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C. Michael Gibson
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| Title: |
Chief Academic Officer |
| Industry: |
Clinical Research |
| Type of Organization: |
Research Institute |
| Major Product/Service: |
Cardiology, clinical research and education |
| Expertise: |
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 is a principle investigator of multiple international acute coronary syndrome trials within the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Chairman's Office. He is the director of the TIMI Data Coordinating Center where he oversaw the creation of the TIMI database that unifies data from over 15 years of studies 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. |
| Geographic Area of Distribution: |
International |
| Affiliations: |
F.A.C.C.; Clinical Professor, Beth Israel Medical Center |
| University/Degree: |
M.S.; M.D.; University of Chicago; Internship, Residency and Chief Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| Born: |
November 23, 1959, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| Hobbies/Sports: |
Photography |
| Work History: |
Dr. Gibson received his training as an interventional cardiologist and served as director of the Coronary Care Unit at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Formerly, 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. Additionally, he served as Associate Chief of Cardiology, Chief of Interventional Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco, and as Chief Academic Officer at Harvard Clinical Research Institute. His work has mainly 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 and managed care analyses for HCFRA and atherosclerosis regression trials. |
| Published Works: |
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, and created the first and largest medical "wiki" called www.WikiDoc.org. Dr. Gibson created the first weekly TV show for the internet called "This Week in Cardiology" and he serves as associate editor of the American College of Cardiology's new website, www.cardiosource.com where he has edited the summaries of over 1,200 clinical trials. He 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. |
| Career Accomplishments: |
Dr. Gibson invented the corrected TIMI frame count, an index of epicardial blood flow and the TIMI myocardial perfusion grade, a measure of microvascular perfusion, as well as creating the first and largest medical "wiki" called WikiDoc. |
