Jane S. Kang, MD
Locations and Appointments
CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- Affinity Health Plan
- AgeWell
- Amerigroup of New Jersey
- CIGNA
- Emblem/GHI
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Fidelis Care
- Healthfirst
- Local 1199
- Magnacare (National)
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- MVP Health Care
- Quality Health Management
- RiverSpring
- UnitedHealthcare
- WellCare
- World Trade Center Health Plan
About Jane S. Kang, MD
Dr. Kang is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) in the Division of Rheumatology and a bioethicist with a Masters of Bioethics from Columbia University. She was the Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director at CUIMC for over a decade, was named an Ewig Clinical Scholar at CUIMC for her work in teaching and education and received a Fellowship Training Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF). In addition to being actively involved in teaching and trainee education, Dr. Kang has been interested in addressing bioethical issues in medicine and rheumatology. She was awarded the RRF Clinician Scholar Educator Award, which supported her work in creating an online, interactive bioethics curriculum for trainees, covering topics such as the recruitment of vulnerable research subjects and the globalization of clinical research. Her bioethics work also includes exploring participant preferences for the return of research results, investigating researchers' practices and views on returning incidental findings, and using the arts to address physician well-being, moral injury and health equity. Dr. Kang served on the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Board of Directors, as Chair of the ACR Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee, and as Co-Chair of the ACR Strategic Planning Task Force and Co-Chair of the ACR In-Training Examination Taskforce.
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Rheumatology
Expertise
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Gout
Myositis
Pseudo-Gout
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Spondylitis
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Vasculitis
Education
Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Internship: Montefiore Medical Center
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
Titles & Positions
Associate Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Program Director, Rheumatology Fellowship
Hospital Affiliations
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Education
- Internship: Montefiore Medical Center
- Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
- Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Titles & Positions
- Associate Professor of Medicine at CUMC
- Program Director, Rheumatology Fellowship
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Rheumatology