Kenneth D. Gardner, Jr. oral history collection

Collection

Identifier: HHC 80

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This interview with Dr. Kenneth D. Gardner, Jr. (1929- ), a nephrologist of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a long-term faculty member of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, focuses on his career in New Mexico. Among the subjects discussed are Dr. Gardner's personal and professional background; his pioneering and innovative work at UNM-SOM as dean responsible for graduate medical school education at the school; his reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of those programs at UNM-SOM; the development of the school's division of nephrology; and other topics.

Dates

1995 March 13

Creator

Spidle, Jake W., 1941- (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Dr. Kenneth D. Gardner, Jr. (1929- ) was a nephrologist of Albuquerque, New Mexico and a long-term faculty member of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Born in San Francisco, Gardner graduated from Stanford Medical School and worked at the University of Hawaii before joining the UNM School of Medicine in 1973. He was a faculty member at UNM for twenty-one years. Dr. Gardner was the Assistant Dean in charge of postgraduate medical education while at UNM.