In 1989, Dr. Chris Gilbert joined Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Her tours of duty have included

• Mozambique where she was Chief of the Pediatric Department in Mocuba Hospital in the North of the country, also flying once a week in a twin-engine plane to examine patients in local clinics in Gurue, Alto Molokue and Chinde (civil war zones).
• Mauritania: Bassikounou refugee camp where she was the medical director of a 26,000-person Touareg refugee camp at the border of Mali.
• Sri Lanka: Dr. Chris was the only physician in charge of Madhu 30,000-person refugee camp in the North of the island (civil war zone). When Dr. Chris’s nurse received a gun shot to her leg, Doctors Without Borders pulled out all their medical teams from Sri Lanka. Because Madhu refugee camp was surrounded by heavy civil war fighting, Dr. Chris was unable to evacuate at that time and stayed until she ran out of medications (described in her memoir The French Stethoscope).
• China where she was the chief coordinator of an emergency mission in the Anhui province organizing shelters, bringing medical supplies for 400,000 homeless people due to heavy flooding.

Dr. Chris worked as a Club Med physician in Spain and in the Ivory Coast, Africa. She also worked as a scuba doctor and doctor in charge of hygiene and safety in the Caribbean Islands. She was then in charge of the medical care of all crew and passengers on the Club Med 2 ship sailing from New Caledonia to the Vanuatu Islands.

Because Dr. Chris’s passion is acting, she studied at the Actor’s Studio with Ellen Burstyn and Shelly Winters in Los Angeles, then Dr. Chris joined the Screen Actors Guild/AFTRA and appeared in both television and film as followed.

Television and Motion Picture appearances include:

Films: The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy and One Hour Photo with Robin Williams

TV shows: The Agency, Strong medicine, ER, Family Law, The Drew Cary Show, JAG, Daybreak, Gilmore girls, The Unit, Shark, CSI NY, The Closer, Bones, The Mentalist, Shameless.

Dr. Chris Gilbert also served as a medical advisor to The Closer in 2009 and CSI NY in 2009 and 2015 

Based upon extensive training in Gestalt, Dr. Chris Gilbert incorporated Gestalt Therapy techniques into her medical practice, to identify and treat emotional and behavioral issues, such as chronic stress, that drive most visits to primary care doctors. These innovations, which are described in her book, The Listening Cure (Healing secrets of an Unconventional Doctor) help patients recover from illness by identifying and releasing suppressed emotions that cause or trigger diseases.

The main question Dr. Chris asks is: “If your body had a voice, what would it say?”

Dr. Chris is the only daughter of prominent French physician Jacques Gilbert, MD and Jacqueline Gilbert, a second-grade teacher. Raised in Paris, France. Dr. Chris practiced medicine with her father for 7 years, focusing on fusing Eastern and Western Medicine into what is now termed “Integrative medicine.”

When her father died, Dr. Chris alternated contracts with Doctors Without Borders and Club Med for 5 years before moving to Los Angeles and opening her private medical practice in Torrance, California.

Dr. Chris is now retired from private practice and focuses on public speaking with her husband Eric Haseltine, PhD.

Dr. Chris has a column in Psychology Today, she writes books and is a radio personality currently being the medical news commentator every Thursday night for the nationwide radio show Coast to Coast AM 640.