Chris Ellis is a consultant cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital and at the Auckland Heart Group and Mercy Hospital. He trained at both the Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre in Southampton, England and at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. For ten years: 1996 to 2005 he worked fulltime at Auckland Public Hospital and the University of Auckland Medical School as a clinical cardiologist and Senior Lecturer in Cardiology, helping to modernise the cardiology aspect of medical student training. He set up the New Zealand Acute Coronary Syndrome Audit Group, of which he is the Chairman, to identify patient numbers and their level of treatment across New Zealand in order to improve patient management. He lectures widely in Auckland and further afield, and aims to encourage patient-focused optimal cardiological care.
He is an investigational cardiologist performing coronary angiography, CT cardiac angiography and echocardiography and has a subspecialist interest in the acute coronary syndromes and in the prevention of ischaemic heart disease: the management of lipids, cardiovascular risk and hypertension.