Description of Research Expertise

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 inequity 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 equity, and using evidence-supported approaches to strategize hospital system-level solutions to mitigate health inequity.

Selected Publications

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

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

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): 1-3,2024.

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): 1-9,2023.

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,2023.

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 : 2023.

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): 338-339,2023.

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): 2044-2052,2022.

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): 1499-1507,2022.

Chesley CF, Lane-Fall MB.: Prioritizing Equity when Resources Are Scarce: Innovating Solutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 206 (4): 377-378,2022.

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