Christopher C. Gaut, MD

Bio

Although born and raised in the Boston area, my father and his family hail from California. A cousin encouraged me to apply to UC Berkeley for college. It proved to be good advice; I got a great education and fell in love with Northern California. Between playing Lacrosse and keeping up with class work, the years went by quickly and I completed my degree in Neurobiology in 1987. From there, I spent a year in a lab doing basic research on erythropoeitin (now famous for it's use as a performance enhancing drug) at Harvard Medical School. A great year, but I was glad to be back in Northern California when I came to UC Davis for Medical School.

During medical school, I enjoyed studying all the medical specialties and realized that, especially with it's fast pace and unpredictability, Emergency Medicine was for me. I did my residency at Highland General Hospital in Oakland and stayed in the East Bay for 8 years while practicing at Kaiser Oakland and Kaiser Richmond.

My wife and I have 3 children, all boys, born in 1997, 1999 and 2000. As the boys got bigger, we fell in love with the open spaces of Sonoma County and moved here in 2005 after building a house in rural Bennett Valley. My wife is also a physician - a pathologist working at Sutter Medical Center. I transferred to the Santa Rosa medical Center in 2007.