Director of NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to visit MCW
Gary H. Gibbons, MD, the director of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, will visit the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Wednesday, May 6 to visit with students and faculty and to deliver a lecture.
The title of the lecture, which will be held at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin auditorium from 8:30-9:30 am, is “Charting our Future Together: Setting an agenda for the NHLBI.” The talk is open to the public.
The NHLBI provides global leadership for research, training, and education programs to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives.
MCW has a significant number of NHLBI-funded researchers investigating cardiovascular diseases including hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy; factors contributing to cardiovascular well-being including cardioprotection, vascular studies, and cardiac regeneration; and genome-wide associated studies investigating heritable cardiovascular disease.
Before joining the NHLBI, Dr. Gibbons served as the founding director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, chairperson of the department of physiology, and professor of physiology and medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. During his tenure, the Cardiovascular Research Institute emerged as a center of excellence, leading the way in discoveries related to the cardiovascular health of minority populations. Gibbons received several patents for innovations derived from his research in the fields of vascular biology and the pathogenesis of vascular diseases.
Gibbons earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Prior to joining the Morehouse School of Medicine in 1999, Gibbons was a member of the faculty at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., from 1990-1996, and at Harvard Medical School from 1996-1999.
About the Medical College of Wisconsin
The Medical College of Wisconsin is the state’s only private medical school and health sciences graduate school. Founded in 1893, it is dedicated to leadership and excellence in education, patient care, research and community engagement. More than 1,200 students are enrolled in MCW’s medical school and graduate school programs in Milwaukee. New regional medical education campuses are scheduled to open in Green Bay in 2015, and in Central Wisconsin in 2016, with each recruiting initial classes of 20-25 students. A major national research center, MCW is the largest research institution in the Milwaukee metro area and second largest in Wisconsin. In FY 2013-14, faculty received approximately $154 million in external support for research, teaching, training and related purposes, of which approximately $138 million is for research. This total includes highly competitive research and training awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Annually, MCW faculty direct or collaborate on more than 2,000 research studies, including clinical trials. Additionally, more than 1,350 physicians provide care in virtually every specialty of medicine for more than 425,000 patients annually.
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