Dr. Jerad Gardner is a board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist and board-certified dermatopathologist. He is also a bone and soft tissue sarcoma pathologist, who trained in fellowship under the direction of Dr. Sharon Weiss, a world renowned expert in bone and soft tissue sarcoma pathology. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, Arkansas. His daily diagnostic work is focused exclusively on skin diseases and bone and soft tissue tumors including sarcoma. He is actively engaged in ongoing clinical research, with particular focus on sarcomas and other soft tissue tumors of the skin. He has published multiple peer-reviewed publications, as well as several textbook chapters, and he has been an invited lecturer nationally and internationally on the topics of dermatopathology, soft tissue pathology, and social media for physicians. Dr. Gardner has a true passion for medical education and is actively involved in teaching medical students, dermatology and pathology residents, and dermatopathology fellows. He is the clinical co-director of the musculoskeletal/skin modular learning block for the second year medical students at UAMS, and he is an associate director of the UAMS dermatopathology fellowship program. He is actively involved in social media (@JMGardnerMD and https://www.facebook.com/JMGardnerMD) and is on a crusade to teach more healthcare professionals how to use Facebook and Twitter professionally, for the benefit of patients and the public at large. Dr. Gardner holds an MD from Tulane University in New Orleans, completed residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Houston Methodist Hospital, and completed fellowships in bone/soft tissue pathology and dermatopathology at Emory University in Atlanta.

Dr. Gardner reviews healthcare content for DoveMed and serves as a content expert for dermatology, dermatopathology, and bone and soft tissue sarcoma pathology.

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