Zheng-Bo Huang, M.D., Director, Geriatrics

Zheng-Bo Huang, M.D., joined New York Hospital Queens in 2003 and serves as director of Geriatrics and director of the Acute Care for the Elderly Unit. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.

Dr. Huang achieved his medical degree in 1982 from the Peking Union Medical University in Beijing, China, and completed his training in Internal Medicine at the same institution. He served as an attending at the university teaching hospital before he came to the U.S. as the physician and medical consultant of the Chinese Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Dr. Huang later conducted research as a visiting scholar at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, College for Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University. He completed a three-year residency in Internal Medicine at Roosevelt Hospital, N.Y., in 1996, and thereafter completed a two-year Geriatric Fellowship at Mt. Sinai Medical Center.

From 1998 to 2003, he was an assistant professor of Medicine at the New York Medical College and an attending physician at St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan.

Dr. Huang contributed to the founding of the Geriatrics Division and the Geriatrics Fellowship Program at New York Hospital Queens. He is currently an assistant professor of Clinical Medicine of Weill Cornell Medical College.

In his more than 20-year medical carrier, Dr. Huang published many articles. His latest publication is the book “Case Studies in Geriatric Medicine”, coauthored with Dr. Judith Arhonheim and published by Cambridge University.