Christopher G. Choukalas, MD, MS spent 12 years on faculty at the University of California San Francisco as an anesthesiologist, intensive care physician, researcher, academic author, and teacher to hundreds of students, residents, and fellows.  He is now a husband and father, living with his wife, Lindsey, and their twin girls, Pia and Isa, and is an anesthesiologist in clinical practice in Marin county, California.