EDUCATION AND TRAINING

B.S., Georgetown University, D.C., 1972, Phi Beta Kappa

M.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, 1978. Alpha Omega Alpha

Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1978-81

Fellow in Cardiology, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1981-1985

Edward F. Gibbons M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.A.S.E.

Associate Professor of Medicine

Attending Physician, Harborview Medical Center

Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

BOARD CERTIFICATION

Internal Medicine, 1981

Cardiovascular Diseases, 1985

Critical Care Medicine, 1991

Echocardiography, 1996 and 2006

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Heart Failure Management

Cardiovascular Care Systems Integration

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

Antithrombotic Therapy

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Plaque imaging in cardiovascular risk assessment

Informatics in cardiovascular care delivery

Community Heart Failure Care Integration

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

"Seattle Top Doctors" Seattle Magazine 2000, 2005

AMGA-Pfizer award 2003 for High Risk Patient Management 2003

Seattle Metropolitan Magazine "Top Doctor" Golden Stethoscope Award 2008

Chairman, Heart Failure Transitions Project, Washington Patient Safety

Chairman, Heart Failure Transitions Project, Washington Patient Safety Coalition, Foundation for Healthcare Quality 2007-2009

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Gibbons, EF. Noninvasive evaluation of coronary artery disease 2007. Cost-effective strategies to answer the questions you are really asking. Virginia Mason Medical Center Bulletin 2007:61(Spring):32-50.

Gibbons, E. "Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease and Their Treatment in Women", "Coronary Artery Disease in Women: Manifestations, Prognosis and Testing" and "Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease in Women" In: Cowley, Lemcke, Marshall, and Pattison: Primary Care for Women, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Gibbons, E and Kraft C. "Education and Training of Physicians and Sonographers" in: The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, C Otto, ed., Second Edition, 2002.

Gibbons E, Villarreal J, Bauermeister C, Neil N, Culp R. Seven-year, prospectively gathered clinical outcomes from a centralized, algorithm-based Anticoagulation Clinic. J Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 12(1), 113, 2001.

Villarreal J, Bauermeister C, George J, Neil N, Gibbons E. Understanding trends for major bleeding in a centralized anticoagulation clinic: use of an outpatient bleeding risk index. J Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 12(1), 113, 2001.

Gibbons E, Baird L, Culp R, and Schueler C. Development of acute inpatient warfarin flexible dosing nomograms based on clinical parameters of warfarin sensitivity. Prospective clinical trial and outcomes in a general hospital population. J Thrombosis and Thrombolysis 9 (Supp 1):S65, 2000.

Sequeira A, Gibbons E, George J and Chiem P. "Manual of Oral and Parenteral Antithrombotic Therapy" e-version Eighth Edition, 2009, pp 1-51. Virginia Mason Medical Center website: www.virginiamason.org/staff http://www.lumedx.com/cardiovascular/data_ sheets/Anticoagulation http://www.lumedx.com/centers_of_excellence/great_ applications/Virginia_Mason