Thomas W. Gardner, MD,
MS
PSIDO Executive Committee
Thomas
W. Gardner is Professor of Ophthalmology
and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Pennsylvania State
University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical
Center, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Dr. Gardner's research
interests include vitreoretinal diseases and surgery, and
clinical and experimental diabetic retinopathy. He is the
principal investigator for several grants, including studies
of VEGF-induced retinal vascular permeability in diabetes,
retinal insulin signaling in diabetes and retinal dysfunction
in insulin resistance. Dr. Gardner has authored or coauthored
numerous journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters,
and he has lectured widely at professional meetings. He
has received the Heed Foundation Fellowship, a Physician-Scientist
Award from the National Eye Institute, an Achievement Award
from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the Mary
Jane Kugle Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
He is director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Diabetic Retinopathy Center at Penn State University. He
was also listed in Best Doctors in America in 1998. Dr.
Gardner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
and is a member of many other professional organizations,
including the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,
the American Diabetes Association, the Vitreous Society,
the Retina Society, and the American Ophthalmological Society.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Current Eye Research and
is on the editorial board of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology,
and he is a manuscript reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed
journals. Dr. Gardner received his medical degree from Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he
received the Upjohn Achievement Award for Outstanding Clinical
Proficiency. He completed his internship at Grady Memorial
Hospital, Emory University Medical School, in Atlanta, Georgia,
and a residency in ophthalmology at Northwestern University
Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He also held a Fellowship
in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery at Bascom Palmer Eye
Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine
in Florida. Dr. Gardner received a master's degree in physiology
from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
in 1998.
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