Dr. Elbert Huang is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy, and Associate Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the University of Chicago. From 2010-2011, he served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Huang is a general internist who studies clinical and health care policy issues at the intersection of diabetes, aging, and health economics. His main research focus is in the area of medical decision making for elderly patients with type 2 diabetes where uncertainty exists regarding how to best individualize diabetes treatments based on clinical parameters and patient preferences. Over the past decade, Dr. Huang has established one of the most active research programs in geriatric diabetes in the country.
Apart from his work in geriatric diabetes, Dr. Huang has also performed other seminal translational diabetes research in the area of cost-effectiveness analysis. He performed the economic analyses of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Health Disparities Collaboratives initiative of diabetes quality improvement in community health centers that serve the indigent. With this one study, he performed one of the first business case analyses from the perspective of the community health center as well as one of the first societal cost-effectiveness analyses of a quality improvement initiative.
Dr. Huang’s research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Diabetes Association, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He has received numerous honors including the Research Paper of the Year Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine and elected membership to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Huang received his A.B., M.D., and M.P.H. from Harvard University and came to the University of Chicago in 2001.
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
MPH - Clinical Effectiveness
2001
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
- Fellow, General Internal Medicine Faculty Development and Fellowship Program
2001
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA
- Internship and Residency
1999
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
MD - Medicine
1996
Harvard College
Cambridge, MA
BA - Biology
1992
Individualizing Care for Older Adults With Diabetes Amid the Revolution in Pharmacotherapy.
Individualizing Care for Older Adults With Diabetes Amid the Revolution in Pharmacotherapy. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Apr 01; 184(4):435-436.
PMID: 38407838
Willingness to take less medication for type 2 diabetes among older patients: The Diabetes & Aging Study.
Willingness to take less medication for type 2 diabetes among older patients: The Diabetes & Aging Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Mar 12.
PMID: 38471959
Associations of U.S. hospital closure (2007-2018) with area socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic composition.
Associations of U.S. hospital closure (2007-2018) with area socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic composition. Ann Epidemiol. 2024 Apr; 92:40-46.
PMID: 38432535
Diffusion and Disparities: Rural Uptake of Continuous Glucose Monitors.
Diffusion and Disparities: Rural Uptake of Continuous Glucose Monitors. Diabetes Care. 2024 Mar 01; 47(3):344-345.
PMID: 38394638
Impact of 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) health center investments on disadvantaged neighborhoods after recession.
Impact of 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) health center investments on disadvantaged neighborhoods after recession. Health Econ Rev. 2024 Jan 31; 14(1):9.
PMID: 38294643
Moderation of associations between weight discrimination and diabetes status by psychosocial factors.
Moderation of associations between weight discrimination and diabetes status by psychosocial factors. J Behav Med. 2024 Apr; 47(2):244-254.
PMID: 37946026
Diabetes Life Expectancy Prediction Model Inputs and Results From Patient Surveys Compared With Electronic Health Record Abstraction: Survey Study.
Diabetes Life Expectancy Prediction Model Inputs and Results From Patient Surveys Compared With Electronic Health Record Abstraction: Survey Study. JMIR Aging. 2023 Nov 09; 6:e44037.
PMID: 37962566
CommunityRx, a social care assistance intervention for family and friend caregivers delivered at the point of care: two concurrent blinded randomized controlled trials.
CommunityRx, a social care assistance intervention for family and friend caregivers delivered at the point of care: two concurrent blinded randomized controlled trials. Trials. 2023 Oct 21; 24(1):681.
PMID: 37864258
Costs and Health Care Utilization Analysis of Medical Group Visits for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in Community Health Centers.
Costs and Health Care Utilization Analysis of Medical Group Visits for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in Community Health Centers. Med Care. 2023 12 01; 61(12):866-871.
PMID: 37819210
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Can Identify Patients at High Risk of Fracture but Require Substantial Race Adjustments to Currently Available Fracture Risk Calculators.
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Can Identify Patients at High Risk of Fracture but Require Substantial Race Adjustments to Currently Available Fracture Risk Calculators. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Dec; 38(16):3451-3459.
PMID: 37715097
Award for Leadership
Midwest Region Society of General Internal Medicine
2018
American Society for Clinical Investigation, Elected Member
2011
Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine, M.D., Excellence in Clinical Research Award
JDRF
2011
Leif B. Sorensen Faculty Research Award
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
2011
Research Paper of the Year Award
Society of General Internal Medicine
2009
Presidential Poster Session Award (Preventive Medicine)
American Geriatrics Society
2007
Presidential Poster Session Award (Quality of Life)
American Geriatrics Society
2006
Merck New Investigator Award
American Geriatrics Society
2006
Junior Faculty Research Abstract Award
Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine
2001