Colonel (Ret.) Frank L. Christopher, MD FAAEM practices community emergency medicine (EM) in rural North Carolina. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1995 and subsequently completed a transitional internship and a PGY 2-4 EM Residency at Brooke Army Medical Center. Over a 20+ year Army career, he progressed through a succession of clinical, administrative, operational, and command assignments, including multiple deployments to combat zones with conventional, Airborne, and Special Operations forces, including a 15-month deployment to Iraq as a Multifunctional Medical Battalion commander. He’s earned the Combat Action and Combat Medical Badges amongst several other individual decorations and service medals.
Along the way he became a Master Flight Surgeon and Senior Parachutist. After a stint as ED Chair, he culminated his Army career as Deputy Commander for Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer at Womack Army Medical Center, a large, tertiary-care teaching hospital in North Carolina. After his retirement, Dr. Christopher spent six years at a democratic independent group before “down-sizing” his clinical requirements and taking on locums and short-term contract positions in more rural locations.
Dr. Christopher has taught at over fifty iterations of the Oral Board Review Course, serving as both Regional and National Course Director, and was humbled to receive the Joe Lex Educator of the Year award in 2022, more than twenty years after winning the Resident Research Competition.
He has a written a handful of scholarly journal articles and one lonely book chapter.
Dr. Christopher is married and is a proud Dad of a teenage son. In his free time, he struggles to finish 10K runs, and still tries to figure out novel ways to avoid seeing patients with nosebleeds.