Ming-der Chang, PhD

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Executive Director, Chinese Unit
American Cancer Society
Eastern Division-NY
5 Mirrielees Road
Great Neck, NY 11021
phone : (718) 886-8890
fax : (718) 886-8981
E-mail: mchang@cancer.org

Dr. Ming-der Chang has been the Community Executive Director of the American Cancer Society's Chinese Unit in Queens, New York since 2001, where she serves as an ACS liaison in the Chinese community. She is responsible for recruiting and training volunteers, initiating and introducing cancer control programs to the community, customizing programs, services and income development opportunities based on community needs, initiating new endeavors that support organizational objectives, and encouraging a spirit of team cooperation among staff.

Dr. Chang earned her doctorate in Chemistry from Columbia University, and her B.A. in Agricultural Chemistry from National Taiwan University. For ten years prior to her work for the ACS, Dr. Chang was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at New York University Medical College, where she performed analysis of anti-tumor immune responses in ovarian cancer and leukemia patients, and developed dendritic cell-based immunotheraphy for patients with B-type chronic lymphocytic leukemia. During that same period, she also served as Director of the Laboratory of Developmental Immunology at North Shore University Hospital in Long Island, directing all aspects of lab operation and funding. Prior to that, she was a Research Associate in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College Of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and a Group Leader at the New York Blood Center in New York City, where she was a Research Fellow of the Lindsey F. Kimble Research Institute.

Content last updated September 19, 2008.