Health Information Leader to present UW's Clarke Lecture

April 4, 2002 -- Harold Gardner, M.D., will discuss "Wyoming Health and Human Capital," Thursday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Room 306 of the University of Wyoming Classroom Building.

His talk, the annual L. Floyd Clarke Memorial Lecture, will be preceded by a reception at 3:30 p.m. in the building's southwest lobby.

Gardner was responsible for developing health care programs at one of the first community based health maintenance organizations. In the mid 1980s, Gardner and his wife, Marilyn Fiske, founded Options & Choices, Inc., an Internet technology based health information services organization. It provides employers and insurance carriers with integrated information needed to manage health benefits programs.

After receiving his zoology degree at UW, Gardner, a native of Afton, graduated with honors from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed postdoctoral work in preventive and internal medicine in gastroenterology at Strong Memorial Hospital and the University of Rochester. He held professorships in medicine from 1971 1986 at the University of Rochester, Wayne State University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Both Gardner and Fiske are members of the UW College of Arts and Sciences Board of Visitors, a group of alumni and friends that helps the college with fund raising, public relations and student recruitment.

Gardner's talk is sponsored by the L. Floyd Clarke Fund in the Department of Zoology and Physiology. Clarke joined the UW faculty in 1935 and served as zoology department head from 1942 68, when he was appointed associate dean of the College of Health Sciences. He died in 1981. The L. Floyd Clarke Fund benefits UW students and faculty through lectures, visiting professorships, graduate student stipends and awards for outstanding undergraduates and faculty.

For more information, call the Department of Zoology and Physiology at (307) 766 4207.

Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002