Tae Chung, M.D.

Dr. Tae Hwan Chung is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include neuromuscular disorders and physical medicine and rehabilitation.

With combined training in neuromuscular medicine and in physical medicine and rehabilitation, Dr. Chung is uniquely positioned to provide a wide range of services, including diagnosis of various neuromuscular conditions, electrodiagnostic procedures, neuromuscular pathology, immune treatments and rehabilitative treatments. Clinically, Dr. Chung is particularly interested in rehabilitative treatments and therapeutic exercise of various neuromuscular diseases, especially myositis and other forms of muscle diseases. Dr. Chung runs a multidisciplinary rehabilitation clinic under the Myositis Clinic with the Johns Hopkins neuromuscular rehabilitation team, which he helped develop with physical, occupational and speech therapists, who are dedicated to helping patients with rare neuromuscular diseases. For his research, he investigates the effects of aging on the neuromuscular system in collaboration with his mentors in geriatric medicine and neurology.

Dr. Chung was recently awarded with K08 grant from National Institute of Aging (NIA) for his research work on aging neuromuscular system and metabolic changes.

Dr. Chung earned his M.D. from the Catholic University of Korea. He completed his residency at Johns Hopkins and performed a fellowship in neuromuscular medicine at Johns Hopkins.

• M.D. College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea
• Internship in Medicine, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Montefior
• Resident and Post-doctoral Fellowship in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
• Resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,  Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
• Post-doctoral Fellowship, Neuromuscular Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
• Post-doctoral Fellowship, Spine Cord Injury Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute

Selected Recent Original Research Publications:

1. Christorpher-Stine L, Casciola-Rosen L, Hong G, Chung T, Corse A, Mammen A. “A novel autoantibody recognizing 200 and 100 kDa proteins is associated with an immune-medicated necrotizing myopathy” Arthritis Rheum 2010 Sep;62(9):2757-66 PMID:20496415
2. Mammen A, Chung T, Christorpher-Stine L, Rosen P, Rosen A, Casciola-Rosen L. “Autoantibodies against 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A Reductase (HMGCR) in Patients with Statin-associated Autoimmune Myopathy” Arthritis Rheum. Mar;63(3):713-21. PMID:21360500
3. Kirsten M. Williams, Lyle Ostrow, David Loeb, Tae Chung, Ronnie Cohn, Andrea Corse, Andrew Mammen, and Allen R. Chen. “Immunohistochemistry of affected tissue may guide GVHD treatment decisions” Bone Marrow Transplant 2012 May;47(5):731-3. PMID:21927032
4. Chung T, Christopher-Stine L, Paik JJ, Corse A, Mammen AL. “The composition of cellular infiltrates in anti-HMG-CoA reductase-associated myopathy” Muscle Nerve. 2015 Aug;52(2):189-95 PMID:25737145
5. Chung T, Park JS, Kim S, Montes N, Walston J, Höke A. “Evidence for dying-back axonal degeneration in age-associated skeletal muscle decline” Muscle Nerve. 2016 Jul 27. doi: 10.1002/mus.25267. PMID:27464347
6. Brock, M, Chung T, Gaddam S, Kathait A, Ober C, Georgiades C. “Resolution of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome after CT-guided, percutaneous T2 ethanol ablation for hyperhidrosis” Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2016 Aug 24.
7. Yu, K., Barmaki, R., Unberath, M., Mears, A., Brey, J., Chung, T., & Navab, N. (2018, March). “On the accuracy of low-cost motion capture systems for range of motion measurements (Conference Presentation)”. In Medical Imaging 2018: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare, Research, and Applications (Vol. 10579, p. 105790G). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
8. Chung T, Tian Y, Walston J, Hoke A. “Increased Single Fiber Jitter Level is Associated with Reduction in Motor Function with Aging” Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2018 Mar 1
9. Amici DR, Pinal-Fernandez I, Pagkatipunan R, Meras A, De Lorenzo R, Tiniakou E, Albayda J, Paik JJ, Lloyd TE, Christopher-Stine L, Mammen AL, Chung T, “Muscle Endurance Deficits in Myositis Patients Despite Normal Manual Muscle Testing Scores” Muscle Nerve 2018 Jul 20

Book Chapters:

1. Probasco J1, Sahin B, Tran T, Chung TH, Rosenthal LS, Mari Z, Levy M. “The Preoperative Neurological Evaluation” Neurohospitalist. 2013 Oct;3(4):209-220
2. Tae Chung, Erik Hoyer. Critical Illness Myopathy. PM&R KnowledgeNOW http://now.aapmr.org/pain-neuro/pages/default.aspx 

• Tae Chung, Kalapan Prasad, Tom Lloyd. Peripheral Neuropathy-Clinical and Electrophysiologic Considerations-Primer for Imagers. Neuroimaging Clinics. 2014 Feb;24(1):49-65. PMID: 24210312
• Tae Chung, “Chapter 8: Neuromuscular Impairments and Electrodiagnostics” (2018) Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Oral Board Review. New York, Demos Medical Publishing

Lectures:

1. February 2015, CME lectures on “Myositis”, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
2. June 15th, 2015, Biennial Meeting of the Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association, “Dysfunction of Neuromuscular Junction with Aging”, Johns Hopkins Hospital
3. September 10th, 2015, Neuroscience Grand Round at University of Toledo, “Dysfunction of Neuromuscular Junction with Aging”, University of Toledo, Ohio
4. October 19th, 2015, Biology of Healthy Aging (BoHA) Group meeting, “Dysfunction of Neuromuscular Junction with Aging”, Johns Hopkins University
5. November 17th, 2015, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand Round at Samsung Medical Center, “Aging neuromuscular junction – biological basis of age-related muscle weakness” Seoul, South Korea
6. July 26th, 2016, Biology of Healthy Aging (BoHA) Group meeting, “Age-associated Muscle Weakness and Metabolic Disturbance”, Johns Hopkins University
7. August 3rd, 2016, Johns Hopkins Myositis Research Retreat, “Physical Rehab Aspects of Myositis”, Rheumatology Division, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
8. August 20th, 2016, PM&R Grand Round at Catholic University School of Medicine, “Age-associated Muscle Weakness and Metabolic Disturbance”, Seoul, South Korea
9. August 31st, 2016, Invited Lecture, “Role of PM&R physicians in ICU”, Ajou Medical Center, Suwon, South Korea
10. September 4th, 2016, The Second Annual Conference on Early Mobilization & Rehabilitation in ICU, “Review of ICU-acquired Weakness: from neuromuscular physician’s standpoint”, Asia Pacific Early Mobilization Network, Seoul, South Korea
11. September 5th, 2016, Invited Lecture, “Age-associated Muscle Weakness and Metabolic Disturbance”, Physical Therapy Department at Wonju Yonseit University, Wonju, South Korea
12. February 10th, 2017, Oral Presentation, “Evidence of Kynurenine Pathway Involvement in Age-associated Muscle Weakness”, AAP meeting at Las Vegas, NV
13. April 28th, 2017, Oral Presentation, “Evidence of Kynurenine Pathway Involvement in Age-associated Muscle Weakness”, International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) 2017, Barcelona, Spain
14. May 4th, 2017, Oral Presentation, “Clinical Experience of POTS”, Johns Hopkins Dysautonomia Conference, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA
15. Nov 25th, 2017, Oral Presentation, “Electrodiagnotic Methods for ICU-acquired Weakness” The First Annual Conference of Korea ICU Rehabilitation, Seoul, South Korea
16. Dec 8th, 2017, Invited Lecture, “Range of Motion Tracking Using Magic Mirror System”, Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) Lab at Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
17. Mar 3rd, 2018, Plenary Session, “Evidence of Kynurenine Pathway Involvement in Sarcopenia”, International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) 2018, Miami Beach, FL, USA
18. Mar 10th, 2018, Invited lecture, “Rehabilitation Management of Peripheral Neuropathy”, The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy Patient Conference 2018, Washington DC, USA

Presentations:

1. Elwood D, Chung T, Ahn J. (April 13, 2007) Case Report: Intra-spinal Bleed with Paraplegia Following Neuraxial Anesthesia and Enoxaparin.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2. Chung T,  Singh S. (October 22-25, 2009) An Unusual Presentation of Polymyositis and Experience with Inpatient Rehabilitation of a 62-Year-Old man: A Case Report.  Presented at American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 70th Annual Assembly, Austin, Texas
3. Chung T, Arene NK. (October 22-25, 2009) The Severity of Comorbidities and Case-Mix Group is Strongly Associated with Depressive Symptoms in an Acute Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Population.  Presented at American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 70th Annual Assembly, Austin, Texas

• Mammen A, Chung T, Casciola-Rosen L. (December 4, 2009) A Novel Autoantibody Against 200/100 kDa Proteins is Associated With Necrotizing Myopathy.  Presented at Fourth Johns Hopkins Bayview Research Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland
• Chung T, Arene NK. (February 24-26, 2010) Depressive Symptoms in Stroke Patients Affect Functional Gains in the Subacute but Not in the Acute Phase of Rehabilitation,  Presented at the American Hear Association’s International Stroke Conference, San Antonio, Texas
• Chung T, Mammen A. (April 10, 2010) Improved Strength With High-Intensity Resistance Training On An anti-Jo-1-Antibody-Associated Myositis Patient. Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, Bonita Springs, Florida.
• Chung T, Travnicek K, Mammen A. (April, 2011) Immunosuppressive Therapy Can Improve Strength In Necrotizing Myopathy With Auto-antibody Recognizing 200 and 100 kDa Proteins. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, Pheonix, Arizona
• Chung T, Lloyd T. (April, 2011) Case Report – Oculopharyngeal Musculodystrophy Masqueraded as Inclusion Body Myositis. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, Pheonix, Arizona
• Chung T, Mammen A (March 2012) Characterization of Mononuclear Cells in Immune-mediated Necrotizing Myopathy. Presented at the 2012 Clinical Meeting of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Chung T, Lloyd T, Christopher-Stein L, Mammen A (September 2013) A Characterization of Inflammatory Cells in Muscle Biopsies of Anti-HMGCR Myopathy. Presented at the 2013 Muscle Study Group (MSG) Meeting, Oxford, England, UK
• Chung T, Park JS, Walston J, Hoke A (March 2015) Age-related Dysfunction of NMJ in Various Mice Models. Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, San Antonio, TX
• Chung T, Park JS, Hoke A (March 2015) Beneficial Effects of Treadmill Exercise after Nerve Cut-and-repair Injury are Associated with Macrophage Polarization in Mice. Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, San Antonio, TX
• Brey J, Mears A, Neuromuscular Rehab Team, Chung T (October 2015) An Interdisciplinary Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Model for Individuals with Myositis and Related Conditions. Presented at The 5th Annual Johns Hopkins Hospital Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinical Showcase, Baltimore, MD
• Chung T, Notarangelo F, Tian Y, Schwarcz R, Walston J, Hoke AT (March 2017) Evidence of Kynurenine Pathway Involvement in Age-associated Muscle Weakness. Presented at 2017 Pepper OAIC Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA