Jason Huang

Jason Huang is a Chinese-born American neurosurgeon at Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas. He is known for both clinical and research work in nervous system injury and repair, including traumatic brain injury, spinal trauma, and peripheral nerve injuries. He is the recipient of "U.S. News Top Docs".

Early life Huang was born in Shanghai, China.

Education Huang graduated from Amherst College, and received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Following that, he finished neurosurgery residency training at University of Pennsylvania. During his residency training, he also completed his Neurotrauma & Critical Care and Complex Spine fellowships at University of Pennsylvania.

Professional career In 2006, Huang joined Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital in Rochester, NY as an attending neurosurgeon. During this time, he was deployed to Balad Theater Hospital in Iraq in 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Huang received the Army Commendation Medal in 2008 and was honorably discharged from the United States Army Reserve in 2012 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 2014, he joined Baylor Scott & White Health as director of the Neuroscience Institute and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, and was appointed professor of surgery at the Texas A&M University College of Medicine. At Baylor Scott & White, he established an ACGME-accredited neurosurgery residency program, for which he served as program director from 2015 to 2025.

Huang was elected president of the Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons for 2020 and served in that role through 2021. He became a tenured professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine in 2022.

Research Huang's main research interest lies in the field of nervous system injury and repair. His lab has active extramural research funding including a prestigious R01 award from the National Institutes of Health.

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