Melissa I. Chang, MD, MSE, FACS, FASCRS.

Abstract

Dr. Melissa Chang was born and raised in a small suburban community of East Los Angeles, CA. She eventually moved to the East Coast to attend Johns Hopkins University, where she earned her undergraduate bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and a Master of Science in chemical and molecular engineering. She then went on to attend Tufts University outside of Boston, MA, for medical school and completed her General Surgery training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, NY, during which she also spent 2 years as a research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, with plans to become a Pediatric Surgeon. Things changed, and she completed her Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. As she tells it, “In trying to ‘figure it out,’ I made my way to Boston for medical school where I first fell in love with Colorectal Surgery during my surgical clerkship at the Lahey Clinic; during my research years where I returned to Boston is where I met my husband (Morris, a lifelong Bostonian); and meeting one of my future partners at a fellows' robotics course is how I ended up in Michigan.”