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Timothy B Gardner, MD, MS

Title(s)
Professor of Medicine
Assistant Dean of Medical Student Research

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Director Pancreatic Disorders - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Medical Director Pancreatic Islet Autotransplant Program - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Associate Director Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellowship Program - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Assistant Dean of Medical Student Research - Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Brigade Surgeon - 197th FAB, New Hampshire Army National Guard

Department(s)
Medicine

Education
BA (History) - Dartmouth College (1995)
MD - University of Connecticut School of Medicine (2000)
MS - Clinical Research, The Dartmouth Institute (2013)

Resident, Internal Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2000-03)
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2004)
Fellow, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2004-07)
Fellow, Clinic Pancreatology, Mayo Clinic Rochester (2008)

Contact Information

One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon NH 03756

Office: 603-650-5261
Email: timothy.b.gardner@hitchcock.org

Professional Interests

Research into the pathophysiology, treatment and outcomes of acute and chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.

Selected Publications
 

Thirty-day hospital admission following high-risk outpatient ERCP: incidence and analysis of risk factors based on a secondary analysis of the Stent Versus Indomethacin trial data set.
Yachimski P, Zhang J, Cote GA, Edmundowicz SA, Wani S, Shah R, Bang JY, Varadarajulu S, Singh VK, Khashab M, Kwon RS, Scheiman JM, Willingham FF, Keilin SA, Papachristou GI, Chak A, Slivka A, Mullady D, Kushnir V, Buxbaum J, Keswani R, Gardner TB, Forbes N, Rastogi A, Ross A, Law J, Chen YI, Barkun A, Smith ZL, Serrano J, Petersen B, Wang AY, Saltzman JR, Spitzer RL, Ordiah C, Spino C, Foster LD, Durkalski-Mauldin V, Elmunzer BJ, SVI Study Group
Gastrointest Endosc. 2025 Feb 4; pii: S0016-5107(25)00065-3. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2025.01.035. Epub 2025 Feb 4.
PMID: 39914634

Preventive Measures and Risk Factors for Post-ERCP Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.
Sperna Weiland CJ, Akshintala VS, Singh A, Buxbaum J, Choi JH, Elmunzer BJ, Fogel ES, Lai JH, Levenick JM, Gardner TB, Lua GW, Luo H, de Jong M, Mok SRS, Phillip V, Singh V, Siersema PD, Drenth JPH, van Geenen EJM
Dig Dis Sci. 2024 Dec;69(12):4476-4488. doi: 10.1007/s10620-024-08693-2. Epub 2024 Nov 5.
PMID: 39500841

Effect of endoscopic ultrasound guided celiac plexus block on the palliation of pain in chronic pancreatitis (EPOCH Trial): study protocol for a randomized multicenter sham-controlled trial {1}.
Wilcox CM, Bang JY, Buxbaum J, Gardner TB, Hawes R, Kedia P, Mardini SH, Muniraj T, Navaneethan U, Oza VM, Tarnasky P, Thakkar S, Waxman I, Varadarajulu S, US Pancreatic Disease Study Group
Trials. 2024 Oct 14;25(1):676. doi: 10.1186/s13063-024-08478-y. Epub 2024 Oct 14.
PMID: 39396987

Impact of difficult biliary cannulation on post-ERCP pancreatitis: secondary analysis of the stent versus indomethacin trial dataset.
Han S, Zhang J, Durkalski-Mauldin V, Foster LD, Serrano J, Cote GA, Bang JY, Varadarajulu S, Singh VK, Khashab M, Kwon RS, Scheiman JM, Willingham FF, Keilin SA, Groce JR, Lee PJ, Krishna SG, Chak A, Slivka A, Mullady D, Kushnir V, Buxbaum J, Keswani R, Gardner TB, Wani S, Edmundowicz SA, Shah RJ, Forbes N, Rastogi A, Ross A, Law J, Yachimski P, Chen YI, Barkun A, Smith ZL, Petersen BT, Wang AY, Saltzman JR, Spitzer RL, Spino C, Elmunzer BJ, Papachristou GI, SVI Study Group
Gastrointest Endosc. 2025 Mar;101(3):617-628. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2024.10.003. Epub 2024 Oct 9.
PMID: 39389431

Reply.
Gardner TB, Park WG, Allen PJ
Gastroenterology. 2025 Jan;168(1):186-187. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2024.09.015. Epub 2024 Sep 14.
PMID: 39284556

Technical Factors Associated With the Benefit of Prophylactic Pancreatic Stent Placement During High-Risk Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography: A Secondary Analysis of the SVI Trial Data Set.
Elmunzer BJ, Zhang J, Cote GA, Edmundowicz SA, Wani S, Shah R, Bang JY, Varadarajulu S, Singh VK, Khashab M, Kwon RS, Scheiman JM, Willingham FF, Keilin SA, Papachristou GI, Chak A, Slivka A, Mullady D, Kushnir V, Buxbaum J, Keswani R, Gardner TB, Forbes N, Rastogi A, Ross A, Law J, Yachimski P, Chen YI, Barkun A, Smith ZL, Serrano J, Petersen B, Wang AY, Saltzman JR, Spitzer RL, Ordiah C, Spino C, Foster LD, Durkalski-Mauldin V, SVI Study Group*
Am J Gastroenterol. 2025 Apr 1;120(4):811-815. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000003052. Epub 2024 Aug 27.
PMID: 39207308

Development and validation of a machine learning-based, point-of-care risk calculator for post-ERCP pancreatitis and prophylaxis selection.
Brenner T, Kuo A, Sperna Weiland CJ, Kamal A, Elmunzer BJ, Luo H, Buxbaum J, Gardner TB, Mok SS, Fogel ES, Phillip V, Choi JH, Lua GW, Lin CC, Reddy DN, Lakhtakia S, Goenka MK, Kochhar R, Khashab MA, van Geenen EJM, Singh VK, Tomasetti C, Akshintala VS
Gastrointest Endosc. 2025 Jan;101(1):129-138.e0. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2024.08.009. Epub 2024 Aug 13.
PMID: 39147103

Trainee Participation and Outcomes in High-risk Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography: A Secondary Analysis of the Stent Versus Indomethacin Trial.
Wani S, Zhang J, Foster LD, Durkalski-Mauldin V, Elmunzer BJ, Stent Versus Indomethacin (SVI) Study Group
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025 Jan;23(1):175-178.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2024.06.046. Epub 2024 Jul 31.
PMID: 39089516

Islet Isolation Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Total Pancreatectomy With Islet Autotransplantation in the POST Consortium.
Mattke J, Eaton A, Wijkstrom M, Witkowski P, Trikudanathan G, Singh VK, Schwarzenberg SJ, Ramanathan K, Pruett TL, Posselt A, Nathan JD, Morgan K, Mokshagundam SP, Lara L, Gardner TB, Freeman M, Downs E, Chinnakotla S, Beilman GJ, Ahmad S, Adams D, Abu-El-Haija M, Naziruddin B, Bellin MD
Transplantation. 2025 Jan 1;109(1):207-216. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000005127. Epub 2024 Dec 7.
PMID: 38984544

American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines: Management of Acute Pancreatitis.
Tenner S, Vege SS, Sheth SG, Sauer B, Yang A, Conwell DL, Yadlapati RH, Gardner TB
Am J Gastroenterol. 2024 Mar 1;119(3):419-437. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000002645. Epub 2023 Nov 7.
PMID: 38857482

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