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Richard G. Chang, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor; Associate Program Director, Sports Fellowship
Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai PM&R Program
Brooklyn, New York

Dr. Chang is a Fellowship trained, Board certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) doctor, who specializes in nonsurgical Sports and Interventional Spine Medicine. A Brooklyn native, Dr. Chang is an alumnus of Brooklyn College's BA/MD and Macaulay Honors College programs, majoring in Sociology with honors and a Phi Beta Kappa member. His physiatry residency was completed at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he had the honor of serving as Chief Resident in his last year. Prior to this, he completed his preliminary internal medicine year at Maimonides Medical Center. Dr. Chang went on to complete his fellowship training in Interventional Spine and Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Before returning to Mount Sinai in 2017, he served as faculty of the Sports Division of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine. He was also an Assistant Professor and helped establish and co-found the department’s first accredited non-surgical Sports fellowship program in the Physiatry division at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, serving as its Associate Fellowship director, and was team physician of several of Brooklyn’s PSAL (Public School Athletic League) high schools and NCAA Division III College, SUNY Maritime. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director of the department's Sports Fellowship program. He is team physician to CUNY DIvision III college, Medgar Evers college and provides medial coverage for NY Road Runners; as ringside physician to USA Boxing Metro, World Kickboxing Association, and professional events with the New York State Athletic Commission; medical consultant and sports physician for USA Fencing.
He serves as a volunteer committee member with the Health Policy and Legislative Committees of NYSPM&R, AAPM&R, Spine Intervention Society, and American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. He currently is the State Advocacy Chair for AAPM&R.

No financial relationships to disclose.

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