Walter Chang, M.D.

Walter Chang, M.D. is a board-certified anesthesiologist who strives to provide the highest quality, evidence-based, and compassionate care for all patients. He completed his anesthesiology residency at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he also served as Chief Resident. Dr. Chang joined City of Hope as an assistant clinical professor and over the years, he has amassed extensive experience caring for City of Hope’s most complex surgical oncology patients.

• Sun V, Raz DJ, Ruel N, Chang W, Erhunmwunsee L, Reckamp K, Tiep B, Ferrell B, McCorkle R, Kim JY: A Multimedia Self-Management Intervention to Prepare Cancer Patients and Family Caregivers for Lung Surgery and Post-Operative Recovery. Clinical Lung Cancer. 2017 May;18(3):e151-e159
• Sun V, Kim JY, Raz DJ, Chang W, Erhunmwunsee L, Uranga C, Ireland AM, Reckamp K, Tiep B, Hayter J, Lew M, Ferrell B, McCorkle R: Preparing cancer patients and family caregivers for lung surgery: Development of a multimedia self-management intervention. J Cancer Educ. August 2016
• Falabella A, Lew M, Chang W, Bak, E: Bilateral Tension Pneumothoraces During Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy: A case report. Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2009;57(2):246-248
• Sullivan M, Falabella A, Chang W: Preanesthetic Assessment of the Patient for Robotic Surgery; Anesthesiology News, Volume 32, Number 6, Pages 53-58, 2006

Book Chapters

• Matthew, L; Shin, P; Chang, W: Consider Methemoglobinemia After Ruling Out the Common Causes for a Low Pulse Oximeter Reading; Avoiding Common Anesthesia Errors, edited by Catherina Marcucci, Norman A. Cohen, David Metro, and Jeffrey A. Kirsch, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007

Published Abstracts

• Falabella A, Lew M, Chang W, Bak, E: Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (RALP) 
  The City of Hope Experience.
  International Anesthesia Research Society Annual Meeting April 2009