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Dr. Christopher Sidford is a board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine with over twenty years' experience at leading medical institutions. Before joining WorldClinic, he was an attending physician with the world-renown Lahey Clinic. He started his career at Boston City Hospital, where he graduated from the hospital's "knife and gun club," the residency program for emergency physicians. A U.S. Navy officer, Dr. Sidford served as faculty member of the Emergency Medicine Residency training program in San Diego before traveling overseas. The Mojave Desert and the Arctic Circle were just some of the locations that challenged Dr. Sidford to teach and practice emergency medicine in remote and difficult conditions. Later, he helped to open a nuclear-, chemical-, and biological-proof hospital on the island of Sicily. Upon returning to the United States, he joined the faculty at Brown University, where he taught emergency medicine and served as attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. He is a fellow with the American College of Emergency Medicine, and volunteers at IMEC (International Medical Equipment Collaborative), an organization dedicated to providing third-world nations with millions of dollars' worth of used medical equipment. Dr. Sidford received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from St. Lawrence University in 1982, and his medical degree from Albany Medical College in 1987. | 