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Home » Medical Staff » Cardiology » Chang, Anthony C. MD

Dr. Anthony C. Chang, Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer

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Anthony Chang, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., M.S

is on staff at
CHOC Hospital Orange | CHOC Mission Hospital

Office Phone:
714-509-3939

Appointments:
888-770-2462

Specialty:
Cardiology

Board Certified:
Pediatric Cardiology

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Dr. Anthony Chang attended Johns Hopkins University for his B.A. in molecular biology prior to entering Georgetown University School of Medicine for his M.D. He then completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He  accepted a position as attending cardiologist in the cardiovascular intensive care unit of Boston Children’s Hospital and as assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

He has been the medical director of several pediatric cardiac intensive care programs (including Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Miami Children’s Hospital, and Texas Children’s Hospital). He served as the medical director of the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital of Orange County.

He is currently the Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer (CIIO) and Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. He has also been named a Physician of Excellence by the Orange County Medical Association and Top Cardiologist, Top Doctor for many years as well as one of the nation’s Top Innovators in Healthcare.

He completed a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Health Care Administration at the University of Miami School of Business and graduated with the McCaw Award of Academic Excellence. He also completed a Masters in Public Health (MPH) in Health Care Policy at the Jonathan Fielding School of Public Health of the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence. He later taught Global Health there. Finally, he graduated with his Masters of Science (MS) in Biomedical Data Science with a subarea focus in artificial intelligence from the Stanford School of Medicine and has completed a certification on artificial intelligence from MIT. He is a computer scientist-in-residence and a member of the Dean’s Scientific Council at Chapman University.

Dr. Chang has helped to build a successful cardiology practice as a startup company and was able to complete a deal on Wall Street. He is known for several innovations in pediatric cardiac care, including introducing the cardiac drug milrinone and co-designing (with Dr. Michael DeBakey) an axial-type ventricular assist device in children. He is a member of the National Institute of Health pediatric grant review committee. He is the editor of several textbooks in pediatric cardiology, including; Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Heart Failure in Children and Young Adults, and Pediatric Cardiology Board Review.

He is the founder of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS) that launched the multi-disciplinary focus on cardiac intensive care for children. He is also the founder of the Asia-Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society (APPCS), which united pediatric cardiologists and cardiac surgeons from 24 Asian countries and launched a biennial meeting in Asia that now draws over 1,000 attendees.  Dr. Chang is on the board of Cardiology in the Young and Congenital Heart Today. He is a regular reviewer for Circulation, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and numerous other journals. He publishes and lectures widely on topics in pediatric cardiac intensive care, heart failure, sudden cardiac death, adult congenital heart disease, and other aspects of congenital heart disease and has been program directors for numerous large international conferences and symposia.

Dr. Chang is the founder and medical director of the Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3) that is supported by the Sharon Disney Lund Foundation. The institute is dedicated to implement data science and artificial intelligence in medicine and is the first institute of its kind in a hospital. The new institute is concomitantly dedicated to facilitating innovation in children and health care all over the world. He is the organizing chair for the biennial Pediatrics 2040: Emerging Trends and Future Innovations meeting as well as the founder and director of the Medical Intelligence and Innovation Summer Internship Program, which mentors close to 100 young physicians-to-be every summer. He has organized a pediatric innovation leadership group called the international Society for Pediatric Innovation (iSPI).

He intends to build a clinician-computer scientist interface to enhance all aspects of data science and artificial intelligence in health and medicine. He currently lectures widely on big data and artificial intelligence in medicine (he has been called “Dr. A.I.” by the Chicago Tribune and has given a TEDx talk as well as on the Singularity University faculty) ( 1). He has published review papers on big data and predictive analytics as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence in medicine ( 2)( 3). He has published a text book along planned to be a book series with Elsevier titled: “Intelligence-Based Medicine: Principles and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medicine and Health Care” (with plans for a book series) and is the editor-in-chief of the journal of the same title. He is the founder and organizing chair of many Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AI Med) meetings in the U.S. and abroad (Europe and Asia) that focus on artificial intelligence in healthcare and medicine (www.ai-med.io). He is the founder of a healthcare AI consulting firm, Medical Intelligence 10 (MI10). He has started a society for clinicians with a special focus on data science and artificial intelligence known as the Medical Intelligence Society, or MIS. He is the dean of the nascent American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ABAIM) that offers education and certification of artificial intelligence in clinical medicine and health care as its mission. Finally, Dr. Chang serves as the leader of the Orange County Chapter for the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE).

He is the founder of three startup companies in artificial intelligence in medicine:

1)    CardioGenomic Intelligence (CGI), LLC is a multifaceted company that focuses on artificial intelligence applications such as deep learning in clinical cardiology (cardiomyopathy and heart failure as well as other cardiovascular disease) and genomic medicine.
2)    Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed), LLC is an events company that organizes meetings and educational programs in artificial intelligence in medicine in local as well as global venues.
3)    Medical Intelligence 10 (MI10), LLC is an education and consulting/advising conglomerate for executives and physician leaders as well as investors for the evaluation and implementation of AI strategies in healthcare organizations, for evaluation and recommendation of AI in healthcare vendors, and assessment and implementation of cybersecurity in healthcare organizations.

1.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5T8nckyuCA
2.    congenitalcardiologytoday.com/index_files/CCT-NOV12-NA.pdf
3.    congenitalcardiologytoday.com/index_files/CCT-APR13-NA.pdf

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CHOC Specialists – Cardiology
505 S. Main Street, Suite 600
Orange, CA 92868
phone: 714-509-3939
fax: 714-509-3949

CHOC Hospital
1201 W. La Veta Ave.
Orange, CA 92868-3874

CHOC at Mission Hospital
27700 Medical Center Rd
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

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23521 Paseo de Valencia, Suite 200
Laguna Hills, CA 92654

Irvine Pediatrics
16300 Sand Canyon Ave, Suite 811
Irvine, CA 92618

Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital
1 Hoag Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92663

Western Medical Center
1001 N Tustin Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92705

CHOC Health Center in Corona
854 Magnolia Ave, Suite 101
Corona, CA 92879

Anaheim Regional Medical Center
1111 W La Palma Ave
Anaheim, CA 92801

St Jude Medical Center
101 E Valencia Mesa Dr
Fullerton, CA 92835

PIH Health Family Practice Center
12291 Washington Blvd, Suite 500
Whittier, CA 90606

UCLA
10833 Le Conte Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Our cardiologists commonly treat:
  • Aortic stenosis
  • Arrhythmias
  • Atrial septal defect
  • Atrioventricular canal defect
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Chest pain
  • Coarctation of the aorta
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Heart failure
  • Heart murmurs
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
  • Kawasaki disease
  • Patent ductus arteriosus
  • Pulmonary artery stenosis
  • Pulmonary atresia
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Syncope (fainting)
  • Palpitations
  • Tetralogy of Fallot
  • Transposition of the great arteries (vessels)
  • Truncus arteriosus
  • Vascular anomalies
  • Ventricular septal defect.

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