Nationality British Name Christoffer van TV shows Medicine Men Go Wild | Education BM BCh Role Doctor | |
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Full Name Christoffer van Tulleken Born 18 August 1978 (age 45) ( 1978-08-18 ) Television Operation Ouch!
Trust Me, I\'m a Doctor Alma mater King\'s College School, Wimbledon, St Peter\'s College, Oxford, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Profiles | ||
Holly and phillipipl chat to dr chris van tulleken about sugar s in food this morning
Christoffer 'Dr Chris' van Tulleken (born 18 August 1978) is a British doctor and TV presenter. He is best known for presenting the BAFTA winning CBBC series Operation Ouch! alongside his identical twin brother Alexander 'Dr Xand' van Tulleken.
Contents
- Holly and phillipipl chat to dr chris van tulleken about sugar s in food this morning
- Holly and phillip chat to dr chris van tulleken about the difference between fats this morning
- Twins
- Education
- Life and career
- Humanitarian aid
- References
Holly and phillip chat to dr chris van tulleken about the difference between fats this morning
Twins
Doctor Chris is the younger of the two by seven minutes. Chris is five kilograms lighter and half an inch shorter than his twin brother Doctor Xand.
Education
Van Tulleken was educated at King's College School, an independent day school for boys in Wimbledon, in southwest London, followed by St Peter's College at the University of Oxford, where he obtained his medical degree in 2002.
He is currently an MRC funded PhD student at UCL in the lab of Greg Towers.
Life and career
Van Tulleken presented Channel 4's Medicine Men go Wild with his brother Xand, and BBC Two's Trust Me, I'm A Doctor alongside Michael Mosley. He was the expedition doctor for BBC Two's Operation Iceberg, and has appeared in Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea and Ice (BBC 2), Holiday Hit Squad (BBC One), Museum of Life (BBC Two), The Secret Life of Twins (BBC One), as well as Celebrity Mastermind and The Wright Stuff. Van Tulleken was also doctor to a team led by Bruce Parry which recreated the 1911 race to the South Pole in the BBC documentary Blizzard: Race to the Pole. He has also presented What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special.
Van Tulleken was named as an emerging British talent in 'The Brit List 2013' by ShortList magazine.
In 2015, he presented another Horizon episode, titled Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?, in which Chris and his identical twin brother Xand tested the effects of drinking moderate amounts of alcohol daily (Chris) and bingeing weekly (Xand).
He and his brother Xand appeared on Series 5 of Hacker Time.
Humanitarian aid
Christoffer is a Patron and Board Member of the medical aid and healthcare charity Doctors of the World UK, which is a member of the international Médecins du Monde network. In 2015, Christoffer and his brother Alexander ran the London Marathon for Doctors of the World, raising over £3,400 [1].
Van Tulleken is a patron of the medical aid organisation Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin), which merged with Save the Children in 2013 [2], and reported for BBC Two in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, Burma, in 2008.