C. Michael Gibson, MD, FACC

Chief of Clinical Research, Division of Cardiology

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Director TIMI Core Laboratories and Data Coordinating Center

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Dr. Gibson is an interventional cardiologist and chief of clinical research in the division of cardiology at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He received his masters and medical degree from the University of Chicago and was an intern, resident, and chief resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He received his training as an interventional cardiologist and served as director of the Coronary Care Unit at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. In the past, Dr. Gibson served as Chief of Cardiology and Director of Interventional Cardiology at the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He also served as Vice Chairman of Medicine for clinical research and Director of Invasive Cardiology at Allegheny General Hospital. Finally, he served as Associate Chief of Cardiology, Chief of Interventional Cardiology, and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at University of California, San Francisco, and as Chief Academic Officer at Harvard Clinical Research Institute.

Dr. Gibson’s work has largely focused on the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes and the efficacy of pharmacologic and device-based therapies for coronary artery disease. He has directed the angiographic analysis of a wide variety of studies on acute coronary syndromes, imaging modality studies, percutaneous coronary intervention trials, peripheral interventional trials, angiogenesis trials, managed care analyses for HCFA, and atherosclerosis regression trials such as the NIH-sponsored Harvard Atherosclerosis Reversibility Project (HARP). Dr. Gibson is a principle investigator of multiple international acute coronary syndrome trials within the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Chairman’s Office. He is director of the TIMI Data Coordinating Center where he oversaw creation of the TIMI database that unifies data from over 15 years of TIMI studies in >75,000 patients at over 800 international centers. He invented the corrected TIMI frame count, an index of epicardial blood flow, and the TIMI myocardial perfusion grade, a measure of microvascular perfusion.

Dr. Gibson’s work has been presented in over 1000 manuscripts, review articles, abstracts, textbooks, trial summaries and textbook chapters. He is on the editorial board of Circulation. He is founder and editor-in-chief of www.clinicaltrialresults.org a resource for medical educators where thousands of slides can be downloaded. On this site Gibson also created the first medical “wiki” called WikiDoc, where healthcare professionals from around the world contribute to a free on line textbook of medicine. Gibson also created the first weekly TV show for the internet called “This Week In Cardiology” also at www.clininaltrialresults.org. You can read about the creation of the site here. Gibson also serves as associate editor of the American College of Cardiology’s new website www.cardiosource.com where he has edited the summaries of over 1000 clinical trials. Dr. Gibson edited Treatment Strategies in Interventional Cardiology (2006), a hand-held device textbook for point-of-care use.

Dr. Gibson lectures internationally on the topics of acute MI, acute coronary syndromes, atherosclerosis, interventional cardiology and angiogenesis.

Artists CV

Dr. Gibson's photographic artwork has been exhibited in a variety of venues. You can view his work at www.pixcella.com

2001: Cover of CD Cut to the Chase

2003: Great Sand Dunes National Monument published in Mindscapes Annual Calendar

2004: Photographer's Forum Magazine Award of Excellence; Finalist among 17,000 international entrants.

2004: Ferris Wheel Place de la Concorde published in Best of Annual Photography 2004.

2005: Selected as one of 40 artists in a juried competition for the Mindscapes show and auction which exhibited at the Art Institute of New York and the Art Institute of New England.