Christopher J. White MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Dr. White graduated AOA from Case Western Reserve Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio in 1978 and completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Cardiology at Letterman Army Medical Center (LAMC) in San Francisco (1978-1983). After joining the Staff of LAMC as the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Director of Cardiovascular Research in 1983, he moved to Washington, DC, to Direct the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Cardiovascular Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1985. After completing his service obligation in 1988, he joined the staff at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, LA, becoming Director of the Catheterization Laboratory. In 1994, Dr. White moved to Glasgow, Scotland as the Director of Invasive Cardiology for HCI Medical Center.

In 1997, he returned to Ochsner as Chairman of the Department of Cardiology. Currently Dr. White holds the positions of Chief of Medical Services at Ochsner Medical Center, Medical Director for Service Lines and the System Chairman of Cardiovascular Disease for the 14 hospitals Ochsner Health System, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine for the Ochsner Clinical School-University of Queensland.

He has published more than 250 manuscripts and presented more than 100 scientific abstracts in the field of interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular diseases. His major research interests involve technology development for the non-surgical treatment of cardiovascular disease and include the co-invention of a coronary angioscope, a laser angioplasty catheter, and the Wiktor coronary stent.