Emina Huang, M.D.

Biography

Emina Huang, M.D., is a Professor and Distinguished Chair in Surgical Research in the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in colon cancer screening, colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and anorectal disease.

Dr. Huang earned her medical degree at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in general surgery at Ohio State University and gained advanced training in colorectal surgery through a fellowship at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She also holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management.

Certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2021.

Among her other roles at UTSW, Dr. Huang serves as Executive Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Surgery, overseeing intramural- and extramural-funded research that spans the clinical, health services, and basic and translational science domains. In addition, as a faculty member in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, she provides cutting-edge colorectal care for the Parkland Health & Hospital System.

A nationally and internationally renowned surgical scientist, Dr. Huang has had consistent National Institutes of Health funding for her research over the past two decades. She is a prolific author and presenter and has published her findings in myriad peer-reviewed publications and contributed to seven books. She also holds two patents.

Dr. Huang is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. She is also a member of the Association for Academic Surgery, the American Medical Association, the North American Taiwanese Medical Association, the Association of Women Surgeons, the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Society of Asian American Surgeons, and the Society of University Surgeons.