About Dr. Chris Gilbert

“With her compassion and masterful insights, Dr. Chris Gilbert uncovers the root cause of seemingly inexplicable and mystifying symptoms of many illnesses.”
– SANJIV CHOPRA, MD, MACP, Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School
Healing Secrets
Dr. Gilbert shares her mission.
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Background
Education
Post graduate training include
- Acupuncture Certification in Paris, France
- Homeopathic Medicine Certification in Paris, France
- Hyperbaric Medicine Certification in Paris, France
- General Surgery residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
- Internal Medicine internship at UC Irvine
Medical Innovations
The main question she asks is: “If your body had a voice, what would it say?”
Television and Motion Pictures
Television and Film appearances include:
- Strong medicine (TV 2003,2004)
- The Drew Cary Show (TV 2004)
- JAG (TV 2004)
- CSI NY (TV 2009, 2010)
- The closer (TV 2009)
- Bones (TV 2012,2014)
- The Agency (TV 2002)
- The nutty professor ( Film 1996)
- The mentalist (2013)
- Shameless (2015)
- Daybreak (2006)
- Gilmore girls (2006)
- The unit (2007)
- Shark (2007)
Dr. Chris Gilbert also served as a medical advisor to The Closer in 2009 and CSI NY in 2009 and 2015
Personal life and early career
Dr. Chris is the daughter of prominent Paris physician Jacques Gilbert, MD and Jacqueline Gilbert, a second grade teacher. Raised in Paris, Dr. Chris practiced medicine with her father after finishing an internship in Martinique and gaining post-graduate certifications in Homeopathy and Acupuncture. Along with her father, Dr. Chris focused on fusing Eastern and Western Medicine into what is now termed “Integrative medicine.”
She is married to Eric Haseltine, PhD
Private medical practice
Paris, France from 1982 to 1989
Los Angeles, California from 2002 to 2016
Doctors Without Borders
In 1989, Dr. Chris Gilbert joined Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) Her tours of duty have included
- Mozambique: Chief of Medical Department Mocuba Hospital (Civil War zone)
- Mauritania: Bassikounou Refugee Camp. Medical director of a 26,000 person refugee camp
- Sri Lanka: Physician in charge at Madhu 30,000 person Refugee Camp .
- China: Chief coordinator of an emergency mission in the Anhui province organizing shelters, bringing medical supplies for 400,000 homeless people due to heavy flooding
Books
- Dr. Chris’s ABC’s of Health (2010)
- The French stethoscope – A Memoir (2010)
- The Listening Cure, Healing Secrets of an Unconventional Doctor (2017)
- Riding the Monster (2021)