AILEEN CHANG, M.D.

Aileen Chang is the Chief Operating Officer of the Dengue Relief Foundation. Aileen also serves  as the DRF program director for the medical student/resident Tropical Medicine Fellowship in Nicaragua. She received her bachelors in Biochemistry at the University of California at Santa Barbara and her MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is trained in Internal Medicine.

During medical school, Aileen lived in Nicaragua for one year as a Doris Duke International Fellow mapping dengue risks factors with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health in Bluefields on the Atlantic Coast. She also worked directly in the development of dengue management policy at the central Ministry of Health in Managua. During this time, she also had the opportunity to work in the emergency room of the private Cesar Kühl Hospital and the pediatric infectious disease department at the public Velez Pais Hospital. She has endless enthusiasm and passion for her work in Nicaragua with the Dengue Relief Foundation as she continues with a career dedicated to medicine and public health. 

Dr. Chang is a faculty member at the George Washington School of Medicine in Washington D.C.