he is now a clinical professor. Dr. Chang is Chairman of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting Program Committee, having previously chaired the Cataract Program Sub-committee. He organized and was the program co-chair for the first seven AAO “Spotlight on Cataracts” Symposia. He is also on the program committees for the ASCRS Annual Meeting and the OSN Hawaiian Eye Meeting.

He has been selected to deliver the following named lectures: Transamerica Lecture (UCSF), Williams Lecture (UCSF), Wolfe Lecture (University of Iowa), DeVoe Lecture (Columbia-Harkness), Gettes Lecture (Wills Eye Hospital), Helen Keller Lecture (University of Alabama), Kayes Lecture (University of Washington, St. Louis), Thorpe Lecture (Pittsburgh Ophthalmology Society), Schutz Lecture (MEETH & New York University Medical Center), Wallace-Evans Lecture (Casey Eye Hospital, Oregon), Kambara Lecture (Loma Linda), Jules Stein Lecture (UCLA-Jules Stein), Proctor Lecture (UCSF/Proctor Foundation), and the keynote address at the Chinese American Ophthalmological Society’s 20th anniversary meeting. He is a three-time AAO Secretariat Award recipient (2003, 2006, 2007). He was the inaugural recipient of the UCSF Department of Ophthalmology’s Distinguished Alumni Award (2005) and in 2006 became only the third ophthalmologist to ever receive the Charlotte Baer Award honoring the outstanding clinical faculty member at the UCSF Medical School. He was the third recipient of the Strampelli Medal from the Italian Ophthalmological Society (2007).