Christopher F Chesley - Faculty Biosketch

Christopher F Chesley, MD MSCE

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Department: Medicine

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3600 Civic Center Boulevard
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Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Email:
christopher.chesley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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13 Education:
21 7 BS 14 (Biology) c
3b Washington University in St. Louis, 2010.
21 7 MD 15 (Medicine) c
4a University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 2014.
21 9 MSCE 22 (Clinical Epidemiology) c
34 University of Pennsylvania , 2021.
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 67 Housestaff, Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2014-2017.
24 7f Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2018-2021.
24 4d Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2022-2022.
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17 Certifications
28 4f American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2017.
28 50 American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, 2020.
28 54 American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, 2024.
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Description of Research Expertise

335 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 disparities 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 disparities, and using evidence-supported approaches to strategize hospital system-level solutions to promote equitable health outcomes.
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Selected Publications

42 Christopher F. Chesley d1 George L. Anesi: The Saga of Equitable Oxygen Saturation Measurement Continues: The Role of Arterial Blood Gases. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Meidcine 2025.

e4 Chesley CF: Race and Ethnicity Disparities in Management and Outcomes of Critically Ill Adults with Acute Respiratory Failure. Crit Care Clin October 2024.

ad A. D. Baugh, C. F. Chesley and K. Pew: Poison from the Root: Sociohistorical Perspectives on Tobacco & the Black Community 3b Ann Am Thorac Soc September 2024.

13c Okelo SO, Chesley CF, Riley I, Diaz A, Collishaw K, Schanpp L, Thakur N: Historical Reflection as the American Thoracic Society Moves to Combat Racism in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 209(1): 1-3, Jan 2024.

175 Chow CP, Chesley CF, Ward M, Neergaaard R, Prasad T, Dress E, Regan S, Kalyana P, Smyk N, Turner A, Agyekum R, Ittner C, Sandsmall D, Meyer N, Harhay M, Kohn R, Auriemma C.: Patients' Perspectives on Life and Recovery 1 Year After COVID-19 Hospitalization. J Gen Intern Med. 38(10): 1-9, Aug 2023.

153 Chesley CF, Chowdhury M, Small DS, Schaubel D, Liu V, Lane-Fall M, Halpern S, Anesi G: Racial Disparities in Length of Stay Among Severely Ill Patients Presenting With Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure. JAMA Netw Open. 6(5): e239739 published on-line, May 2023.

187 Chesley CF, Anesi GL, Schaubel D, Lane-Fall MB, Halpern SD.: Differences in Intensive Care Unit Triage for Racial and Ethnic Minorities with Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure. Impact of race, ethnicity, and social determinants on individuals with lung diseases. Am Thorac Society May 2023 Notes: oral presentation.

f8 Fawzy A, Valbuena VSM, Chesley CF, Wu TD, Iwashyna TJ.: Dynamic Errors in Pulse Oximetry Preclude Use of Correction Factor. Ann Am Thoracic Society 20(2): 338-339, Feb 2023.

12c Chesley CF, Anesi GL, Chowdhury M, Schaubel D, Liu V, Lane-Fall M, Halpern S : Characterizing Equity of Intensive Care Unit Admissions for Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 19(12): 2044-2052, Dec 2022.

149 Chesley CF, Lane-Fall MB, Panchanadam V, Harhay M, Wani A, Mikkelsen M, Fuchs B: Racial disparities in occult hypoxemia and clinically based mitigation strategies to apply in advance of technological advancements. Respir Care. 67(2): 1499-1507, Dec 2022.

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