Dr. Christine Goertz

Christine Goertz, D.C., Ph.D., is a Professor in Musculoskeletal Research and Vice Chair for Implementation of Spine Health Innovations in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Goertz has co-authored more than 150 scientific papers, and her work has been cited more than 7000 thousand times. She has received nearly $45M in federal funding as a principal investigator and was ranked in the top 10 for NIH funding among investigators in the Medical School Department of Orthopedics by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

She received her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University in 1991 and her Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration from the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota in 1999.