Ron Gibson, MD, PhD

Ron Gibson, MD, PhD

Specialties

  • Children's Title: Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center; Co-Director, Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutic Development Center; Associate Program Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship
  • Academic Title: Professor
  • Research Center: Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics
  • On Staff Since: November 1987

  • Biography

    Ronald L. Gibson, MD, PhD, is Director of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center, Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship program, and attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital; he is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He earned his MD and PhD at Washington University in St. Louis. He completed pediatrics residency training and a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at the University of Washington.

    He is committed to high-quality, multidisciplinary patient care, small group teaching, research and the acquisition of new knowledge. His primary research focus is on early events in the pathogenesis of lung disease in CF, with a focus on the risk factors for and the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa airway infections in young children with cystic fibrosis (CF). As a co–principal investigator of the university’s CF Translational Therapeutic Development Center, he has been lead and co-investigator for several phase I to phase III clinical trials involving novel antimicrobial agents, anti-inflammatory compounds and modulators of ion transport. Dr. Gibson is also director of the clinical core of the university’s CF research development program with the goal of catalyzing collaborations between local basic and clinical investigators.

    Board Certification(s)

    Pediatrics
    Pediatric Pulmonology

    Education

    Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO

    Residency

    University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Fellowship

    University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Research Focus Area

    Cystic Fibrosis

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