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Craig Huang, M.D.

Craig Huang, M.D.

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Pediatrics

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  • Biography

    Dr. Craig J. Huang graduated from the University of Texas – Galveston, Texas for medical school. He did his pediatric residency at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, VA. He then completed his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Eastern Virginia Medical School/Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA. He is now a professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and works at the emergency departments at Children’s Health Dallas and Plano. He was the associate pediatric emergency medicine fellowship director from 2009-2015. He also serves as the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine’s director for trauma and prehospital services and is the medical director for the ED Senior Paramedic Program. He has been the Trauma Medical Director for Children’s Health Plano campus since 2016, and continues to serve in this role.

  • Education
    Medical School
    University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (1996)
    Internship
    Medical College of Virginia (1997), Pediatrics
    Residency
    Medical College of Virginia (1999), Pediatrics
    Fellowship
    Children's Hosp. of the King's Dghtrs-Norfolk (2002), Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  • Research Interest
    • Apparent life threatening events (ALTEs)
    • Prehospital Care
    • Resident/Fellow education
    • Syncope
    • Transport Medicine
    • Trauma and Burns
    • Use of technology (handheld computers, digital cameras, computers) in pediatric emergency care
  • Publications
    Bringing PERT to Pediatrics: Initial Experience and Outcomes of a Pediatric Multidisciplinary Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)
    Dang MP, Cheng A, Garcia J, Lee Y, Parikh M, McMichael AB, Han BL, Pimpalwar S, Rinzler ES, Hoffman OL, Baltagi SA, Bowens C, Divekar AA, Davis Volk AP, Huang CJ, Veeram Reddy SR, Arar Y, Zia A CHEST 2025 Mar 167 851-862
    Bringing PERT to Pediatrics: Initial Experience and Outcomes of a Pediatric Multidisciplinary Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)
    Dang MP, Cheng A, Garcia J, Lee Y, Parikh M, McMichael AB, Han BL, Pimpalwar S, Rinzler E, Hoffman O, Baltagi S, Bowens CD, Divekar A, Volk AP, Huang CJ, Veeram Reddy SR, Arar Y, Zia AN Chest 2024 Oct
    Workplace Violence in the Pediatric Emergency Department A National Survey of Physicians in the United States
    Huang CJ, Boulos AK, Field S, Wang VJ, Yen K Pediatric emergency care 2024 Apr 40 249-254
    A Teenager With Acute Abdominal Mass: A Case of Gastro-Gastric Intussusception
    Mehmood N, Huang CJ Journal of Emergency Medicine 2022 Dec 63 798-800
    Injury Rates, Patterns, Mechanisms, and Risk Factors Among Competitive Youth Climbers in the United States
    Barrile AM, Feng SY, Nesiama JA, Huang C Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 2022 Mar 33 25-32
    Delayed Diagnosis of Injury in Pediatric Trauma Patients at a Level I Trauma Center
    Lowe G, Tweed J, Cooper M, Qureshi F, Huang C Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021 May 60 583-590
    Team approach: Pediatric musculoskeletal infection
    Dhar AV, Huang CJ, Sue PK, Patel K, Farrow-Gillespie AC, Hammer MR, Zia AN, Mittal VS, Copley LA JBJS reviews 2020 8
    An infant’s sudden-onset rash and swelling: Can you identify the cause?
    Yuan YY, Nesiama JA, Huang C Consultant 2018 Jun 58
    Nonmydriatic Fundoscopic Imaging Using the Pan Optic iExaminer System in the Pediatric Emergency Department
    Day LM, Wang SX, Huang CJ Academic Emergency Medicine 2017 May 24 587-594
    10-year-old female with a subglottic mass
    Thimann D, Huang C, Patel K Annals of Emergency Medicine 2012 Nov 60 668+677
  • Books

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  • Honors & Awards
    • Ali Abdulla Al-Ubaydli Scholarship Winner for Mobile Medical Computing
      Sponsored by Epocrates and Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli (2008)
    • Research Trainee Travel Award
      Southern Society for Pediatric Research (2001)
    • Young Investigators Award
      Awarded by Southern Regional Societies Annual Meeting of the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association (2001)
    • Fellows Award
      Presented by the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association (2000)
    • Outstanding Resident in Pediatric Emergency Department
      Awarded by the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virignia Hospitals (1999)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • Academic Pediatrics Association
    • Ambulatory Pediatric Association
    • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow (2002)
    • American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Transport Medicine (2009)
    • American College of Emergency Physicians, Member and Fellow
    • American College of Emergency Physicians, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Section (2006)
    • American Medical Association
    • Texas College of Emergency Physicians
    • Texas Medical Association