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Gardner of Gardner’s Syndrome
In Memoriam continued
He was a wonderful and devoted son and brother, a splendid student, who would make any teacher proud, a marvelous teacher in his own right who touched the lives of so many of his colleagues, and a loyal friend who was selfless, caring, and compassionate. He will be greatly missed, but his image will shine brightly in all of our hearts. His final illness was accepted with the same grace, acceptance, practicality, dignity, and humor with which he lived his life, supported enor-
mously by his faith and by those closest to him. Ray was as outstanding a role model in the process of dying as he was in his pursuit of living. There will never be another one quite like him. Ray was a member of Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) and a member of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in which he achieved knighthood. Ray is survived by his partner of 21 years, the Reverend John W. Kilgore, MD; his brother-inlaw Alan Moberly; 2 nephews, Mat-
thew C. Moberly and Aaron C. Moberly, MD, both of Indianapolis; and dozens upon dozens of colleagues, patients, mentees, students, and friends whose lives he touched. CHANDRA PRAKASH GYAWALI GREGORY S. SAYUK DAVID H. ALPERS Division of Gastroenterology Washington University School of Medicine St Louis, Missouri doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2007.09.025
Gardner of Gardner’s Syndrome Eldon John Gardner (1909 –1989) was born in Logan, Utah, and obtained his BS and MS degrees at Utah State University, then his PhD in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. He rose through the academic ranks at the University of Utah to become professor of zoology and dean of the School of Graduate Studies. His principal research interest was in human genetics and the inheritance of cancer. In 1951, he published an account of familial adenomatous polyposis in a large Utah kindred, accompanied by fibrous dysplasia of the skull and osteofibromas and marked by a propensity to cancer of the colon (Am J Hum Genet 3:167), a condition that became known as Gardner’s syndrome. —Contributed by WILLIAM S. HAUBRICH, MD The Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California
Eldon John Gardner, MD. (Reprinted from Am J Hum Genet 1989;45:471–473.)
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He was a wonderful and devoted son and brother, a splendid student, who would make any teacher proud, a marvelous teacher in his own right who touched the lives of so many of his colleagues, and a loyal friend who was selfless, caring, and compassionate. He will be greatly missed, but his image will shine brightly in all of our hearts. His final illness was accepted with the same grace, acceptance, practicality, dignity, and humor with which he lived his life, supported enor-
mously by his faith and by those closest to him. Ray was as outstanding a role model in the process of dying as he was in his pursuit of living. There will never be another one quite like him. Ray was a member of Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) and a member of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in which he achieved knighthood. Ray is survived by his partner of 21 years, the Reverend John W. Kilgore, MD; his brother-inlaw Alan Moberly; 2 nephews, Mat-
thew C. Moberly and Aaron C. Moberly, MD, both of Indianapolis; and dozens upon dozens of colleagues, patients, mentees, students, and friends whose lives he touched. CHANDRA PRAKASH GYAWALI GREGORY S. SAYUK DAVID H. ALPERS Division of Gastroenterology Washington University School of Medicine St Louis, Missouri doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2007.09.025
Gardner of Gardner’s Syndrome Eldon John Gardner (1909 –1989) was born in Logan, Utah, and obtained his BS and MS degrees at Utah State University, then his PhD in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. He rose through the academic ranks at the University of Utah to become professor of zoology and dean of the School of Graduate Studies. His principal research interest was in human genetics and the inheritance of cancer. In 1951, he published an account of familial adenomatous polyposis in a large Utah kindred, accompanied by fibrous dysplasia of the skull and osteofibromas and marked by a propensity to cancer of the colon (Am J Hum Genet 3:167), a condition that became known as Gardner’s syndrome. —Contributed by WILLIAM S. HAUBRICH, MD The Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California
Eldon John Gardner, MD. (Reprinted from Am J Hum Genet 1989;45:471–473.)
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