Dr. Jiahua Zhang joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. He was born and raised in Changsha, China, and came to the United States in 2011 for college. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 2015. After graduation, he worked as a lab technician, serving patients in need of diagnostic tests for 2 years. He started his medical training at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Middletown, New York, in 2017 and received his medical degree in 2021. Dr. Zhang completed his residency in internal medicine at the Mercy Hospital in St. Louis in 2024 and joined the division in the same year. He was enthusiastic about developing clinical skills in using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) during his practice and received the certificate to perform a full-body POCUS exam during the third year of his residency.
Education
- B.S., Biochemistry: University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2015)
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine: Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York, NY (2021)
Clinical Interests
General medicine with a focus on inpatient care, hematology and oncology, and the clinical education of medical students and residents
Publications
ASCO abstract: Longitudinal trends of real-world evidence (RWE) reporting in
oncology conferences: An 11-year ASCO Annual Meeting analysis.
Case report – Avapritinib for the treatment of KIT mutation–negative
systemic mastocytosis
Case report – Ponatinib – Induced Cerebrovascular Accident
Case report – Venetoclax and Azacitidine in the treatment of Blastic
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm refractory to conventional therapy
Case report – Early orbital involvement in rare diagnosis of Burkitt – like
lymphoma with 11q aberration
Posters
Acquired Factor V mutation in a patient with hepatitis B
Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Prostate Cancer with Neuroendocrine Feature
Extensive Cerebral Edema and Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension following
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Meningioma
Supraventricular Tachycardia in a patient with Blastomycosis infection