Dr. Christopher Evans is a pharmacist with the Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program within the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness Division at the Tennessee Department of Health.  He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Campbell University School of Pharmacy in Buies Creek, NC, and completed a general pharmacy practice residency at Vidant Health (formerly Pitt County Memorial Hospital) in Greenville, NC.  He also completed an infectious diseases pharmacy residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY, where he later served as the Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist for seven years. 

His research interests include the clinical impact and metrics of antimicrobial stewardship programs and antibiotic use and resistance tracking.  He is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy and maintains active memberships in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP), and the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists.