Highly regarded by peers and patients alike, Dr. Christopher Sidford is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician with more than twenty years of experience at leading academic and clinical institutions.

 

Before founding Black Bag, Dr. Sidford served as an attending physician at the world-renowned Lahey Clinic. He began his career at Boston City Hospital, where he trained in one of the country’s most demanding emergency medicine residency programs, often referred to as the hospital’s “knife and gun club,” caring for critically ill and injured patients under intense conditions.

 

A commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Sidford later joined the faculty of the Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program in San Diego before deploying overseas. His work took him to some of the most challenging environments in the world, including the Mojave Desert and the Arctic Circle. While operating in the Arctic Circle during multinational military exercises, he was tasked with overseeing the medical preparedness and emergency response for senior NATO leadership, including heads of state and high-ranking officials, ensuring continuity of care in remote, austere, and high-risk settings.

 

He subsequently helped establish a nuclear-, chemical-, and biological-hardened hospital on the island of Sicily, further deepening his experience in complex medical planning, contingency response, and international coordination.

 

Upon returning to the United States, Dr. Sidford joined the faculty at Brown University, where he taught emergency medicine and served as an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital. These roles allowed him to combine frontline clinical care with teaching, systems thinking, and leadership development.

 

This breadth of experience, spanning urban trauma centers, academic medicine, military operations, and remote international settings, ultimately led Dr. Sidford to found Black Bag, bringing physician-directed medical guidance, preparedness, and response to families, executives, and organizations operating globally.