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C. Michael Gibson is a cardiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is the founder of the research organization PERFUSE and the online encyclopeadia and textbook WikiDoc. He is the namesake of a laboratory at the John Paul II Hospital and the C. Michael Gibson Research and Education Center at Istanbul University.

Education
C. Michael Gibson attended the University of Chicago where he received a BS, MS, and an MD. He was then Intern, Resident and Chief Resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at the Harvard Medical School.

Research
He is the founder of the academic research organization PERFUSE (Percutaneous/Pharmacologic Endoluminal Revascularization For Unstable Syndromes Evaluation). There he has lead the angiographic analysis for more than 50 international medical and device trials. According to the American College of Cardiology Foundation and Society of Thoracic Surgeons, "Gibson’s work has largely focused on the development of statistical and angiographic methodologies to investigate the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease and the efficacy of therapeutic modalities. He has developed many of the analysis measures used as endpoints in numerous cardiovascular clinical trials, including the TIMI frame count (an index of coronary blood flow) and TIMI myocardial perfusion grade (an index of myocardial perfusion)."

For example, in 2011 Gibson was a co-author on a study involving 15,500 patients that showed that Xarelto lowered the risk of heart attacks and strokes. That year he was also the principal investigator of the ATLAS-ACS antithrombins trial, which was presented at the American Heart Association scientific sessions. Among others, he has also led studies for implantable warning systems used to detect coronary occlusions from thrombotic events. He has led or contributed to trials in the fields of acute coronary syndrome research, antiplatelet research, antithrombin research, reperfusion injury research, lipid lowering and atherosclerosis regression, new device research, CMR core laboratory research, CT angiographic core laboratory research, coronary artery bypass graft research, new electrocardiography technology, angiogenesis, stem cell therapy, National Institute of Health research, and diabetes.

Publishing
Gibson has been published in journals including Circulation, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Clinical Cardiology. He is also a contributor and editor to the Medical Wiki Encyclopeadia and founder of WikiDoc, the largest online medical encyclopeadia. He is also the current chairman of the WikiDoc Foundation. Gibson has been quoted regarding the clinical experiments and research of other scientists by publications including the USA Today and Forbes Magazine. He is also on the editorial boards of Circulation, Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention, and the American Heart Journal.

His books include Treatment Strategies in Interventional Cardiology and the Practical Handbook of Advanced Interventional Cardiology: Tips and Tricks. He has contributed to books including Acute Coronary Syndromes, Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems: The Evidence-Based Medicine Approach, and Primary Cardiology. In all Gibson has contributed to more than 1,000 publications in his career.

Tenure and professional positions
Following the completion of his medical training Gibson served as Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Beth Israel Hospital. Gibson was then Chief of Cardiology and Director of Interventional Cardiology at the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He next became the Vice Chairman of Medicine for Clinical Research and Director of Invasive Cardiology at Allegheny General Hospital. Following this 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 Medical Center. Gibson is now an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of Clinical Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Division of Cardiology. In 2008 Gibson became an advisory board member for ICON Medical Imaging. In 2009 he became an advisory board member for Regado Biosciences, Inc.

Recognition
The following recognitions have been received by Dr. Gibson:


 * Julian and Eunice Cohen Scholar in Medicine, Harvard School of Medicine (1993)
 * Gold Medal awarded by the Institute of Geriatric Cardiology, Chinese Peoples Liberation Army General Hospital (2003)
 * The fourth recipient of the Pro Bono Curantium Gold Medal for Merit awarded by the John Paul II Hospital in Krakow, Poland, after which a laboratory at the hospital was named after him (2005)
 * The C. Michael Gibson Research and Education Center at Istanbul University is established (2009)