Christen Ebens, MD, MPH

Dr. Ebens joined the Department of Pediatrics in July 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Blood and Marrow Transplant & Cellular Therapy and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. She received her AB in Psychology from Harvard College in 2001 after which she worked at the National Institutes of Health as a pre-doctoral intramural research fellow. Dr. Ebens then received her medical degree in 2006 from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and an MPH with a focus on epidemiology and biostatistics from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2007. She completed her Pediatric residency training at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2010 followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in 2013. Dr. Ebens remained for an additional year at the University of Michigan for training in Immuno-hematology supported by Vidara Therapeutics. She subsequently completed a Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 2015.

Dr. Ebens enjoys life in Minneapolis with her husband, 2 boys, and occasionally 2 step-daughters. When time permits, she enjoys reading, baking, a variety of crafts, and enjoying the outdoors. Dr. Ebens loves plants but relies on her husband’s green thumb to keep them thriving.