Christopher Marquart. Source: https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-christopher-marquart-2w86s
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Career
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Christopher Louis Marquart is an American neurosurgeon whose career has included hospital leadership in West Virginia, clinical teaching, professional service, and later neurosurgical practice in Michigan. He trained at West Virginia University and Indiana University, became a diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, and held senior medical-staff roles at Ohio Valley Medical Center.
Background
Christopher Louis Marquart was born on August 2, 1955, in Wheeling, West Virginia, to Louis August Marquart and Beatrice Anne Marquart. Wheeling was an established Ohio River industrial and medical center in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, linking the region's communities with hospitals, professional institutions, and higher education.
Marquart's family background remained connected with Wheeling, where he later developed the principal institutional relationships of his early medical career. He married Marisa Dee Boggs on April 16, 1983, and they have two sons, Matthew Christopher and Andrew Stuart.
Education
Marquart studied biology at West Virginia University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in 1977, and then earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the university in 1981. West Virginia University, founded in 1867 in Morgantown, developed as the state's principal public research university, while its medical school served the health-care needs of West Virginia and the surrounding Appalachian region.
He continued postgraduate medical training at Indiana University in Indianapolis, completing a general-surgery internship from 1981 to 1982 and a neurosurgery residency from 1982 to 1987. Indiana University was a major public research institution whose medical center provided a broad clinical and academic setting for specialist training in the Midwest.
Marquart began his medical career at Indiana University in Indianapolis, serving as a general-surgery intern from 1981 to 1982 and then as a neurosurgery resident from 1982 to 1987. This sequence provided the surgical and neurological training required for his later practice as a specialist in neurological surgery.
In 1987 he became an attending neurosurgeon in Wheeling, West Virginia, associated with Ohio Valley Medical Center and Wheeling Hospital. Ohio Valley Medical Center served the Ohio Valley as a general hospital with medical, surgical, emergency, and intensive-care services. Marquart became clinical assistant professor at West Virginia University Hospital in 1989, linking his clinical work with medical education.
At Ohio Valley Medical Center, Marquart chaired the intensive care unit beginning in 1989 and became chairman of the Neuroscience Department in 1994. He was president-elect of the medical center and president of its medical staff from 1999. He also served on the board of directors of the Center for Organ Retrieval and Education, an organization concerned with the recovery and transplantation of donated organs.
Marquart later practiced neurosurgery in Michigan through Shoreline Neurosurgical Consulting in Muskegon. Public professional records identify him as a board-certified neurosurgeon affiliated with Mercy Health Partners and Trinity Health facilities, including Trinity Health Muskegon Hospital. His career has therefore encompassed specialist practice, hospital administration, medical education, intensive-care leadership, and professional service.
Marquart became a diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, completing the professional certification associated with specialist practice in neurological surgery.
He held successive medical leadership positions at Ohio Valley Medical Center, including chairmanship of the intensive care unit, chairmanship of the Neuroscience Department, and presidency of the medical staff.
Religion
Marquart is a Roman Catholic. Roman Catholicism is the largest tradition within Christianity and is organized around the sacramental life of the Church, episcopal leadership, and continuity with historic Christian teaching.
His documented religious affiliation belongs to the American Catholic setting in which his education, medical training, and professional career developed.
Politics
Marquart has been identified with the Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States. The party has historically included traditions emphasizing limited government, individual responsibility, private enterprise, constitutional institutions, and national defense.
His professional record is centered on medicine rather than elected political office, and no specific political position or public campaign activity is documented here.
Membership
Marquart's professional memberships connected him with major surgical, neurological, medical, trauma, and honor-society organizations. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Medical Association, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the American Trauma Society, the West Virginia Medical Society, the Ohio County Medical Society, the Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias, and the West Virginia Neurosurgical Society.
He also belonged to the Jacob Schwinn Study Club, Alpha Omega Alpha, Alpha Epsilon Delta, and Phi Kappa Phi. His service in the West Virginia Neurosurgical Society included the offices of president and vice president.
Fellow
American College of Surgeons
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United States
American Medical Association
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United States
President and vice president
West Virginia Neurosurgical Society
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United States
Ohio County Medical Society
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United States
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
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United States
Neurosurgical Society of the Virginias
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United States
West Virginia Medical Society
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United States
American Trauma Society
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United States
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
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United States
Jacob Schwinn Study Club
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United States
Alpha Omega Alpha
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United States
Alpha Epsilon Delta
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United States
Phi Kappa Phi
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United States
Board director
Center for Organ Retrieval and Education
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United States
Connections
Marquart married Marisa Dee Boggs on April 16, 1983. They have two sons, Matthew Christopher Marquart and Andrew Stuart Marquart. His parents were Louis August Marquart and Beatrice Anne Marquart.
Father:
Louis August Marquart
Mother:
Beatrice Anne Marquart
Son:
Andrew Stuart Marquart
Son:
Matthew Christopher Marquart
Wife:
Marisa Dee Boggs
Married Christopher Louis Marquart on April 16, 1983.
WebMD: Christopher L. Marquart, MD
Documents his neurological-surgery specialty, medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine, residency training, and practice locations.
