C. Michael Gibson, MS, MD, FACC 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. Additionally, Dr Gibson has served as Vice Chairman of Medicine for Clinical Research and as Director of Invasive Cardiology at Allegheny General Hospital, as well as Associate Chief of Cardiology, Chief of Interventional Cardiology, and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco.

 

Dr Gibson’s work has largely focused on the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) 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, including those on ACS, imaging modalities, and percutaneous coronary intervention in addition to atherosclerosis regression trials such as the NIH-sponsored Harvard Atherosclerosis Reversibility Project (HARP). Dr Gibson is Principle Investigator of multiple international ACS trials within the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Chairman’s Office and 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. He invented the corrected TIMI frame count, an index of epicardial blood flow, and the TIMI myocardial perfusion grade, a measure of myocardial 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 and is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of www.clinicaltrialresults.org, a resource for medical educators where thousands of slides can be downloaded. At this Web site, Dr Gibson created WikiDoc, the first medical “wiki,” where healthcare professionals from around the world contribute to a free online textbook of medicine, as well as the first weekly television show on the Internet called “This Week in Cardiology,” which can also be found at the site. Dr Gibson serves as Associate Editor of the American College of Cardiology’s new Web site, www.cardiosource.com, where he has edited the summaries of over 1200 clinical trials. He also lectures internationally on the topics of acute myocardial infarction, ACS, atherosclerosis, interventional cardiology, and angiogenesis.