CMHC Faculty Members

Peter Libby, MD

Boston, Massachusetts

Peter Libby, MD

Cardiologist

About

As a cardiovascular specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Peter Libby holds the Mallinckrodt Professorship of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His areas of clinical expertise include general and preventive cardiology, and his current major research focus is the role of inflammation in vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. Dr. Libby has a particular devotion to translating laboratory studies to pilot large-scale clinical cardiovascular outcome trials.

Education and Training

Cardiology Fellowship, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women's Hospital), 1980
Research Fellowship, Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1979
Internal Medicine Residency, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 1976
Medical Degree, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, 1973

Professional Highlights

Laureate, Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine, 2016
Consulting Editor of The Year, Circulation Research, 2015
High Citation Award, Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 2015
Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1998-2014
Special Award, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, 2014
Anitschkow Prize in Atherosclerosis Research, European Atherosclerosis Society, 2013
Gold Medal, European Society of Cardiology, 2011
Basic Research Prize, American Heart Association, 2011