The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is located in Withington, Manchester, and is one of the largest cancer treatment centres in Europe. The Christie became a NHS Foundation Trust in April 2007 and is also an international leader in cancer research and development, and home to the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research.

The hospital had its beginnings in Sir Joseph Whitworth, a wealthy Mancunian inventor who left money in his will in 1887 to be spent at the discretion of three legatees. Whitworth wished for this money to spend on good causes in Manchester. Consequently some of that money was used to buy land off Oxford Road, adjacent to Owens College and intended to allow the movement of the central Manchester hospitals out of the crowded city centre. A committee chaired by one of the Whitworth legatees, Richard Christie, was established in 1890 and, partly funded by a legacy of £10,000 from Daniel Proctor, a Cancer Pavilion and Home for Incurables was founded on the site in 1892 some distance south-east of the eye hospital. In 1901 it was renamed the Christie Hospital in honour of Richard Christie and his wife Mary. It was the only hospital in the provinces for the treatment of cancer alone and active in pathological research.

Christie Patricia Rampone (née Pearce born 24 June 1975) is an American soccer defender currently playing for magicJack. She is a member and current Captain of the United States women's national soccer team.

Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Christie Rampone grew up in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. During her high school years, she was a four-sport athlete in soccer, basketball, track, and field hockey. While attending Point Pleasant Boro High School, she scored 2,190 career high school basketball points, and was the first female athlete in New Jersey history to lead her conference in scoring in three different sports. This accomplishment led her to all-state honors in all three sports. Rampone was heralded as the best athlete Ocean County, New Jersey had ever produced.^{[citation needed]}

Rampone attended Monmouth University, located in West Long Branch, New Jersey, after being highly recruited by nearly every major college in the country.^{[citation needed]} At Monmouth, she excelled as a three-sport athlete in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. During her senior year, she opted to ease away from her starting point guard basketball position to train and travel with the United States women's national soccer team. On the Monmouth soccer field, Rampone was a two-time Northeast Conference Player of the Year selection and First Team All Mid-Atlantic Region selection, posting ten multiple-goal games in her senior year. She finished her collegiate soccer career with a start in all 80 games, led her team with 79 career goals and 54 assists, and was Monmouth's record holder for goals, assists, and points in a season.