New faculty spotlight: Arthur Chang, MD

Arthur Chang, MD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Arthur Chang, MD
• Hometown: Rochester, New York
• Title and department at UNMC/Title at Nebraska Medicine: Assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases and a pediatric infectious disease physician with Nebraska Medicine.

Research/professional interests:

• Kawasaki disease
• Multisystem inflammatory disease in children
• Machine learning in medicine

How I fell in love with pediatric infectious diseases: I have always been fascinated with how bugs, pathogens and hosts interact since I was a child, in part because of my early Kawasaki disease led my dad down a large rabbit hole in trying to find the cause of it.

Education:

• BA in economics and BS in microbiology and immunology, University of Rochester
• MD, pediatric residency and pediatric infectious disease fellowship, State University of New York at Buffalo

Memberships:

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Pediatric Infectious Disease Society
• Infectious Disease Society of America

Three things people may not know about me:

• I am an amateur drone enthusiast trying to figure out where I can fly around here.
• I am a photographer with particular interest in long exposure/infrared photography.
• I was a cellist and used to do gig work for events (graduation and weddings, mostly) and played in orchestras and chamber music groups.

Clinic location:

• Specialty Pediatric Center, 111 N. 84th St. in Omaha

For appointments and referrals:

• Phone 402-955-4005