Peter Libby | |
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Alma mater | University of California, San Diego Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Awards | Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology Anitschkow award The Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine Earl Benditt award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | cardiology |
Institutions | Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Peter Libby is an American physician, focusing in atherosclerosis, cardiology and preventive cardiology, currently the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women's Hospital. [1]
Libby was married to Beryl Benacerraf. [2] [3]
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