Penn Medicine Provider
Kyong-Mi Chang, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up

About me

  • Associate Director, Penn Center for Viral Hepatitis
  • Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Medical College of Pennsylvania
  • Residency: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center-Hartford
  • Residency: Underwood Memorial Hospital
  • Residency: Medical College of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: UC San Diego Medical Center

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Chang is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Yang G, Alarcon C, Chanfreau C, Lee NH, Friedman P, Nutescu E, Tuck M, O'Brien T, Gong L, Klein TE, Chang KM, Tsao PS, Meltzer DO, Lynch JA; Million Veteran Program; Tuteja S, Perera MA. Investigation of Genomic and Transcriptomic Risk Factors of Clopidogrel Response in African Americans , Clin Pharmacol Ther: 2025


Zhang X, Chang KM, Yu J, Loomba R. Unraveling Mechanisms of Genetic Risks in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Diseases: A Pathway to Precision Medicine , Annu Rev Pathol, 20(1): 2025,375-403


SJ Jurgens, JT Rämö, DR Kramarenko, LFJM Wijdeveld, J Haas, MD Chaffin, S Garnier, L Gaziano, LC Weng, A Lipov, SL Zheng, Al Henry, JE Huffman, S Challa, F Rühle, CD Verdugo, CK Juárez, S Kany, CA van Orsouw, K Biddinger, E Poel, AL Elliott, X Wang, C Francis, R Ruan, S Koyama, L Beekman, DS Zimmerman, JF Deleuze, E Villard, DA Trégouët, R Isnard, FinnGen, VA Million Veteran Program, HERMES Consortium, DI Boomsma, EJC de Geus, R Tadros, YM Pinto, AAM Wilde, JJ Hottenga, J Sinisalo, T Niiranen, R Walsh, AF Schmidt, SH Choi, KM Chang, PS Tsao, PM Matthews, JS Ware, RT Lumbers, S van der Crabben, J Laukkanen, A Palotie, AS Amin, P Charron, B Meder, PT Ellinor, M Daly, KG Aragam, CR Bezzina Genome-wide association study reveals mechanisms underlying dilated cardiomyopathy and myocardial resilience , Nature Genetics, 56(12): 2024,1-10


Yu YH, Pridgen KM, Nelson TJ, Miller DR, Wells JM, Assimes TL, O'Donnell CJ, Tsao PS, Chang KM, Lynch JA. Oral Health, Inflammation, and Cardiometabolic Factors in the VA Million Veteran Program , JDR Clin Trans Res: 2024


Kaplan DE, Teerlink CC, Schwantes-An TH, Norden-Krichmar TM, DuVall SL, Morgan TR, Tsao PS, Voight BF, Lynch JA, Vujković M, Chang KM Clinical and genetic risk factors for progressive fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease , Hepatol Commun: 2024


Ghouse J, Sveinbjörnsson G, Vujkovic M, Seidelin AS, Gellert-Kristensen H, Ahlberg G, Tragante V, Rand SA, Brancale J, Vilarinho S, Lundegaard PR, Sørensen E, Erikstrup C, Bruun MT, Jensen BA, Brunak S, Banasik K, Ullum H; DBDS Genomic Consortium; Verweij N, Lotta L, Baras A; Regeneron Genetics Center; Mirshahi T, Carey DJ; Geisinger-Regeneron DiscovEHR Collaboration; VA Million Veteran Program; Kaplan DE, Lynch J, Morgan T, Schwantes-An TH, Dochtermann DR, Pyarajan S, Tsao PS; Estonian Biobank Research Team; Laisk T, Mägi R, Kozlitina J, Tybjærg-Hansen A, Jones D, Knowlton KU, Nadauld L, Ferkingstad E, Björnsson ES, Ulfarsson MO, Sturluson Á, Sulem P, Pedersen OB, Ostrowski SR, Gudbjartsson DF, Stefansson K, Olesen MS, Chang KM, Holm H, Bundgaard H, Stender S. Integrative common and rare variant analyses provide insights into the genetic architecture of liver cirrhosis , Nat Genet: 2024


Suzuki K, Hatzikotoulas K, Southam L, Taylor HJ, Yin X, Lorenz KM, Mandla R, Huerta-Chagoya A, Melloni GEM, Kanoni S, Rayner NW, Bocher O, Arruda AL, Sonehara K, Namba S, Lee SSK, Preuss MH, Petty LE, Schroeder P, Vanderwerff B, Kals M, Bragg F, Lin K, Guo X, Zhang W, Yao J, Kim YJ, Graff M, Takeuchi F, Nano J, Lamri A, Nakatochi M, Moon S, Scott RA, Cook JP, Lee JJ, Pan I, Taliun D, Parra EJ, Chai JF, Bielak LF, Tabara Y, Hai Y, Thorleifsson G, Grarup N, Sofer T, Wuttke M, Sarnowski C, Gieger C, Nousome D, Trompet S, Kwak SH, Long J, Sun M, Tong L, Chen WM, Nongmaithem SS, Noordam R, Lim VJY, Tam CHT, Joo YY, Chen CH, Raffield LM, Prins BP, Nicolas A, Yanek LR, Chen G, Brody JA, Kabagambe E, An P, Xiang AH, Choi HS, Cade BE, Tan J, Broadaway KA, Williamson A, Kamali Z, Cui J, Thangam M, Adair LS, Adeyemo A, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Ahluwalia TS, Anand SS, Bertoni A, Bork-Jensen J, Brandslund I, Buchanan TA, Burant CF, Butterworth AS, Canouil M, Chan JCN, Chang LC, Chee ML, Chen J, Chen SH, Chen YT, Chen Z, Chuang LM, Cushman M…….. Chang KM, MI McCarthy, JB Meigs, A Mahajan, CN Spracklen, JM Mercader, M Boehnke, JI Rotter, M Vujkovic, BF Voight, AP Morris and E Zeggini Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology , Nature: 2024


Smith JL, Tcheandjieu C, Dikilitas O, Iyer K, Miyazawa K, Hilliard A, Lynch J, Rotter JI, Chen YI, Sheu WH, Chang KM, Kanoni S, Tsao P, Ito K, Kosel M, Clarke SL, Schaid DJ, Assimes TL, Kullo IJ. Multi-Ancestry Polygenic Risk Score for Coronary Heart Disease Based on an Ancestrally Diverse Genome-Wide Association Study and Population-Specific Optimization , Circ Genom Precis Med: 2024


Scorletti E, Saiman Y, Jeon S, Schneider CV, Buyco DG, Lin C, Himes BE, Mesaros CA, Vujkovic M, Creasy KT, Furth EE, Billheimer JT, Hand NJ, Kaplan DE, Chang KM, Tsao PS, Lynch JA, Dempsey JL, Harkin J, Bayen S, Conlon D, Guerraty M, Phillips MC, Rader DJ, Carr RM. A missense variant in human perilipin 2 (PLIN2 Ser251Pro) reduces hepatic steatosis in mice , JHEP Rep, 6: 2023,100902


Manning A, Sevilla-González M, Smith K, Wang N, Jensen A, Litkowski E, Kim H, DiCorpo D, Westerman K, Cui J, Liu CT, Yu C, McNeil J, Lacaze P, Chang KM, Tsao P, Phillips L, Goodarzi M, Sladek R, Rotter J, Dupuis J, Florez J, Merino J, Meigs J, Zhou J, Raghavan S, Udler M. Heterogeneous effects on type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes of genetic variants and traits associated with fasting insulin , Res Sq, 19: 2023,rs.3.rs-3317661


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