Michael Chang, MD, FACS
Michael Chang, MD, FACS
System Chief Medical Officer and Associate Vice President for Health Affairs - USA Health
Michael Chang, MD, FACS, currently serves as Professor of Surgery and as the System Chief Medical Officer/Associate Vice President for Health Affairs at USA Health in Mobile, Alabama. He is heavily involved in surgical quality and safety at the national level, serving as a thought leader and site visitor for the Quality Verification Program at the American College of Surgeons, and as a site visitor for the Emergency General Surgery Program. Prior to this, he served as the Chair of the Quality Pillar for the Committee on Trauma at the ACS from 2016-2022, and as a State Chair, Region Chief, and site visitor for the COT. Dr. Chang received his surgical training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed a two-year fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care at Vanderbilt University in 1994. He joined the faculty at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in 1994 as a trauma and burn surgeon, and served in several leadership roles over the subsequent 24 years there, including Trauma Medical Director, Burn Director, Executive Director of the Acute Care Surgery Service Line, Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Director, System Chief Quality Officer, and Chief Medical Officer at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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