Andrew Chang MD, MS, FACEP, FAAEM

Dr. Andrew K. Chang is the Vincent P. Verdile, MD, ’84 Endowed Chair for Emergency Medicine, Vice Chair of Research and Academic Affairs, and professor of emergency medicine. Dr. Chang completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University and his medical school training at the University of California, San Diego. He was part of the inaugural class at HAEMR (Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency), a combined residency program between Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Chang worked at the University of California, Irvine, for three years before transferring to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, where he worked for 13 years. While at Montefiore, he obtained a Master's in Clinical Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received a K23 award from the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Chang has spent the past 15 years researching acute pain in the emergency department, primarily through randomized clinical trials. He came to Albany Medical College in August 2016.

Dr. Chang is active in emergency medicine at a national level, currently serving as the Grants chair for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and as an ex officio trustee of the SAEM Board of Trustees Foundation.