Christine Jellis MD, PhD, MBA

Christine Jellis, MD, PhD, MBA, is a Staff Cardiologist who specializes in multimodality cardiac imaging in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. She sees patients at the Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus.

Dr. Jellis is Vice Chair of Operations for the Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute, along with Director of Physician Alignment at the Cleveland Clinic. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and serves as the Professional Advancement Council representative on the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Board of Governors.

A native of Australia, Dr. Jellis earned her medical degree from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She undertook her internship, residency, and general cardiology fellowship at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, followed by a doctorate in cardiac imaging at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland. From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Jellis was a fellow in advanced cardiac imaging at the Cleveland Clinic and joined the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute staff in July 2015. She graduated with her Executive MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in 2024.

Dr. Jellis has published more than 80 scientific papers in cardiology and cardiac imaging peer-reviewed journals and is a regular presenter at national and international medical conferences. Her primary research interests are in: valvular heart disease, cardiac sarcoidosis, pericardial disease, diseases of the thoracic aorta, radiation-associated heart disease, diastolic dysfunction, and right heart dysfunction in the setting of pulmonary hypertension.