Richard F. Gibson, M.D., PhD., M.B.A.

Dick Gibson graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1976. He completed his MD at Case Western University in 1981 before finishing his family practice residency at Family Medicine Spokane, a residency affiliated with the University of Washington.

He added a PhD in Medical Informatics in 1995 from the University of Utah while serving as a staff physician in urgent care at Southeast Emergency Center in Salt Lake City. He served as a Medical Informatics consultant at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City from 1995-1996.

In 1996, he became the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Providence Health System, a 7-hospital, 1200-bed health system with 200,000 health plan members located in Portland, Oregon. He's had many accomplishments as CMIO including, among other things, building and editing a Web portal for physicians that launched all the clinical and results review applications available at Providence, and building and leading a council of physician advisors at four of the Providence hospitals to advise on the installation, configuration and support of clinical information services for physicians and other clinicians. Providence launched computerized physician order entry in May 2005.

In 2004, Gibson completed his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Additionally, he is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health Sciences University and serves as a board member for the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems.