Harold Garner
Harold Ray Garner ("Skip Garner") is a biophysicist with distinguished research careers both in plasma physics, in bioengineering and bioinformatics. Dr. Garner was born in St. Louis, Mo. on 5 February 1954. He received his BS in Nuclear Engineering (minor in computer science) at the University of Missouri, Rolla in 1976 and a Ph.D. in plasma/high temperature matter physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982.[1][2] He also holds an honorary professional engineering degree also from the University of Missouri, Rolla.
From 1994 to 2009, Skip held the P. O’B. Montgomery, M.D., Distinguished Chair, and was a Professor of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine, a member of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development (Human Genetics Center).[3]
Virginia Tech
In December, 2009, Dr. Garner moved to Virginia Tech and became the Executive Director of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and a Professor of Biological Science, Computer Science and Medicine.
In 2012, Garner was demoted from director following an audit into his hiring and firing practices.[4] Garner then sued the university in 2014, claiming that proper procedure was not followed and it caused damage to his reputation.[4] In settlement, he was appointed director of the newly created Office of Medical Informatics Translation, Training and Ethics for 4 years [4]
In 2005, Popular Science had an article featuring Garner's holographic video-projection system.[5]
Notes and references
- ↑ "UW-Madison Libraries". wisc.edu.
- ↑ http://ed.fnal.gov/institute/garner.html
- ↑ The Sixth Annual Emerging Information Technology Conference (PDF), 10–11 August 2006
- 1 2 3 "Virginia Tech settles federal suit brought by former bioinformatics director". www.roanoke.com.
- ↑ "The Holographic Television". Popular Science.
External links
- Laboratory website.
- News item about their eTBLAST bibliographic search engine Science, 304, (5673) 14 May 2004,
- News item about an add-on to their eTBLAST program