Christopher Chesley

Dr. Christopher Chesley is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Arts in biology and a minor in anthropology, 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. During fellowship, he also completed Penn’s Master Degree in Clinical Epidemiology. His research interests focus on using causal inference to characterize novel and actionable determinants of health inequity for historically marginalized patients with severe acute, critical, and pulmonary illness.

Originally born in Washington, D.C., he currently resides in Point Breeze after living in several other Philadelphia neighborhoods over the course of his training and Penn career. He is an avid runner, biker, and powerlifter, music aficionado, and competitive video game enthusiast.