Bernard P. Chang, MD, PhD
Senior Advisor — Healthcare & Medical Device — Inflection Advisory
Bernard P. Chang is an emergency physician, psychologist, researcher, and entrepreneur, and Senior Advisor for Healthcare & Medical Device at Inflection Advisory.
At Columbia University he serves as Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Tushar Shah and Sarah Zion Endowed Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, and Associate Dean of Faculty Health and Research Career Development at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Trained as both a psychologist and an emergency physician, Dr. Chang studies the relationship between psychological and physical health in patients and clinicians — spanning stroke risk, post-traumatic stress, suicidal behaviors, and clinician wellbeing. He was among the earliest emergency-medicine investigators to secure an independent R01 award from the National Institutes of Health and today leads several federally funded studies.
At a Glance
- Role
- Senior Advisor — Healthcare & Medical Device, Inflection Advisory
- Current position
- Vice Chair of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine; Associate Dean of Faculty Health and Research Career Development, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons — Columbia University
- Education
- MD, Stanford · PhD, Harvard · AB, Cornell · EM Residency, Harvard (Massachusetts General / Brigham and Women's) · Executive MBA, Oxford (Saïd)
- Based in
- New York, NY
Highlights
- Co-founder of Mighty Health, a Y Combinator–backed digital wellness platform for adults over 50 that raised $7.6M in seed funding in 2023.
- Ranks among the top ten highest NIH-funded scientists in emergency medicine; author or co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles.
- Elected fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and the New York Academy of Medicine; board member, American College of Physicians (New York chapter).
- Named to Poets & Quants' Best & Brightest Executive MBAs of 2024; recipient of the Lamport Prize and the SAEM Young Investigator Award.
- Speaks six languages; earlier in his career he worked as a sailboat captain delivering yachts internationally.