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SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Central Coast Medical Association honored Lynn Fitzgibbons, MD, as the 2022 Physician of the Year for Santa Barbara County. Nominated by peers, the award is for a physician who has worked to improve the quality of health care, contributed to the education of other physicians, and engaged in community service and other activities outside of medicine.
Dr. Fitzgibbons was born in Fiji and spent her younger years in Scotland before moving to the United States. She went to the University of California, Santa Barbara where she was an All-American polo player and earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. Dr. Fitzgibbons then received her Doctor in Medicine from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She came back to the area for her Internship and Residency with Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital where she was one of the early clinicians with Doctors without Walls. She then served as a volunteer in Uganda treating HIV patients before going to Oregon Health & Science University for her Fellowship in infectious disease.