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Rowland Chang, MD, MPH
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Director, MPH Program
Senior Faculty Fellow, Institute Healthcare Studies
Director, Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center in Rheumatology’s
Methodology and Data Management Core Unit
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Chang is a rheumatologist with more than 20 years of clinical experience.
His major clinical interest is in rehabilitative rheumatology, and he is regarded
as an expert in this field. He is the Director of the Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago Arthritis Center and Immediate Past Chair of the Rehabilitation
Section of the American College
of Rheumatology. He is co-author of the rehabilitation
chapter in Koopman’s and Moreland’s textbook, Arthritis and Allied
Conditions, one of the major international rheumatology textbooks.
Dr. Chang has been the Director of the Northwestern University Master
of Public Health Program since its reorganization in 1996. During this time he has led
the program to achieve pre-accreditation by the Council on Education for Public
Health in 2000 and full accreditation from CEPH in 2003. The program focuses
on public health education for medical students and health professionals and
trains its students to become effective “boundary-spanners” between
the fields of medicine and public health, an appropriate description of Dr.
Chang’s professional career. In September, 2005, Dr. Chang was appointed
Acting Chair of the Department
of Preventive Medicine.
Research Interests and Community Activities
Dr. Chang is noted for his clinical epidemiologic/health services research
focused on the outcomes of rehabilitation and orthopaedic surgical treatments
for persons with arthritis and the determinants of functional limitation in
clinical and community populations with arthritis. Much of his community population
work has been done in collaboration with Dorothy Dunlop, PhD and Larry Manheim,
PhD. He also has experience performing decision analysis and cost-effective
analysis in collaboration with Dr. Manheim and Gordon Hazen, PhD. With several
research and clinical colleagues, Dr. Chang is currently developing and testing
a physical activity promotion program for patients with arthritis. Dr. Chang’s
public health oriented research, reflective of his formal public health training
and interests, has also led to his prominence in the arthritis public health
community both at the state and national level. As a volunteer for the Arthritis
Foundation as well as a representative of the Northwestern
University Multidisciplinary
Clinical Research Center in Rheumatology and the Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago’s Arthritis Center, Dr. Chang is a major contributor to the new
state-based arthritis prevention program based in the Illinois
Department of Public Health. He is an active volunteer for the Arthritis Foundation, where
he is a member of the National Office’s Public Health Council and is
the current Chair of the Foundation’s Greater Chicago Chapter.
Recent and Representative Publications
Dunlop DD, Semanik P, Song J, Manheim LM, Shih V, Chang RW. Risk factors
for functional decline in older adults with arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 2005;52:1274-1282. -
Dunlop DD, Manheim LM, Song J, Chang RW. Health care utilization among
older adults with arthritis. Arthritis Rheum (Arthritis Care
Res) 2003;49:164-171
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Dunlop DD, Song J, Manheim LM, Chang RW. Racial disparities in joint
replacement use among older adults. Medical Care 2003;41:288-298.
- Chang RW, Pellissier JM, Hazen GB. A cost-effectiveness analysis
of total hip arthroplasty for osteoarthritis of the hip. JAMA 1996;275:858-865.
- Ostermann M, Chang RW. Acute kidney injury in the intensive
care unit according to RIBLE. Crit Car Med. 2007 Aug; 35(8): 1837-1843.
- Song J, Chang HJ, Tirodkar M, Chang RW, Manheim LM, Dunlop DD. Racial/ethnic
differences in activities of daily living disability in older adults with
arthritis: a longitudinal study. Arthritis Rheum 2007 Aug 15;57(6):1058-66.
- Dunlop DD, Song J, Manheim LM, Daviglus ML, Chang RW. Racial/Ethnic differences
in the development of disability among older adults. Am J Public Health.
2007 Oct 30.
- Dunlop DD, Manheim LM, Song J, Sohn MW, Feinglass JM, Chang HJ, Chang RW. Age and racial/ethnic disparities in arthritis-related hip and knee surgeries. Med Care. 2008 Feb; 46(2):200-208.
- Chang RW, Goodney PP, Baek JH, Nolan BW, Rzucidlo EM, Powell RJ. Long-term results of combined common femoral endarterectormy and iliac stenting/stent grafting for occlusive disease. J Vasc Surg. 2008 Jun 21.
- Tirdkar MA, Song J, Chang RW, Dunlop DD, Chang HJ. Racial and ethnic differences in activities of daily living disability among: The case of Spanish speakers. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Jun 3.
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Chang RW, Goodney PP, Baek JH, Nolan BW, Rzucidlo
EM, Powell RJ. Long-term results of combined common femoral
endarterectomy and iliac stenting/stent grafting for occlusive
disease. J Vasc Surg. 2008 Aug;48(2):362-7.
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