C. Parker Gibbs Jr.

C. PARKER GIBBS, M.D., earned his medical degree at the University of Florida in 1989 before going on to complete his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Colorado and his fellowships in Orthopaedic Oncology and Orthopaedic Oncology Research at the University of Chicago. He served as director of Musculoskeletal Oncology at the University of Colorado from 1997-2002 He returned to UF in 2003 to work in the Department of Orthopaedics where he is now a tenured professor. He was named the Eugene Jewitt Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2011. Gibbs's clinical practice involves the treatment of bone and soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities and pelvis. He has published 7 book chapters and more than 56 scientific papers in journals such as Journal of Bone Joint Surgery, the American Journal of Clinical Oncology and the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. Dr. Gibbs directs the NIH funded Musculoskeletal Oncology Laboratory at the University of Florida. The research team studies the mechanisms that determine the malignant potential of Osteosarcoma cells.