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Dr. Lewis E. Gibson, 80, Created diagnostic test for cystic fibrosisFrom: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Mon Apr 21 11:26:48 2008
.. Dr. Lewis E. Gibson, 80, Created diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis; Former director of CF clinics at Loyola, Rush April 20, 2008 BY LARRY FINLEY Staff http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/904286,CST-NWS-XGIBS20.article When Dr. Lewis E. Gibson started his cystic fibrosis studies, the life expectancy for a CF patient was about five years. Now it is 37 years. Dr. Gibson's research led to the definitive test for detecting the childhood genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States. Dr. Gibson, 80, died April 15 of respiratory failure at Door County Memorial Hospital, in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. In addition to developing the CF diagnostic test, he was the former director of the CF clinics at Loyola University and at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. Dr. Gibson's battle against CF started as a young doctor in Boston in the 1950s, said Dr. Thomas Dolan, a friend of Dr. Gibson and fellow CF researcher. "We both trained at Boston Children's Hospital," Dolan said. "The children there with CF always died before their fifth birthday." The young doctors both went on to the National Institutes of Health, where they entered the CF program. They later worked together in CF research at Yale University, Dolan said. The test Dr. Gibson developed analyzes the sweat of patients to detect chemical imbalances that are indicative of the genetic defect, Dolan said. The test is used still, although DNA tests are used also, Dolan said. Lewis Edward Gibson was born Sept. 26, 1927, in Atlanta, Ga. He attended the Lovett Day School and Boys High School, in Atlanta, before graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, in Hanover, N.H. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1949 and a medical degree in 1953 from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. After working at Boston Children's Hospital and the National Institutes of Health, he returned to Johns Hopkins, where he worked with the departmental chairman, Robert E. Cooke, on the CF test. He spent 1966 to 1968 at Yale. In 1971, he became director of pediatric disease at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. In 1975, he was a professor of pediatrics at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, and then chairman of its pediatric department from 1977 to 1983. Dr. Gibson ran the CF clinic at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's from 1984 to 1991, and returned to Loyola as professor of pediatrics and director of the CF clinic until his retirement in 1996. Dr. Gibson and his second wife, Dr. Patricia Nell, retired to Sturgeon Bay in 2002. His first wife, Rosalie Gans Gibson, is deceased. Besides his wife, survivors include two sons, Peter and Richard; two daughters, Katherine and Ellen, and six grandchildren.
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