Peter
Libby
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,
United States
Peter Libby, MD, a cardiovascular specialist at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, holds the Mallinckrodt
Professorship of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He directed
Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital from 1998 to
2014. His areas of clinical expertise include general and preventive
cardiology. His current major research focus is the role of
inflammation in vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. Prof. Libby
has a particular devotion to clinical translation. He instigated and
helped to lead the large scale Canakinumab Anti-Inflammatory
Thrombosis Outcomes Trial that provided clinical validation of the
role of inflammation in atherosclerosis.
Prof. Libby has
received numerous research awards, including the Distinguished
Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the
Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology, the Basic Research
Prize of the American Heart Association, the Anitschkow Prize in
Atherosclerosis Research of the European Atherosclerosis Society, the
Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine, and the Benditt Award from the
North American Vascular Biology Organization.
Prof.
Libby’s professional memberships include the Association of American
Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and
honorary memberships in the British Atherosclerosis Society, the Japan
Circulation Society, and the Japanese College of Cardiology. He has
served as the president of the Association of University
Cardiologists. He also has served as a volunteer for the American
Heart Association, including chairman of several research committees
and member of executive committees. Prof. Libby presided the ACC’s
Research Peer Review Committee for two terms. He has frequently
consulted for the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI), including membership on the Board of Scientific Councillors.
He directed the DW Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center
and two cycles of Leducq Foundation Awards and has received continuous
funding from the NHLBI for several decades. He currently serves as
the president of the International Atherosclerosis Society.
As an author and lecturer on cardiovascular medicine and
atherosclerosis, Prof. Libby has published extensively in medical
journals including Circulation, Journal of Clinical
Investigation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, New
England Journal of Medicine, and Nature. He is an editor
of Braunwald’s Heart Disease and was the editor-in-chief of the
current 12th edition. Prof. Libby has also contributed chapters on the
pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of atherosclerosis to many
editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. He has
held numerous visiting professorships and delivered more than 150
major named or keynote lectures throughout the world.
Prof. Libby earned his medical degree at the University of California,
San Diego, and completed his training in internal medicine and
cardiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women’s
Hospital). He also holds an honorary MA degree from Harvard
University, and three honorary doctorates.
