Thomas W. Gardner, MD, MS, is Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan. He practiced comprehensive ophthalmology in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and was the Jack and Nancy Turner Professor of Ophthalmology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

Dr. Gardner’s interests include vitreoretinal diseases and surgery, and clinical and experimental diabetic retinopathy. He is the principal investigator for studies of retinal cell survival mechanisms and growth factor signaling in diabetes. He has received the Heed Foundation Fellowship, a Physician-Scientist Award from the National Eye Institute, an Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Mary Jane Kugle Award and the Mary Tyler Moore and S. Robert Levine, M.D. Excellence in Clinical Research Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.