Tammie Chang is a pediatric hematology-oncology physician and co-founder of Pink Coat, MD. She can be reached on Instagram @tammiechangmd and at her self-titled site, Tammie Chang, MD.
Dr. Tammie Chang is a practicing board-certified pediatric oncologist, award-winning author, TEDx speaker, leadership coach, and fierce national advocate for gender equity and cultural change in health care. She is the co-founder of Pink Coat, MD, the founder of Tammie Chang, MD, and the co-founder of the American Medical Women's Association's ELEVATE Leadership Development Program. Additionally, she serves as the medical director of physician/APP well-being for her health system. She received her medical degree from Brown University, completed her internal medicine-pediatrics residency at the University of Massachusetts, and her pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She received her coaching certifications from the Co-Active Training Institute, the International Coaching Federation, and the John Maxwell Team.
Dr. Chang is the co-founder of Pink Coat, MD, a platform dedicated to the personal and professional success and well-being of all women physicians. She is the award-winning author of Boundaries for Women Physicians: Love Your Life and Career in Medicine and co-author of How to Thrive as a Woman Physician, together with Luisa Duran, MD, her co-founder of Pink Coat, MD.
She has received numerous awards, including Women We Admire's Top 50 Women Leaders of Washington for 2022, 2024, and 2025, the 2022 American Stevie Business Awards Gold Maverick of the Year and Woman of the Year, the 2022 Stevie American Women in Business Gold Woman of the Year in Healthcare Award, and Health 2.0's 2022 Outstanding Healthcare Leadership Award. Her book, Boundaries for Women Physicians, was named the 2023 Gold Book of the Year by Stevie American Women in Business and received the 2022 Gold Living Now Evergreen Book Award, honoring books that contribute to positive global change. She was named one of Seattle's Top Doctors in 2024 in pediatric hematology/oncology.
These days, getting spun out into a state of worry and panic is just a click away: Turn on any device for constant updates on the chaos around us.
Adding to this, on a personal level, the last six years have been the most difficult and transformative period of my life. I had never imagined that I would experience and recover from the darkness of depression and suicidality six years ago, …
Unhooking from the ego in medicine
An excerpt from Boundaries For Women Physicians: Love Your Life And Career In Medicine.
My story is similar to that of countless other women who have chosen careers in medicine. I am a pediatric hematologist/oncologist. A few years ago, I was driving home one afternoon after having spent several hours with …
Boundaries for women physicians
An excerpt from Boundaries For Women Physicians: Love Your Life And Career In Medicine.
When I openly share my experiences with friends and colleagues, I am amazed by how many other women physicians tell me they have had similar ones. They admit to feeling so low that suicide or …
The key to loving our lives and our careers starts with us
As our health care system teeters yet again on the brink of collapse, the big questions on so many of our minds are: What does our future hold for us as physicians? What is our path forward?
As physicians, we currently live and work in a constant state of crisis. We’ve seen record numbers of patients, experienced personnel shortages, and instituted crisis staffing and standards of care. We’ve cared for patients …
Fellow physicians, what is our path forward?
“We must give others the dignity of their own path.”
– Judith Orloff, MD
As the Delta variant surges, few words can underscore what we as a physician community are grappling with. We struggle to make sense of humanity around us. As physicians, we trust and believe science. We understand the data. For us, the answer seems simple and obvious: just get vaccinated! Yet, we are dealing with a population unwilling to …
Giving ourselves grace as physicians
When I think about boundaries, I am struck by how individual, varied, and unique each of our own personal definitions of boundaries can be. For one person, it is the physical boundary between the external world and our property. For another, the emotional and relational boundary between physician and patient. For many, the physical, emotional, and energy boundary between work and home. And often the most difficult, the boundary between …
Boundaries as a woman physician
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