Changgi Jung, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the University of Chicago and serves as Medical Director of the Inpatient Geriatric Medicine Consult Service at UChicago Medicine. He is a geriatrician who specializes in the care of older adults across inpatient, outpatient, post-acute, and home-based care settings. His clinical focus includes geriatric syndromes such as falls, delirium, dementia, polypharmacy, functional decline, and goals-of-care discussions, with particular emphasis on patient-centered decision-making and deprescribing. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.
Dr. Jung completed his internal medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Dr. Jung’s research and quality improvement work focuses on improving geriatric care delivery and medical education. His scholarly interests include deprescribing frameworks, communication strategies for complex clinical decision-making, and comprehensive geriatric assessment. He has authored peer-reviewed publications in journals including Pain Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Dr. Jung is actively involved in medical education and serves as a member of the American Geriatrics Society Public Education Committee. He mentors medical students, residents, and fellows with a focus on clinical reasoning and patient-centered geriatric care.