William Gibson, MBChB, PhD, FRCP

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Pronouns: He/Him

Personal Website: http://www.drbillgibson.com/

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Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

Email: wgibson@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 498-5338
Address: 1-198 Clinical Sciences Building
11304 83 Ave NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2G3

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Incontinence Cognition Dual task Diverted attention Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms geriatrics old age ageing

About

Personal Statement:

Geriatrics is the area of medicine dealing with medical, cognitive, and functional issues in older people, who tend to have multiple, often competing, problems or diagnoses, and often take multiple medications. Geriatrics encompasses not only the disease, but also the individual, their lifestyle, their function, and their partner and family. Approaching an individual in a holistic manner is central to geriatric medicine.

Dr. Bill Gibson completed medical school at the University of Sheffield, UK, and received higher specialist training in general internal medicine and geriatrics in South Yorkshire, UK. He completed his PhD in Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2019 and has been academic faculty in the FoMD since 2017, promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2024.

Leadership and Collaborations:

Dr. Gibson collaborates with colleagues on research projects including the pathology of incontinence, mobility and cardiac health, treatments for incontinence, gait analyses, and analyses of delivery of care.

He sits on the University Health Research Ethics Board, and is Chair of the International Continence Society Ethics Committee, and sits on the ICS Scientific Committee. He is the vice-chair of the Canadian Geriatric's Society CPD committee. He is the current President of the Canadian Continence Foundation.

Clinical Interests

Dr. Gibson’s clinical interests include incontinence, frailty, dementia and complex comorbidity in older people. He sees patients at the University of Alberta Hospital and the Glenrose and provides outreach services to Vegreville. He is clinical site lead for Geriatric Medicine at the University of Alberta Hospital.

Research

Dr. Gibson receives research funding from the University of Alberta, the Canadian Urological Society, and the Canadian Geriatrics Society. His area of research is urinary incontinence and includes the links between urinary incontinence and falls in older people; the impact of lower urinary tract symptoms on cognitive performance, managing urinary incontinence in dementia; and assessment of drugs used for overactive bladder syndrome.

Teaching

Dr. Gibson delivers both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, as well as being involved in patient and caregiver education for the Alzheimer Society of Alberta & NWT. He is supervisor to post-graduate stringent at the Master's and PhD level, and sits on the Competency Committee for Internal Medicine.

He is an accomplished public speaker and educator with consistently excellent feedback from learners.

Featured Publications

Assessing the Quality of Narrative Feedback in Entrustable Professional Activities Using the EFeCT Feedback Scoring Tool

Rebecca Lee, Neil Dhami, William Gibson, Deena M. Hamza, Anna E. Oswald, Mandy Moffat

The Clinical Teacher. 2026 February; 10.1111/tct.70295

Student Perceptions of Narrative Feedback in Entrustable Professional Activities

Rebecca Lee, Neil Dhami, William Gibson, Deena M. Hamza, Anna E. Oswald, Mandy Moffat

The Clinical Teacher. 2025 June; 10.1111/tct.70089

LUTS in Older Adults: Definitions, Comorbidity Impact, Patient Priorities, and Treatment Strategies for Managing Daytime and/or Nighttime Symptoms ‐ ICI‐RS 2024

Andries Van Huele, Karel Everaert, William Gibson, Adrian Wagg, Paul Abrams, Alan Wein, Wendy F. Bower

Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2025 March; 10.1002/nau.25624

NITES, a nocturnal bladder score to aid diagnosis during the transition to older age care

Wendy F. Bower, Alisha Da Silva, William Gibson, Adrian Wagg, D Michael Whishaw

Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2025 January; 10.1002/nau.25475

Deprescribing for older adults during acute care admission: a scoping review protocol

Erika Sprake, Janice Kung, Michelle Graham, Ross Tsuyuki, William Gibson

JBI Evidence Synthesis. 2024 December; 10.11124/JBIES-23-00406

Should hormone replacement therapy (any route of administration) be considered in all postmenopausal women with lower urinary tract symptoms? Report from the ICI‐RS 2023

Annika Taithongchai, Rayan Mohamed‐Ahmed, Sanjay Sinha, William Gibson, Ilias Giarenis, Dudley Robinson, Paul Abrams

Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2024 August; 10.1002/nau.25384

Can we define the optimal postvoid residual volume at which intermittent catheterization should be recommended, and are there other measures that could guide an intermittent catheterization protocol: ICI‐RS 2023

Sachin Malde, Mo Belal, Rayan Mohamed‐Ahmed, William Gibson, Barbara Padilla‐Fernandez, Angela Rantell, Caroline Selai, Eskinder Solomon, Paul Abrams

Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2024 August; 10.1002/nau.25324

Treating Overactive Bladder in Older Patients with a Combination of Mirabegron and Solifenacin: A Prespecified Analysis from the BESIDE Study

European Urology Focus. 2017 January; 10.1016/j.euf.2017.08.008

Incontinence in the elderly, 'normal' ageing, or unaddressed pathology?

Nature Reviews Urology. 2017 January; 10.1038/nrurol.2017.53

Urinary incontinence in older people

British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2016 January; 10.12968/hmed.2016.77.2.C27

Are older women more likely to receive surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence since the introduction of the mid-urethral sling? An examination of Hospital Episode Statistics data

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2016 January; 10.1111/1471-0528.13338

A national benchmark for the initial assessment of men with LUTS: data from the 2010 Royal College of Physicians National Audit of Continence Care

World Journal of Urology. 2016 January; 10.1007/s00345-015-1702-5