Chris Chapman
Chris Chapman learned how to use a pipette at his father’s biotech firm when he was 8 years old, but it was a bike accident on a steep hill in Belgium that convinced him to become a doctor. Chapman, now 25, was a teenager riding to school with his mother when she took a bad fall, completely shattering her femur. “I remember when she was on the ground, and I had this sense of not knowing what to do. I couldn’t help her,” he says. “I knew then I wanted to be the guy who could help the next kid’s mom.”
Chapman grew up in Lake Villa, a suburb north of Chicago, and studied molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Illinois before entering medical school at Johns Hopkins. “I think Hopkins is a unique place because you see such a wide variety of diseases and pathology here. And when you’re just getting your feet wet, it’s a little daunting.” Chapman, who plans to go into internal medicine, says he finds life as a medical student very rewarding, especially when patients ask for his business card because they want him to be their doctor. Still, he admits, it’s a huge challenge. “When you’re overnight on call and taking care of so many patients, you realize there’s so much knowledge that you don’t have. But that’s why medicine is a great career; because you’ll always have that diversity in life.”
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