Chris Gale is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Co-Director of the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics at the University of Leeds.

Qualifying in medicine at the London Hospital Medical College and obtaining a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, he worked as a Junior Doctor at the Royal London Hospital. After becoming a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, he was awarded a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellowship and completed a Ph.D in molecular biology at the University of Leeds. He undertook specialty training in cardiology principally at the Leeds General Infirmary, where he was a Walport and later a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, then achieving a NIHR Clinician Scientist Award, and subsequently NIHR Clinical Trials Fellowship. I hold a Masters in Clinical Education and a Masters in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.

Presently, he is Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Leeds General Infirmary where he practices clinical cardiology with particular interests in general cardiology, post myocardial infarction survivorship and chronic heart failure. In 2023 he was commissioned by the UK Public Inquiry into Covid-19 to serve as the Independent Expert for Cardiovascular Disease for the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Systems in the 4 Nations of the UK (Module 3). He Co-Chairs The Lancet Regional Health – Europe Commission on Inequalities and Disparities in Cardiovascular Health.