Phyllis Gardner (clinical pharmacologist)

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Phyllis Irene Gardner (July 7, 1950 – September 10, 2025) was an American pharmacologist and academic who was a professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and dean of education. Gardner was one of the first people to be publicly skeptical of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood testing company Theranos, who was later found guilty of investor fraud in the federal case, United States v. Elizabeth A. Holmes, et al.. Born in Ames, Iowa, her father was an agronomy professor at Iowa State University. Gardner studied biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. She went on to Harvard Medical School, graduating with high honors in the Alpha Omega Alpha society. After medical school, Gardner started a residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, before completing her medical training as chief resident at the Stanford School of Medicine. She subsequently went on to fellowships at both Columbia...

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