Faculty
Gregory C. Gardner, M.D., FACP
The Bruce C. Gilliland, M.D.-Lucile T. Henderson Endowed Professor in Rheumatology
Division of Rheumatology
Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine
Fellowship Program Director, Division of Rheumatology
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
M.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 1984
Internship in Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1984-85
Residency in Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1985-87
Fellowship in Rheumatology, University of California, San Diego, CA, 1987-89
Teaching Scholar Fellowship, Department of Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1996-97
CURRENT EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Rheumatology fellowship program director
Director, musculoskeletal rotation for primary care bound internal medicine residents
Arthrocentesis and injection course director for internal medicine residents
Co-director of rheumatology week mini fellowship for rural WWAMI physicians
Co-director of Sports Medicine/Rheumatology Essentials for Primary Care CME Dec 2006
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medical Education: Dr Gardner is currently involved in education research focusing on training primary care resident to do musculoskeletal procedures. He has several recent publications including an editorial in the Journal of Rheumatology on this topic. He has been invited to speak at several national meeting on this subject of teaching arthrocentesis and injection techniques including the American College of Rheumatology 2009 national meeting in Philadelphia.
MRI in Inflammatory Arthritis
Osteonecrosis
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Simkin PA, Gardner GC: Musculoskeletal System and Joint Physiology. In: Rheumatology. Hochberg M et al Ed, 4th Edition, London, Elsevier, 2008
Gardner GC: Teaching Arthrocentesis and Injection Techniques: What Is the Best Way to Get Our Point Across? J Rheumatol 2007;34:1448-1450.
Ta K, Gardner GC. Evaluation of the activity of an academic rheumatology consult service over 10 years: using data to shape curriculum. J Rheumatol. 2007;34:563-6.
Lynch JR, Gardner GC, Parsons RR, MD. Musculoskeletal workload versus musculoskeletal clinical confidence among primary care physicians in rural practice. Am J Orthopedics 2005;34:487-492
Howe CR, Gardner GC, Kadel NJ. Perioperative medication management for the patient with rheumatoid arthritis. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2006;14:544-51
Lynch JR, Gardner GC, Parsons RR, MD. Musculoskeletal workload versus musculoskeletal clinical confidence among primary care physicians in rural practice. Am J Orthopedics 2005;34:487-492.
Gardner, GC: Treatment of inflammatory arthritis in the age of the biologics. Clinical Applied Immunology Reviews 2005; 5:19-44.
Gardner GC, Hunter JC: Radiographic Healing of Osseous Sarcoidosis. Arthritis Rheum 2005; Arthritis Rheum 52:2225.
Gardner, GC, Kadel, N: Rheumatology for Orthopaedists: Ordering and Interpreting Rheumatologic Laboratory Test. JAAOS 2003;11:60-67.
Simkin PA, Gardner GC. Colchicine use in transplantation patients: how little is too much? J Rheumatol 2000, 27:1334-1337.
Gardner, GC, Pinsky, LE: Preception and attitude of medical school faculty toward participation in University sponsored continuing medical education. J Cont Educ Health Prof; 1999;19:122-128.
Walker EA, Keegan D, Gardner GC, Sullivan M, Katon WJ, Bernstein D. Psychosocial factors in fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis: I. Psychiatric diagnoses and functional disability. Psychosom Med 59;572-577:1997.
Holman AJ, Gardner GC, Richardson ML, Simkin PA. Quantitative MRI predicts clinical outcome of core decompression for osteonecrosis of the femoral head. J Rheumatol 22;1929-1933:1995.