Children’s Specialists of San Diego
7930 Frost Street,  Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92123

Education

• Pediatric Urology Fellowship 2007-present
  Children’s Specialists of San Dieg
• Urology Resident 2003-2007
  Lahey Clinic Burlington, MA
• General Surgery Resident (pre-urology) 2001-2003
  Lahey Clinic Burlington, M
• Doctor of Medicine 1996-2001
  Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, M
• Bachelor of Arts 1992-1996
  Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Licensures and Certification

• American Board of Urology: Board Eligible 2007 (Written boards passed)
• Massachusetts Medical License
• California Medical License
• North Dakota Medical License

Organizations

• American Urological Association
• American Medical Association
• Massachusetts Medical Society

Honors

• International Volunteers in Urology Traveling Resident Scholarship 2005
• Tufts Resident Teacher Award 2003
• William Dameshek Research Award 2001
• Finalist 1999 Charlton Student Poster Competition
• American Foundation for Urological Diseases 1999 Summer Research Scholar
• Dean’s List 1992-1996
• Senior Phi Beta Kappa 1999
• Golden Key Honor Society 1995

Research Experience

• Johns Hopkins Dept of Neuroscience: G.V. Ronnett  MD, PhD
  - Modulation of heme oxygenase pathway 1993-1996
• Tufts Dept of Pharmacology:  T.C. Theoharides MD, PhD
  - Physiology of interstitial cystitis 1999-2001
• Lahey Clinic Dept of Molecular Research: Ian Summerhayes, PhD
  - Bladder Cancer: Molecular pathology and therapeutics 2003-2004

Publications

Chiang, GJ, Billmeyer, BR, Canes, D, Stoffel, J. Moinzadeh, A., Austin, CA., Kosakowski M., Riger-Christ, KM, Libertino, JA, and Summerhayes IC.  The src-kinase family inhibitor PP2 suppresses the in vitro invasive phenotype of bladder carcinoma cells via modulation of Akt. BJU International 96(3):416-22, Aug 2005.

Canes D, Chiang GJ, Billmeyer BR, Austin CA, Kosakowski M, Rieger-Christ KM, Libertino JA, Summerhayes IC. Histone deacetylase inhibitors upregulate plakoglobin expression in bladder carcinoma cells and display antineoplastic activity in vitro and in vivo. Int J Cancer. 113(5):841-8, Feb 2005.

Chiang G. Patra P. Letourneau R. Jeudy S. Boucher W. Green M. Sant GR. Theoharides TC. Pentosanpolysulfate (Elmiron) is a potent inhibitor of mast cell histamine secretion. Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology. 539(Pt B):713-29, 2003

Chiang, G., Patra, P., Boucher, W., Letourneau, R., Sheilia, J., Sant, G.R., and T.C. Theoharides. Pentosanpolysulfate inhibits mast cell histamine secretion and intracellular calcium ion levels. Journal of Urology. 1664(6):2119-25, 2000 Dec

Chiang, G., Patra, P., Boucher, W., Letourneau, R., Sheilia, J., Sant, G.R., and T.C. Theoharides. Pentosanpolysulfate (Elmiron) is a Potent Inhibitor of Mast Cell Histamine Secretion. in: Atala, A. ed. Bladder Disease: Research Concepts and Clinical Applications. NY, NY Kluwer Academic/Plenium Publishers. 2000

Theoharides, T.C., P. Patra, W. Boucher, R. Letourneau, D. Kempuraj, G. Chiang, S. Jeudy, L. Hesse, and A. Athanasiou. Chondroitin sulfate inhibits connective tissue mast cells. Brit. J. Pharmacology 131(6):1039-40, 2000 Nov

Ingi, T., Chiang, G., Bethel, M.A., Ronnett, G.V. The regulation of heme turnover and carbon monoxide biosynthesis in cultured primary olfactory receptor neurons (1996).  Journal of Neuroscience 16 (18): 5621-5628

Presentations

George Chiang, MD, David Canes, MD, Brian Billmeyer, MD, Kimberly M.Rieger-Christ, PhD, Monika Kosakowski, BA, John A. Libertino, MD, Ian C.     Summerhayes.. Plakoglobin Acts as a Tumor Suppressor Gene in Bladder Cancer and Modulates the Expression of Desmoglein and Desmocollin.  Poster presented at New England AUA Florida 2004.      

Brian Billmeyer, George Chiang, David Canes, Monika Kosakowski, Kimberly
Rieger Christ, John A. Libertino, Ian C. Summerhayes. SRC Family Kinase Inhibitor PP2 Suppresses the Invasive Phenotype of Bladder Carcinoma Cells Via Modulation of AKT. Poster presented at National AUA San Francisco, CA 2004

David Canes, Brian Billmeyer, George Chiang, Monika Kosakowski, Kimberly M. Rieger-Christ, John A. Libertino, Ian C. Summerhayes. Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Display Antineoplastic Activity Against Bladder Carcinoma Cells Associated with Up-Regulation of Plakoglobin.  Poster presented at National AUA San Francisco, CA 2004.

Chiang, G., Patra, P., Boucher, W., Letourneau, R., Sheilia, J., Sant, G.R., and T.C. Theoharides.  Pentosan polysulfate inhibits connective and mucosal mast cell secretion. Poster presented at Experimental Biology 2000 San Diego, CA

Chiang, G., Patra, P., Boucher, W., Letourneau, R., Sheilia, J., Sant, G.R., and T.C. Theoharides. Elmiron is a potent inhibitor of mast cell secretion. Poster presented at International Bladder Symposium Washington, DC 1999.

Ingi, T., Chiang, G., Ronnett, G.V. Regulation and physiological role of heme metabolic turnover and CO production in neuron. Presented at 9th International Conference on Second Messengers and Phosphoproteins San Diego, CA 1995.