Meet the Team

Office of Medical Student Research

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Team Members

Dr. Timothy Gardner grew up in Newtown, CT and 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 degree in clinical research from the Dartmouth Institute. He is a professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine. 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 is the inaugural assistant dean of medical student research at Geisel. He was the general gastroenterology fellowship program director at DHMC for 8 years from 2016-24. He has won numerous teaching and research awards and is routinely named as a Top Doctor in New Hampshire by NH magazine. His primary research interest is developing pharmacologic and endoscopic therapies to treat acute and chronic pancreatitis, as well as pancreas cancer. He has published widely in the areas of medical pancreatology and therapeutic endoscopy with over 200 peer-reviewed publications, three books, and has received grants from the NIH, National Pancreas Foundation and the American College of Gastroenterology. He is the first author of the American College of Gastroenterology chronic pancreatitis clinical guidelines and the senior author of the American College of Gastroenterology acute pancreatitis clinical guidelines. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Gastroenterology and Pancreatology and is a former associate editor of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. He serves in leadership roles in multiple societies including the International Association of Pancreatology (treasurer), American Gastroenterological Association (councilor pancreas diseases section) and the American College of Gastroenterology (chair research committee). He also is a MAJOR in the New Hampshire Army National Guard and serves as the Brigade Surgeon for the 197^th Field Artillery Brigade. He lives in Hanover, NH with his wife JoEllen (physical therapist at DHMC) and three children Matty, Jack and Hannah. Chelsea/Vegas Golden Knights/Patriots/Northeastern Soccer/Hanover High are his teams and he enjoys saltwater fishing, long-distance running and Chappaquiddick Island.

 

Han Naung Tun, MBBS, MPH

Research Program Specialist