Lawrence W Gimple, MD
Interventional Cardiology
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Bio & Overview
Dr. Gimple was born in Nashville, Tennessee, but grew up near the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed all of his internal medicine and cardiology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Gimple has been at UVA since 1989 and has been involved in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory since that time. He also has always been deeply involved with critical care cardiology in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU), and previously served as the CCU director. Dr. Gimple has an outpatient practice in cardiology and works in the myocardial infarction (MI) clinic. He is currently the director of clinical cardiology and the quality director for UVA Heart and Vascular Center, working to assure the best possible care across all UVA Health services.
He loves being involved in the community and serves on a number of local boards, including the Piedmont Family YMCA. His interests include community programs that prevent diabetes, and he works with a community walking program. He has a special interest in “learn-to-swim,” which includes broadly supporting programs that assure that all the children in central Virginia have an opportunity to learn how to swim. Both of his sons were competitive swimmers in Virginia.
Academic Information
- Department
- Medicine
- Academic Role
- Professor
- Division
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Research Interests
- Thrombosis|myocardial infarction|restenosis
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Harvard University
- Residency
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowships
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
- Appointment
- Quality Liaison Medical Director - ACS
Highlights
Meet Lawrence Gimple, MD
I'm Larry Gimple, an interventional cardiologist in the University of Virginia Health System. I specialize in taking care of patients who have heart attacks, especially ones who may need coronary interventions in the cardiac cath lab. My goal is to build trust with patients and their families. We often meet patients at the most challenging times in their lives. We build trust by offering a safe environment for patients and their families to meet their doctors and nurses, to discuss their problems, and to feel they are not hurried to make decisions. I'll get to know each patient and give them the information, support, time, and compassion that they deserve. Over my career, wonderful discoveries and new therapies have been developed. I'll never forget the first heart attack patient that I cared for in Boston in the 1980s. He was a younger man who was getting sicker and sicker, and I quickly realized the limitations of the therapies that we could offer back then. If you fast-forward to today, we can often intervene and stop a heart attack in its tracks, and we can do it quickly with our skilled and dedicated team. UVA Health has amazing people who are united in a common goal of compassionately helping our patients and their families by always being on the cutting edge of medicine. We provide a staggering array of expertise, knowledge, and wisdom, and we can do it compassionately for each patient, one at a time.
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