Dr. Chang completed medical school, internal medicine residency, gastroenterology fellowship, and a Master of Science at Boston University, followed by training in Transplant Hepatology at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and an MBA at Oregon Health and Science University / Portland State University. He is the Section Chief for gastroenterology and hepatology at the VA Portland Health Care System, Associate Professor of Medicine at OHSU and the Program Director for the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship program.  Dr. Chang's areas of clinical interest include quality initiatives in Advanced Liver Disease, non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis, and the use of ECHO to improve specialty care access.  Dr Chang is a co-investigator on an NIH funded study looking at symptom burden in patient-caregiver dyads with end stage liver disease to better understand the trajectory of symptoms and how best to support this challenging population.