Dr. Gordon Pierpont grew up in Montreal, WI, and graduated from Hurley High School. He earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin in 1970. After completing a post-doctoral fellow in research at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, he obtained an MD from the University of Miami where he met his wife Mary Ella. Gordon and Mary Ella moved to the Twin Cities where he specialized in cardiology. He chose the VA Hospital in Minneapolis for his career’s work where he taught, carried out research and provided care to VA patients for thirty years. His work with aging veterans has given him a unique perspective into caring for the geriatric population.
