Dr. Christopher Bennett is a physician scientist and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Once a basic scientist focused on genetics and genomics, Dr. Bennett’s work for the last several years has focused on large data-set analyses reflective of multiple multi-institutional studies aimed at better understanding how US emergency departments (and emergency physicians) can increase rates of HIV testing for at- risk patients.

Dr. Bennett completed residency training at Harvard Medical School's program in Emergency Medicine based at Massachusetts General Hospital. Christopher previously served on the 2018-2019 Board of Directors for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He also served on the Massachusetts Medical Society's 2019-2020 Committee on Publications which directs the publication and distribution of the New England Journal of Medicine. Bennett graduated with honors from Winthrop University (B.S. in Biology), earned a graduate degree from Duke University (M.A. in Genetics and Genomics), and was awarded his medical degree (M.D.) from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine. In addition to his formal graduate training, Bennett was previously a scientist with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow at Johns Hopkins’s McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, and a researcher with the Emergency Medicine Network based at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital. His research has appeared in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Surgery, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, Nature Genetics, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine. His writing has appeared in The American Journal of Bioethics, STAT News, KevinMD.com, and Forbes.