Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Biosketch
Tressa Gardner, DO, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician with American Physician Partners. She is a graduate of Oakland University. She earned her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed a traditional internship with Metro Health in Wyoming, Michigan, and completed an emergency medicine residency with Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital.
Dr. Gardner is director of McLaren Greater Lansing’s emergency department and is the founder and president of DeGarA, PLLC, a physician services company. She is president of the Michigan division of American Physician Partners. Her clinical interests include underserved populations and healthcare disparities.
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Education and Training
- Residency 1998, Emergency Medicine, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital Medical Center
- Transitional Internship 1995, Metropolitan Hospital
- DO 1994, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University
- BS 1990, Premedicine, Oakland University
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Research
- Medical entrepreneurship
- Health of Underserved Populations
- Emergency Medicine
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Publications
Lindemann C., Gardner T., Westbrook E., Kanous K. The calcium-induced curvature reversal of rat sperm is potentiated by cAMP and inhibited by anti-calmodulin Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. 1991;20(4):316-324.
Lindemann C.B., Goltz J.S., Kanous K.S., Gardner T.K., Olds‐Clarke P. Evidence for an increased sensitivity to Ca<sup>2+</sup> in the flagella of sperm from t<sup>w32</sup>/+ mice Molecular Reproduction and Development. 1990;26(1):69-77.
Goltz J.S., Gardner T.K., Kanous K.S., Lindemann C.B. The interaction of pH and cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate on activation of motility in Triton X-100 extracted bull sperm. Biology of reproduction. 1988;39(5):1129-1136.