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Huawei Dong

Huawei Dong

HS Associate Clinical Professor, Step 1, Medicine

Biography

Huawei (Katie) Dong, M.D., is HS Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at Irvine, where she also serves as Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She received her M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School and completed her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dong's clinical research focuses on interstitial lung disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She has served as Site Principal Investigator for multiple Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating novel therapeutics for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and related conditions, including studies sponsored by Hoffmann-La Roche, CSL Behring, Tvardi Therapeutics, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and GlaxoSmithKline. Her work has been published in journals including Cancer Research, European Journal of Rheumatology, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Dong is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine. She is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Trudeau Society. She has presented her research at national meetings including CHEST and the American Thoracic Society annual conferences.

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Education

  • BS in Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
  • MD, Dartmouth Medical School, 2011
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Distinctions

  • Best Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology Case, AABIP Meeting, 2014
  • Abstract Scholarship Award, Assembly on Environmental, Occupational and Population Health, American Thoracic Society, 2018
  • Case Report Poster Session Winner, CHEST Meeting, 2014
  • Off Service Teaching Award, Emergency Medicine Residency, UC Irvine, 2024
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Areas of Expertise

  • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • Interstitial Lung Abnormalities
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Complications
  • Bronchoscopy Interventions
  • Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Machine Learning Cohort Identification
  • Connective Tissue Disease

Recent Publications

  • “Hidden in the airways: A rare case of tracheobronchopatia osteochondroplastica”, 2025. Presented at ATS Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2025.
  • “Time for Teamwork: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Pulmonary Arterial-venous Malformation in Pregnancy”, 2023. Presented at California Thoracic Society Meeting, March 2023.
  • “A case of intravenous immunoglobulin-induced transfusion-related acute lung injury”, 2023. Presented at CHEST Meeting, Honolulu, HI, October 2023.
  • “When air meets the brain: A case of air embolism induced cardiac arrest during craniotomy”, 2023. Presented at CHEST Meeting, Honolulu, HI, October 2023.
  • “Intracerebral septic emboli from Streptococcus anginosis endocarditis”, 2023. Presented at CHEST Meeting, Honolulu, HI, October 2023.
  • Kaakour D, Teckchandani P, Dong H, “Acute epiploic appendagitis in a COVID-19-positive patient with antiphospholipid syndrome” (opens in new tab), Journal of Clinical Medicine Research, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 563-566, 2021.
  • “Pheochromocytoma presenting with intrauterine fetal demise and cardiogenic shock”, 2021. Presented at Society of Critical Care Medicine Meeting, Virtual Meeting, February 2021.
  • Stern K, Dong H, “Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Complications”, Respiratory Ventilatory Strategies in Acute and Chronic Respiratory Failure in Idiopathic Pulmonary Diseases A Practical Approach, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 95-105, 2020.
  • “A Tale of Two Aspergillosis: A Case of Aspergillus Overlap Syndrome”, 2020. Presented at CHEST Meeting, Virtual Meeting, October 2020.
  • “Attack of the Klebsiella – A Case of Invasive Liver Abscess Syndrome with Multi-Organ Dissemination”, 2020. Presented at CHEST Meeting, Virtual Meeting, October 2020.
  • “To Airway and Beyond: A Case of Disseminated Coccidiodomycosis with Endobronchial Involvement”, 2020. Presented at CHEST Meeting, Virtual Meeting, October 2020.
  • Stern K., Rao S., Cheng T., Dong H., “Another look into oxygen supplementation in the acute care setting” (opens in new tab), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 201, pp. 478-479, 2020.
  • Dong H, Julien PJ, Demoruelle MK, Deane KD, Weisman MH, “Interstitial lung abnormalities in early rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot study evaluating prevalence and progression”, Eur J Rheumatol, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 193-198, 2019.
  • Cheng T, Stern K, Rao S, Dong H, “Recommended Readings from the University of California at Irvine Fellows: Another Look into Oxygen Supplementation in the Acute Care Setting”, AJRCCM, 2019.
  • Dong H, Tatsuno B, Betancourt J, Oh SS, “Tracheal epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma associated with sarcoid-like reaction: a case report” (opens in new tab), Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, vol. 14, pp. 34-36, 2014.
  • Willis P, Dong H, Eshagian P, Oh S, “Pneumonia and cold agglutinins: a case of Mycoplasma pneumonia”, Proceedings of UCLA Healthcare, vol. 16, 2012.
  • Cheung A, Dupage M, Dong H, Jacks T, “Regulated expression of a tumor-associated antigen reveals multiple levels of T-cell tolerance in a mouse model of lung cancer”, Cancer Research, vol. 68, no. 22, pp. 9459-68, 2008.
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Contact Information

Email: huawei.dong@uci.edu

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Last updated on 2/24/2026.