Chris is Managing Director, Medical Affairs at Health2047. In this role, she ensures that all Health2047 solutions and ventures include physician input and practical frame of reference during development. She provides subject matter expertise and utilizes the perspective of a physician with 40 years of experience in practice, operations and management, innovation, and team building. Chris engages in all ventures from the outset, more deeply with those that have a clinical basis, and leads the Health2047 Productivity Investment Pillar.

Before joining the team full time in September 2020, she served as an Advisor to Health2047. In her previous clinical and academic work, Chris was a respected and effective leader in clinical practice, hospital, and academic settings. She served for 15 years as Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology. Prior to Northwestern, Chris spent 15 years at Emory University’s School of Medicine, where she earned tenure. Chris received her BS and MD from Northwestern, where she also completed anesthesiology residency and critical care medicine and research fellowships.