Christopher S. Huang, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Christopher Huang MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Section Chief of Gastroenterology at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and is Director of Endoscopy Services at Boston Medical Center. He graduated from Cornell University in 1994 and then attended New Jersey Medical School (1994-1998) before completing his Internal Medicine Residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He then completed his Gastroenterology Fellowship training at Boston Medical Center in 2004 and stayed on to join the faculty. His clinical interests include colonoscopy, capsule endoscopy, and therapeutic/advanced endoscopy techniques such as ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, endoscopic mucosal resection, and enteral stenting. His professional interests include endoscopy education, and he has taught at and co-directed several national endoscopy courses for first year GI fellows. He has served on various institutional, local, and national committees including the the Seven Year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program Admissions Committee at Boston University, the Education Committee of the Massachusetts Gastroenterology Association, and the Training Committee of the American Society For Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Publications

  • Published 4/27/2018

    Wani S, Keswani RN, Petersen B, Edmundowicz SA, Walsh CM, Huang C, Cohen J, Cote G. Training in EUS and ERCP: standardizing methods to assess competence. Gastrointest Endosc. 2018 06; 87(6):1371-1382. PMID: 29709305.

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  • Published 3/28/2017

    Cruz MD, Ledbetter S, Chowdhury S, Tiwari AK, Momi N, Wali RK, Bliss C, Huang C, Lichtenstein D, Bhattacharya S, Varma-Wilson A, Backman V, Roy HK. Metabolic reprogramming of the premalignant colonic mucosa is an early event in carcinogenesis. Oncotarget. 2017 Mar 28; 8(13):20543-20557. PMID: 28423551.

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  • Published 12/6/2016

    Thompson CC, Abu Dayyeh BK, Kushner R, Sullivan S, Schorr AB, Amaro A, Apovian CM, Fullum T, Zarrinpar A, Jensen MD, Stein AC, Edmundowicz S, Kahaleh M, Ryou M, Bohning JM, Ginsberg G, Huang C, Tran DD, Glaser JP, Martin JA, Jaffe DL, Farraye FA, Ho SB, Kumar N, Harakal D, Young M, Thomas CE, Shukla AP, Ryan MB, Haas M, Goldsmith H, McCrea J, Aronne LJ. Percutaneous Gastrostomy Device for the Treatment of Class II and Class III Obesity: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Gastroenterol. 2017 Mar; 112(3):447-457. PMID: 27922026.

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  • Published 7/3/2014

    Ahmad H, Berzin TM, Yu HJ, Huang CS, Mishkin DS. Central endoscopy reads in inflammatory bowel disease clinical trials: The role of the imaging core lab. Gastroenterol Rep (Oxf). 2014 Aug; 2(3):201-6. PMID: 24994835.

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  • Published 6/1/2014

    Rodriguez-Diaz E, Atkinson C, Jepeal LI, Berg A, Huang CS, Cerda SR, O'Brien MJ, Bigio IJ, Farraye FA, Singh SK. Elastic scattering spectroscopy as an optical marker of inflammatory bowel disease activity and subtypes. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2014 Jun; 20(6):1029-36. PMID: 24798637.

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Other Positions

  • Section Chief, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Education

  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, MD
  • Cornell University, BA