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 isaster 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.