EMPLOYMENT:

2007-Present               Pediatric Surgical Associates, Inc., Orange, CA

2002-2007                   Pediatric Surgical Specialists of Orange County, Orange, CA

2001-2002                   Children’s Surgical Associates, Orange, CA

POST-GRADUATE TRAINING:

1999-2001               Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

                             Fellow in Pediatric Surgery

1998-1999               Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York

Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Surgery under Alberto Pena, MD

1996-1998               Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Resident in General Surgery

1994-1996               University of California, San Francisco Fetal Treatment Center

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Clinical Fellow in Fetal Surgery

1991-1994               Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Resident in General Surgery

EDUCATION:

1987-1991               Ohio State University, Columbus, OH  MD

1983-1987               Ohio State University, Columbus, OH , BS in Chemical Engineering

HONORS AND AWARDS:

CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE:

Licensure:

State of California - G79479

American Academy of PALS Provider- Certified

Diplomat of National Board of Medical Examiners, 1992

DEA - BG5811965

State of California Department of Health Services, Fluoroscopy, RHC 149622

Board Certification:

American Board of Surgery, General Surgery, Certificate #44351, September 13, 1999

American Board of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Certificate #842, March 18, 2002

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

1995-Present               American College of Surgeons (Participant in the Candidate Group)

2003-Present               Orange County Medical Association

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

1994-1996               Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Fetal Treatment Center 

                                    University of California, San Francisco

                             Telemetric fetal monitoring techniques; Detection and tocolytic

                             strategies

                             Following fetal intervention; Diaphragmatic tissue replacement.

                             With N. Scott Adzick, M.D. and Michael R. Harrison, M.D.

                             Fetal Treatment Center, San Francisco, CA

Summer, 1990          Research Assistant, Department of Surgery

                                    The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

                             Survival after resection of multiple hepatic metastases;  Risk

                             factors for breast cancer in younger women. 

                             With John P Minton, M.D.

                             Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

PATENTS:

Gibbs DL, Harrison MR, Kemper WS, and Gubarek MP.  U.S. Patent #5,829,438  Issued

November 3, 1998.  “System and method of infusing of tocolytic drugs in response to the

onset of premature labor detected by ultrasonic monitoring of the dilation of the cervix os.”

PUBLICATIONS:

Papers:

Rosen N, Gibbs D, Sher M, Soffer S, Hong A, Peña A:” Non-operative management of fistula-in-ano.” Journal of Pediatric Surg. 2000 Jun;35(6):938-9.

Gibbs DL, Piecuch R, Graf JL, Leonard C, Farrell, JA and Harrison MR. "Neurodevelopmental Outcome after Open Fetal Surgery."  Journal of Pediatric Surgery 1998 Aug;33(8):1254-6.

Gibbs DL, Rice HE, Farrell JA, Adzick NS and Harrison MR. "Familial Diaphragmatic Agenesis:  An Autosomal Recessive Syndrome with a Poor Prognosis".  Journal of Pediatric Surgery 32(2):366‑68, 1997.

Graf JL, Gibbs DL, Adzick, NS and Harrison MR.  "Chorioamnionic Separation:  A Potentially Lethal Finding."  Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy 12(2):81-84, 1997.

Enns GM, Cox VA, Goldstein RB, Gibbs DL, Harrison MR and Golabi, M.  “Congenital Diaphragmatic Devects and Associated Syndromes, Malformations, and Chromosome Anomalies: A Retrospective Study of 60 Patients and Literature Review.”  American Journal of Medical Genetics 79:215-225, 1998.

Graf J, Gibbs DL, Adzick NS, and Harrison MR. "Fetal Hydrops Following Tracheal Occlusion for Diaphragmatic Hernia."  Journal of Pediatric Surgery 32(2): 214‑16, 1997.

Somps CJ, Pickering JL, Madou MJ, Hines JW, Gibbs DL and Harrison MR. "Electrochemical Performance of an ion selective, polymeric membrane following chronic implantation in rat subcutaneous tissue." Sensors and Actuators B 35‑36: 222‑227, 1996.

Bealer J, Skarsgard E, Toth T, Gibbs DL, Adzick, NS and Harrison MR. "Cervical Sonomicrometry Detects Preterm Labor". Surgical Forum 46:557‑60, 1995.

Goldstein AM, Gorlick N, Gibbs DL, and Fernandez‑del Castillo C,  "Hemoperitoneum due to Spontaneous Rupture of the Umbilical Vein."  American Journal of Gastroenterology 90(2):315‑7, 1995.

Book Chapters:

Gibbs DL, Mychaliska GB, Filly RA, and Harrison MR. "Potential for Correction of Fetal Obstructive Uropathy.''  In "Body Fluids and Kidney"  pp. 233-265 from the series Fetus and Neonate, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Abstracts and Short Articles:

Enns GM, Cox VA, Goldstein RB, Gibbs DL, Harrison MR and Golabi M. "Syndromes Associated with CDH."  David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis, Sept 26, 1996.

Minton J, Gibbs DL, and Jones G  "Cost Savings of Surgeon Administered Local Anesthesia for Outpatient Breast Biopsy."  Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 14(1):139, 1989.

Minton, J, Vaccaro, P, and Gibbs, DL  "A Summary of the Results of a Survey of the Membership of the ACS Ohio Chapter."  Newsletter of the Ohio Chapter American College of Surgeons p. 4, 1988.

Minton J, Vaccaro P, and Gibbs DL "Ohio Chapter Surveys Surgical Practices". Cancer Liaison Newsletter 3:3,1988.      

Presentations:

Gibbs DL  “Fetal Surgery:  A Work in Progress.”  Annual Department of Surgery Meeting, Children’s Hospital at Mission, Mission Viejo, CA, November 27, 2001.

Gibbs DL  “Spinal Ischemia after Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.”  Surgical Grand Rounds, Massachusetts General Hospital, December 1997.

Gibbs DL  "Innovations in Fetal Surgery."  Resident Research Seminar, Massachusetts General Hospital, September 3, 1997.

Gibbs DL, Rice H, Farrell JA, Adzick, NS, and Harrison MR. "Congenital Diaphragmatic Agenesis:  An Autosomal Recessive Syndrome with a Poor Prognosis."  Scientific poster, American Pediatric Surgical Association 27th Annual Meeting, May 20, 1996, San Diego,CA.

Graf J, Gibbs DL, Adzick NS, and Harrison MR . "Fetal Hydrops Following Tracheal Occlusion for Diaphragmatic Hernia" American Pediatric Surgery Association, 27th Annual Meeting, May 20, 1996, San Diego,CA.

"Fetal Surgery", Ob/Gyn Grand Rounds, Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, CA, May 12, 1995.

"Fetal Surgery", Presentation to Graduate Speech Pathology and Audiology Program, University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ , April 6, 1995.