Dr. Katherine Chretien is assistant dean for student affairs and professor of medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and hospitalist physician at the Washington DC VA Medical Center. She is President-Elect of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine and on the executive leadership board of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs. Dr. Chretien is editor of the book "Mothers in Medicine: Career, Practice and Life Lessons Learned" (Springer, 2018) that is based on the group blog www.mothersinmedicine.com that she founded in 2008. Dr. Chretien's area of research focus has been on social media use in medicine and has given numerous national workshops and invited talks on this topic.

Dr. Chretien graduated from Brown University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is the recipient of the Charles H. Griffith III Educational Research Award from CDIM and the Women Leaders in Medicine Award from the American Medical Student Association.