Dr. Steven Gardner

Dr. Steven Gardner is a member of the honorary staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School following a lengthy career as a clinician and teacher in internal medicine. As a member of the MGH Global Disaster Response Team, he served as a chief medical officer in Haiti and the Philippines with Project Hope. For twenty-five years, he was a volunteer physician at the Martha’s Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp (“Camp Jabberwocky”), caring for children and adults with a wide range of challenges. He is a passionate photographer whose images focus on the resilience of people facing adversity and the compassion of the people who assist them.Dr. Gardner’s first book, the Wall Street Journal bestseller Jabberwocky: Lessons of Love from a Boy Who Never Spoke, is an inspirational and loving portrait of a handicapped boy who enriched the lives of all who knew him and changed how people think about disabilities. In this new collection of non-fiction short stories, Dr. Gardner examines the surprising connections among people from different walks of life, connections that reveal our common humanity and provide hope in a troubled time.Dr. Gardner is a past winner of the Harvard Medical School Humanism in Medicine Award.