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Young Physician Spotlight - Aileen Chang, MD

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Aileen Chang, MD, is an early career dermatologist and postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her interests include infectious diseases, HIV-associated diseases, socioeconomic and cultural determinants of health, and improving dermatology capacity in resource-limited settings. As a medical student and resident she spent time in Botswana, where she led the creation and implementation of a mobile learning project that increases access to health information at point-of-care, now fully adopted by the University of Botswana, and helped to provide regionally relevant dermatology training modules for medical students. As a 2016-2017 GloCal Health Fellow and Fogarty Global Health Fellow based at the Infectious Disease Institute in Kampala, Uganda, Dr. Chang is involved with several Kaposi sarcoma projects. She is also engaged in the development of dermatology training programs in East Africa. Dr. Chang has clinical experie...