General Info

Christopher E. Greenleaf, MD, is an assistant professor of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) in the Department of Pediatric Surgery. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery in thoracic surgery. A Pennsylvania native, Dr. Greenleaf grew up in the Philadelphia area and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former rower and represented the U.S. on the Men’s National Team in 2004. Dr. Greenleaf received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He also has a master’s of business administration from Widener University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his general surgical residency at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. During his surgical training, he received a resident teaching award and was a chief surgical resident. He then completed his fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He finished his fellowship and clinical instructorship in congenital cardiac surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. During his time there he was awarded the 2018 John A. Hawkins Top Scoring Abstract Award by the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society. Dr. Greenleaf became faculty at UTHealth in 2019.