I grew up in Taiwan before I moved to Vancouver, Canada, where I completed my high school and
undergraduate degree. I then spent the next four years in Australia studying medicine at the University of
Queensland. I decided to pursue residency training in the United States because the training programs offer
extensive research opportunities and superior training through an intense, yet focused curriculum.
I consider myself extremely fortunate to pursue residency training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The
various attending here emphasize the importance of surgical pathology training and instill great passion and
enthusiasm in the subject through the daily signout and conferences. As a resident, I gained a great deal of
diagnostic competence and confidence through handling the routine surgical cases, as I was given
responsibility in triaging and working up the cases from start to finish. The daily consensus conference
provides a useful platform for me to observe how various attendings approach challenging cases; in addition,
it provides exposure to some very rare tumors and entities through Dr. Suster’s personal consults and the
many slide seminars in which he participates.
My primary interest is dermatopathology and I am currently working on projects involving extramammary
Paget disease and sebaceous carcinoma. I will be going to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for
oncologic surgical pathology fellowship in 2014-2015, and I plan to do a subsequent fellowship in
dermatopathology afterward.
Publications
Chang JC, Blake DG, Leung BV, Plaza JA. Langerhans cell histiocytosis associated with lichen sclerosus of the
vulva: Case report and review of the literature. J Cutan Pathol. 2013 Feb;40(2):270-83.
Chang JC, Prieto VG, Sangueza M, Plaza JA. The diagnostic utility of p63 expression in the differential diagnosis
of pagetoid squamous cell carcinoma in situ and extramammary Paget’s disease: a histopathologic study of 70 cases.
Am J Dermatopathol. (In Press)
Abstracts and Presentations
JC Chang, A Harrington, H Olteanu, and S Kroft. Proliferation centers in bone marrows involved by chronic
lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL): a clinicopathologic analysis. USCAP Abstract
Publication #1231, March 2011, San Antonio, TX.
JC Chang, M Bedi, DL Stockman, D Wang, and EV Zambrano. Pathologic response to neoadjuvant radiotherapy as
potential prognostic factors in soft tissue sarcomas. USCAP Abstract Publication #26, March 2012, Vancouver, BC,
Canada.
JC Chang and JA Plaza. Langerhans cell histiocytosis associated with lichen sclerosus of the vulva. ASDP 49th
Annual Meeting, October 2012, Chicago, IL.
JC Chang, VG Prieto, D de Stefano, and JA Plaza. The diagnostic utility of p63 expression in the differential
diagnosis of pagetoid Bowen’s disease and extramammary Paget’s disease. Oral presentation at ASDP 49th Annual
Meeting, October 2012, Chicago, IL.
D de Stefano, D Kazakov, D Kacerovska, JC Chang, EV Zambrano, S Suster, C Bengana, JA Plaza.
Histopathologic spectrum of intradermal Spitz nevi: a clinicopathological study of 69 cases of this rare variant of
Spitz nevus. ASDP 49th Annual Meeting, October 2012, Chicago, IL.
M Bedi, J Kharofa, JC Chang, EV Zambrano, K Bavnes, A Mautz, M DuBois, D King, J Charlson, D Wang.
Increase in tumor volume on MRI predicts for greater pathologic necrosis and poor survival in patients with soft
tissue sarcoma of extremity and body wall treated with neoadjuvant radiotherapy. ASTRO 54th Annual Meeting,
October 2012, Boston, MA.
DL Stockman, JC Chang, S Suster, EV Zambrano. Ezrin expression as a prognostic indicator in 46 patients with
osteosarcoma. ASCP Annual Meeting, October 2012, Boston, MA.
M Bedi, J Kharofa, JC Chang, EV Zambrano, K Bavnes, A Mautz, M DuBois, D King, D Hackbarth, D Wang.
Increase in tumor volume on MRI predicts for greater pathologic necrosis and poor survival in patients with soft
tissue sarcoma treated with neoadjuvant radiotherapy. Oral presentation at Annual Meeting of CTOS, November
2012, Prague, Czech Republic.
JC Chang, DL Stockman, S Szabo. Immunohistochemical examination of Arginase-1 expression in
hepatoblastomas. USCAP 2013, Baltimore, MD.