Dongwoo John Chang, M.D.

Co-Director Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, UC Davis Medical Center

Chief of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery, UC Davis

Chief of Epilepsy Surgery, UC Davis

Biography:

Dr. Dongwoo John Chang is a neurosurgeon certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He is a graduate of Stanford University (BA) and received his MD from Temple University in 1993. He completed neurosurgery residency under Dr. Andre Olivier at the renowned Montreal Neurological Institute of the McGill University School of Medicine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He then completed a cerebrovascular/skull base neurosurgery fellowship under the tutelage of Dr. Arthur Day at the University of Florida School of Medicine, arguably the premier microsurgical training facility in the United States. Currently, he is chief of cerebrovascular neurosurgery and chief of epilepsy surgery at UC Davis Health System, co-director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program of the UC Davis Medical Center and serves on the full-time faculty of the UC Davis School of Medicine. He has received numerous awards for his clinical and academic achievements, including the Young Neurosurgeon Award from the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in 2002. He is current an NIH-funded investigator on research studies in the neurosciences. Dr. Chang's special areas of interest include complex intracranial neurosurgery, employing sophisticated microsurgical technique, advanced skull base approaches, and delicate brain mapping techniques to optimize the care of his patients. He is very experienced in general neurosurgery, including neurotrauma and spinal instrumentation/fusion techniques. He is licensed to practice medicine in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.