Christine Edry Seidman is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

She operates a joint lab with her husband, Jonathan Seidman, where they study genetic mechanisms of heart disease.

[3] She earned a BS in biochemistry from Harvard University, and received her MD from the George Washington School of Medicine in 1978.

[2][4] In 1986, Seidman joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School as a lecturer in genetics.

[9] [10] Beginning in 2009, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology has awarded the Seidman Prize for MD Research Mentorship in honor of her and her husband.