Christopher Chesley, MD, MSCE is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine and a core faculty member at the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. His research work focuses on using causal inference methods to characterize novel and actionable determinants of health inequity for historically marginalized patients with severe acute, critical, and pulmonary illness. Major focuses include understanding how socioeconomic disadvantage mechanistically contributes to poor care delivery and outcomes for the critically ill, quantifying care delivery disparities and impacts on health equity, and using evidence-supported approaches to strategize hospital system-level solutions to mitigate health inequity.
He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He attended the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for internal medicine residency as well as pulmonary and critical care fellowship where, during fellowship, he completed his Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology.