Chris van Tulleken
British Doctor
Christoffer Rodolphe van Hoogenhouck-Tulleken (born 18 August 1978), also known as Dr Chris, is a British physician, academic, writer and television presenter.
He is the identical twin brother of Alexander "Xand" van Hoogenhouck-Tulleken, who has had a similar career in global and public health. They have jointly presented several television and radio programmes, including The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs, The Truth About...HIV, the children's series Operation Ouch! and the radio podcast A Thorough Examination. Investigating dietary causes for disease, van Tulleken authored the Sunday Times best-selling book Ultra-Processed People.
Early life and education
Van Tulleken was born in London to Anthony van Tulleken, an industrial designer, and his wife Kit, a publisher, on 18 August 1978. His younger brother is the film director Jonathan van Tulleken. He was educated at Hill House preparatory school, then King's College School, an independent day school for boys in Wimbledon, southwest London.
He studied medicine at St Peter's College, Oxford, in 1996. After graduating in 2002, he studied tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and went onto work in humanitarian emergencies in the Central African Republic, Pakistan and Myanmar.
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