Annette Gardner, PhD

ASSOC ADJ PROF-FY

Two decades of collaborating with philanthropic and nonprofit leaders, policymakers, and public agencies to address complex problems. Special expertise in expanding access to care, in strengthening community health centers, advancing healthy communities, and evaluating advocacy and policy change initiatives. A broad thinker, I am committed to generating and using credible evidence to support continuous learning, improve decision-making, and strengthen programs.

An investigator, evaluator and educator trained in political science with extensive experience in health care and public health. Directed studies focusing on California’s health care safety net and county-level coverage expansions to increase the access of the medically underserved. Director of an eight-year evaluation of clinic consortia in achieving policy gains for community health centers and their communities. Lead consultant of a three-year evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration’s interprofessional collaboration (IPC) primary care training program. Experienced in both qualitative research methods (such as focus groups, observations, case studies, interviews) and quantitative methods (such as surveys, financial analyses). Academic and professional experience in teaching and applying planning and futures studies approaches to communities, organizations and schools. Presented research and evaluation findings to policymakers, public agencies, foundations and communities and published in national, peer review publications, including Health Affairs and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

Publications: 

Interprofessional Academic Patient Aligned Care Team Panel Management Model.

Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS

Gardner AL, Kaminetzky CP, Poppe AP, Wipf JE

The Dyad Model for Interprofessional Academic Patient Aligned Care Teams.

Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS

Gardner AL, Clementz L, Lawrence RH, Dolansky MA, Heilman AM, Rusterholtz AR, Singh S, Sparks M, Singh MK

PACT ICU Model: Interprofessional Case Conferences for High-Risk/High-Need Patients.

Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS

Gardner AL, Weppner WG, Willis J, Bernotski J

Initiative to Minimize Pharmaceutical Risk in Older Veterans (IMPROVE) Polypharmacy Clinic.

Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS

Gardner AL, Thomas JM, Mecca MC, Hyson A, Niehoff KM, Jeffery S, Sellinger J, Brienza R

Huddling for High-Performing Teams.

Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS

Gardner AL, Shunk R, Dulay M, Strewler A, O'Brien B

Interprofessional transformation of clinical education: The first six years of the Veterans Affairs Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education.

Journal of interprofessional care

Harada ND, Traylor L, Rugen KW, Bowen JL, Smith CS, Felker B, Ludke D, Tonnu-Mihara I, Ruberg JL, Adler J, Uhl K, Gardner AL, Gilman SC

Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education Compendium of Five Case Studies: Lessons for Interprofessional Teamwork in Education and Clinical Learning Environments 2011-2016

Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education Compendium of Five Case Studies: Lessons for Interprofessional Teamwork in Education and Clinical Learning Environments 2011-2016

Gardner, A. et al. (Gilman and Traylor, Eds.)

Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice (Stanford University Press)

Advocacy and Policy Change Evaluation: Theory and Practice (Stanford University Press)

Annette L Gardner and Claire D Brindis

Maintaining Clinic Financial Stability: Navigating Change, Leveraging Opportunities

Maintaining Clinic Financial Stability: Navigating Change, Leveraging Opportunities

Annette L Gardner

Laying the Foundation for Health Care Reform: Local Initiatives to Integrate the Health Care Safety Net

Laying the Foundation for Health Care Reform: Local Initiatives to Integrate the Health Care Safety Net.

Annette L Gardner

Expanding Organizational Capacity: Reflections from the Field

The Foundation Review

Gardner, A., Geierstanger, S., Nascimento, L., and Brindis, C.

Clinic consortia media advocacy capacity: partnering with the media and increasing policymaker awareness.

Journal of health communication

Gardner A, Geierstanger S, Brindis C, McConnel C

Increasing access to care for the uninsured: considering the options in California counties.

Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

Gardner A, Kahn JG

Hawaii's Health QUEST.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Gardner A, Neubauer D