Dr. Yvonne Huang begins as new division chief of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Yvonne Huang, MD, joined the Department of Medicine as the new chief of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine on March 1, 2026.

Dr. Huang is a physician-scientist internationally recognized for her research program studying host-microbiome interactions in asthma and COPD. Her work has been funded by NIH and industry partners. 

She is also an expert in cystic fibrosis and is deeply committed to education, scholarship, mentoring and fostering collaboration.

To join an academic community known for exceptional research, strong training programs, combined with UW’s tradition of collegiality and collaboration, is a truly unique opportunity.

Dr. Huang

She joins us from the University of Michigan Medical School, where she held a joint faculty appointment in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology.  There, she was a recipient of the Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award.

Dr. Huang earned her medical degree from the University of Alabama, completed her internal medicine residency at Yale, and her pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

“I’m very excited to join the Department of Medicine and incredibly honored to lead the division into its next chapter,” Dr. Huang says. 

“To join an academic community known for exceptional research, strong training programs, combined with UW’s tradition of collegiality and collaboration, is a truly unique opportunity.”