Dr. Peter Libby earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego and completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is currently the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Libby's research focuses on the role of inflammation in vascular diseases like atherosclerosis. He has published extensively on cardiovascular medicine and atherosclerosis in journals like Circulation and The New England Journal of Medicine.