Kathy Huang, M.D.

Dr. Kathy Huang was born in Taiwan and raised in Bath, NY, in the scenic Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. She attended college at Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude with highest honors in Biology. During that period, she also did extensive research in molecular biology at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, publishing numerous scientific papers in national journals. Dr. Huang then obtained her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she stayed to continue her training in the highly competitive integrated plastic surgery residency program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Huang joined the Plastic Surgery Institute of Washington in 2006 after finishing a fellowship at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore under the direction of Dr. Bernard Chang, focusing on state-of-the-art, advanced microsurgical techniques for breast reconstruction after mastectomy including DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator) flaps. She also brings to the practice a special interest in ethnic cosmetic procedures including double eyelid surgery and female genital procedures such as vaginal reconstruction and labiaplasty (labia minora reduction).

Dr. Huang is Board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. She also serves on the board of the Montgomery County Medical Society and is licensed to practice medicine in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.