Harold Garner
{{short description|American physicist}}
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- Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Harold Ray Garner (born 5 February 1954), known informally as "Skip", is a biophysicist with research careers in plasma physics, bioengineering and bioinformatics. Garner was born in St. Louis, Missouri.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}
He received his B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering (minor in computer science) at the University of Missouri, Rolla in 1976 and a PhD in plasma/high temperature matter physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982.{{cite thesis|type=PhD|url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999526965902121|title=Low frequency turbulence, particle and heat transport in the Wisconsin Levitated Octupole|publisher=UW-Madison Libraries|access-date=20 January 2018|year=1982|oclc=08833504|last=Garner|first=Harold Ray}}{{cite web |url=http://ed.fnal.gov/institute/garner.html|title=Science Institute Day at Fermilab: Research at the Interface of Biomedicine and the Physical Sciences|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926133519/http://ed.fnal.gov/institute/garner.html|archive-date=26 September 2006|date=27 February 2004|first=Harold R.|last=Garner}} He also holds an honorary professional engineering degree also from the University of Missouri, Rolla.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011|reason=not among list at https://www.umsystem.edu/president/honorary-degrees#g}}
General Atomics
From 1982 to 1994, Garner was a scientist at General Atomics in San Diego where he conducted experimental and theoretical research for the Department of Energy at international fusion research facilities. In his last six years at GA, he was a founding member of "The Institute", an internal think tank, where he developed artificial intelligence/expert systems, new particle accelerators, high temperature superconductors, stealth/defense technologies and biology software and instrumentation.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
From 1994 to 2009, Garner 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).{{cite web |title=The Sixth Annual Emerging Information Technology Conference |date=10–11 August 2006 |url=http://www.eitc.org/about-eitc/proceedings-06.pdf |publisher=Emerging Information Technology Conference |access-date=20 January 2018}}{{Primary source inline|Author-supplied biography as reliable-source|date=March 2012}}
In 2005, Popular Science published an article featuring Garner's holographic video-projection system.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.popsci.com/digital-micromirror-device/article/2005-05/holographic-television|title=The Holographic Television|magazine=Popular Science|first=Johnathan|last=Keats|date=20 May 2005|access-date=20 January 2018}}
Virginia Tech
In December 2009, 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 executive director following an audit into his hiring and firing practices.{{cite news|url=http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia-tech-settles-federal-suit-brought-by-former-bioinformatics-director/article_9703de06-e236-54d0-93f6-97b810bd98e7.html|title=Virginia Tech settles federal suit brought by former bioinformatics director|newspaper=The Roanoke Times|date=5 September 2015|access-date=20 January 2018|first=Tonia|last=Moxley}} Garner then sued the university in 2014, claiming that the university violated his constitutional 14th amendment due process rights and his employment contract, and it caused damage to his reputation. In a 2015 settlement, he was appointed executive director of the newly created Office of Medical Informatics Translation, Training and Ethics (MITTE) for four years without limits on outside employment. The settlement, which resolves both federal and state cases, also stipulates that Garner will not be eligible for reappointments and will resign from his tenured professorship.
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM)
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In April 2016, Garner became a member of the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine as a professor of biomedicine and executive director, Primary Care Research Network and the VCOM Center for Bioinformatics and Genetics.
In 2018, Garner became the associate vice-provost for research development for the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.
In 2019, Garner was also appointed as the interim associate dean for biomedical affairs for the Carolinas Campus of the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Achievements
Garner sits on numerous corporate advisory boards and advises for numerous governmental agencies. He is also the founder of several companies – Helix, BioAutomation, Light Biology (acquired by Nimblegen, acquired by Roche), Orbit Genomics (previously Genomeon), Heliotext, Quanta Lingua and Comperity.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
Notes and references
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External links
- [http://cbg.vcom.edu Laboratory website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625210321/http://cbg.vcom.edu/ |date=25 June 2017 }}
- [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol304/issue5673/netwatch.dtl News item about their eTBLAST bibliographic search engine] Science, 304, (5673) 14 May 2004
- [http://etblast.org Tool web site and access to news items about the search tool]
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Category:21st-century American physicists
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
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Category:Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni