Harold “Hank” Gardner, M.D.
Dr. Gardner is the founder, owner and president of Human Capital Management Services, Inc. (HCMS), Chairman of the Health as Human Capital Foundation (HHCF) and the organizing partner of Clinical Prevention Information Services, LLC. These three affiliated organizations comprise the HCMS Group.
Dr. Gardner attended the University of Wyoming followed by medical education at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, including post-doctoral clinical training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. During Dr. Gardner's entire professional career he has continued to actively conduct and publish original research and engage in varying types of medical practice, including primary care internal medicine, subspecialty gastroenterology and occupational/preventive medicine.
From 1971 to 1984 Dr. Gardner served as a professor and administrator at several academic and health care institutions, including the University of Rochester, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rochester, The Medical Group of the Genesee Valley Group Health Association, Wayne State University and the Mount Sinai Medical Center. This career primarily focused on the supply, or provider side, of the health services marketplace, addressing the organization, finance, and delivery of health care and the academic education and training of health professionals. During this period, Dr. Gardner was a pioneer in the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and managed care movement and in the development of multidisciplinary primary care health professional roles.
From 1984 to the present Dr. Gardner has focused on the demand, as well as the supply, side of the health-related marketplace. During this period Dr. Gardner has pioneered the concept of Health as Human Capital and its' utility for employers and government in the management of total employee compensation using the premise of "a days work for a days pay". The HCMS Group Human Capital Management Model emphasizes the importance of integrated information in understanding economic incentives and other cost drivers needed for a market solution to the current health benefits cost and quality problem.
Dr. Gardner is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Wyoming College of Health Sciences.
More information about Dr. Gardner and the HCMS Group, including recent research publications, can be found at HCMSGroup.com.
