Department of Medicine Faculty Profile

Christopher Masi
Section of General Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine

e-mail: cmasi@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Referring Physician Access Line: 1-877-DOM-2730

Training:

Degree	Year	Institution	Area
BS	1985	University of Notre Dame	Preprofessional Studies
MD	1989	University of Illinois
Residency	1992	Medical College of Wisconsin	Medicine
Fellowship	1994	The University of Chicago	Internal Medicine
PhD	2001	The University of Chicago	Social Service Administration

Academic Interests:

Dr. Masi's research focuses on health disparities by ethnicity and socioeconomic status. He has studied the impact of neighborhood characteristics on health outcomes and the effect of Internet access on health empowerment. With experience in community based participatory research, Dr. Masi collaborates with the University's Cancer Center and is one of the lead investigators in the University's Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research. In these roles, Dr. Masi is studying the effects of chronic psychological stress on the onset and course of chronic disease.

Clinical Interests:

Primary care, disease prevention.

Representative Publications:

Masi CM, Rickett EM, Hawkley LC, Cacioppo JT. Gender and ethnic differences in urinary stress hormones: the population-based Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study. Journal of Applied Physiology 2004;97:941-947.
Masi CM, Olopade OI. Racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer: a multilevel perspective. Medical Clinics of North America 2005;89:753-770.
Masi CM. Community and Health. In S Gehlert, T Arthur (Eds.) Handbook of Health Social Work (2006). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
Masi CM, Hawkley LC, Berry JD, Cacioppo JT. Estrogen metabolites and systolic blood pressure in a population-based sample of postmenopausal women. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2006;91;1015-1020.
Blackman DJ, Masi CM. Racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer mortality: are we doing enough to address the root causes? Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006;24:2170-2178.