Institute Director

Gary H. Gibbons, M.D. is the Director of the Morehouse Cardiovascular Research Institute, a NIH-NHLBI sponsored Research Center of Excellence. He is also an attending cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Gibbons earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. His research mentors include Victor Dzau, Thomas Smith, A. Clifford Barger and Eugene Braunwald.

He has been selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Faculty Development Awardee, a PEW Foundation Biomedical Scholar and, an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (AHA). Dr. Gibbons was a member of the faculty at Stanford University (1990-1996) and Harvard Medical School (1996-1999) before becoming Director of the Morehouse Cardiovascular Research Institute in July 1999. He serves on several editorial boards for journals in cardiovascular medicine as well as grant review committees for the NIH, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and the AHA.

Dr. Gibbons directs NIH-funded research in the fields of vascular biology and the pathogenesis of vascular diseases. The innovations derived from his research resulted in the receipt of several US patents. His bibliography lists over 70 reviews and original reports in the fields of vascular biology, gene therapy, hypertension, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular medicine. He is married with three children and resides in Atlanta, Georgia.