Chris Taggart MD is a Colorado native. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Northeast Ohio Medical University for medical school. Following his family medicine residency and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship, Dr Taggart practiced and taught broad-spectrum family medicine as a faculty physician in various Family Medicine residency training programs around the country. His interests in system improvement and quality led him to become the Clinic Medical Director of St Mary's Family Medicine Residency Clinic in 2018. He joined Family Health West as the VP of Medical Services and Chief Medical Officer in January 2019.