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How I Got Here
My association with Kaiser began before I was born -- my grandfather, Paul Fitz Gibbon MD, was one of the 7 founding physicians of The Permanente Medical Group (the doctors who practice in the Kaiser Health Plan)! I grew up in Berkeley, and went to college at Yale University, where I majored in physics. After that I worked in a paint factory for a year (a very different and valuable experience), then worked as a research assistant at Yale and later at Sloan Kettering in New York. I then went to medical school at Rush Medical College in Chicago, where I was elected to the honor society Alpha Omega Alpha in my junior year. My Internal Medicine residency was at Michael Reese Hospital, where I was awarded the Alfred Pick prize for academic excellence my senior year. I then returned to California and began my career at Kaiser, in 1988, as a general Internist. In addition to my clinical duties, I was a member of the Quality Committee since 1990 and chair of the committee from 1993-98. In 1996 we created a Hospitalist program and I was one of the original members of that group. I became chief of the Hospital Medicine service in 1998. I am also an associate clinical professor of medicine at UC Davis, where I have been involved with teaching since 1988.
My Healthcare Philosophy
Health and healthcare are very complicated subjects, to be sure. I don't feel a person's health is easily measured by numbers, lab tests, or CT scans. Instead health is a complex interplay amongst physical, psychological, and environmental factors. This is particularly true in the hospitalized patients for whom I and my colleagues provide care. My goals for those with serious and often chronic illness, such as we see in the hospital, are to make the right diagnoses as rapidly as possible, provide treatment to counteract the illness as much as feasible, and to partner with our patients and their families to find solutions that maximize quality of life.
My Healthcare Practice
After 8 years of primary care internal medicine, I have been part of our hospital medicine group since 1996. We've had the privilege of defining this new practice modality both for Kaiser Permanente and for the nation.
Receiving Your Healthcare From Kaiser Permanente
Our patients have the distinct advantage of receiving care from internal medicine specialists who have sub-specialized in the complex care of disorders that require the highest intensity of services we provide – those involving hospitalization.
My Outside Interests
When not at work, I stay pretty busy with interests in gardening, cooking, enology, fishing our mountain rivers, hiking, camping, opera, and contemporary art. Perhaps some of you may have seen my family's art collection displayed at the Crocker Art Museum in 2002. I also have three children, all of whom are active in music. Please support the Sacramento Youth Symphony!
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| Rush University Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL |
| Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, IL |
| Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine |
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