Georgetown Distinguished Achievement
Award in Diabetic Limb Salvage

Gary W. Gibbons,
MD, FACS
Georgetown University
Hospital Conference on the Team Approach to Diabetic
Limb Salvage is pleased to present
the 2010 Georgetown Distinguished
Achievement Award in Diabetic Limb Salvage to Gary
W. Gibbons, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery at
Boston University School of Medicine and Associate Professor
of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Gary Gibbons, an internationally renowned vascular
surgeon, has focused his surgical career on advancing the
treatment of diabetic patients with lower extremity wounds
and vascular disease. He is a pioneer of the Doralis Pedis
Bypass, a lower extremity peripheral arterial bypass procedure
that works to restore proper circulation to the feet and
helps patients with diabetic foot problems avoid amputation.
In addition, he helped to develop many of the multi-disciplinary
team care models and algorithms used today in the treatment
of diabetic patients. Dr. Gibbons also was one of the first
to develop physician report cards for quality of care as
a way to measure outcomes and reduce health care costs.
Formerly President and CEO of Quincy Medical Center, Executive
Director of Foot Care Specialists of Boston Medical Center,
Chief of Vascular Surgery with Boston Medical Center Surgical
Associates and Director of the New England Deaconess/Joslin
Diabetic Foot Center in Boston, Dr. Gibbons is Professor
of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine and
Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Active in both professional and
community affairs, Dr. Gibbons has received many other
prestigious national and international awards. In 1996,
he was named Physician of the Year by Rofeh International,
and in 1997 he was presented with the Roger Pecoraro
Award by the American Diabetes Association’s Foot Council for his contributions
to limb preservation in diabetic patients. In 2006, Dr.
Gibbons was honored with the Edward James Olmos Award for
Advocacy in Amputation Prevention from DFCon Global Diabetic
Foot Conference. He has been named to Boston Magazine’s
annual list of “Boston’s Top Doctors” and
has been listed and recognized in “America’s
Best Doctors” and “America’s Top Surgeons
(Vascular Surgery).”
Dr. Gibbons is an international lecturer and has published
hundreds of articles in clinical journals and book chapters
on the subject of the diabetic foot and vascular surgery.
Among his mentors and medical heroes
are Dr. Frank Wheelock of New England Deaconess/Joslin
Diabetic Foot Center; Drs. Eliott Joslin and Leland McKitterick,
original pioneers of the team approach to diabetic care;
and Edward James Olmos, whose passion for limb salvage
Dr. Gibbon shares.
Dr. Gibbons received his undergraduate
degree with Summa Cum Laude honors from the University
of Maine and his medical degree from the University of
Cincinnati School of Medicine in 1971. He completed his
surgical residency and chief residency on the Harvard Surgical
Service at the Boston City Hospital and at New England
Deaconess Hospital, where he also undertook a nutrition
fellowship specializing in the nutritional complications
of cardiovascular disease and surgery.
Married for 32 years, Gary and
Margaret Gibbons have four children: Lauren, who holds
a PhD in public health and works at Johns Hopkins; Casey,
a graduate of Williams College; Patric, a junior in pre-med
at Tufts University; and an adopted son, Hassan, who
is a 6’ 11” basketball
player from Guinea, Africa. The family shares their home
with Kava, a 13-year-old chocolate lab given to Dr. Gibbons
by a grateful patient
Past Award Recipients: Peter Sheehan, MD, 2009; Lawrence
B. Harkless, DPM, 2008; and David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD,
2007.
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