Dr. Zhen Huang Promoted to Associate Professor
Pediatric otolaryngologist Zhen “Jane” Huang, MD, MBA, CPO, has been promoted to associate professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
Dr. Huang joined the department in 2016 as an assistant professor. She was born in southern China and moved to Dallas with her family at the age of seven. After graduating as valedictorian of a class of 660 students, she continued her education at Dartmouth College as a Presidential Scholar majoring in psychology. She earned a combined MD/MBA at Dartmouth as a recipient of the Dr. Hampers Leaders in Healthcare Scholarship.
After spending a decade in New England, Dr. Huang returned to Texas and completed residency training in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. She went on to complete a fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.
In 2022, she completed subcertification requirements for complete pediatric otolaryngology by the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Subcertification in CPO recognizes pediatric otolaryngologists who complete additional training, successfully demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills beyond primary certification, and maintain an ongoing clinical practice within the subspecialty. She became the first pediatric otolaryngologist to be a certified reporter in the Pediatric Health Information System® (PHIS) database, which contains comparative clinical and resource utilization data for inpatient, ambulatory surgery, emergency department, and observation unit encounters for more than 49 children’s hospitals in the United States.
Dr. Huang is an attending surgeon at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, part of Harris Health System. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, serving on the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Committee. She has served as a peer reviewer for the American Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery since 2020 and has been a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Women in Otolaryngology Peer Mentoring Program also since 2020.
Dr Huang has been recognized with numerous awards during her academic career. She was named a Texas Super Doctors® Rising Star in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2024, and a Castle Connolly Top Doctor every year since 2021.
She is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese and has a strong interest in improving health care delivery and population health. Her clinical interests are broad and include sleep-disordered breathing, congenital neck masses, open and endoscopic pediatric airway surgery, chronic ear disorders and hearing loss, and pediatric voice disorders.
“My patients are my best teachers,” she says. “Having been a patient myself, every opportunity to treat my young patients, whether a case is big or small, is a privilege I’m thankful for.”