URMC / Pathology & Laboratory Medicine / Read Our Blog / August 2016 August 2016 Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Jiaoti Huang, Pathology Chair at Duke University Some pathologists find themselves torn between research and clinical practice, but Dr. Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD isn't one of them. “If things work well, you don’t have to spend a lot of effort balancing the work,” he said. “For me, the more clinical work I do the more problems and issues that I discover for my research.”