Peter Libby, MD

Cardiovascular Specialist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Peter Libby, MD, is a cardiovascular specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and holds the Mallinckrodt Professorship of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He served as Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at BWH from 1998-2014. 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. Dr. Libby has a particular devotion to translate his basic laboratory studies to pilot and then large-scale clinical cardiovascular outcome trials.
An author and lecturer on cardiovascular medicine and atherosclerosis, Dr. Libby has published extensively in medical journals He is an Editor of Braunwald’s Heart Disease. He has held numerous visiting professorships and delivered more than 150 major named or keynote lectures throughout the world.

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Presentation(s):

• Keynote | How Inflammation Promotes Atherosclerosis and What Can We Do About It from Mechanism to Therapy

  Sunday, March 9, 2025
  9:04 AM – 9:20 AM ET

• Panel Discussion | Our Understanding on the Pathophysiology and Mechanism of Atherosclerosis and the New Therapeutic Options

  Sunday, March 9, 2025
  9:20 AM – 9:35 AM ET