Phyllis Gardner

Phyllis Irene Gardner was an American pharmacologist and academic who was a professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and dean of education. Gardner was one of the first people to be publicly skeptical of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood testing company Theranos, who was later found guilty of investor fraud in in United States v. Elizabeth A. Holmes, et al.. Born in Ames, Iowa, her father was an agronomy professor at Iowa State University. Gardner studied biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. She…