Gary Gibbons
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health; Co-Chair, RECOVER
Dr. Gibbons is the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which is the third largest Institute at NIH (National Institutes of Health). NHLBI provides global leadership for the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, sleep, and blood diseases to improve the health of all people. Dr. Gibbons provides leadership for transformative NIH and NHLBI initiatives including the NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities, Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER), Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE), and the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative. Dr. Gibbons received the 2021 Service to America Medal for his visionary leadership of CEAL. Dr. Gibbons also pursues leading edge research at NHGRI (National Human Genome Research Institute). His scientific contributions are cross-cutting in the fields of genomic medicine, vascular biology, and vascular pathogenesis as he investigates clinical phenotypes, behavior, molecular interactions, and social determinants of health in cardiovascular disease. He is a member of the National Academies of Science and has taught at Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, and at Morehouse School of Medicine where he was the founding director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Gibbons received his B.A. from Princeton University, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School,
and completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
