Dr. Timothy Gardner graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine, chief medical residency and gastroenterology fellowship training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and a subspecialty fellowship in clinical pancreatology at Mayo Clinic Rochester. He has a Masters in Clinical Research from the Dartmouth Institute. He is professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is currently the director of pancreatic disorders, co-director of the advanced therapeutic endoscopy fellowship and medical director of the Dartmouth islet cell transplant program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He was the general gastroenterology fellowship program director for 8 years. He has published widely in the areas of medical pancreatology and therapeutic endoscopy and has received numerous grants from the NIH, National Pancreas Foundation and the American College of Gastroenterology to develop treatments for patients with pancreatic disease. He also serves at the Brigade Surgeon for the 197th FAB in the New Hampshire Army National Guard. He lives in Hanover, NH with his wife and three children.