Christopher Chesley

Dr. Christopher Chesley is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and Core Faculty at the PAIR Center. He attends regularly in the medical intensive care units at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Chesley’s research interests focus on using causal inference to characterize novel and actionable determinants of health disparities for historically marginalized patients with severe acute, critical, and pulmonary illness. This includes characterizing the mechanistic role of socioeconomic disadvantage for clinical outcome disparities as they pertain to sepsis and acute respiratory failure. In addition, he researches clinical and diagnostic disparities resulting from pulse oximeter measurement bias, as well as evidence-based solutions to mitigate them. His work is supported by an NHLBI career development award and several internal research grants.

Dr. Chesley 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 a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology. Originally born in Washington, D.C., he currently resides in South Philadelphia 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.