A rheumatologist and two time Olympian cyclist, Christine talks about how her idea of success was more important that any external expectations.
Born and raised in eastern Iowa. She attended Grinnell College and received her BA with Chemistry Major in 1992. The following year she completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Nepal with focus on the beliefs and practices of caregivers of children with diarrheal disease. Then, she completed medical school at Stanford in 1999 and went on for Internal Medicine Residency and Rheumatology Fellowship, also at Stanford. After a post-doctoral research fellowship in the genetic epidemiology of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus at University of California San Francisco, she opted to enter private clinical practice at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in 2006 where she continues to care for patients in Rheumatology. She is now also a Board Member of the large multispecialty group practice and Medical Director of the affiliated research institute. Along the way, she started road cycling racing in 1998 during medical school and ultimately competed for the United States in the summer Olympics in Athens 2004.
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