Chris Gale is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, and Co-Director of the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics at the University of Leeds.

Qualifying in medicine at the London Hospital Medical College and obtaining a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, Professor Gale worked as a Junior Doctor at the Royal London Hospital. After becoming a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, he became a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow and completed a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Leeds.

Speciality training in Cardiology was undertaken principally at the Leeds General Infirmary, where Professor Gale was a Walport and later a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, then achieving a NIHR Clinician Scientist Award, and subsequently NIHR Clinical Trials Fellowship. He holds a Masters in Clinical Education and a Masters in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. His clinical interests are general cardiology and chronic heart failure. Professor Gale is a practising Clinical Cardiologist with interests in general cardiology, post-myocardial infarction survivorship, and chronic heart failure.