Ruey-Kang Chang grew up in Taiwan and came to the U.S. in 1992. He completed Master’s in Public Health, residency training in Pediatrics, and fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology—all at UCLA. He has been faculty at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA since 1999. Ruey is a prolific clinician, researcher, inventor and entrepreneur. Over his academic career, he received over $10 million research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), published 70 peer review research papers, and has over 30 issued or pending U.S. and international patents. Ruey founded QT Medical in 2013. His initial goal was to create a new ECG for babies. Along the way, his team had reinvented the century-old ECG and made it possible for everyone to do an ECG anywhere when there are needs. He is passionate about democratizing this most useful test for the heart, so that everyone will have the tools they need to take care their heart health.
1991 - M.D., National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Taipei 1992 - Graduate School of Business Administration, National Taiwan University, Taipei 1993 - M.P.H., School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles 2001 - Post-Doctoral in Health Services Research, UCLA and RAND Professional Training and Experience 1990 Rotating intern, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 1994 Intern, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 1996 Resident, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 1999 Fellow, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 1999--present Professor in Residence, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 2006--present Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 2013--present President and CEO, QT Medical, Inc.
1999 - Present: Professor in Residence, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 2006 - Present: Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 2013 - Present: President and CEO, QT Medical, Inc.
