Christine L. Lau, MD, MBA, is a Professor of Surgery, with a primary appointment in the Department of Surgery and an administrative title of Chair of the Department of Surgery. She is also the Surgeon-in-Chief at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Lau can be reached by email at cllau@som.umaryland.edu.

Dr. Lau received her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 1995, completed her Residency in General Surgery at Duke University in 2002, Fellowship in Cardiothoracic & Lung Transplant at Washington University School of Medicine in 2005 and an Darden MBA from University of Virginia in 2012. She is certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery in Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery (2007) and American Board of Surgery in Surgery (2003).