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St. Luke's Medical Group Welcomes Four New Physicians

Drs. Chang, Edwards, Myles and Soudah are accepting new patients.

Chesterfield, Mo. , July 19, 2017

St. Luke’s Medical Group is pleased to announce the addition of four new physicians: Kae P. Chang, MD.; Jason Edwards, MD, PhD; Otha Myles, MD; and Hani Soudah, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN.

Kae P. Chang, MD, specializes in internal medicine and has more than 18 years of experience in inpatient medicine and venous disorders, treating patients with a variety of vascular and other medical conditions. After earning his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, he completed his residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital through Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

As a radiation oncologist, Jason Edwards, MD, PhD, focuses on integrating sophisticated technology into successful treatments for cancer patients. Edwards is trained in high dose rate (HDR) and low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy for gynecological cancer, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). After receiving his medical degree from the University of Missouri, Edwards completed his surgical internship and radiation oncology residency at the University of Kentucky’s Chandler Medical Center. He earned his PhD in cellular and integrative physiology from Indiana University.

A specialist in infectious disease, Otha Myles, MD, manages patients with infections of the blood stream, bone and joint, central nervous system, lower respiratory tract, skin and urinary tract as well as patients with fungal infections. He has additional training in HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Myles earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and completed research at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program in Rockville, Md. He went on to be an attending physician and assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In 2013, he returned home to Missouri to start the Infectious Disease Clinic at a local hospital.

Board certified in both internal medicine and obesity medicine, Hani Charles Soudah, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN, specializes in non-surgical weight loss management, focusing on bariatric medicine, obesity prevention and obesity-related diseases. He earned his medical degree and PhD from The Eppendorfer-Klinik at the University of Hamburg in Germany and completed his post-doctoral fellowship training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He also completed his internship and residency training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital through Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

All four physicians are currently accepting new patients.

About St. Luke's Hospital:
St. Luke's Hospital is an independent, nonprofit healthcare provider committed to improving the quality of life for its patients and the community. Since its founding in 1866, St. Luke's has grown from a single hospital location to an advanced network of care. It provides personalized healthcare services in over 60 specialty areas at its 493-bed hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. and 143-bed St. Luke's Des Peres Hospital. It also offers more than 30 other locations across the greater St. Louis area, bringing quality healthcare services close to home. St. Luke's is nationally-recognized for quality care and consistently earns high patient satisfaction scores. In St. Louis, St. Luke's is the exclusive alliance provider for the nation's No. 1 heart hospital, Cleveland Clinic's Heart & Vascular Institute.

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