (Magna cum laude) and M.D. from Brown University and trained at a Yale affiliated residency as well as completing a Kaiser Fellowship at Cornell-New York Hospital before joining Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as an attending from 1987 to 1997. He is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell Medical College and directs the Meridian Medical Group for alternative cancer care in New York City. He lectures and publishes widely on various aspects of integrative cancer care, and chaired the first International Asian Therapies for Cancer Conference. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians, member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the European Society for Medical Oncology as well as Founding President of the Institute of East-West Medicine. He has served as NCI investigator and is on the board of the CAM PDQ database at the National Cancer Institute and currently directs the non-profit Asian Anticancer Materia database project which is supported by the Gray Charitable Trust. He has served on the editorial boards of such peer-reviewed alternative journals as Integrative Cancer Therapies, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and Clinical Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine. Recently, he contributed a chapter on Integrative Cancer Care in the new textbook Integrative Medicine : Principles for Practice.