Brian Thomas Garibaldi MD

Brian Thomas Garibaldi, MD, is a professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor and the director of the Northwestern Center for Bedside Medicine, whose mission is to redesign the modern clinical encounter to meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals.

In 2017, Brian co-founded and became the first co-president of the Society of Bedside Medicine, an organization devoted to education, innovation, and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st-century medicine. Brian was formerly the associate program director for bedside medicine at the Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Residency Program. He also directed the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center, a federally funded special pathogens treatment program. When the President of the United States became ill with COVID-19 in 2020, Brian served as a member of his care team.

Brian is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the American College of Physicians. He is also a member of the American Osler Society, the Cosmos Club, and the Johns Hopkins Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence.

Prior to medical school, Brian studied flamenco guitar with El Entri in Madrid, Spain, as part of the John Finley Fellowship at Harvard College. He has also studied classical guitar at the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore. He regularly performs and has participated in events around the hospital designed to improve the clinical environment for patients, their families, and healthcare professionals.