Dr. Raymond Chang MD FACP - Medical Director

Hailed by New York Magazine as early as 1999 as one of the "New Healers"; Dr. Chang has also been interviewed on the Today Show (click for video download), cited by Reuters, Foxnews, WebMD, and Mamm magazines for his pioneering work in alternative medicine.

Dr. Chang who was originally from Hong Kong, is an internationally respected physician-acupuncturist uniquely trained in traditional Chinese medicine as well as contemporary Western medicine, and he is an acknowledged pioneer-specialist in the field of alternative and complementary therapy programs for cancer, infertility and other difficult conditions.

Dr. Chang received both his B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) and M.D. degrees from Brown University where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa as well as Sigma Xi. He subsequently completed post-doctoral training at Waterbury and New York Hospitals, and was a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine before joining Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer to direct its acute care department. He was on the faculty of Medicine at Cornell Medical College and was an Associate Attending in the Dept. of Medicine at Memorial Hospital as well as an Associate Member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute till 1997. In the mid-90's, he developed what is acknowledged to be nationally one of the most complete programs in alternative medicine education at Cornell Medical College. In 1995, he was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians and was the first visiting professor of the Taiwan Cancer Foundation at the National Taiwan University. He was visiting professor at Shanghai Medical College's Obstetrics/Gynecology Hospital in the summer of 1998. Currently, he attends at the New York - Presbyterian and Beth Israel Hospitals in New York City and is on the faculty of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.

Aside from his unique background in traditional Chinese medicine, Dr. Chang has been a strong proponent for an evidence-based and complementary approach to alternative medicine. In the research arena, Dr, Chang is an expert in the use of immunopotentiating medicinal herbs and fungi for cancer, hepatitis and HIV. Dr. Chang lectures frequently in the U.S. as well as in Asia on alternative therapies and topics related to the regulatory issues of botanicals and supplements - see select lectures by Dr. Chang, and he has also contributed to multiple textbooks, and recently published a book on fertility and on integrating Western and Chinese medicines, as well as many related articles both in Chinese and in English. He is a member of a number of academic medical societies and is also the current President of the Institute of East-West Medicine and served as editorial committee member of the international journal "Complementary and Alternative Medicine", as well as advisory board member of the PDQ Database of the National Cancer Institute and the Global Forum on Indigenous and Traditional Health Systems.