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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Peter Gibson is the son of Arthur Horace Gibson, a radiologist, who started the Perth Radiological Clinic. He obtained his MB BS from Melbourne University in 1946. From 1946 to 1950 he held resident and registrar appointments at St Vincent's Hospital and the Royal Perth Hospital. He then went to Shotley Bridge near Newcastle on Tyne, where he was appointed thoracic surgical registrar and commenced his cardiopulmonary bypass studies on dogs. He continued with this work after his return to Perth in 1956. The big brown dog "Jake"e; (in the mortuary) survived 10 minutes of C-P bypass using a bubble oxygenator with the azygos flow principle and was retired to a property at Serpentine. The first closed mitral valvotomy was performed in 1959 and in the early sixties the first repair of Fallot's Tetralogy. Both operations were performed by Peter as assistant to J.A. Simpson. On his return to Perth he was appointed Clinical Assistant at the Royal Perth Hospital. He was later appointed Cardio Thoracic Surgeon and became Chairman of the Department in 1973. Peter and his colleagues were responsible for the development of a first class cardiac surgical unit at the Royal Perth Hospital. Until recently (1993), it was the only one in Western Australia. He was involved in pioneering research work with the "heart lung machine" at the Royal Perth Hospital which made present day techniques in open heart surgery possible. Peter was a member of the Postgraduate Committee from 1971-73 and was coordinator of postgraduate activities and the annual postgraduate seminars. He was a member of the hospital building advisory committee from 1963 to 1977 and a member of the National Safety Council from 1968 to 1983. Outside of medicine, Peter is interested in floriculture. He developed a wildflower nursery at Gingin in 1978 and in 1986 commenced a commercially successful rose nursery at Wanneroo where he developed a new vase resilient rose named Kooiana (Green frog breeding place) Daybreak rose. After 32 years service with the Hospital Peter Gibson retired in 1988 and in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the Hospital, the Board of Management appointed him Emeritus Consultant Cardio-thoracic Surgeon. |
