Summary
Chris Jastram is a board-certified family physician with 13 years of clinical experience who blends frontline primary care, addiction medicine, and wound care with deep technical expertise in IT, data migration, and software development. He has led large legacy-system migrations and built clinical and e-commerce applications as a senior developer and CTO, delivering measurable efficiency gains such as a 20x reduction in plan-build time through XML schema and tooling. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and team lead, he has run quality improvement projects certified by IHI and routinely tackles electronic and paper record conversions and data-driven metric improvements. His long-term focus on deprescribing, lifestyle medicine, and practicing in resource-austere or post-crisis environments reflects a pragmatic, prevention-oriented approach to care. Based in rural Maine, he prioritizes clinical work that integrates nutrition-based therapies and resilient care delivery models. An uncommon combination of hands-on medicine and decades of systems engineering makes him effective at turning messy clinical data and workflows into robust, auditable processes.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy, Doctor of Medicine (MD), Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy at University of New England
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biological Sciences at University of Rhode Island
Transfer, Biology, General, Transfer, Biology, General at Community College of Rhode Island