Medical and health researchers

Chris H. Polman

Chris H. Polman is a Dutch neurologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC who led the McDonald criteria revisions for MS diagnosis and the 2006 natalizumab trial.

Chris J.L.M. Meijer

Chris J.L.M. Meijer, also known as C. J. L. M. Meijer, is a Dutch pathologist and emeritus professor at Amsterdam UMC known for establishing which HPV types cause cervical cancer.

Chris Parker

Chris Parker is a British clinical oncologist specializing in prostate cancer radiotherapy, Professor of Prostate Oncology at The Institute of Cancer Research, who led the radium-223 ALSYMPCA trial.

Chris Twelves

Chris Twelves is a British medical oncologist and professor at the University of Leeds known for leading the X-ACT colon cancer and EMBRACE breast cancer drug trials.

Chris van Weel

Chris van Weel, born 1947 in The Hague, is a Dutch family medicine researcher and professor emeritus at Radboud University Nijmegen, world president of WONCA from 2007 to 2010.

Chris Whitty (Christopher John MacRae Whitty) is an English epidemiologist and Chief Medical Officer for England since 2019, UK Chief Medical Adviser, practising UCLH consultant, former DHSC Chief Scientific Adviser, and co-chair of SAGE during COVID-19.

Christian Buske

Christian Buske is a German hematologist and oncologist who leads the Institute of Experimental Tumor Research at University Hospital Ulm and studies leukemic stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia.

Christian Confavreux

Christian Confavreux (1949–2013) was a French neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher, professor of neurology in Lyon, who founded the EDMUS database and led landmark studies of MS progression.

Christian Gisselbrecht

Christian Gisselbrecht is a French hematologist and clinical trialist, former head of clinical hematology at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, specialized in non-Hodgkin lymphomas and known for the GELA LNH98-5 trial.

Christian Gluud

Christian Gluud (C. Gluud) is a Danish hepatologist who led the Copenhagen Trial Unit at Rigshospitalet from 1995 to 2025 and founded the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group in 1996.

Christian Haass

Christian Haass is a German biochemist, professor at LMU Munich since 1999, known for showing that the amyloid beta-peptide central to Alzheimer's disease is produced by cells under normal conditions.

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Christian Happi

Christian Tientcha Happi, born 1968 in Cameroon, is a molecular biologist who directs ACEGID at Redeemer's University in Nigeria and sequenced Africa's first SARS-CoV-2 genome.

Christian Hassager

Christian Hassager is a Danish cardiologist and clinical professor at Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen who led the 2024 DanGer Shock trial of microaxial pumps in cardiogenic shock.

Oct 10, 2026

Christian Heerfordt

Christian Frederik Heerfordt was a Danish ophthalmologist, born in Terndrup in 1871, whose 1909 description of Heerfordt's syndrome, a rare sarcoidosis presentation, keeps his name in medical use.

Oct 10, 2026

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (1885–1950) was a Danish radiologist at Copenhagen's Bispebjerg Hospital whose 1933 paper gave his name to Baastrup's disease, or kissing spines.

Christian J. Herold

Christian J. Herold is an Austrian radiologist and professor emeritus at the Medical University of Vienna, known for chest imaging, oncologic imaging, and hepatobiliary MRI.

Christian Mueller

Christian Eugen Mueller is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at University Hospital Basel who led PRESC1SE-MI, a trial of over 62,000 patients across 19 hospitals in ten countries.

Christian Spaulding

Christian Spaulding is a French interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiology at Université Paris Cité, known for his 1997 study of coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and drug-eluting stent safety.

Christian Steidl

Christian Steidl is a German-trained Canadian physician-scientist who leads lymphoma research at BC Cancer and is a pathology professor at the University of British Columbia.

Christian T. Ruff

Christian T. Ruff is an American cardiologist who directs General Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and researches antithrombotic therapies, including stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Christian Torp‐Pedersen

Christian Torp-Pedersen (born 1950) is a Danish cardiologist and clinical epidemiologist known for landmark trials in heart failure and arrhythmia, whose work changed international treatment guidelines.

Christian Trautwein

Christian Trautwein is a German hepatologist known for research on liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, who directed Medizinische Klinik III at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen from 2005 to 2024.

Christian W. Hamm

Christian W. Hamm, born 1953 in Hamburg, is a German interventional cardiologist known for 1990s NEJM troponin studies and for leading the Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center in Bad Nauheim.

Christian Weber (cardiologist)

Christian Weber (born 1967) is a German cardiologist and leading atherosclerosis researcher who holds the Chair in Preventive Vascular Medicine and directs the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention at LMU Munich.

Christian Wolfrum

Christian Wolfrum (born 1972 in Bonn) is a German metabolic researcher studying obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver, and Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Christiane Kühl

Christiane Kuhl, born 1966 in Bonn, is a German radiologist and professor at RWTH Aachen whose Lancet study showed MRI detects far more DCIS than mammography.

Christie M. Ballantyne

Christie M. Ballantyne is an American cardiologist and lipid researcher who serves as Section Chief of Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and led the REDUCE-IT trial.

Christina D. Economos

Christina D. Economos is an American nutrition scientist who studies childhood obesity prevention and serves as dean of Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Christine A. Petersen

Christine A. Petersen is a veterinary immunologist and epidemiologist, a National Academy of Medicine member, known for research on canine leishmaniasis and veterinary infection-control guidelines.