Gary H. Gibbons

Gary Hugh Gibbons is an American cardiologist and the current director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Early life and education Gibbons was born on October 4, 1956, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three children born to schoolteacher parents. He grew up in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Germantown. and later graduated from Harvard Medical School. He then completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He then served as its director until August 13, 2012, when he became the director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Honors and awards In 2007, Gibbons was named a member of the Institute of Medicine. Throughout his career, Gibbons has also received several honors, including the selection as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Faculty Development Awardee, selection as a Pew Foundation Biomedical Scholar, receipt of the American Heart Association (AHA) Research Achievement Award and receipt of a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammie).